Important Legal Current Affairs July 2025 | Important Judgments 2025

0:00 Hey everybody, I am Priya and welcome to this video of Monthly Legal Updates in which we explain the important judgments and important legal updates of the entire month in a very simple, beautiful and easy language so that you can understand all the important things well and get them at one place. So let's start this video. Look, in normal cases, a judge decides who is innocent and who is guilty. But who is judging a judge? So, for the first time in the judicial history of India, the process of impeachment of a single High Court judge for his removal is going to be initiated in the case of Justice Yashwant Verma. So what happens is that Justice Yashwant Verma has gone out on vacation with his family. After that,

0:46 his store room in his house catches fire. When people reached to extinguish the fire, bundles of cash were found there and immediately the Delhi Police, Ministry of Home Affairs, Chief Justice of Delhi High Court were informed. In fact, within 48 hours the matter reaches the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Sanjiv Khanna and he immediately sets up a three-member inquiry committee to investigate everything. Now Justice Yashwant Verma challenged this entire process in the Supreme Court saying that he does not have enough opportunity to defend himself before the in-house committee, the inquiry committee. But the big question here is that if Justice Yashwant Verma is found guilty of misconduct, will he be removed? And if yes then what will be its process? Now the answers to both these questions are found in Articles 124 and 27 of our Constitution

1:33 which talk about the removal of Supreme Court and High Court judges in case of misconduct. And what do we call this process ? Impeachment. So what is the simple meaning of impeachment ? The process of Parliament through which it can remove Supreme Court or High Court judges from their posts in cases of misconduct. Now it is not the case that only judges are impeached. The President can also be impeached under Article 61. Let us understand the process of impeachment in a little more detail. So first of all the Chief Justice of India appoints a three member committee which investigates the allegations made against the judge. If the misconduct is found true in the inquiry then the Chief Justice can ask that judge to resign. But if that judge does not resign then the Chief

2:20 Justice recommends impeachment to the President. Now a motion is brought in any House of the Parliament which is signed by 100 Lok Sabha MPs or 50 Rajya Sabha MPs. If the Speaker or Chairman admits it, then another three-member committee is formed on which these members are included. Now if this committee does not find the judge guilty then the motion is dropped. But if the judge is found guilty then the motion is passed in both the houses of the Parliament. Now this motion needs to be passed in both houses with 2/3 majority i.e. special majority. After getting the majority, the President gives final approval and the judge is removed. You know, till date no judge has been officially impeached in India. In 1993,

3:06 Justice Ramaswami was charged with corruption. But the motion failed due to lack of special majority in the Parliament. Similarly, in 2011, the process of impeachment against Justice Soumitra Sen had started. But before anything could be decided he resigned. Another thing you should know is that now you understand the process. If the inquiry committee says that yes the judge is guilty then the process of impeachment begins. Now if the judge resigns before anything is decided then he will get all the retirement benefits. He will continue to receive pension. After this, recently, this asset of Saif Ali Khan worth Rs. 15,000 crores was declared as enemy property by the government and now this entire property belongs to the government. But what is this enemy property and what happened in this case? Let us

3:53 understand both. So after the 1965 war, India passed the Enemy Property Act, which said that those people who left India during the war and went to Pakistan or China and then took citizenship there. Then whatever properties those people left behind in India , be it house, land , shares, business, whatever properties it was , we will call it enemy property. Because during the time of war they left India and went to China and Pakistan. And the entire control of those properties will be with the government. And if the government wants, it can do anything with these properties to generate revenue. She can auction it, she can lease it, she can do whatever she wants. The enemy property is clear. Now let us understand what happened in this case of Saif Ali Khan. So originally this property belonged to the last Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan. Whose

4:39 eldest daughter was Abida Sultan who legally became the first heir to this property and the younger daughter was Sajida Sultan who is the grandmother of Saif Ali Khan. Now around 1950, Abida Sultan went to Pakistan and she also took citizenship there and from there this whole twist starts. After Abida shifted to Pakistan, her younger sister Sajida Sultan took over the Bhopal property and after Sajida, the legacy passed on to Saif, his sister Soha and Saba Ali Khan. But due to Pakistani citizenship, Abida 's heirs were also claiming this property and the case was going on for years. After the amendment of 2017, this law was made more strict and it was said that if the person who legally owns this property and is the legal heir goes to Pakistan or China and

5:26 takes citizenship there. Then even if any heir of that person is living in India, he cannot claim any right on this property. Meaning, once a property becomes enemy property and comes under the control of the Government, then even a legal virus cannot claim any right on this property. And in this case, the court had also given 30 days to Saif Ali Khan to file an appeal. But Saif did not file the appeal on time. After which this property has officially gone under government control. And you know that the Indian Government has control of about 9000 such enemy properties whose total value is around Rs 1 lakh crore. If you are preparing for CLAT PG or ET PG exam, then keeping you in mind, we have created this course in which I and my entire team spend every day

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7:45 of communication. One became normal communication and the other became privileged communication. Now privileged communication takes place between such relationships in which the conversations are private and confidential. This evidence cannot be used in court and is not admissible. For example, the conversation between doctor and patient, between advocate and client and between husband and wife. But in our present case is Vibhor Garg vs Neha, in this a divorce case is going on between husband and wife. In which the husband approaches the family court to say that I want to use the call recording of the conversations taking place between me and my wife as evidence. And the family court gives permission for this. Against which the wife reaches the High Court. And the High Court says that

8:31 call recording done without consent is illegal and will not be admissible in the court, and moreover, since this is privileged communication taking place between spouses, against which the husband approaches the Supreme Court. So a very important question comes before the Supreme Court whether the secret recording between husband and wife will be admissible as evidence in the court or not? So here it is important for you to know the concept of spousal relationship, which is Section 122 of the Indian Evidence Act, which says that secret recording between husband and wife, which is done without consent, will not be admissible in the court, but there are two exceptions to it. First, if a case is going on between husband and wife or second, if one has committed a crime against the other. If there are these two exceptions , the recording

9:16 may be admissible. Now, a leading case on the admissibility of recordings is R M Malkani versus State of Maharashtra in which a three fold test has been given as to when the recording would be admissible. First, your recording should be relevant. The second one should be clearly identifiable. And the third one should not be tampered with. The recording in these cases will be admissible. So, in the case of Vibhor Garg vs Neha, the Supreme Court clearly said that in matrimonial cases, only the recording done secretly will be admissible. Because under Section 122 of the Indian Evidence Act, there is an exception to the dispositional privilege that if the case is going on between husband and wife, then the recording will be admissible. So in this case the Supreme Court has not said anything new but has given clarity because different High Courts have had different approaches on this topic. So in this case, a clear president has been set. Now let us talk about

10:03 our Parliament whose monsoon session is going on in which 21 sessions are going to be held. Many new bills are going to be introduced. But first let us understand the basics. So what are these sessions of the Parliament? So look, it is not that the Parliament works throughout the year. Meetings are held at fixed intervals and we call these meetings sessions. And all these things have been discussed in Article 85 of the Constitution which tells when and how the sessions of the Parliament will be held and mainly Article 85 tells that there cannot be a gap of more than 6 months between any two sessions of the Parliament. So generally there is no such rule. But generally there are three sessions of the Parliament. The first is the budget session which is the longest and most important session. The Union Budget is presented and passed here. The second is the monsoon session where new bills are introduced and passed. Like

10:49 in the current session 15 bills are listed. National issues are debated here. Like right now Operation Sindoor is being carried out on Pahalgam attack. And the third is the winter session which takes place at the end of the year. Here also new bills are discussed and the performance of the government is reviewed. Now apart from these three terms, there is also a Special Session of the Parliament which is not a regular session but is called in case of emergency to discuss urgent matters of national importance. Like it was called during the India-Pakistan war and the India-China war. Now there are some important turns related to the Parliament session. Let us understand these also quickly. Firstly, when a session is temporarily suspended for a few hours, days or weeks, we call it adjournment. Secondly, when a session is suspended for an indefinite period without any fixed date then it is

11:36 called adjournment suspension. Third, when a session formally ends through the President, we call it prorogation. And the fourth is dissolution. Now this term is used only for Lok Sabha. Either after completion of 5 years or by special order of the President. And that is why we say that Lok Sabha is a temporary house and Rajya Sabha is a permanent house because Rajya Sabha never dissolves. Now look, we all must have read in our Constitution, if not in the Constitution then in our civics books, that India is a Sovan Socialist Secular Democratic Republic. And these lines are from the Preamble of our Constitution. But still every few years this debate starts again and again that we should remove these two words Socialist and Secular from Priyambal. So is it so easy to remove words from Priyambal? And can these also be removed? So what do we do first? Do you understand the meaning of these two words,

12:23 where did they come from in Priyambal? Let us understand this and then we will know whether these two words can be removed from Priyambal or not. So the first word is socialist, which means that whether a person is rich or poor, economic and social justice should be available to both and we as a society should try to increase the gap between the two. The second word is secular which means that India as a country will not favour any religion. All religions are equal for India and that is why we say that in India no religion is supreme but the Constitution is supreme. Now, the five words of the Preamble have not been defined anywhere, rather we interpret these words according to different policies. For example, if you see this campaign, it is, somewhere, a design of socialism. As you know, these two

13:09 words were not originally a part of our Preamble but were added to the Preamble by Indira Gandhi through the 42nd Amendment during the Emergency of 1976. Later, when Janata Party replaced Indira Gandhi Government, they removed maximum of the different amendments which were made during the Emergency. But these two words of Priyambal were left as they were. Infact the judiciary too has over the years in different cases repeatedly held the inclusion of these two words in the preamble and their interpretation as valid. Even in the Keshav Bharti case, the Supreme Court said that socialism and secularism are part of the basic structure of the Constitution. These cannot be amended. These cannot be removed. So the end line is that even if these two words are removed from the Constitution or even if they are not included, the Constitution of India is

13:55 secular. He is a socialist and this is not a product of the Emergency but it is India's long standing commitment to equality , to justice and to religious neutrality. And now the next news is that Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar has resigned from his post. Now, the role of the Vice President in India is not just symbolic but is very important. It is quite crucial. And you can divide the role of a Vice President into two parts. The first part is where he is the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and handles the parliamentary functions. Control the debates. Maintain law and order. And the second important role is when in the absence of the President, the Vice President becomes the acting President. Now if we talk about the articles related to this, there are two very important articles in the Constitution. Articles 67 and 91. So Jagdeep Dhankhar

14:42 addressed his resignation to the President under Article 67 and cited health conditions as the reason for his resignation. And Article 91 says that if the Vice President resigns, then the Deputy Chairman will handle the temporary charge of the Rajya Sabha till his re- election, which is to be held in the next 6 months. Now let us know an interesting story here. So what we have seen now is that in the absence of the President, the Vice President becomes the acting President. What happened in the present case? Jagdish Dhankar, who is our Vice President, has resigned. Now what will happen if our President also resigns at this moment ? So in this case, the Chief Justice of India is made the acting President and this has also happened when President Zakir Hussain died and Vice President BV Giri resigned so that he could contest the presidential election, then Chief

15:28 Justice of India of the Supreme Court Justice Hidayatullah was made the acting President. This was a rare moment when a Supreme Court judge also took the responsibility of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. So this means that the backup is ready in any crisis. So friends, this was today's video on Monthly Legal Update. If you are preparing for CLAT PG or LET PG exam, then you must check out this course of mine in which we do so many experiments every week or even every day so that your learning journey can be better. You can only focus on what matters. For example, what level are you at? In the four months of preparation, which subjects have you completed and which have not. We prepare personalized plans by using different permutation combinations keeping in mind your weak and strong areas. Provide one on one guidance. And I

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