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Administrative Tribunal Can Decide Disputes Regarding Classification Of Candidate's Category During Recruitment Process: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has clarified that the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Administrative Tribunals Act 1985, has the jurisdiction to consider all matters 'concerning recruitment' which includes all decisions from the date of publication of notification inviting applications for the government job posts to the orders of appointment. A single judge bench...
‘Reasonable Grounds’ For Grant Of Bail U/S 37 NDPS Act Implies Something More Than Prima Facie Grounds: Kerala High Court Reiterates
The Kerala High Court recently refused to grant bail to a man booked under Sections 22(c), 27 A and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 for possession of commercial quantity of MDMA. The bail application was filed by the 9th accused in a crime registered on the files of Excise Range Office, Ernakulam for possession of 1.085 Kgs of MDMA that was discovered...
KSHEC Constitutes Committee For Framing Separate Legislation To Regulate Educational Consultancy Services In Kerala
The Executive Body of the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) has decided to constitute a Committee for conducting a detailed study for the framing of a separate legislation for regulating or controlling the activities of educational consultancy services in Kerala. By an order dated January 31, 2023, the Vice-Chairman of KSHEC has accorded sanction for the constitution of...
Delhi High Court Orders Damodar Valley Corporation To Pay ₹75,000 To RTI Applicant, Sets Aside CIC's 'Sweeping Observations'
Setting aside the observations made by Central Information Commission (CIC) against Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and the costs imposed by the statutory body against its CPIO in a RTI case related to workplace sexual harassment, the Delhi High Court has directed the Public Sector Undertaking to pay a cost of Rs 75,000 to the RTI applicant in view of the long-drawn battle he had...
498A IPC: Cruelty Case Can Be Quashed By High Court Under Section 482 CrPC Even After Conviction: Bombay High Court
There is no embargo on quashing a case emanating from a matrimonial dispute even after conviction when an appeal is pending, the Bombay High Court said while quashing a domestic violence case filed by the wife against her husband and in-laws. The accused in the case had been convicted by the trial court in March 2021. A division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai and RM...
FIR Registered Against Kerala HC Lawyer On Allegations Of Collecting Money In The Name Of Bribing Judges
The Ernakulam Central Police Station registered First Information Report (FIR) against the President of the Kerala High Court Advocates Association, Advocate Saiby Jose Kidangoor, in respect of allegations against him pertaining to taking money from clients in the name of bribing judges. Offences under Section 7(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and Section 420 of the Indian Penal...
Madras High Court Seeks Govt's Response On Plea Seeking Gender Neutral Toilets Across State
The Madras High Court has directed the State to respond to a plea seeking gender neutral public toilets across educational institutes, at bus stops, railway stations, airports and such other public places. The bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy directed the State counsel to seek instructions and respond to the petition in a week.The court was hearing a...
‘Police Completed Investigation In Hush Hush Manner’: Orissa High Court Orders Crime Branch To Probe RTI Activist's 'Murder'
The Orissa High Court has ordered a de novo investigation by the Crime Branch into the alleged murder of an RTI activist in 2020. While expressing displeasure over the investigation done by the police, Dr. Justice Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi said: “It transpires that the police has not given the proper thought to the video clips and the culprits therein. Indeed, the police has completed...
Bharat Biotech’s Allegations Against Me, Thakur Foundation Are False And Defamatory: Prashant Reddy To Delhi High Court
Lawyer and author of ‘The Truth Pill’, Prashant Reddy T. has told the Delhi High Court that allegations made by Bharat Biotech against him and Thakur Foundation, during a recent hearing of his petitions seeking information on COVID-19 vaccines under Right to Information Act, are “false, defamatory and vexatious.”Reddy had moved three petitions challenging the orders passed by...
Cannot Direct State To Consider Degree Holders For Junior Engineer Posts When Recruitment Rules Say Only Diploma Holders Eligible: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court refused to direct the State to consider degree holders in Civil Engineering as eligible for the post of Junior Engineer in the Water Resources Department as the recruitment rules only provide for diploma in Civil Engineering or equivalent qualification.Acting Chief Justice S. V. Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep V. Marne dismissed a writ petition filed by 610...
Gujarat High Court Forms Panel To Probe Into Cases Of 2 Pregnant Women Who Were Denied Medical Care By Hospitals
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday set up a committee to look into two incidents that were brought to Court’s notice in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea claiming that two pregnant women were refused medical care by the hospitals in the state. Noting that many such cases are coming to Court’s notice that unless an amount is paid, hospitals are not admitting the...
Consider Designing Health Insurance Products For Persons With Hearing Disability: Delhi High Court To IRDAI
The Delhi High Court has asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to consider "the manner in which products" of health insurance policy "can be designed for persons with hearing disabilities and implants."Justice Prathiba M Singh said that IRDAI, while submitting its position to the court, shall consider the existing policies and guidelines as may be...