High Courts
Mandate U/S 19 POCSO Act To Report Offence Is To Be Performed By A Person In Personal Capacity: Kerala HC Quashes Case Against Ex-CWC Head
The Kerala High Court (on December 20) observed that the mandate of reporting offences provided under Section 19 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is not of an official character and the person has to report it in his personal capacity.“Section 19 of the POCSO Act casts a mandate on any person to report the commission of an offence. The mandate to report does...
Gauhati High Court Asks Assam Govt If It Has Implemented Union Health Ministry's SOP On Medical Facilities For Transgender Persons
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday (January 07) directed the Assam Government to inform whether the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Union Ministry and Health & Family Welfare regarding treatment and other medical facilities to be provided to the transgender community, has been implemented in the State. The Court was hearing a PIL filed by Advocate Swati Bidhan Baruah...
Supreme Court Collegium Proposes To Make Two Gauhati HC Judges Permanent
The Supreme Court Collegium (SCC) on Tuesday (January 07) recommended the appointment of two Additional Judges of the Gauhati High Court as Permanent Judges.The SCC in its meeting held on January 07, 2025, approved the proposal for appointment of the following Additional Judges as Permanent Judges in the Gauhati High Court: Justice Kardak Ete, and Justice Mridul Kumar Kalita.Justice Kardak...
Does Woman With Below Average IQ Has No Right Become A Mother? Bombay HC Asks On Parents Plea To Terminate Daughter's 21-Week Pregnancy
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (January 8) while dealing with a plea of a sexagenarian couple, seeking termination of their "mentally ill" daughter's 21 week pregnancy, sought to know if a woman having an intelligence, below average, has no right to be a mother.It may not be out of place to mention that the court had in the earlier hearing on last Friday, pulled up the parents and...
Karnataka HC Declines Plea For Women Reservation In Governing Council Of Advocates' Association Bengaluru, Says Only SC Can Pass Such Order
The Karnataka High Court today (08 May) orally expressed support towards reservation of seats for women in the Governing Council of Advocates' Association Bengaluru.Justice R Devdas however declined a plea moved by the women members of the Bar Association and Federation of Women Lawyers in this regard, stating that only the Supreme Court can pass such orders."All of us are one with you...
Failure To Report POCSO Offences Not An Exception To Sanction For Prosecuting Public Servants U/S 197 CrPC Or U/S 218 BNSS: Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court has observed that Section 19 of POCSO Act which mandates reporting of POCSO offence is not carved out as an exception to Section 197 CrPC which pertains to requirement of sanction to prosecute public servants. In doing so the court observed that Section 197 CrPC/Section 218 BNSS are meant to safeguard the public servants from being dragged into vexatious proceedings...
Sambhal Mosque Row | Allahabad High Court Stays Trial Court Proceedings Till Feb 25, Seeks Responses Of UOI, UP Govt & Plaintiffs
The Allahabad High Court today stayed the Sambhal trial court proceedings till February 25 in a suit claiming that the Chandausi's Shahi Jama mosque was built after destroying a Hindu temple.A bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal passed this order on a civil revision plea moved by the Shahi Jama Mosque Committee at Chandausi (Sambhal) challenging the trial court's order passed on November...
Gurugram Land Scam: Punjab & Haryana HC Rejects Additional Accused's Challenge To Summoning Order, Finds Prima Facie 'Active Role In Conspiracy'
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the order summoning an additional accused to face trial in the Gurugram land acquisition scam, allegedly involving then Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others from the Industrial Model Township.Justice Kuldeep Tiwari opined that there are sufficient incriminating evidence which require the Petitioner- Amit Katyal, who was the...
Karnataka High Court Strikes Down Centre's Green Energy Open Access Rules, Says It Lacks Legislative Competence
The Karnataka High Court has struck down the Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy Through Green Energy Open Access) Rules 2022 framed by the Central Government for generation, purchase and consumption of green energy i.e., electrical energy from renewable sources of energy.A single judge, Justice N S Sanjay Gowda observed that the Centre lacks power under Electricity, 2003 Act to frame...
Calling A Woman's Body Structure "Fine" Prima Facie Sexual Harassment: Kerala High Court Refuses To Quash FIR
The Kerala High Court on Monday (January 6) observed that a man making comments about a woman's body structure calling it “fine” prima facie amounts to a sexually coloured remark.Justice A Badharudeen thus refused to quash the criminal proceedings initiated against the Petitioner for offences including Section 354A(1)(iv), 509 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 120 of the Kerala Police...
Employer Is Obligated To Furnish Reasons For Not Filling-Up Vacant Govt Posts : Tripura High Court
The Tripura High Court on Tuesday (January 7) noted that while its jurisdiction to direct the State Government to fill vacant posts is limited, the government is nonetheless obligated to provide reasons for leaving these posts unfilled within its departments.Justice Arindam Lodh, presiding over a single bench, was hearing a writ petition against the Tripura Government's Home Jail Department....
Advocates Ajay Digpaul, Harish Vaidyanathan Sworn In As Judges Of Delhi High Court
Advocates Ajay Digpaul and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar were sworn in as judges of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 8).Their appointment was notified by the Central Government on January 06. It was in August 2024 that the Supreme Court Collegium recommended their names for elevation along with the name of another advocate. The Delhi High Court now has total strength of 37 judges. ...