Atul Subhash Suicide | Accused-Wife Moves Allahabad High Court Seeking Anticipatory Bail In Abetment To Suicide Case

The wife of 34-year-old Bangalore techie-Atul Subhash, along with three of her family members, has filed an anticipatory bail petition before the Allahabad High Court in connection with an FIR lodged against them concerning abetment to suicide case. Subhash, who allegedly died by suicide due to alleged harassment by his wife through the filing of matrimonial cases, left behind a...

Custody Orders Must Be Respected Unless Challenged And Modified By Higher Court: Jharkhand HC Directs Mother To Handover Son To Father

Highlighting that a custody order, unless challenged or modified by a higher court, must be respected, the Jharkhand High Court upheld a family court's order granting custody of a minor boy to his father. In doing so the high court further observed that there was nothing to suggest that the welfare of the minor was in any peril in the hands of the father. The Court interacted with the mother...

Reports Forming The Basis For Determining EPF Dues Must Be Shared With Parties: Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court: A single bench of Justice N. Nagresh overturned the orders of the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court (CGIT) in two writ petitions filed by Sree Narayana Guru Memorial Educational & Cultural Trust. These orders demanded the Trust pay alleged EPF dues. The court ruled that repeated factual errors, procedural issues, and the lack of a fair...

Officer Entitled To Full Pay And Allowances If There Are No Reasons To Keep Him Suspended Till Conclusion Of Disciplinary Proceedings: Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court has held that an officer would be entitled to full pay and allowances if there were no reasons for keeping him under suspension till the conclusion of disciplinary proceedings.The Division Bench of Justice A.Muhamed Mustaque and Justice P. Krishna Kumar observed that disciplinary authority must apply their mind and exercise their discretion in deciding whether the...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: November 2024

Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 328 To 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 377NOMINAL INDEXJakir Khan v State of Rajasthan & Anr. 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 328Hemlata Choudhary v the State of Rajasthan & Anr. 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 329Smt. Suman Lata Kapur v the State of Rajasthan & Ors. 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 330Anju Parihar v Looni Devi 2024 LiveLaw (Raj) 331Umesh Kumar & Anr. v Lila Bai & Anr. 2024...

Succession Certificate Not Required For Death-Cum-Retirement Benefits In Case Of Existing Nomination: Allahabad High Court

Recently, the Allahabad High Court has held that it is not necessary for an applicant to provide a succession certificate if a nomination exists to their name, while making an application for death-cum-retiral benefits of a deceased government employee.“…once there is a nomination left by the deceased in his service records in favour of a person, who is his wife, there is no reasons for...

Students Have No Locus To File Plea For Affiliation Of A College: Madhya Pradesh HC Expresses Surprise At Law College Not Wanting Recognition

While hearing a plea regarding grant of recognition of a college, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (December 13) orally remarked that students had "no locus" to seek affiliation of a college expressing its "surprise" as to why the college was not present before the court seeking recognition.On the last date of hearing i.e. November 13, the counsel for the...

Jharkhand High Court Directs Mandatory Monthly Medical Camps For Elderly Prisoners With Cataract, Diabetes And Hypertension

The Jharkhand High Court has recently directed the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority (JHALSA)) to organize medical camps for inmates, particularly elderly prisoners suffering from ailments such as cataracts, diabetes, and blood pressure, alongside the monthly legal camps conducted in jails.The division bench comprising Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Navneet Kumar directed,...

Burden Of Establishing 'Industry' Status In Employment Dispute On Petitioner: Delhi HC

Delhi High Court: A single judge bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia upheld a Labour Court's award that rejected a worker's claims for reinstatement. It held that the worker failed to prove that Holistic Child Development India (HCDI) qualified as an “industry” within the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The court also found no evidence that established an employer-employee...

Madhya Pradesh HC Issues Contempt Notice To Tehsildar For Violating Orders By Allowing Liquor Vend To Operate In 'Sealed' Premises

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (December 12) while hearing issued a contempt notice to a Tehsildar for wilfully disobeying court's earlier order by allowing a liquor vend to operate in a premises which was supposed to be sealed and vacated.While the court asked the Tehsildar to file an explanation as to why he permitted a liquor vend to open, it however orally said that it seemed to be...

Cops Instructed To Give Priority To Court Proceedings: State Tells Bombay HC After Objections Over "Less Weightage" Given To Court

The Maharashtra Government recently informed the Bombay High Court that the State's Director General of Police would soon be issuing a circular instructing the police officers across the State to take court proceedings 'seriously' and to give it 'priority' over other works.This comes after a division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande on December 3, expressed displeasure...

[MV Act] Gauhati HC Sets Aside MACT Order Which Dismissed Claim For Being Barred U/S 166(3), Says Accident Occured Before Section Was Inserted

The Gauhati High Court recently set aside an order passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Kamrup by which it dismissed a claim petition filed after six months of the accident for being barred by limitation under Section 166(3) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (as amended in 2019), on the ground that the amendment to Section 166 of the Act, which includes the insertion of sub-section...