Kerala High Court Quarterly Digest: July - September, 2024 [Citations: 397 - 607]

Nominal Index [Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 397 – 607]Sali T. v Keezhmadu Service Co-operative Bank, 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 397Arshad v State of Kerala, 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 398Association of Clinical Microbiologists and Biochemists v Akhil James and Others, 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 399Satish Motilal Bidri v Union Of India, 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 400N S Gopakumar v The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd.,...

Customs Can't Claim Priority Over Bank For Recovery Of Dues From Assessee's Property: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition moved by the Customs and Central Excise Department seeking priority over other secured creditors, for recovery of dues from an assessee's property. Justices Vivek Rusia and Binod Kumar Dwivedi relied on Punjab National Bank V/s Union of India and others (2022) where the Top Court had held that SARFAESI Act will have an...

Bombay High Court Commutes Death Sentence Of Man Who Burnt Alive Woman, 2-Yr-Old; Awards Life Sentence

The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment of a 46-year-old man, who set ablaze two women and a two-year-old girl.A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Shyam Chandak said the instant case, wherein the convict - Deepak Jath, set ablaze two women and a two-year-old girl, which led to the death of one of the women and the minor girl, does...

Article 227 Cannot Be Invoked When Interrogatories & Discoveries Allowed By Tribunal Are Not In Nature Of Fishing Inquiry: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that the scope of review under Article 227 is extremely narrow; the same cannot be invoked when the interrogatories and discoveries allowed by the tribunal have a co-relation and nexus with the subject matter of the dispute.The bench of Justice Manoj Jain, while hearing two claim petitions, held that where the seller offered alternate plots in similar projects...

Rajasthan High Court Lifts Stay On Release Of Alia Bhatt Starrer 'Jigra' Over Trademark Dispute

The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court in an interim order on Thursday (October 10) lifted a stay imposed by a commercial court, temporarily restraining the release of Alia Bhatt's starer “Jigra”, scheduled for Friday (October 11). A division bench of Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Justice Munnuri Laxman in its interim order said, "As an ad interim measure, the effect and...

High Court Stays Panchayat Polls In Parts Of Punjab; Slams State For 'Blatant Abuse Of Power', Says Attempt Made To Destroy Fair Election

The Punjab & Haryana High Court yesterday slammed the Punjab Government for "blatant abuse of power" of the state machineries in the upcoming Panchayat Elections, at the stage of filing of nomination papers. It has put an interim stay on further election proceedings in relation to villages involved in the petition.The polls were set to be held on October 15.A vacation bench of Justice...

Delhi High Court Stays Decision Of Apex Council Which Altered Result Of 'Legends League' Cricket Match After Being Declared

The Delhi High Court bench of Justice Sachin Datta, while hearing a Section 9 petition under the A&C Act, has granted interim relief to the petitioner by staying the communication of Event Technical Committee (ETC) and the Apex Council which allowed the result of a cricket match to be altered after the result has been announced.Factual Overview:The petitioner is a Konark Surya...

Ayodhya Minor Gangrape Case | 'He May Adversely Affect Trial': Allahabad High Court Denies Bail To SP Leader

The Allahabad High Court last week rejected the bail plea of Samajwadi Party leader Moid Ahmad in connection with the case of an alleged gang-rape of a minor girl in UP's Ayodhya in which Ahmad and his helper, Raju Khan, have been named as accused. A bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia noted that although the FSL report on record confirms the paternity of the fetus with the co-accused and...

Can HC Entertain Writ Against ED's Provisional Attachment When Alternate Remedy Is Available Under PMLA? Punjab & Haryana HC Answers

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has said that when an alternative remedy is available under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) against Provisional Attachment Order (PAO) issued by the Directorate of Enforcement, it would not be appropriate for it to entertain a writ petition even before the statutory 30 days' period from the date when PAO has been passed.Section 5(5) of...

Expulsion Forever Will Lead To 'Academic Death': Bombay High Court Grants Relief To Law Student Accused In Multiple Sexual Harassment Cases

While disposing of a plea filed by a final year law student of the Maharashtra National Law University (MNLU) challenging the decision of the varsity to expel him from the institution after he was found guilty of 'repeated' sexual harassment of girls by the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), the Bombay High Court on Thursday said that the student's expulsion for an 'unspecified' period...

Gujarat HC Orally Questions State For Conducting 'Preliminary Inquiry' In Plea For Lodging Rape FIR Against BJP MLA, Lists Matter On Monday

While hearing a 2021 plea moved by a woman seeking registration of an FIR against BJP MLA from Prantij–Gajendrasinh Parmar, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (October 9) orally questioned the State for conducting a preliminary inquiry in a case pertaining to allegations of rape. After hearing the matter for some time a single judge bench of Justice Niral R Mehta adjourned it for...

Madras High Court Quarterly Digest: July - September, 2024 [Citations 266 - 370]

CITATIONS: 2024 LiveLaw (Mad) 266 to 2024 LiveLaw (Mad) 370 NOMINAL INDEX K Nizamuddin v The Chief Secretary to Government and Others, 2024 LiveLaw (Mad) 266 Balakrishna Reddy v State of Tamil Nadu and Others, 2024 LiveLaw (Mad) 267 Mr.P.N.Vignesh v The Chairman and Members of the Bar Council, BCI, 2024 LiveLaw (Mad) 268 M/s.Practo Technologies Pvt.Ltd v The Tamil...