Uttarakhand High Court Directs State To Publish List Of Parks, Playgrounds Within Six Months; Restricts Non-Sporting Use Of Ramnagar Ground

The Uttarakhand High Court has directed the State Government to complete the identification of parks, playgrounds and open spaces across the State within six months and publish a list of these spaces within three months thereafter, observing that such spaces must be preserved for public use.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Justice Subhash Upadhyay disposed of...

LinkedIn Doesn't Perform Public Function, Account Restriction Can't Be Challenged In Writ Jurisdiction: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the restriction of a user's LinkedIn account, holding that the social networking platform does not perform a public function or discharge a public duty and is therefore not amenable to writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.Justice Amit Mahajan observed that merely providing a platform for communication and...

'India Is A Secular Country': Bombay High Court Slams BJP Leaders' Remarks On Dia Mirza's Firecracker Video, Orders BMC To Restore It

"How can you object to someone's participation just because they're from some other religion?"

Wife Who Cultivates Husband's Land Can Claim Farmers' Accident Relief: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a woman who does agricultural work on a land recorded in her husband's name, and whose principal source of livelihood is the agricultural income from that land, is an 'earning member' of the family under Clause 2(2) of the Mukhyamantri Krishak Durghatna Kalyan Yojana (CM Farmers' Accident Relief Scheme). It held that her claim cannot be rejected...

Surat Rape Case: Gujarat High Court Issues Notice On Narayan Sai's Temporary Bail Plea To Meet Ailing Mother

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (November 3) issued notice on a plea by Narayan Sai–convicted in 2019 by a Surat trial court for rape and sentenced to life imprisonment–seeking temporary bail to visit his ailing mother. Sai has moved the temporary bail application in his appeal challenging the rape conviction and life sentence. A division bench of Justice Bhargav D Karia and Justice...

'File Formal Petition' : Delhi High Court To Lawyers Seeking Action Against ACP Manasvi Vashishtha Over Comments On Advocates

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to take suo motu cognizance of allegedly threatening remarks made by Delhi Police ACP Manasvi Vashishtha against lawyers, asking the advocates to file a formal petition.The matter was mentioned before a division bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Nitin Wasudeo Sambre, by various advocates, who sought the Court's intervention over the alleged...

Rajasthan High Court Full Bench Restores Registration Of 'Criminal Writ Petitions', Overturns Division Bench Ruling

The Rajasthan High Court has held that writ petitions arising out of criminal matters must be separately registered as Criminal Writ Petitions and placed before the appropriate bench in accordance with Rule 35(1)(h) of the Rajasthan High Court Rules, 1952. The full bench of Chief Justice Sanjay K Agrawal, Justice Sameer Jain and Justice Anuroop Singhi observed:"All writ petitions instituted...

Allahabad High Court Regrets Being 'Unduly Harsh' On Bareilly SSP; Orders Petitioner To Pay Him ₹50K In Costs: Here's Why

The Court dismissed both habeas corpus petitions after finding that the petitioner had concealed the filing of the earlier plea.

Documents In Custody Of Criminal Court No Ground To Deny Inspection To Delinquent Employee: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a department which relies on documents lying in the custody of a criminal court cannot treat that custody as a reason for denying the delinquent employee inspection of those documents. It held that where such documents are essential to prove or rebut the charges, the department must take reasonable steps to secure lawful access to them or explain why...

Writ Jurisdiction Cannot Be 'Weaponised' To Bypass Statutory Appeals, Clog Constitutional Courts: Rajasthan High Court

Can't render statutory tribunals redundant, especially in taxation matters where State revenue is at stake, Court said.

State Can't Treat Natural Water Bodies As Disposable Property Merely Because It Owns Them: Allahabad High Court

Ownership by State doesn't confer unrestricted right to alienate a natural water body, Court said.

Unregistered Relinquishment Deed Cannot Be Revived By Paying Stamp Duty: Rajasthan High Court

While reiterating that paying the deficit stamp duty could not automatically cure the defect of non-registration, Rajasthan High Court opined that to burden a civil court to impound an insufficiently stamped document, which was already judicially pronounced as inadmissible for being un-registered, was a futile academic exercise and merely a dilatory tactic. The bench of Justice Sameer...