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Calcutta High Court Directs WB Police To Produce Woman Arrested At Kolkata Airport Before UP Court Within 7 Days

The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal Police to ensure that a woman arrested at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in connection with a criminal case registered in Uttar Pradesh is produced before the jurisdictional court in Gautam Buddh Nagar within seven days.A Division Bench of Justices Rishad Medora and Tirthankar Ghosh passed the direction while disposing of...

Private CCTV Cameras Cannot Be Positioned To Interfere With Neighbours Privacy: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that private CCTV cameras cannot be installed or positioned in a manner that interferes with a neighbour's privacy.A Bench of Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Garima Prashad made the observation while disposing of a writ petition filed by one Yogendra Maurya, who was aggrieved by the positioning of a CCTV camera by his neighbour. It was his case that...

Madras High Court Advocates Association Challenges 1965 Cabinet Decision To Use English As Common Language In High Courts

The Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) has moved the Madras High Court against the Union Cabinet's 1965 decision by which it was decided that English would continue to be the common language in the Supreme Court and the High Courts until Hindi can replace it.When the plea came up, the bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan was informed that a similar...

Karnataka High Court Fines Panchayat Officer ₹50K Over Illegal Demolition Without Formal Acquisition & Compensation To Victim

The Karnataka High Court upheld an order which held that the demolition of a citizen's residential or commercial property for public projects like road widening without initiating formal acquisition proceedings or paying compensation amounts to a deprivation of property and livelihood, violating Article 300A of the Constitution of India. A Division Bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna and...

Calcutta High Court Seeks States Response On Plea By Former OBC Candidates Seeking EWS Reservation In Teacher Recruitment

The Calcutta High Court has sought responses from the West Bengal Government and the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) on a plea by candidates who had initially applied under the OBC-A and OBC-B categories for primary teacher recruitment but subsequently obtained Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificates and sought permission to update their category.Justice Arjun Ray...

Missing Interview Records: Allahabad High Court Directs KGMU To Calculate Average Marks And Declare Candidates Result

The Allahabad High Court has directed King George's Medical University (KGMU) to calculate average interview marks from the surviving records of the same selection if the petitioner's marks cannot be verified, and then declare the result of her candidature.The Court also observed that a recruitment process, once undertaken and candidates have participated in its prescribed stages, must be...

AP High Court Quashes Preventive Detention Order, Says Reliance On Previously Nullified Grounds Vitiates Subjective Satisfaction

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has quashed a man's preventive detention order, holding that grounds forming part of an earlier detention order quashed by the Court could not be relied upon again, even alongside fresh grounds of detention.The Court held that such reliance vitiated the detaining authority's subjective satisfaction, warranting the detenu's release unless required in another...

Liberty Most Precious To Convicts, Punishment Not Be Weaponised To Glamorise Savage Justice: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that the State's welfarist approach requires an attempt to rehabilitate offenders, and that the purpose of punishment must not be distorted into “savage justice”. The Court made the observations while setting aside an order that rejected a life convict's plea for premature release and deferred his case by one year.Justice Sumeet Goel...

Summary Revenue Proceedings Require Greater Adherence To Procedure: Allahabad High Court Sets Aside Land Map Correction Orders

The Allahabad High Court has held that revenue authorities acting under Section 28 of the U.P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 cannot, while correcting a village map, act on a disputed measurement and take away part of one plot to make good an alleged shortfall in the plot next to it. The summary character of such proceedings, it held, calls for closer compliance with the statutory procedure, not...