High Courts
Karnataka High Court Rejects DNA Entertainment's Plea To Quash Inquiry Commission's Report On Bengaluru Stampede
The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed the plea filed by Event management firm M/s DNA Entertainment Network Private Limited seeking quashing of a judicial inquiry report regarding Bengaluru Stampede which occurred in May.A division bench of Justice D K Singh and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju passed the order. A detailed copy of the order is yet to be made available. The Government...
Arbitrator Is The Master of Evidence; Court In Appeal Cannot Reassess Facts: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has recently reiterated that an arbitrator is the master of both the quantity and quality of evidence, and therefore the court, while exercising appeal or supervisory jurisdiction, cannot reappreciate factual findings recorded in an arbitral award. The court emphasized that it does not sit as a court of appeal over the findings of the learned Arbitrator and its role...
Punjab Advocate General Maninderjit Singh Bedi Designated As Senior Advocate
The Punjab & Haryana High Court today (November 21) designated Advocate General Maninderjit Singh Bedi as Senior Advocate.“In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act 1961, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh has been pleased to designate Sh. Maninderjit Singh Bedi, Advocate…as Senior Advocate with effect frorp ,the date of...
Maintenance | Loan EMIs, Insurance Premiums, Savings Can't Be Deducted While Calculating Husband's Income: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has held that payments towards loan, insurance premiums, and other savings contributions cannot be reduced for calculating the net income of the husband for the purpose of quantifying the maintenance to be paid to the wife or children.Justice A. Badharudeen, observed: “In fact, the above payments are to be reckoned as personal savings and those items shall not be...
Kerala High Court Stays ECI's Order Delisting Registered Unrecognised Political Parties In State
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (20 November) granted interim relief to political parties that were recently delisted from the Election Commission of India's (ECI) register of Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPPs).Justice V.G. Arun issued an interim stay for the operation of the order of ECI that delisted them, allowing the parties' candidates to contest in the ongoing local...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Releases Convict In Fatal Road Accident Case; Orders Him To Plant & Maintain 50 Trees, Do Community Service
The Punjab & Haryana High Court granted probation to a young man convicted for causing death by negligence in a road accident, emphasizing the rehabilitative and reformative objectives of sentencing over purely punitive measures.Referring to French judge and philosopher Montesquieu, Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj said, "the certainty of mild yet consistent punishment serves as a far...
Lokpal Must Hear Public Servant Before Ordering Investigation: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that Lokpal of India, pursuant to its powers under Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act 2013, cannot order an investigation against a public servant without affording him an opportunity of hearing.A division bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar observed,“The statutory framework of Section 20 leaves no room for doubt that the requirement...
Delimitation Of Wards Can't Be Done Based On Individual Grievances Under 2015 Civic Election Rules: HP High Court
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that electoral ward boundaries cannot be redrawn merely because a single individual is dissatisfied with population distribution.The Court further remarked that delimitation is primarily an administrative exercise involving complex geographic, demographic and boundary-based considerations. The Court reiterated Rule 4 of the Himachal Pradesh...
Criminal Liability Not 'Purchasable Commodity', Death By Negligence Case Can't Be Quashed On Compromise: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has cautioned against the “probable erosion of judicial integrity” where criminal proceedings involving serious offences—particularly those under Section 304-A IPC/Section 106 BNS (Causing death by negligence)—are sought to be quashed solely on the basis of compromise between the accused and the victim's family.Justice Sumeet Goel observed that...
'Grave Societal Threat': Delhi High Court Cancels Bail Of Women Booked For Inter-State Child Trafficking
The Delhi High Court has cancelled the bail granted to two women allegedly involved in large-scale inter-state child trafficking racket, facilitating sale and purchase of new-born infants for monetary gain.Justice Ajay Digpaul observed,“The offences alleged are of grave and heinous nature, involving trafficking of new-born children, which not only endangers the rights and dignity of the...
Essential Commodities Act | Failure To Examine Available Independent Witnesses Casts Doubt On Fairness Of Investigation: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court recently observed that the non-examination of independent witnesses, when they are admittedly present, casts doubt on the fairness and transparency of the investigation.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Prasenjit Biswas made these observations while hearing an appeal against a conviction delivered by a Special EC Court. The appellant had been convicted under...
Inter-Faith Relationship: MP High Court Rejects Family's Plea For Daughter's Custody, Says She's An Adult With Her Own Free Will
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Tuesday (November 18), dismissed a habeas corpus petition by maternal uncle of a Hindu woman, observing that she was a major, was not in wrongful confinement and was living with respondent no 4 (a muslim man) out of her own free will. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf observed;"Corpus is a major. She states that she...