High Courts
'Disgusting': Allahabad High Court Slams Registry Officials, Clerks For Using 'Reddish Saliva' To Turn Court Papers
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has taken a stern view on saliva being used by registry officers, clerks for turning pages of the petitions, applications and other documents placed before the Court.While dealing with an application under Section 482 CrPC, Justice Shree Prakash Singh observed,“since morning that in more than ten petitions/ applications, reddish colour saliva...
Notice U/S 148 Income Tax Act Must Be Delivered To Addressee Personally By Post To Complete Service U/S 27: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that notices under Section 148 and 282 of the Income tax Act, 1961 must be delivered to the assesee personally through speed post and not merely upon his address to complete service under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. It held that presumption of sufficient service arises only when the notice is sent by registered post as in registered...
Kerala High Court Seeks Customs Dept Response On Dulquer Salman's Plea Challenging Seizure Of Car
The Kerala High Court on Friday (September 26) sought the response of the Customs Department on a petition filed by actor-producer Dulquer Salman challenging the seizure of his Land Rover Defender by Customs officials as part of Operation Numkhor.He has contended that the Customs action was "arbitrary, illegal, and based on mere suspicion". A bench of Justice Ziyad Rahman posted the matter...
Delhi High Court Full Bench To Decide If Armed Forces Tribunal Can Decide On Vires Of Legislations Other Than AFT Act
The Delhi High Court's full bench is set to decide whether the Armed Forces Tribunal is competent to adjudicate on the vires of statutory legislations other than the Armed Forces Tribunals Act. A division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla referred the question to be decided by a full bench, comprising three judges. The Full Bench will also decide if...
Karnataka High Court Allows Issuance Of Travel Documents For Deportation Of Russian Woman, Her Children Found Living In Gokarna Cave
The Karnataka High Court on Friday permitted the Union of India to issue necessary travel documents to enable a mother and her children, who were found living in a cave in the state's Uttara Kannada district (Gokarna), to travel back to Russia. Justice B M Shyam Prasad disposed of the petition filed by Dror Shlomo Goldstein, who claims to be the father of the children and had approached the...
Karnataka High Court Asks NLSIU To Accommodate Student With Learning Disability Struggling With Arithmetic If She Fails In Economics
Disposing of a plea by an National Law School India University (NLSIU) student seeking alternate subject/exemption from studying Economics in view of her disability, the Karnataka High Court asked the varsity to have a liberal approach enabling the student to pass her first year course in case is clears all other subjects except Economics.Justice R Devdas disposed the petition of a student who...
Cash For Query Row: Delhi High Court Declines Urgent Orders On Mahua Moitra's Plea To Stop Lokpal From Hearing BJP MP Nishikant Dubey
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to pass urgent orders in a plea filed by Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra praying that complainant Nishikant Dubey be not heard in the proceedings pending against her before the Lokpal of India on October 06, in relation to the cash for query row.Moitra made the prayer alleging that Dubey leaked confidential information and documents related to...
Kerala High Court Directs State To Decide On Sanction For Vigilance Probe Into PP Divya's Alleged Benami Deals
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (September 25) directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the State to consider and pass orders for prior sanction to conduct vigilance inquiry into the alleged benami deals of former Kannur district panchayat president P.P. Divya.Justice A. Badharudheen was considering a plea by Kerala Students Union (KSU) Vice-President, Muhammed Shammas P., seeking a...
Kerala High Court Directs State To Notify Snakebite Management Guidelines For Schools, Says Anti-Venom Supply Is Govt Responsibility
The Kerala High Court has issued directions to the State government on the issue of snakebite management and basic healthcare in schools, while disposing of a writ petition filed in connection with the 2019 snakebite incident involving a school student.Delivering the judgment, the division Bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen directed the State to issue...
Provisional Attachment Of Bank Accounts Cannot Be Done Merely Upon Issue Of Show Cause Notice U/S 74 GST Act: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that provisional attachment of bank accounts cannot be done merely upon issue of show cause notice under Section 74 of the Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017. Referring to the judgment of the Supreme Court in Radha Krishan Industries v. State of H.P. and its earlier judgment in R.D. Enterprises v. Union of India, the bench of Justice Shekhar B....
'Contemptuous': J&K&L High Court Raps Srinagar SSP For Objectionable Remarks Against Judiciary In Dossier
The Jammu & Kashmir High Court, while quashing a preventive detention order, observed that the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Srinagar had made objectionable and contemptuous remarks against the judiciary in the dossier prepared to justify the detention.A bench of Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi directed the Director General of Police (DGP), J&K to seek an explanation from the...
High Court Can Direct UIDAI To Share Last Location Of Missing Person's Aadhaar Use With Police: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has held that UIDAI can be directed to provide details of usage of Aadhaar card and the location where it has been used to the police for investigating a missing person's complaint.A single judge, Justice Suraj Govindaraj said,“When during the course of investigation by police authority or any investigating authority in the event of usage of Aadhaar card...