High Courts
Karnataka High Court Directs Centre To Frame Separate Food Safety Guidelines For Small, Medium And Large Restaurants
The Karnataka High Court recently directed Central government to enact law or guidelines specifically and separately for restaurant businesses bifurcating them into small, medium and large businesses so that standards of food and health are maintained at every rung of consumption. For Context, under the Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses Regulations, 2011 at present lines...
Provisional Attachment Order Can't Be Challenged In Writ Jurisdiction When Alternative Remedy Under PMLA Exists: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that the provisional attachment order (PAO) cannot be challenged in the writ jurisdiction when an alternative remedy is available under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.Justice Sachin Datta rejected a batch of petitions filed by Ms Krrish Realtech Pvt Ltd and its affiliates, including director Amit Katyal, challenging the Enforcement...
Kerala High Court Closes PIL Seeking Increase In Honorarium Of ASHA Workers As State Informs Of ₹1000 Hike
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (4 November) closed a public interest litigation seeking increase in honorarium paid to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA workers).The division bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Syam Kumar V M, closed the writ petition on being informed by the State Attorney that the monthly honorarium has been increased by Rs. 1000/- from November...
Delhi High Court Quashes Defamation Case Against Arnab Goswami Over Remarks Against Lawyer Who 'Attacked' Kanhaiya Kumar In 2016
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (November 4) quashed summons issued against journalist Arnab Goswami in a criminal defamation case filed against him.The lawyer, Vikram Singh Chauhan, alleged that defamatory remarks were made against him on Times Now channel by Goswami in 2016 during the broadcast of his show The NewsHour. The broadcast pertained to the incident alleging assault of former...
Words Need Not Compel Victim To Commit Suicide; Suggestive 'Instigation' Sufficient For Abetment: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court recently held that to satisfy the requirement of 'instigation' leading to the offence of abetment of suicide, the words of the accused need not be such as to compel the victim to commit suicide and it would be sufficient if the same is suggestive of the consequence.Justice V.G. Arun was considering a plea to quash the criminal proceedings initiated against the petitioner...
Magistrate Cannot Direct Secured Creditor To Bear Police Expenses While Taking Possession Of Secured Asset: Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur has recently ruled that a Magistrate cannot direct a secured creditor to deposit expenses for police assistance while taking possession of a secured asset under Section 14 of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act). A single-judge bench of Justice Ashutosh Kumar made the...
Karnataka High Court Closes PIL For Banning Websites, Apps Showing Nudity & Pornography In View Of Pending Pleas Before Supreme Court
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (November 4) disposed of a public interest litigation seeking directions to the Central Government to ban certain websites and applications (Apps) allegedly displaying nudity and pornography.A division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Poonacha disposed of the petition filed by the Legal Attorneys and Barristers Law Firm, after it was...
Court Can't Allow Intervenors Sans Reason, Plaintiff Can't Be Forced To Implead Party Against Whom No Relief Is Sought: Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court has reiterated that plaintiff being the 'dominus litis' cannot be compelled to implead someone, against whom he seeks no relief, as a defendant in his suit. The Bench of Justice Sashikanta Mishra, however, clarified that if the plaintiff chooses not to add someone as defendant, he does so at his own risk. In the words of the Court –“Court below has not cited any...
Delhi High Court Upholds JNU's Rule Allowing Cross Constituency Voting In Internal Complaints Committee Polls
The Delhi High Court has upheld Jawaharlal Nehru University's decision permitting students to vote across all constituencies- undergraduate, postgraduate and research scholar, in elections for student representatives to the Internal Committee (IC) dealing with sexual-harassment matters. Justice Mini Pushkarna said that election disputes require clear, cogent and credible evidence of illegality...
Bihar Assembly Polls | Patna High Court Rejects Writ Pleas Of RJD & RLJP Candidates Challenging Rejection Of Their Nominations
The Patna High Court has refused to entertain two writ petitions filed challenging the rejection of nomination of two candidates belonging to Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Janshakti Party respectively in the upcoming Bihar Legislative Assembly Polls, scheduled on November 06 and 11.rJustice A Abhishek Reddy cited the specific bar under Article 329(b) of the Constitution of India and...
Section 498A IPC Applicable Even If Marriage Is Declared Invalid Subsequently: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court yesterday ruled that Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, 1860, which criminalises cruelty by a husband or his relatives toward a married woman, will be applicable even if marriage between the parties is subsequently declared invalid. “Considering the purposive interpretation of the definition of the Husband to cover persons who enter into marital relationships, even if...