Maha Shivaratri: Madras HC Seeks TNPCB's Report On Allegations That Isha Foundation Flouted Pollution Norms During Celebrations Last Year

The Madras High Court has called for a report from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board in a plea seeking directions to the authorities to desist issuing permission to conduct Maha Shivaratri celebrations at Isha Foundation in light of violations of pollution norms in previous celebrations. The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice K Rajasekar asked Additional Advocate General...

'In Larger Interest Of Country': Madras HC Recommends Resuming Reservation Of 2 Seats In MBBS/BDS Course For PM Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awardees

The Madras High Court has recommended the Ministry of Women and Child Development to resume reserving two seats in MBBS and BDs courses for students who have been conferred with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar. While the court agreed that discontinuing the reservation is a policy decision of the government, the bench of Justice RMT Teekaa Raman and Justice N...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Making Four Additional Judges Of Madras High Court Permanent

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended making four additional judges of the Madras High Court as permanent.In its meeting held on 20th February, 2025, the collegium has proposed the appointment of following judges as the permanent judges of Madras High Court:(i) Justice Ramasamy Sakthivel(ii) Justice P Dhanabal(iii) Justice Chinnasamy Kumarappan, and (iv) Justice Kandasamy...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Appointment Of 5 Advocates As Patna High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 20th February, 2025 has approved the proposal for appointment of the following Advocates, as Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Patna:(i) Shri Alok Kumar Sinha,(ii) Shri Ritesh Kumar,(iii) Smt. Soni Shrivastava,(iv) Shri Sourendra Pandey, and(v) Shri Ansul @ Anshul...

AO Becomes 'Functus Officio' After Closure Of Assessment, Must Put Relevant Incriminating Material To Assessee To Re-Confer Jurisdiction: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that after the closure of assessment proceedings, the Assessing Officer becomes 'functus officio' and to re-confer jurisdiction upon the AO to initiate re-assessment proceedings, relevant incriminating material ought to be put to the assessee.A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela made the observation...

Detention Of Accused For More Than 6 Years As 'Undertrial' Is Infringement Of Right To Speedy Trial: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has held that detention of an accused as an undertrial for more than six years can be considered as violation of right to speedy trial as guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. While granting bail to a person accused of duping gullible investors of crores of rupees, the Single Bench of Justice Gourishankar Satapathy observed – “True it is that...

Karnataka High Court Reserves Order On Plea By CM Siddaramaiah's Wife, Minster BS Suresh To Quash ED Summons, ECIR In MUDA Case

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (February 21) reserved its verdict on pleas by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi and Minister B S Suresh for quashing summons issued by Enforcement Directorate and the agency's ECIR registered against them for their alleged involvement in the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) case. Justice M Nagaprasanna reserved its order...

14 Y/O Girl Had 'Sufficient Knowledge & Capacity' To Understand Her Actions: Bombay HC Grants Bail To POCSO Accused

The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to a 24-year-old man booked for raping a 14-year-old minor girl, noting that the victim had 'sufficient knowledge' and 'capacity' to know the 'full import of her actions' as she 'voluntarily' stayed with the accused for 4 days. In its 10-page order, a bench of Justice Milind Jadhav considered the statements of the victim wherein she said...

[NDPS Act] No Infirmity If Forensic Lab Directly Gives Chemical Report To Trial Court, All Involved In Criminal Trial Must Reduce Delay: Calcutta HC

The Calcutta High Court has held that there can be no infirmity in the trial of an NDPS case if the forensic laboratory sends the chemical report directly to the trial court instead of it being submitted as part of the supplementary chargesheet by the investigating agency.A division bench of Justices Arijit Banerjee and Apurba Sinha Ray held that just because the report was sent directly to...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Refuses Pre-Arrest Bail To Man Allegedly Involved In Staging Fake Court Hearing

The Punjab & Haryana High Court refused to grant anticipatory bail to a man allegedly involved in case of posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and staging a fake virtual courtroom, with one of them impersonating former CJI DY Chandrachud.Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu noted that, “instances of cyber-fraud are increasing day by day and according to the...

Failure To Attach Impugned Arbitral Award Along With Section 34 Application Would Render Filing Non-Est: Delhi High Court

A full bench of Delhi High Court comprising of Justice Rekha Palli, Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Saurabh Banerjee while hearing a reference made by a single judge bench in Pragati Construction Consultants v. Union of India [FAO(OS)(COMM) 70/2024] held that if the party challenging an award u/s 34 of the A&C Act does not attach the impugned arbitral award with the...

Govt Dept Committed Illegality By Withdrawing Posts After Recruitment Had Already Begun: J&K High Court Directs Restoration Of Slots

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that a government department would be committing an illegality by usurping the quota meant to be filled by direct recruitment on the basis of merit through promotion. The court ruled that the government officials, in this case, had acted illegally by withdrawing as many as 29 out of 42 referred posts and filling them through promotion after the exam...