High Courts
Merely Because Either Parent Is Non-Tribal, Child Cannot Be Denied Scheduled Tribe Certificate: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court's circuit bench at Port Blair has come to the aid of a NEET candidate who had not been issued a scheduled tribe certificate for the upcoming entrance examinations, even after being considered eligible for an ST certificate by the authorities.Justice Aniruddha Roy held: The law on the subject prescribe that several factual factors are required to be considered to...
'Frivolous': Madhya Pradesh High Court Dismisses Plea Alleging Advocate General Charged 'Exorbitant Professional Fees'
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently dismissed an application alleging that the state's Advocate General Prashant Singh charged and was paid "exorbitant professional fees" to appear in certain matters including a plea where the advocate general appeared for state Nurses Registration Council. This, the plea claimed, was despite government instructions that no separate fees was required to...
Madhya Pradesh HC Upholds Measures By Indore Municipality To Curb Traffic Congestion At Tourist Attraction '56 Dukan' Food Street
While hearing a plea filed by shop owners of the famous '56 Dukan' area–a food and shopping located in Indore, the Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld the measures taken by Indore Municipal Corporation to curb traffic congestion in the said area. In doing so the Court noted that the decision to put barricades on the road was done in larger interest of the public.Justice Subodh Abhyankar in...
Society Owes Healthy Environment To Children, Won't Permit Dumping Ground Near School: Bombay HC Remarks In Plea Against Waste Disposal Site
In a petition challenging the proposal to set up a Municipal Solid Waste Treatment & Disposal site at a land adjacent to a school, the Bombay High Court orally remarked that it would not permit a dumping ground to be set up near the school.The Court was hearing 2011 petitions filed by a school and village panchayat of Awalkheda village in Taluka Igatpuri of Nashik District.During the...
Compelling Reason For Interference Of Appellate Court When Relevant And Convincing Materials Unjustifiably Eliminated: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that there arises a compelling reason for interference of the Appellate Court when a judgment impugned is clearly unreasonable and relevant and convincing materials have been unjustifiably eliminated in the process.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, while overturning a wrongful acquittal by the...
UAPA | Kerala High Court Grants Bail To 10 PFI Members Allegedly Involved In RSS Leader Sreenivasan's Murder
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (2nd April) granted bail to 10 PFI members allegedly involved in the murder of RSS leader in Palakkad, S. K. Sreenivasan.The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice P. V. Balakrishnan granted bail to 8 of them namely Nassar, Jamsheer H., Abdul Basith, Muhammed Shefeek K., Ashraf K., Jishad B., Ashraf aka Ashraf Moulavi, Sirajudheen...
Free Speech Cannot Be Stifled By Implicating Citizens In Criminal Cases, Dissent Can Be Expressed Under Article 19(1)(a): Madras High Court
While quashing a criminal case registered against AIADMK's C. Ve Shanmugam for his comments about the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court underscored the right to freedom of speech and expression and the right to dissent. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan noted that in a democracy, the opposition has a role to point out the failures of the government. The court added that...
Booked In Section 498A Case, Actor Hansika Motwani Moves Bombay High Court For Quashing FIR
The Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notice on a petition filed by actor Hansika Motwani and her mother Jyoti Motwani, by which the duo have sought to quash the First Information Report (FIR) lodged against them on charges of cruelty under section section 498-A, at the behest of her sister-in-law Muskan James.A division bench of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Shriram Modak issued the notice...
Delay In Receiving Award Due To Default In Paying Arbitral Fees Cannot Be Held Against Party Seeking To Challenge Award While Calculating Limitation: J&K HC
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that since the delivery of a signed copy of the arbitral award was the mandatory requirement under the arbitration act therefore, the limitation for challenging the said award would arise only after the said signed copy is received by the party seeking to challenge the same.The petitioner had not received the certified copy of the award dated 01.03.2024...
Arbitration Clause Contained In Incomplete Memorandum Of Understanding Cannot Form Basis For Arbitration Proceedings: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar has held that an arbitration clause in a memorandum of understanding that was not finalized, as indicated by the correspondences between the parties, cannot serve as the basis for initiating arbitration proceedings. Brief Facts: In October 2020, the Respondent approached the petitioner and they reached an oral agreement with...
Punjab & Haryana HC Raps Top Cop Over Delay In Deciding Plea Of Runaway Couple Seeking Protection, Flags SOP Requiring Decision In 3 Days
The Punjab & Haryana High Court condemned the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) for delaying in deciding the representation filed to the Police by a run-away couple.Taking note of the delay of 5 days in the deciding the representation and non-compliance of the SOP issued by the Department of Home Affairs, under the directions of the High Court in Kajal v. State of Haryana, the Court...
One-Year LLM Program Approved By UGC, Valid For Getting Appointment In Public Departments Or Universities: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently observed that that the one-year LLM programme was approved by the UGC and could not be held to be invalid for getting appointed into public departments or Universities. The court thus asked the Teachers Recruitment Board to include the name of a woman whose name was withheld merely because she had done a one-year LLM course. Justice RN Manjula observed...