Union Govt Notifies Appointment Of Judicial Officer As Calcutta High Court Judge

The Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the appointment of Judicial Officer Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) as a judge of the Calcutta High Court. The notification states: In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Smt. Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) to be an Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court for a...

Often False POCSO Case Launched Against Spouse To Avoid Handing Over Minor Child's Custody: Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court while quashing a POCSO case filed by the mother on behalf of her child against her divorced husband observed that there are instances where one spouse uses their minor child to file false POCSO case against the other, to win custody cases.“In cases when the husband and wife are in loggerheads and one among them sues for custody of a minor child, there are instances whereby...

[MSMED Act] Pre-Deposit Of 75% Of Awarded Amount While Challenging Award Cannot Be Scuttled By Petition Under Article 227: J&K High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that an award passed under the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Development Act (MSMED) cannot be challenged before the High Court, as the statutory remedy provided under the Act itself must be exhausted by the aggrieved party. It also pointed out that the said statutory remedy requires the aggrieved party to deposit 75% of the award amount in the...

Delhi High Court Seeks Empirical Data On Plea To Monitor Progress Of Cheque Bouncing Complaints

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought empirical data on a petition seeking to supervise and monitor the progress of cases relating to complaints of cheque bouncing under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. Section 138 of the NI Act deals with dishonour of cheques for insufficiency of funds in the account. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and...

Delay In Trial No Ground For Bail In Cases Involving Terrorism: Police Concludes Arguments Opposing Release Of Delhi Riots Accused

The Delhi Police on Wednesday concluded its arguments in a batch of bail pleas filed by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and other accused persons in the UAPA case alleging a larger conspiracy to commit the 2020 North-East Delhi riots.ASG Chetan Sharma appearing for the Delhi Police submitted before a division bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur that there is nothing on record...

Plea In Bombay High Court Seeks Probe Into Alleged ₹16.6 Crore Fraudulent Bank Guarantees In Thane-Borivali Twin Tunnel Project

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking an investigation by CBI or SIT into the alleged bank fraud guarantees accepted by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) from a private company, Megha Engineering Infrastructure Ltd (MEIL), for the construction of a Twin Tube Road Tunnel between Thane and Borivali worth around...

Delhi High Court Permanently Restrains Rogue Apps & Websites From Illegally Streaming Star India's Content

The Delhi High Court has granted a permanent injunction in favour of Star India Pvt. Ltd against copyright infringement of its content by rogue apps and websites such as Ninja TV, RTS TV, Kyte TV, Picaso TV, Stream India and Hotstar Mod App.Star India, an entertainment and media company, broadcasts popular content on its STAR channels in various languages. It owns and operates websites and...

Emergency Situation May Arise For Removal Of Street Vendors, But It Cannot Be Used As Grounds To Bypass Their Statutory Rights: Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court held that the Corporation should not evict street vendors, citing grave and emergent reasons, in violation of their statutory rights guaranteed under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act of 2014.The Division Bench of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice S. Manu observed that the 2014 Act was enacted by the Parliament to...

'Applicant Cannot Be Denied Passport Merely Due To Criminal Antecedents Of Family Members': J&K High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that the criminal family background cannot be used as a reason to deny a passport to the one applying for it. It also held that a mere speculative reason, in the absence of any direct evidence, cannot be considered a valid ground to restrain freedom of movement.The court observed that there is no reason to not recommend the case of the petitioner for...

Award Cannot Be Set Aside When No Objections Were Raised Before Arbitrator Or Court U/S 12(5) Of Arbitration Act: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Ajay Digpaul held that the award cannot be set aside solely on the ground that the appointment of the Arbitrator was illegal in view of section 12(5) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (Arbitration Act) when no such objections were raised before the Arbitrator or the court under section 34 of the Arbitration...

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Stand On PIL Against DeepSeek, Says AI Is Dangerous Tool In Anybody's Hands

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the stand of the Union Government on a public interest litigation challenging “DeepSeek”, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs).A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the Central Government's counsel to seek instructions in...

Municipality Can't Simply Deny Allegations Of Failure To Use State Grant, Should Give Details: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has directed the State to decide the representation of Samajwadi Party MLA Kandhal Jadeja, who alleged non-completion of work for which a grant was given to Kutiyana Nagarpalika claiming that while money was given for development of public utilities on a land it now appeared as garbage land in photographs. In doing so the court also noted that Nagarpalika in its...