Society Cannot Restrain House Help From Rendering Services To Resident Who Feeds Stray Dogs In The Premises: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court recently restrained a housing society from preventing the house help of a woman from entering the society premises and assisting the woman, because she (the resident) feeds stray dogs.A division bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Advait Sethna said the housing society, by restraining the woman's house help and other staff from entering the premises, was only breaching...

“Can't Sit As Examiner”: Says Punjab & Haryana HC, Issues Notice On Plea Against Marks Given To Candidate In Haryana Superior Judiciary Exam

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Thursday (January 23) issued notice on a plea challenging the marks allotted to a candidate in mains examination of Haryana Superior Judiciary, 2023.While issuing notice on the plea, a bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sumeet Goel orally remarked, "Under Judicial Review we are entering into an area which is not our domain."Counsel appearing...

Community Guilt? Madras High Court Reads Down TASMAC Circular Initiating Action Against All Employees Of Shop In Case Of Overpricing

The Madras High Court has read down a circular issued by the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) initiating action against all employees of a shop including the supervisor of the shop whenever it was found that an employee of the shop was overpricing the customers. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy made it clear that a collective action could be taken only when there was...

Position Of "Lambardar" Is A Civil Post, Dismissal Or Removal Attracts Article 311 Of Constitution: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held that the post of Lambardar is a civil post and his dismissal or removal attracts the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution.Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Kirti Singh said that a Lambardar who occupies a civil post, thus cannot claim eligibility for his being appointed against some other civil post.These observations were made...

Plea In Orissa High Court To Declare Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose As 'National Son' & To Declassify Secret Files On Him

A writ petition has been filed in the Orissa High Court with a prayer to declare Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as the 'National Son' and to declassify as well as to make public secret files, including Intelligence Bureau (IB) documents, regarding him.The petition filed by one Pinakpani Mohanty also seeks to declare the birthday of Netaji (January 23) as a 'National Day' and his birthplace museum...

Calcutta High Court Quashes Case Against Actress Zareen Khan Booked For Failing To Appear As Guest At Kali Puja Celebrations

The Calcutta High Court has quashed a case against actress Zareen Khan for allegedly failing to appear in Kali Puja celebrations at various pandals across the city in 2018.Justice Bibhas Ranjan De held: "The opposite party no. 2 herein approached the petitioner to come as a guest artist. Accordingly, this proposal was accepted by the petitioner but ultimately she committed a breach. This...

Plea In Madras High Court Says Uniform Worn By Delivery Partners Of Quick Commerce Platforms Being Misused By Criminals, Seeks Guidelines

The Madras High Court on Thursday (January 23) issued notice to the Director General of Police on a plea seeking formation of guidelines for monitoring and regulating delivery partners of online delivery service providers such as Swiggy, Zomato, etc. Justice P Velmurugan issued notice to the DGP on a petition filed by Nithyanantham and adjourned the case by 4 weeks. In his...

Rajasthan HC Issues Notice On Plea Against Circular Classifying Transgender Persons As OBCs, Seeks Implementation Of Horizontal Reservation

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice on a petition challenging a 2023 Circular issued by the State, classifying transgender persons as Other Backward Classes (“OBCs”), instead of providing horizontal reservation to them.The division bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Nupur Bhati asked the Respondent authorities, including State's Department of Social...

S.138 NI Act | Trial Can Proceed In Absence Of Accused If He Fails To Appear And Doesn't Seek Exemption From Personal Attendance: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has observed that a Magistrate is justified in proceeding with a trial for the offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act) in the absence of the accused and without recording a statement under Section 313 CrPC, if the accused or their advocate has not been attending the trial or the accused has not sought for dispensing personal attendance.Justice...

BJP Legislator CT Ravi Booked For Abusing Female Congress Leader Gets Interim Protection From Karnataka High Court Till January 30

The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Thursday (January 23) asked the State not to precipitate till January 30 any action against BJP Legislator CT Ravi booked for allegedly using derogatory words against Congress Legislator Laxmi Hebbalkar inside the State Council at Belagavi.After hearing the arguments for some time, Justice M Nagaprasanna in its order dictated, "Heard parties....

Delhi High Court Seeks NIA's Response On MP Engineer Rashid's Plea Seeking Expeditious Decision On Bail Plea In UAPA Case

Jammu and Kashmir MP Rashid Engineer on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking expeditious ruling by the trial court on his second regular bail plea in connection with a terror funding case. Justice Vikas Mahajan sought response of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and listed the matter for hearing next on January 30. Rashid has sought directions to the trial court judge to expedite...

Advocate Not Liable To Verify Fake Documents Provided By Client For Firm Registration To Evade Tax: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court stated that an advocate is not liable to verify fake documents provided by a client for registration of a firm to evade tax.The bench of Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary was dealing with a case where an advocate had moved a petition for anticipatory bail in a case registered under sections 406/420/468/471/120B of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 132 (1) (b)/131...