Telangana High Court Annual Digest 2024 [PART II]

Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 112 To 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 210Burden Under Customs Act To Prove Dutiable/ Prohibited Goods Not Meant For Smuggling Lies On Person Found In Possession: Telangana High CourtShaik Mohammed Sadiq vs The Principal Commissioner of Customs & batchCitation: 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 111The Telangana High Court recently upheld the action of Customs officials seizing gold...

Allahabad HC Grants Relief To Man Facing Charges Of Giving False Evidence In A Murder Trial For Past 32 Years

The Allahabad High Court recently quashed a complaint case pending against a man for the past 32 years where he was facing charges under Sections 194, 211 IPC for giving false evidence during a murder trial. Granting relief to the accused, a bench of Justice Raj Beer Singh noted that it is nearly impossible to hold a fair trial of the applicant-accused after such a long...

Dwarka Demolition: Gujarat HC Reserves Verdict On Pleas Seeking Protection Of Alleged Religious Structures From Coercive Action

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (January 22) reserved orders on a batch of petitions seeking protection of certain alleged religious structures from demolition located at Beyt Dwarka. After hearing the parties Justice Mauna M Bhatt said, “Arguments of the parties are concluded. The matter is posted for orders. Status quo earlier granted is to continue till the next date of...

Adopt Procedure To Identify Imposter Lawyers At Entry Gates 'Without Causing Embarrassment': Punjab & Haryana High Court Directs

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed the High Court to adopt appropriate procedure for identification of Lawyers entering the gates of the High Court, after taking the Bar into confidence.Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sudhir Singh noted that there is no verification or identification of Lawyers to distinguish a genuine Lawyer from an imposter in lawyers' uniform.The bench...

Madras High Court Reserves Orders On Netflix India's Application To Reject Suit Filed By Dhanush Against Nayanthara's Documentary

The Madras High Court has reserved orders on two applications moved by Netflix India to reject the plaint and to revoke the leave to sue granted to Actor Dhanush's Wunderbar films. Wunderbar had sought leave to sue Los Gatos (Netflix's Indian entity) in connection with the copyright infringement case against Nayanthara, Vignesh Sivan, and others. Justice Abdul Quddhose reserved...

Woman's Consent For Sexual Relations Does Not Extend To Capturing Private Moments, Posting Them On Social Media: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the consent given by a woman for engaging in sexual relations with a man does not extend to capturing her private moments and posting inappropriate videos on social media.“Even if the consent for sexual relations had been given at any point of time by the complainant, such consent cannot, in any manner, be construed as consent to capture and post...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Directs NMC To Create Appellate Body To Address Disability Disputes In Medical Admissions

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed the National Medical Commission to ensure creation of Appellate Medical Body to address disputes related to disability certificates for medical admissions.The developments comes while hearing pleas of two disabled medical course student who challenged the the Medical Board's decision whereby they were declared 'unfit' for admission to M.S....

Take Action Against Companies Wholesaling Banned Contraband Drugs Online: Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs Police, NCB & Drug Controller

The Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court in an interim order has directed the police authorities, narcotics bureau and Drug Controller to take immediate action against manufacture and sale of banned drugs on wholesale basis online. The division bench of Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Jain observed, “Till further orders, the respondents/police and Narcotic Bureau...

Unnao Rape: Delhi High Court Grants Interim Bail To Kuldeep Sengar For Undergoing Cataract Surgery At AIIMS

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, convicted in the Unnao rape case, in order to undergo cataract surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the national capital.A division bench comprising of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar ordered that Sengar be released on bail tomorrow (January...

Mere Passing Of Detention Order Against An Individual Cannot Be A Bar For Deciding His Bail Application: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has held that passing of a detention order against an individual cannot be a bar on the Court to decide such person's bail application.Justice Anand Venkatesh thus granted bail to a man against whom the State had passed a detention order, while the bail application was pending. The court had already passed the bail order when the Public Prosecutor informed the court that...

[Service Law] HC Can Interfere With Compensation Commissioner's Order If Employer-Employee Relationship Not Established: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has reiterated that it can exercise jurisdiction over the order of Compensation Commissioner when there is lack of evidence to prove the existence of an employer-employee relationship, which is a jurisdictional fact to be established, for the Commissioner to exercise its jurisdiction.As per the facts, the appellant was ordered to pay over six lakhs by the...

Duty Of Deed Writers To Look Into All Papers Before Scribing A Deed, Which Includes Investigating Title Over Property: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a criminal case registered against a licensed deed writer accused of writing an agreement for the sale of a land based on a general power attorney (GPA) which was allegedly a forged one.Justice M Nagaprasanna dismissed the petition filed by one Shekar and said “Merely because he is a deed writer, the proceedings against him cannot be quashed, as...