Delhi High Court Allows Review Petition, Recalls Direction To Respondents To Appoint Petitioner Due To Low Merit

A division bench of Delhi High Court comprising Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur has allowed a Review Petition filed by the Respondents seeking review of its order directing the Respondent to recall the appointment of a candidate(writ petitioner). Review was sought on the ground that the candidate had not made his place in the merit list, however, the Single Judge had directed...

Gujarat High Court Launches Free Of Cost And Cashless Medical Facility For Judges, Staff And Their Family Members

The Gujarat High Court has taken a step in ensuring the well-being of its workforce by introducing free and cashless medical facilities for its judges, judicial officers, staff employees working in the high court and their dependent family members. This initiative, launched under the guidance of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and the Judges of the High Court Medical Facility Committee, aims...

Gujarat High Court Seeks Collector's Report On 'Hard Reality' Of Rural Health Facilities After Pregnant Woman Dies On Way To Ambulance

While hearing a suo motu plea on an incident where a pregnant villager who, after being "carried on a cloth stretcher" as there was no road, died on her way to the ambulance pickup point, the Gujarat High Court on Thursday called for a report from the concerned Collector indicating the"hard reality" of the situation and a plan for meeting out such medical emergencies. A division bench of...

Plea In Madras High Court Asks For Tamil Nadu Deputy CM Udayanidhi Stalin To Adhere To Formal Dress Code In Office, Not Wear T-Shirts

A plea has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udayanidhi Stalin to adhere to the formal dress code while discharging his official functions.The plea, filed by Advocate Sathya Kumar states that as per G.O (Ms) No. 67 of 2019 dated 1st June, 2019 issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department, all government servants...

Chhattisgarh High Court Reiterates That Dismissal Could Be Considered Excessive If Absence Was Due To Personal Hardship And Employee Had Long Record Of Service; Orders Reinstatement Of Police Constable

Chhattisgarh High Court: Justice Sachin Singh Rajput set aside the dismissal of Kudiam Bhima, a constable in the Chhattisgarh police force, and ordered his reinstatement with continuity of service. The court found that the disciplinary inquiry failed to establish that Bhima's unauthorized absence was willful or deliberate, his submissions were improperly disregarded by the inquiry...

"Violates Right To Education": Parents Of School Children Approach Bombay High Court Against 'Poll Duties' For Teachers Amid Exams

Parents of a school in the city have moved the Bombay High Court challenging various circulars of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and also the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) deploying over 2000 employees of the Education Department, mostly teachers as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and Polling Station Officers (PSOs) for the upcoming State Assembly Elections.A division bench...

'Reasons For Delay In Deciding A Case' Is Not 'Information' Under RTI Act: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court on Thursday held that 'reasons for delay in taking a decision or deciding a case' cannot qualify 'information' as defined under the Right To Information (RTI) Act and thus, one cannot ask 'reasons' in an RTI application.A division bench of Justices Mahesh Sonak and Jitendra Jain quashed an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) which had imposed costs of Rs...

Bombay High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Election Of Shiv Sena (UBT) Leader Anil Desai To 18th Lok Sabha

The Bombay High Court recently dismissed a petition challenging the election of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) faction's Anil Desai to the 18th Lok Sabha from Mumbai South-Central constituency, observing that the petition failed to establish the 'material impact' on the elections that concluded in June this year.Single-Judge Justice Sharmila Deshmukh noted that the only ground on which...

Kerala High Court Upholds Denial Of Temporary Status And Regularisation For Contingent Employees

Recently, a Division Bench of Kerala High Court, comprising of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice P.G. Ajithkumar, considered a petition against the order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal. The judgement pertained to status and regularisation of employment. Background Facts The petitioner, Kumar S, filed the Original Application (“O.A”) before the...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Imposes ₹10K Cost On District Judge For Using 'Pick & Choose Policy' To Deny Benefit To Clerk

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on a District and Sessions judge for adopting a "pick and choose policy" in denying the benefit of 2nd Assured Career Progression (ACP) to a clerk posted in his Court.Justice Mahabir Sigh Sindhu said, "There is an old saying 'You show me the man and I will show you the rule' which means that rule(s) change(s) depending on...

Poisoning Does Not Qualify For Extraordinary Pension; Allahabad High Court Rejects Appeal In Sub-Inspector's Death By Poisoning Case

Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Jaspreet Singh dismissed the appeal of Smt. Poonam Tyagi, holding that her husband's death from poisoning did not qualify for extraordinary pension under the Uttar Pradesh Police (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1961. The court ruled that the cause of death was unrelated to the performance of any hazardous or...

Can't Let Such Offences Flourish In Society: Allahabad HC Denies Bail To Man Accused Of Damaging Lord Shiva Idols

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday denied bail to a man accused of destroying the idols of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati and attempting to kill the priest of a Temple in the Bareilly district of the state. A bench of Justice Ashutosh Srivastava observed that such offences cannot be permitted to flourish in society by “adopting a soft-pedalling approach at the cost...