Mahindra Thar Roxx Owner Moves Kerala High Court Seeking Law To Regulate Vehicle Sales & Services

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (May 12) issued notice to Chairman & Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. and to the Chief Executive Officer of Valayat Mahindra Service Centre (Maradu) in a public interest litigation filed by a Mahindra Thar Roxx owner seeking enactment of a proposed 'Kerala Motor Vehicles Sales and Services Regulation' Act and Rules.According to the plea,...

Uttarakhand High Court Halts Review Of Nursing Promotions At AIIMS Rishikesh Including Reserved To Unreserved Posts On 'Own Merit' Principle

The Uttarakhand High Court has kept in abeyance the conduct of Review Departmental Promotion Committee at AIIMS Rishikesh concerning promotion of Nursing Officers to the post of Senior Nursing Officer for 2022 & 2023 based on the principle of "own merit", including promotion of reserved category persons to unreserved posts. The court was hearing a petition by nursing officers from...

Disaster Management Authority Bound To Pay Rent For All Rooms In Building Taken Over By It, Irrespective Of Occupation: Kerala High Court

In a recent ruling, the Kerala High Court has clarified that the Disaster Management Authority is bound to pay rent for all rooms in the building that was taken over by it irrespective of whether or not all the rooms were in its occupation.Justice Viju Abraham was considering a plea challenging the award passed by the Arbitrator under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 being aggrieved by...

Citing Roman Jurist Cicero, Delhi High Court Orders Defreezing Of Bank Account Frozen On Cyber Crime Complaint Without FIR

The Delhi High Court has directed the HDFC Bank to immediately defreeze bank account of a man whose account had been frozen following a complaint from the Cyber Police Station in Vadodara, Gujarat, observing that continued seizure of the account without any FIR, accusation or material connecting him to an offence was wholly arbitrary and unsustainable in law. Citing Roman jurist Cicero,...

Kerala High Court Refuses To Stay Order Permitting Introduction Of Co-Education In Muslim Girls' School At Erattupetta

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (May 12) refused to stay a judgment that directed the Secretary of Erattupetta Municipality to grant approval for introducing co-education scheme in Muslim Girls' Higher Secondary School, Erattupetta— a girls-only school.The Vacation Bench of Justice A. Badharudeen and Justice Muralee Krishna S. was considering a leave petition to file writ appeal preferred...

Medical Prescription For Abdominal Pain Insufficient To Prove Mother Is Alcoholic: Allahabad High Court Grants Custody Of Child

The Allahabad High Court has recently observed that prescription for abdominal pain does not prove that the mother of the minor corpus is an alcoholic, to deprive her of her rights over the child. Observing that mother is the natural guardian of a child till the age of 5 years, the Court granted the mother the custody of the child.Noting that the husband, who had forcefully taken the custody...

'Heated Courtroom Exchanges Not Contempt': Why Allahabad HC Dismissed Lawyer's Plea Against Sitting Judge

The Allahabad High Court on Monday DISMISSED a petition moved by a practising Advocate seeking initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against a sitting HC Judge, Justice Saral Srivastava. A bench of Justice Salil Kumar Rai and Justice Devendra Singh-I categorically observed that a 'wrong order' or 'heated exchanges' between a lawyer and a judge during proceedings cannot form...

'Liberty Is Not Cosmetic, It's Real': P&H High Court Grants Bail To Accused Kept In Custody Even After SC Set Aside Conviction

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted bail to an accused who remained in custody for over 15 years despite the restoration of his acquittal by the Supreme Court.Emphasising the primacy of personal liberty, the Court observed that “liberty is not cosmetic, it's real,” while holding that continued incarceration in the absence of a subsisting conviction cannot be justified.Justice...

Bhojshala Case | Intervenor Tells MP High Court Dhar State Was Competent Authority To Grant Namaz Rights In 1935; Verdict Reserved

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday (May 12) reserved orders in the batch of petitions concerning the Bhojshala Temple Kamal Maula Mosque dispute.During the hearing, one of the intervenors submitted before the Division Bench of Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi that the Dhar State was a competent authority at the time and therefore, the arrangement passed by it...

Calcutta High Court Denies Relief To Man Convicted In 2010 Maoist Attack Which Killed 24 Security Personnel

The Calcutta High Court has refused to suspend the sentence of alleged Maoist leader Arnab Dam, convicted in the 2010 Silda EFR camp attack case in which 24 security personnel were killed, observing that injured eyewitnesses are likely to remember the faces of attackers involved in “such a major terrorist attack.”A Division Bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha...

Strictly Check Dissemination Of Obscene Content Through Play Store Apps: Delhi High Court To Google, Apple

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Google LLC and Apple Inc to take strict action to ensure that dissemination of obscene and pornographic content through mobile applications on their play-stores is immediately checked.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that the intermediaries not only have the responsibility to act when they receive...

[Mines & Minerals Act] 'Fresh Auction Not Required For Disposing Of Mining Dumps Created Under Approved Plan': Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court at Goa has held that a fresh auction is not mandatory for the disposal of inventoried mining dumps created pursuant to mining operations carried out under an approved mining plan. The Court observed that where such dumps are depicted in the approved mining plan, and statutory dues including conversion fees and penalties have been paid, the State Government is entitled...