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'Shit Show', 'High On Weed Or Opium' Remarks Disparaging: Delhi High Court Orders Newslaundry To Remove Content Against TV Today
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed digital platform Newslaundry to remove and take down its statements containing disparaging content against TV Today, which owns news channels India Today and Aaj Tak.A division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla said that Newslaundry's remarks calling TV Today's content as “shit show” and “high on weed or...
Delhi HC Quashes Jamia's Action Against Professor Who Sought Separate Ladies Toilet, Says Safe Workplace Includes Dignified Restrooms
The Delhi High Court has observed that a safe and secure environment for women at the workplace is not to be understood in a narrow sense and includes conditions that enable them to work with dignity, decency and due respect. Justice Sanjeev Narula quashed disciplinary action initiated by Jamia Millia Islamia against a senior woman professor over a complaint relating to use of a...
Delhi High Court Quashes Extradition Of Man Wanted In UK Murder Case, Says No Prima Facie Evidence Of Stabbing
The Delhi High Court has quashed an order recommending extradition of a Punjab-based man to the United Kingdom in a murder case, holding that the “critical link” that he stabbed the deceased with knife remained a matter of “inference and conjecture”, with no direct evidence.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna allowed a petition filed by Kanwarjeet Singh Batth challenging the 2019 inquiry...
Delhi High Court Asks Gautam Gambhir To File Correct Memo Of Parties In Suit Seeking Protection Of Personality Rights
The Delhi High Court on Friday (March 20) asked Indian cricket team head coach Gautam Gambhir to correct discrepancies in the memo describing the defendant parties in his suit seeking protection of his personality rights.Appearing for Gambhir, advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai submitted before Justice Jyoti Singh that there were "very troubling" deepfake videos of the plaintiff. "Lets say there is...
Delhi High Court To Pass Interim Order Protecting Actress Sonakshi Sinha's Personality Rights
The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pass an interim order protecting the personality rights of bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha.Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing the interim injunction plea filed by the actress in her suit seeking protection of her personality rights. On Court's asking as to what were the infringing links, the counsel appearing for the actress referred to AI...
Rajasthan High Court Rejects Plea Challenging RJS Civil Judge 2024 Prelims Answer Key
While dismissing the petition seeking quashing of answer key of the Rajasthan Judicial Services Examination 2024 and publication of revised results, Rajasthan High Court held that in matters of academic evaluation or determination of correct answers in a competitive examination, Court was not an appellate authority over decision of the Expert Committee. “The Committee consists of...
11 Years, No Chargesheet 'Shocking': Rajasthan HC Directs Separation Of Police Investigation Wing From Law & Order To Ensure Speedy Probes
While expressing shock and pain over a matter wherein no charge sheet was filed even after 11 years of FIR, Rajasthan High Court observed that it was felt on various occasions that investigation in several cases remained pending for a long period since the same investigating officer was assigned the duties of maintaining law and order.While referring to a Supreme Court case in which...
Mere Delay Can't Defeat Claim Of Disabled Candidate, Legislative Policy Favors Inclusion: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court granted relief to a physically handicapped candidate denied appointment by Centre as a Postal Sorting Assistant on the ground that he had not passed 10+2 with compulsory English and had approached CAT for relief as a "fence sitter" only after similarly situated applicants had succeeded. In doing so the court took "judicial notice" of the legislative policy that people...
Assurance Of Jobs For Money Amounts To Cheating, Not Criminal Breach Of Trust: MP High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Wednesday (March 18), upheld a conviction of cheating (Section 420 of IPC) against a man who impersonated as the former Collector of Neemuch and fraudulently convinced job aspirants to pay him ₹2 lakh each with false assurances of securing public employment, observing that his conduct amounted to cheating and not criminal breach of trust. The bench of...
'Inconsistent Exaggerations & Contradictions': Jharkhand High Court Sets Aside Death Penalty, Acquits Two In Multiple Murder Case
The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted two accused persons in a multiple murder case, setting aside their conviction and death sentence, holding that where eyewitness testimony is riddled with “incoherent, inconsistent exaggerations and contradictions,” it would be unsafe to sustain conviction. The Court emphasised that when identification of the accused and their participation in the...
Provocative Facebook Posts Encouraging Violation Of Covid Restrictions Attract S.153 IPC: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court recently dismissed a plea filed by an accused seeking to quash the criminal proceedings initiated against him for allegedly posting provocative statements on Facebook, compelling people to violate the restrictions imposed by the government during Covid-19 pandemic.Justice G. Girish observed:“At a time when the country was reeling with the disastrous consequences of...
After 37 Years, Rajasthan High Court Refuses Retrial Despite Invalid Compromise Of Criminal Case, Quashes Proceedings
The Rajasthan High Court recently upheld the acquittal of a man by the trial court which was based on a compromise agreement, even though the agreement was invalid. In doing so the court refused to order retrial, noting that remanding the matter for a fresh trial after a lapse of 37 years would not secure the ends of justice.Despite the acquittal not being in strict consonance with the law,...