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Karnataka High Court Rejects DNA Entertainment's Plea To Quash Inquiry Commission's Report On Bengaluru Stampede
The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed the plea filed by Event management firm M/s DNA Entertainment Network Private Limited seeking quashing of a judicial inquiry report regarding Bengaluru Stampede which occurred in May.A division bench of Justice D K Singh and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju passed the order. A detailed copy of the order is yet to be made available. The Government...
Punjab Advocate General Maninderjit Singh Bedi Designated As Senior Advocate
The Punjab & Haryana High Court today (November 21) designated Advocate General Maninderjit Singh Bedi as Senior Advocate.“In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act 1961, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh has been pleased to designate Sh. Maninderjit Singh Bedi, Advocate…as Senior Advocate with effect frorp ,the date of...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Releases Convict In Fatal Road Accident Case; Orders Him To Plant & Maintain 50 Trees, Do Community Service
The Punjab & Haryana High Court granted probation to a young man convicted for causing death by negligence in a road accident, emphasizing the rehabilitative and reformative objectives of sentencing over purely punitive measures.Referring to French judge and philosopher Montesquieu, Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj said, "the certainty of mild yet consistent punishment serves as a far...
Delimitation Of Wards Can't Be Done Based On Individual Grievances Under 2015 Civic Election Rules: HP High Court
The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that electoral ward boundaries cannot be redrawn merely because a single individual is dissatisfied with population distribution.The Court further remarked that delimitation is primarily an administrative exercise involving complex geographic, demographic and boundary-based considerations. The Court reiterated Rule 4 of the Himachal Pradesh...
Criminal Liability Not 'Purchasable Commodity', Death By Negligence Case Can't Be Quashed On Compromise: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has cautioned against the “probable erosion of judicial integrity” where criminal proceedings involving serious offences—particularly those under Section 304-A IPC/Section 106 BNS (Causing death by negligence)—are sought to be quashed solely on the basis of compromise between the accused and the victim's family.Justice Sumeet Goel observed that...
Essential Commodities Act | Failure To Examine Available Independent Witnesses Casts Doubt On Fairness Of Investigation: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court recently observed that the non-examination of independent witnesses, when they are admittedly present, casts doubt on the fairness and transparency of the investigation.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Prasenjit Biswas made these observations while hearing an appeal against a conviction delivered by a Special EC Court. The appellant had been convicted under...
Inter-Faith Relationship: MP High Court Rejects Family's Plea For Daughter's Custody, Says She's An Adult With Her Own Free Will
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Tuesday (November 18), dismissed a habeas corpus petition by maternal uncle of a Hindu woman, observing that she was a major, was not in wrongful confinement and was living with respondent no 4 (a muslim man) out of her own free will. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf observed;"Corpus is a major. She states that she...
MP Amritpal Singh Moves P&H High Court Seeking Parole To Attend Parliament Winter Session
Punjab MP Amritpal Singh has approached the Punjab & Haryana High Court seeking parole to enable him to attend the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament, contending that his continued detention prevents him from fulfilling his constitutional duties as an elected representative.Amritpal Singh is currently detained in Dibrugarh Jail under the National Security Act (NSA), he has invoked...
J&K&L High Court Puts Govt On Final Notice, Grants 4 Weeks To Decide On Ex-Legislators Occupying Govt Quarters Despite Demitting Office
Aiming a fast tracking action on the long pending issue of Government accommodations occupied by high-profile political figures, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has granted the Estates Department a last and final extension of four weeks to act on the recommendations of the Designated Committee relating to the official quarters of former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and...
Suspension Of State Tax Officer For Delayed Report Unjustified When Authority Failed To Act In GST Fraud Case: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that where loss is caused to the State, a State Tax Officer may not be suspended for mere delay in submitting a report. Justice Vikas Budhwar held that this would be especially impermissible in a case where the authority to act on the report in time chooses not to do so.He held that, despite the fact that the petitioner submitted the report with delay,...
Wife's Belated Criminal Allegations Can't Outweigh Husband's Consistent Evidence Of Cruelty: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that a wife's belated criminal allegations cannot detract from or outweigh the husband's consistent evidence of sustained cruelty meted out to him.A division bench comprising Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Renu Bhatnagar set aside a family court order dismissing the husband's petition for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty by wife. It was...
Police Superintendent Not Liable For IO's Negligence In Not Filing Chargesheet/ Closure Report In Time: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently observed that the Superintendent of Police could not be held responsible for the negligence shown by investigating officers in not filing final reports or closure reports before the court on time. The bench of Justice N Sathish Kumar and Justice M Jothiraman held that though the Superintendent of Police had the responsibility to monitor the investigation,...