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HP High Court Directs Police To Consider Protection Plea By Young Muslim Couple, Including Minor Girl, Over Threats Faced Due To Marriage
The Himachal Pradesh High Court division bench of Chief Justice G.S. Sandhawalia & Justice Ranjan Sharma has directed the Superintendent of Police, Sirmaur, and the Station House Officer concerned to consider protection request of the 20-year-old petitioner and his 17 year old wife and take appropriate action after they got married without their family's permission.The court relied on...
PIL In Calcutta High Court Seeks Mass Sterilisation & Vaccination Of Stray Dogs Amidst Rising Dog Bite-Related Incidents
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Calcutta High Court by Advocate Akash Sharma, seeking urgent measures to curb the rising stray dog attacks through mass vaccination and sterilization programs.The PIL highlights the alarming increase in dog bite cases and rabies-related fatalities, as reported by the Central Government's PIB report, underscoring the need for...
Individual Hardship No Ground To Challenge Vires: Chhattisgarh High Court Upholds State Law Fixing Fee-Structure Of Private Schools
The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld the validity of 'Chhattisgarh Non-Government Schools Fees Regulation Act, 2020' and 'Chhattisgarh Non-Government Schools Fees Regulation Rules 2020', challenged on the ground that it allegedly curbed autonomy of private unaided schools in fixing fee and administration.In doing so the court underscored that hardship caused to an individual if any cannot be...
Centre Notifies Appointments Of 9 Judges To Five High Courts
The Central Government on Friday (August 8) notified appointments of nine Judges to High Courts of Andhra Pradesh, Calcutta, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal took to 'X' (formerly Twitter) to notify the appointments. These are:Additional Judges Justice Harinath Nunepally, Justice Kiranmayee Mandava, Justice Sumathi Jagadam and Justice Nayapathy Vijay...
Advisory Board Under PITNDPS Act Cannot Decide On Detenue's Representation, Decision Must Be Taken By Govt: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court slammed the Advisory Board constituted under the PIT NDPS Act for “illegally arrogating unto itself a power that the law has never vested in it”, as it quashed a preventive detention order for violating the constitutional rights of the detenue.A bench of Justice Javed Iqbal Wani, while delivering the judgment, held that the Advisory Board had...
Madras High Court Stays Single Judge Order Directing Suspension Of DySP Over Failure To File Final Report
A Madras High Court division bench has stayed the operation of a single judge order asking the Director General of Police to suspend a Deputy Superintendent of Police for failing to file final report in a case. The bench of Justice MS Ramesh and Justice V Lakshminarayanan ordered interim stay in a Letter Patent Appeal filed by the DySP challenging the order passed by...
Convict Not Entitled To Emergency Leave For Giving Care To Pregnant Wife: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has recently passed a judgment denying emergency leave to a life convict to give pregnancy care to his wife, who was two months pregnant. It opined that extraordinary powers under Article 226 of the Constitution cannot be exercised granting parole to those convicted of serious offences, forgetting about the interests of the victims. Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan...
'Delay In Deciding Reference Cannot Be Grounds To Deny Relief': Bombay High Court Orders Reinstatement Of Workers Terminated In 1995
The Bombay High Court has held that delay in adjudication of an industrial reference cannot, by itself, be a ground to deny just relief to workmen whose services were illegally terminated. The Court observed that when the delay is not attributable to the workmen and the termination is found to be in violation of law, reinstatement is the appropriate remedy.A bench of Justice Milind N Jadhav...
Juvenile Over 16-Yrs Age Accused Of 'Heinous Offence' Also Entitled To Bail U/S 12 JJ Act: Patna High Court Reiterates
The Patna High Court granted bail to a juvenile accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl, observing that Section 12 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 does not provide any classification on grant of bail and the provision applies to all children-in-conflict with law without any discrimination. It further observed that the even juveniles who are above...
S.156(3) CrPC | Omission To File Affidavit Along With Complaint A Fatal Procedural Defect: Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court has reiterated that omission to file an affidavit supporting the contents of a complaint under Section 156(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) is a fatal procedural defect which goes to the root of the matter and renders the very initiation of criminal action based on such complaint a nullity.While setting aside the orders of two lower Courts, which denied to...
Depicting Hindu Gods Disrespectfully Can't Be Justified: Madras High Court Sets Aside Order Closing Case Over FB Post On Lord Krishna
The Madras High Court has recently remarked that the depiction of Hindu gods in a disrespectful manner could not be justified. The court added that depicting Gods in such a manner had the potential to spark enmity, religious outrage, and affect the communal harmony. Justice K Murali Shankar added that, considering the respect that was given to the religious symbols and deities,...