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Delhi High Court Quashes FIR In POCSO Case, Asks Accused To Pay ₹50K Costs And Do Community Service In Govt Hospital
While quashing a POCSO case, the Delhi High Court has directed the accused to do community service for a month at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital while also asking him to pay Rs. 50,000 costs to be deposited towards “Army Welfare Fund Battle Casualties.”Justice Sanjeev Narula quashed the case against the man accused of harassing a minor school going girl through exploitation. While...
Marriage Can Be Dissolved By Mutual Consent If One Spouse Files Criminal Case Against The Other Within 1 Year: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that if after filing of criminal case by one spouse against other, the parties have approached the court for divorce by the mutual consent, the same must be granted by invoking the proviso to Section 14 (1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act provides for divorce by mutual consent. Section 14 of the Act mandates that no...
Godhra Train Burning Case: Gujarat High Court Grants Convict 10-Day Parole To Attend Brother-In-Law's Death Rituals
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (June 2) granted 10-day parole to Jabir Behra, one of the 11 persons convicted in the case concerning the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002. Notably, Behra was one of 11 individuals convicted and sentenced to death by the trial court in 2011. Against this order the convicts had moved the high court. The high court had in 2017 commuted the...
'No Direct Interest': Delhi High Court Imposes ₹50K Costs On Frivolous Plea Alleging Illegal Construction
While dismissing a plea alleging illegal construction at a property with Rs. 50,000 costs, the Delhi High Court has deprecated filing of frivolous petitions with no direct interest in the matter. Justice Mini Pushkarna observed that the litigant had no connection with the property, was living 10 kms away from it and the only ground for filing the petition was that he had the same street...
Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks To Enhance Monthly Remuneration Of Law Researchers With Arrears
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking to enhance the monthly remuneration of its law researchers from Rs. 65,000 to Rs. 80,000 along with arrears.The matter came up for hearing before a division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Ajay Digpaul on May 29. However, Justice Digpaul recused from hearing it as his brother's son was working as a law researcher. “As...
Madras High Court Upholds Night Ban, Mandatory KYC For Online Real Money Games
The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the regulations brought in by the Tamil Nadu government imposing a night ban and mandating Aadhar-based KYC verification for playing online real money games.The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice K Rajasekar dismissed the petitions filed by a group of online gaming companies and players. The bench said that apart from a paternalistic point,...
Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Open School Students Left Out Of JEE Mains Counselling
The Delhi High Court has granted relief to various students who got registered with National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and were left out of JEE-Mains 2025 counselling process as their result for class XII examination was not declared. Justice Vikas Mahajan observed that students put hard labour for two to four years, or may be more, while preparing for JEE (Mains) and they should not...
Gujarat High Court Upholds Order Sending Man To 30-Day Civil Imprisonment For Selling Shop Despite Status Quo
The Gujarat High Court has upheld a trial court order which sent a man stated to be suffering from a disability to 30-day civil imprisonment for selling a shop despite a status quo order against such sale.The high court rejected the contention of the petitioner's counsel that civil imprisonment imposed on the petitioner was wrong and that the court should have have weighed other options...
Remarks Made In Employee's ACR Creates Civil Rights, Adverse Remarks Must Be Reasoned: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has said Annual Confidential Report (ACR) or Annual Performance Appraisal Report serves as a critical tool in evaluating the performance of employees, and since adverse remarks can deprive of promotion, it should be backed with reasons.Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Meenakshi I. Mehta said, "Remarks made in the annual performance appraisal report...
Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam | 'Grounds Of Arrest Not Supplied In Writing': Allahabad HC Declares Arrest Of Two Accused In UP FIR 'Illegal'
The Allahabad High Court last week declared the arrests of Anwar Dhebar, a businessman and brother of the former Raipur Mayor, and former IAS officer Anil Tuteja, both accused in a money laundering case linked to the alleged ₹2,000 crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam, as illegal.A bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Madan Pal Singh granted them bail in the FIR lodged agains them...
Assessee Is Permitted To Rectify GSTR 3B On Par With Contents Of GSTR 1: Patna High Court
The Patna High Court stated that the assessee is permitted to rectify GSTR 3B on par with contents of GSTR 1. The Division Bench of Justices P.B. Bajanthri and S.B. PD. Singh observed that in the government, there is no system of rectification of any return once it is filed. However, the assessee had submitted application to rectify GST 3B on par with the GSTR 1 relating to certain...