'Public Money Misused By State Govt': Rajasthan HC Halts Grant Of Scholarship To Students With Over ₹25 Lakh Annual Family Income

The Rajasthan High Court in an interim order has restrained the State government from granting benefits of Swami Vivekanand Scholarship for High Studies (earlier known as Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship) to any candidates falling under the E3 category having annual family income of more than 25 lakhs, till further orders.The court said so after noting that "millions of rupees" from...

Can't Challenge After Taking Benefit: Andhra Pradesh HC Upholds Rule On Commutation Of Govt Employees' Pension After 15 Years

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has upheld the validity of Rule 18 of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Pensions (Commutation) Rules which stipulates restoration of commuted portion of pension after 15 years from the effective date of commutation, on the grounds that the petitioners had themselves derived benefit from the rule and the prescribed 15 year period.The Court had to primarily determine...

Delhi High Court Dismisses Challenge To Provision On Limitation Under Contempt Of Courts Act

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the vires of Section 20 of the Contempt of Courts Act, noting that the petitioner did not raise any substantial grounds to challenge the validity of the provision.For context, Section 20 of the Contempt of Courts Act states that no court shall initiate any contempt proceedings after the expiry of a period of one year from the date on...

'Hate Speech; Working For Ghazwa-E-Hind': PIL In Allahabad HC Seeks SIT Probe Into Robert Vadra's Remarks On Pahalgam Attack

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea has been moved in the Allahabad High Court seeking a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the recent remark by Businessman and husband of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, Robert Vadra, on the Pahalgam terror attack. The petition, filed by the Hindu Front For Justice (through its President, Advocate Ranjana Agnihotri), claims that...

Meghalaya HC Closes Suo Motu PIL To Protect Wetlands In State After Noting None Of The Sites Fell Under Ramsar Convention

The Meghalaya High Court on April 29 (Tuesday) closed a PIL suo moto PIL to ensure that the Ramsar Convention wetland sites within the State are properly maintained and ensured, after accepting report by the Chief Conservator of Forests of the State Government which states that none of the wetlands in the State qualify as a Ramsar site.The said PIL was registered in pursuance of Supreme...

'Basis For Enquiry Is A Myth': Andhra Pradesh HC Grants Relief To Employee Denied Notional Benefits Over Anticipated Dept Enquiry

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has given relief to an employee who was reinstated into service after initial suspension, but was denied benefits of seniority and promotion under the guise of an anticipated departmental enquiry.In this regard, a Single Judge Bench of Justice Challa Gunaranjan, observed,“…5th respondent as on today not initiated any disciplinary action even after lapse of...

False Rape Complaints Not Only Puts Unnecessary Load On Overflowing Dockets But Causes Injustice To Actual Victims: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that false rape complaints not only puts unnecessary load on the overflowing dockets but also causes grave injustice to actual rape victims. “Every false complaint contributes to not just unnecessary load on the overflowing dockets, but also to the artifacts of crime, generating an impression in the society about falsity even of genuine complaints,...

Abandoning Duty Without Prior Sanction Is Not 'Deemed Resignation', Must Be Dealt As Indiscipline Under Civil Services Rules: Rajasthan HC

Rajasthan High Court partly allowed a plea challenging an order under Rule 86 of Rajasthan Voluntarily Rural Education Service Rules as per which a government college teacher was “deemed to have resigned”, stating that though show cause notice issued to him was correct, his act of not reporting back on duty could not be deemed as a resignation. The court said that though Rule 86 was...

MP High Court Seeks Report On Legal Aid Provided To Undertrial Prisoners, Convicts In Filing Bail Applications, Appeals & Revisions

While hearing a murder convict who had also sought condonation of delay of 850 days in filing appeal against trial court judgment, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has sought answer from District Legal Services Authority, Rewa as to why legal aid was not provided to the convict immediately. In doing so, the Court observed that this was a "reflection of working of legal aid in the State" and...

Gujarat High Court Declines Narayan Sai's Furlough Plea In 2014 Surat Rape Case

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (April 30) dismissed the furlough plea moved by Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai who was convicted for rape and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 by a Sessions Court in Surat.After hearing the arguments by the parties, Justice MR Mengdey said, "I'm not inclined...dismissed".Sai had approached the high court for furlough last month wherein the high court...

FIR Will Be Lodged In Badlapur Fake Encounter Case: Maha Govt Tells Bombay HC After Warning Of Contempt Action Over Delay

After dragging it's feet over lodging of an FIR in the Badlapur Fake Encounter Case, the Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it will be lodging an FIR in the case, latest by Saturday (May 3).A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Dr Neela Gokhale accepted the statement made by Public Prosecutor Hiten Venegavkar who told the judges that by Saturday an...

Revisional Court Can't Assume Jurisdiction To Reject O.21 R.97 Application When It Is Pending Before Executing Court: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has held that a revisional court cannot assume jurisdiction of an execution court and decide an application under Order XXI Rule 97 CPC, when the same is pending before the executing court. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal observed that the Revisional Court exceeded its jurisdiction in rejecting an application under Order XXI Rule 97 CPC, after concluding that the issue...