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CLAT UG 2025: Delhi High Court Accepts Few Objections To Answer Key, Directs Consortium Of NLUs To Revise Merit List
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) to republish and renotify within four weeks the final list of selected candidates who gave the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) UG examination 2025.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela decided a batch of petitions challenging the results of...
Higher Salary Mistakenly Credited To Employee Cannot Be Recovered, But Employee Cannot Seek Continuation Of Erroneous Benefits: J&K High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that the claim of the petitioners to avail the benefit of a mistake of fact, despite the mistake having been detected and corrected, is totally misconceived and cannot be accepted.The petitioners had argued that higher pay scale came to be granted to them without fraud or misrepresentation and therefore the respondent could not refix the salary in...
S.19 JJ Act | Children's Court Can't Brush Aside Independent Assessment To See If Juvenile Can Be Tried As Adult: Telangana HC Reiterates
The Telangana High Court has reiterated when determining whether a child-in-conflict with law should be tried as an adult, the Children's Court/Sessions Court cannot brush aside its duty of independent assessment by simply relying on the assessment report by the Board under Section 15 of the Act.The court underscored that the children's court has the "mandatory duty to make an...
S.17 PMLA | Can't Direct ED To Serve 'Reasons To Believe' Before Conducting Search, May Lead To Concealment Of Evidence: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that it cannot issue an omnibus direction mandating the Enforcement Directorate to serve 'reason to believe' the commission of money laundering offence before conducting a search in terms of Section 17 PMLA, as the same may alert the suspect to conceal evidence."Section 17 is a preliminary stage where based on some information in possession the ED search...
FIRs Lodged Against Illegal Loudspeakers, Using Social Media To Publicize Ads Addressing Noise Pollution: Maharashtra DGP To Bombay HC
The Director General of Police (DGP) Maharashtra has submitted an affidavit before the Bombay High Court that the police authorities have undertaken initiatives and campaigns regarding illegal loudspeakers and noise pollution, in relation to a contempt petition alleging 2940 illegal loudspeakers in the State.The contempt petition stemmed from non-compliance with the High Court's order in...
Shocking That State Govt Filed Petition Against ED Raid Of TASMAC, Nothing Unusual In Detaining Employees During Search: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed the allegations made by Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) that its employees and officials were harassed by the Enforcement Directorate while conducting searches at the State agency's headquarters in Chennai.The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice K Rajasekaran noted that the search was conducted in compliance of Section 17 of...
Bombay HC Finds Chairman Of Industrial Establishment Liable For Non-Compliance With Labor Court Order
Bombay High Court: A single judge bench of Justice Y. G. Khobragade upheld the issuance of criminal process against the Chairman of Kinetic Engineering Ltd., for failing to implement a Labor Court judgment. The court rejected the argument that a Chairman cannot be held responsible for compliance with court orders. The court clarified that persons in positions of control and supervision...
'Frivolous, Absolute Abuse Of Court Process': Meghalaya HC Dismisses Plea Challenging Vires Of Rajitlal University (Repealing) Act 2023
The Meghalaya High Court recently dismissed a writ petition challenging the Rajitlal University (Repealing) Act 2023 as ultra vires the Constitution, on the ground of being "frivolous".A division bench of the Chief Justice I.P. Mukerji and Justice W. Diengdoh in its order observed:“The petitioners have no right to question the legislature on what legislation it shall enact or shall not make...
Bombay High Court Sentences Woman To One Week Prison For “Dog Mafia” Comment Against Judges
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday convicted a woman under charge of criminal contempt of court for calling the court "dog mafia" and making "objectionable" comments against the court and also the judges over their order in favour of dog feeders in a case pertaining to a dispute between a Navi Mumbai-based society and dog feeders.A division bench of Justices Girish Kulkarni and Advait Sethna...
Bombay High Court Constitutes Committee Under Former AP HC Judge To Look Into "Wheelchair Woes" Of Passengers At Airports
Observing that no citizen must suffer at the airports, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday constituted a three-member expert committee under chairmanship of former Andhra Pradesh High Court judge - Justice (retd) Goda Raghuram to look into the issue of non-availability of wheelchairs and other facilities for senior citizens, physically disabled citizens and even for children and women. A...
S.19(8)(b) RTI Act | No Compensation Can Be Granted Unless Actual Loss Or Detriment Due To Delayed Information Shown: Patna High Court
While dismissing a petition filed by an individual seeking compensation for delayed information under the Right to Information Act 2005, the Patna High Court has reiterated that compensation under Section 19(8)(b) of the Act can only be granted when the applicant demonstrates actual loss or detriment suffered due to the delay in receiving the requested information.Justice Rajesh Kumar...
Delhi High Court Refuses To Expunge Single Judge Observations On 'Objectionable' Tweets By Academic Ashok Swain
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal moved by academic and writer Ashok Swain seeking expunging of remarks made by a single judge while adjudicating his case against OCI card cancellation, that prima facie some of his tweets contained objectionable insinuations undermining the constitutional apparatus and legitimacy of India.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK...