Consider Disabled Persons Grievance On Accessibility At Bus Stops Expeditiously: Bombay HC To State Advisory Board

The Bombay High Court on Thursday (April 17) askedhas directed the State Advisory Board On Disability to expeditiously consider the grievances of differently abled people with respect to accessibility at bus stops. A division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice MS Karnik asked the State Advisory Board to take appropriate action for the redressal of grievances of disabled people....

Chhattisgarh HC Rejects Employee's Plea For Back Wages After Acquittal In Appeal, Says Subsequent Acquittal Doesn't Operate Retrospectively

Dismissing a writ petition filed by an employee, who was convicted of a crime but later acquitted and demanded back wages thereafter, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the subsequent acquittal of the employee does not entitle him to back wages as such acquittal does not operate retrospectively to wipe out the legal consequences of the conviction.The petitioner had prayed that he...

Plea Filed In Kerala High Court Protesting Installation Of RSS Flags, Banners In Kollam Temple

A petition has been filed before the Kerala High Court alleging that certain persons have installed flags resembling those of RSS and Bajrang Dal in the temple premises of Manjippuzha Bhagavathi Bhadrakkal Temple, Kollam during its festival. The petitioner has sought directions from the Court to ensure that the temple premises is used only for religious purposes.The petitioner who is a devotee...

Rajasthan High Court Quarterly Digest: January To March 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 1 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 124Orders/Judgments of the MonthJanuary 2025Rajasthan HC Cancels Air Force Personnel's Anticipatory Bail Due To Misrepresentation, Hiding True Facts Like Grievous Injury Caused to VictimTitle: Ramesh Kumar v State of Rajasthan & Anr.Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 1The Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan High Court cancelled the anticipatory...

Madras High Court Bans 28 Plastic Items In Kodaikanal And Nilgiris

The Madras High Court has banned the manufacture, storage, supply, transport, sale, and distribution of 28 items of plastic throughout the Western Ghats, sanctuaries, and tiger reserves, starting from the Nilgiris up to the Agathiyar Biosphere in Kanyakumari District, which includes the Nilgiris and Kodaikanal hill areas. The forest bench of Justice N Satish Kumar and...

Perpetuating Caste Will Breach Fraternity: Madras High Court Orders Removal Of Caste Names From Educational Institutions

The Madras High Court has asked the Inspector General of Registration to ensure that no society is registered with a caste name or for the purpose of perpetuating caste in the State. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy added that if such societies are running schools, colleges, or other educational institution, it should be ensured that the institution does not display caste...

Wife Got Pregnant After Husband's Vasectomy At Govt Health Centre: P&H HC Set Aside Order Granting Compensation, Says State Not Liable For Failure

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has set aside the compensation granted to a couple for the failure of a vasectomy operation, as a result of which the woman conceived and gave birth to a girl child.In a move to control the fast-rising population of India, vasectomy operations were incentivised by the Haryana government in 1986 by offering payment.Justice Nidhi Gupta while allowing the...

Allahabad HC Frames Contempt Charges Against Advocate Ashok Pandey Over Communal Allegations Against Sitting Judge

Last week, the Allahabad High Court framed criminal contempt charges against Lucknow-based Advocate Ashok Pandey for filing a petition in 2016, making 'baseless' and 'communal' allegations against a sitting judge. Charging him for 'misusing' the judicial process for 'publicity', and thereby 'scandalising' the Court and 'undermining' its dignity and authority, a bench of...

Burden Of Court Increasing Over Violations Of Natural Justice: Allahabad HC Imposes 20K Cost On GST Official For Not Following Mandatory Provision

The Allahabad High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 20,000 on Joint Commissioner SGST, Corporate Circle-1, Ghaziabad who had issued a show cause notice without specifying the date and time for personal hearing and had passed an order under Section 74 of the Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 creating a demand of more than Rs. 5 crore ignoring the specific request for personal hearing made by...

High Court Directs Haryana Govt To Pay ₹5 Lakh Compensation To Employee For Arbitrarily Denying 'Super Deluxe' Flat

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has granted compensation of Rs. 5 Lakh to a Haryana Government Employee for arbitrarily denying him the flat under the "Super Deluxe category" despite fulfilling the eligibility criteria.Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Vikas Suri found that the petitioner was denied the falts in super deluxe category for the "flimsy reason", "which is...

Citing Draupadi From Mahabharat, Delhi High Court Discharges Man In Adultery Case

Citing Draupadi from Mahabharat as an example to denote woman being considered as the property of the husband, the Delhi High Court has discharged a man in an adultery case filed against him by a woman's husband. “The woman being considered as the property of the husband and its devastating consequences are well documented in Mahabharat wherein Draupadi was put on stake in a game of gamble...

MP High Court Orders Medical College To Return Original Documents Of Student Who Wished To Leave His Seat & Return To Home State

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed Government Bundelkhand Medical College in Sagar to return the original documents of a student from Manipur along with No-Objection Certificate who stated that he wants to quit his three-year course in Second year and return to his home state due to unforeseen circumstances therein.The student had moved the high court after the college had asked him...