Allahabad HC Seeks Affidavit From UP Minority Dept Secy On Compliance With Directions For Sunni Waqf Board Elections

The Allahabad High Court last week directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the Minority Welfare and Waqf Department, Uttar Pradesh Government, to file an affidavit showing compliance with the High Court's March 2024 directions to conclude, within two months, the process for the election of Members of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board. A bench of Justice Rajeev Singh clarified that...

Bombay High Court Seeks Maharashtra Govt's Response On Kunal Kamra's Plea To Quash FIR Over Alleged Defamatory Video On Eknath Shinde

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (April 8) asked State to get instructions on comedian Kunal Kamra's plea for quashing an FIR lodged against him following his satirical video and "gaddar" comment purportedly made against Maharashtra's Deputy CM Eknath Shinde.During the hearing senior advocate Navroz Seervai appearing for Kamra, was asked by a division bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal and...

Writ Court Can Go Into Question Of De Facto Possession Of Surplus Land, If Disputed Facts Can Be Discerned: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a writ Court can go into the question of de facto possession of surplus land if disputed facts can be discerned by the Court. It held that the State must establish that de facto possession of the land was taken prior to enactment of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 so as to prevent abatement of proceedings under Urban Land...

Allahabad High Court Imposes ₹25 Lakh Cost On Loan Guarantors For Deliberately Prolonging Litigation On Auctioned Property

The Allahabad High Court imposed a cost of Rs. 25 lakhs on guarantors of a loan for deliberately prolonging litigation regarding a property auctioned in 2017.While directing the guarantors of the loan (petitioners) to vacate the auctioned premises and awarding the cost in favour of the auction purchaser, Justice Sangeeta Chandra held,“This Court having gone through the judicial precedents...

Bombay High Court Seeks Response From State Over Steps Taken To Comply With SC Guidelines Against Use Of 'Two-Finger Test'

The Bombay High Court recently asked the Maharashtra government to spell out the steps taken to sensitise medical health providers across the State on the 'insensitive, inhuman and discriminatory' nature of the 'two-fingers test' or the 'virginity test' on survivors of sexual assault or rape. A division bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Vrushali Joshi asked the State to place on record,...

Gauhati High Court Declines Stay On Amendments To Nagaland Lokayukta Act Regarding Provisions On Eligibility, Constitution Of Search Committee

The Gauhati High Court at Kohima recently denied to stay the two amendment Acts of 2019 and 2022, respectively to the Nagaland Lokayukta Act, 2017.The division bench of Justice Devashis Baruah and Justice Budi Habung observed:“The law as regards the stay of an enactment of legislature or its amendments is very clear. The power under Article 226 of the Constitution can be exercised when...

Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: March 31- April 06, 2025

Nominal IndexBatha Vamsi v. The State Station House Officer: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 56V.S. Rayudu, S/o. Gopal, Occ: Driver and Others v. Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 57Mallavarapu Lakshmana Kumar v. Union Of India and Others: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 58A P Srinivasa Deekshitulu v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 59P V Mudhun Reddy @...

Delhi Govt's Callousness In Filling DCPCR Vacancies Can't Be Appreciated, Children Rights Take A Back Seat: High Court

The Delhi High Court on Monday said that the callousness on the part of the Delhi Government in filling up vacancies in the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) cannot be appreciated. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that due to the vacancies, functions of the child rights body were not being performed and...

Delhi High Court Orders Status Quo On Construction Inside 14th Century Kalan Masjid In Nizamuddin

The Delhi High Court has ordered that status quo be maintained on the construction inside a 14th Century mosque, Kalan Masjid, situated at South Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin. Justice Mini Pushkarna directed that status quo shall be maintained as regards any construction within the premises of the mosque.The Court directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Archaeological Survey of...

'You Don't Deserve It': Following Heated Exchange, MP High Court Refers To Full Court To Consider Stripping Lawyer Of 'Senior' Designation

Noting that senior advocate Narinder Pal Singh Ruprah "raised his voice" and caused a "ruckus" during the hearing of an excise matter, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday (April 7) directed the registry to place the lawyer's name before the full court so as consider whether the lawyer can continue as a senior advocate or not. In its last order dated March 28, the Court had directed...

Compulsory Retirement Valid For Leaving Battalion Without Informing About New Address, Employer Cannot Launch 'Manhunt' For Employee: J&K HC

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court upheld the order of compulsory retirement from the service imposed upon the petitioner for his continuous absence from the battalion without permission for overstaying his leave for the period of 326 days.The petitioner, a CRPF constable, contended that the order issued by respondent No.3 was based upon an ex parte inquiry and that the petitioner has not...

Delhi High Court Stays BCI Decision Barring Punjab Based Lawyer From Doing Legal Practice

The Delhi High Court has stayed the decision of Bar Council of India (BCI) prohibiting a Punjab based lawyer, Lokinder Singh Phaugat, from doing legal practice during the pendency of a police complaint against him. Justice Mini Pushkarna issued notice on Phaugat's plea challenging the order passed by the BCI on February 27 directing the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana to lodge a...