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"Justice Hurried Is Justice Buried": Madras High Court Upholds Order Quashing Disciplinary Proceeding Conducted Within Two Weeks
The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by the General Manager & Reviewing Authority of the Canara Bank against an order of the single judge quashing the disciplinary proceedings against an employee. The bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice P Vadamalai noted that while disciplinary proceedings usually take a few months to conclude, the disciplinary proceedings in...
Advocate Cannot Be Summoned As Witness And Be Compelled To Disclose Confidential Information Against Client : Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court observed that police's power provided under Section 179(1) of BNSS cannot be stretched to call for an advocate–who is appearing for the accused in the crime–so as to divulge information shared between him and the client. In doing so it observed that summoning an advocate representing his client potentially infringes the "client's right to representation and also...
Karnataka High Court Directs Bike Taxi Aggregators To Stop Operations In State
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday held that bike taxi aggregators like Rapido, Uber and others cannot operate in the state unless the State government issues relevant guidelines and rules under the Motor Vehicles Act. The Court ordered that the State government has to in six weeks ensure that all bike taxi operations cease to operate. A single judge, Justice B M Shyam Prasad passed the...
Petition U/S 34 Of Arbitration Act Cannot Be Decided Without Summoning Entire Record To Verify Service Of Notice: Karnataka HC
The Karnataka High Court bench of Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar has held that a petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act) cannot be decided without first summoning the entire arbitration record to determine whether the notice was actually served on the other party. Brief Facts: Respondent No. borrowed a loan from the Appellant and when...
Closure Report Filed In POCSO Case Against Mohammed Zubair Over 2020 Tweet, Chhattisgarh High Court Informed
The Chhattisgarh State Government today officially informed the Chhattisgarh High Court that the state police have submitted a closure report in a POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) case filed against Alt-News Co-founder Mohammed Zubair, related to a tweet he made in 2020. The state counsel made the submission before a bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and...
Karnataka High Court Refuses To Stay Order Quashing ED Summons To Ex-MUDA Commissioner But Says Probe Into Scam Will Continue
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (April 2) refused to stay a single judge's order which quashed Enforcement Directorate's (ED) summons issued to Dr Natesha DB, the former MUDA Commissioner during whose tenure alleged illegal allotment of land was made to CM Siddaramaiah's wife Paravathi.The court however said that single judge's order cannot stall investigation against other accused...
Karnataka HC Stays Disciplinary Proceedings Against Advocate Who Allegedly Abused Law Professor
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday by way of interim order stayed the disciplinary proceedings initiated by Karnataka State Bar Council against an advocate on charges of professional misconduct after a law professor complained that he was called 'monkey and donkey' by the advocate.The advocate had approached the court seeking to quash the entire proceedings and the notice issued and...
Karnataka HC Refuses To Entertain Plea To Implement 2020 Govt Circular Asking All Departments To Avoid Using 'Dalit' To Address SC Members
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (April 2) refused to entertain a petition filed seeking to implement the government circular issued in the year 2020, asking all its departments and authorities to avoid during all official transactions the nomenclature "Dalit" for members belonging to the Scheduled Castes.A division bench of Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice K V Aravind dismissed...
No Finding That Drop In Marks Was Due To Him: Rajasthan HC Quashes Censure Against Chemistry Teacher For School's Poor 12th Board Result
The Rajasthan High Court set aside the penalty of censure imposed on a school teacher in relation to a charge that the12th Board Exam result in Chemistry of the concerned school remained below the standard fixed by the Department of Education.Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed that "there was no allegation that the result of the concerned school dropped due to commission or omission on part...
“Unique Circumstances”: Madras High Court Asks Centre To Consider Citizenship Plea Of Woman Born To Srilankan Refugees In India
The Madras High Court has asked the Union Government to consider the citizenship application of a woman, born in 1987 to a Sri Lankan couple settled in India, without insisting she return to Sri Lanka and come back to India with a visa. Noting that it was a unique case, Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy held that though the applicant could be considered a foreigner, she had not entered...
When Grama Natham Land Is Occupied And Such Occupation Is Accepted By State, It Becomes Private Property; Not Encroachment: Madras HC
The Madras High Court has recently clarified that when a grama natham land (village house site) is occupied by an individual and such occupation has been recognized by the State through successive transfers, it becomes the private property of the occupant and such lands cannot be regarded as government lands. “Where the grama natham land is occupied and such occupation has...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Quashes Defamation Case Against Journalists For Reporting CM Bhagwant Mann's Statement Against Then MLA
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has quashed a defamation case filed against former Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune newspaper, and other journalist for reporting a statement made by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann in 2019 against then Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Nazar Singh Manshahia.As per the report, Bhagwant Mann, the then Punjab AAP chief and Sangrur MP, had said that Congress leaders...