Leave Encashment Is A Constitutional Property Right; It Cannot Be Denied Without Specific Statutory Authority: Karnataka HC

Karnataka High Court: A single judge bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna declared that an employee dismissed from service is entitled to leave encashment, as it constitutes a property right under Article 300A of the Constitution. The court held that the Karnataka Gramina Bank refusing to pay leave encashment to a dismissed employee was illegal. It emphasized that once earned, terminal...

Bombay HC Asks Family Court To Decide Mutual Divorce Plea Of Yuzvendra Chahal & Dhanashree Verma Tomorrow, Waives Cooling Off Period

In a relief for Indian cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Family Court at Bandra, Mumbai to decide the divorce petition filed by him and his estranged wife Dhanashree Verma, latest by Thursday itself, since he will be busy with the upcoming Indian Premiere League (IPL) from March 22.Single-judge Justice Madhav Jamdar allowed the petition filed by...

Karnataka High Court Stays Election To Tumakuru District Advocates Association As Women Members Seek Implementation Of 33% Reservation

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed till March 21 elections to the Tumakuru District Advocates Association, which is scheduled on April 5. Justice M Nagaprasanna passed the interim order while hearing a petition filed by women advocates of the Bar association, challenging an endorsement rejecting their representation seeking 33% reservation in the total existing posts at the...

Unilateral And Retrospective Enhancement Of Rent Is Unjust, Not Permissible Under Law: J&K High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a party cannot be permitted to unilaterally and retrospectively alter the rent amount fixed with the tenant.Justice MA Chowdhary held that it was not permissible for the respondent to revise the rent twice in the same year. The court said that notice requiring the petitioner to pay the revised rent increasing it to 100% was not permissible and...

'All Speculation, No Concrete Material': Delhi High Court On PIL For CBI Probe Into Corruption Via Electoral Bonds

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday orally remarked that the allegations raised in the PIL seeking a court monitored CBI probe into the instances of “quid pro quo and corruption” by way of donations made through electoral bonds by individuals or companies to various political parties were “all speculation” and were based on “no concrete material”. A division bench comprising...

Separate Identification Parade Not Required If Accused Is Identified In Court By Prosecution Witnesses: Andhra Pradesh High Court Reiterates

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has reiterated that if an accused person is identified by the prosecution witnesses before the Court, no separate identification parade is required.Justice V. Srinivas made the observation while partly allowing a man's Criminal Revision plea challenging his conviction for causing death by negligence (under Section 304-A IPC) and one year sentence along with fine....

Sowjanya Case: Karnataka High Court Permits Peaceful Protest At Freedom Park

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (March 19) permitted the holding of a peaceful protest in relation to the 'Justice for Sowjanya Movement' at Freedom Park, Bengaluru.Justice M Nagaprasanna, while disposing of the petitions filed by Karnataka Karmikara Vedike (R) and Native Empowering and Equipping Team For Hope And Interaction (R) said that the protest should be peaceful, failing which...

Bhima-Koregaon Case: Anand Teltumbde Moves Bombay High Court For Permission To Travel Abroad On Academic Assignments

Dr Anand Teltumbde, one of the accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking permission to travel abroad from Mumbai to Amsterdam as well as the United Kingdom to attend academic assignments. Notably, Teltumbde has been made an accused in an FIR registered by the NIA for offences punishable under the IPC and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. In...

Kerala High Court Orally Flags Influential Accused Securing Bail On Health Grounds, Calls It 'Medical Tourism'

While hearing the bail plea of KN Anand Kumar, founder of National NGO's Confederation and accused in CSR Funds Scam, the Kerala High Court flagged the rise in cases of influential accused securing bail on medical grounds.Kumar is in judicial custody at hospital due to cardiac problems and has sought bail on medical grounds. Last week, Justice P. V. Kunhikrishnan had asked the State to...

Delhi High Court Directs BCI To Enrol South Korean Citizen As Advocate Within Two Days

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (March 18) directed the Bar Council of India to enrol a South Korean citizen- Daeyoung Jung as an advocate within two days. A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Rajneesh Kumar Gupta observed that withholding the enrolment would not be permissible since there was no stay of a single judge order which had quashed BCI's decision refusing...

Resignation Of Employee Can't Be Accepted Retrospectively If It Is Withdrawn Before Acceptance: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab & Haryana High Court made it clear that resignation of an employee cannot be accepted retrospectively if the resignation is withdrawn before the acceptance.Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi said, "Once, a resignation which is sought to be accepted had already been withdrawn by the petitioner, there was no jurisdiction with the authority concerned to accept the same with...

Registrar Of Co-Operative Societies Can Order Inquiry Into Functioning Of Society Pending Re-Audit: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said that the Registrar of Cooperative Societies can order an inquiry into the functioning of a cooperative society, which cannot be interdicted by a pending re-audit under the provisions of the state Cooperative Societies Act.Justice Suraj Govindaraj held thus while dismissing the petition filed by Bherya Primary Agriculture Credit Cooperative Society Ltd....