Any Vulnerability In Aadhaar Database Can Lead To Misuse Of Personal & Financial Info, Strengthening Security Framework Need Of Hour: Orissa HC

The Orissa High Court has flagged the issue of misuse of Aadhaar details due to inadequate cybersecurity measures and has called for strengthening its security framework by implementing state-of-the-art encryption, multi-layered authentication protocols and stringent access controls.The Single Bench of Dr. Justice Sanjeeb Kumar Panigrahi made the observations while hearing a challenge made...

Karnataka High Court Declines To Quash Cheating Case Against Shuttler Lakshya Sen, Others Accused Of Fabricating Birth Certificates

The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a cheating case registered against Badminton players Lakshya Sen, Chirag Sen, their parents and coach U Vimal Kumar, wherein they are accused of fabricating their birth certificates, to enable them to take part in the badminton tournaments and thereby claim benefits illegally from the Government.Justice M G Uma dismissed the petition saying,...

Married Woman Of Eligible Age Can Undergo IVF Treatment Despite Husband's Ineligibility Provided He Consents: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has permitted a married woman aged 46 years to avail Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) procedure, even though her husband who is 57 years old has become ineligible to avail the ART services. The Court found that the married woman can independently undergo ART procedure through intrauterine insemination using donor male gametes, even though the husband has surpassed...

Will Remove Former HC Judge From Array Of Accused In CSR Scam Case: Kerala Police To High Court

The Kerala High Court today closed the PIL filed by lawyers challenging the registration of FIR against former Kerala High Court judge Justice C N Ramachandran Nair in the CSR funds scam case, on recording the written statement filed by Director General of Prosecutions that he would be removed from the array of the accused.The Division Bench of Justice A. Muhammad Mustaque and Justice P....

NDPS Act | Judicial Custody Beyond 60 Days Without Chargesheet Is Unlawful: Rajasthan HC Orders Police To Obtain FSL Reports Within 60 Days

Highlighting the time period for which an NDPS accused can be kept in judicial custody without filing of a charge-sheet was dependent on findings of FSL report, the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court directed Director General of Police Jaipur to ensure that FSL reports in NDPS cases are obtained within 60 days on priority. Justice Anil Kumar Upman was hearing a bail application filed by...

Meghalaya High Court Directs Don Bosco School To Rebuild Potential Heritage Building Which It Demolished

The Meghalaya High Court on Monday (February 24) allowed the management of the St. Anthony's Lower Primary School, Shillong run by the missionaries of the Salesians of Don Bosco, to rebuild the demolished building of the school with the condition that the plan and architecture of the building should be more or similar to the demolished one.The bench comprising the Chief Justice I.P. Mukerji...

PAN-Aadhaar Linkage For Demat Accounts Constitutionally Valid: Orissa HC Dismisses Plea Of Ex-MP Against Mandatory Aadhaar Usage

The Orissa High Court has dismissed a plea made by former Member of Parliament (MP) Tathagata Satapathy challenging the requirement of mandatory linking of Aadhaar to Permanent Account Number (PAN) for the purpose of operating dematerialized accounts ('demat accounts').While holding the aforesaid requirement to be constitutional and a reasonable restriction on 'right to privacy', the Single...

Courts Have No Power To Extend Prescribed Period Of Limitation On Grounds Of Equity And Justice: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said that Law of Limitation may harshly affect a particular party; but it has to be applied with all its rigour when the statute so prescribes. Courts have no powers to extend prescribed periods of limitation on grounds of equity and justice.A division bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice G Basavaraja observed thus while dismissing a petition filed by...

Allahabad HCBA & Oudh Bar Association To Abstain From Work Today In Protest Against Non-Appointment Of Judges

On Monday, the Allahabad High Court Bar Association, as well as the Oudh Bar Association (Lucknow Bench), called for abstinence from work on 25th February 2025 due to the low number of judges in the Allahabad High Court. Both Bar Associations have expressed concerns regarding the decreasing number of judges and increasing number of cases in the High Court. Earlier, the High Court...

Man Arrested By UP Police Without Informing Delhi Police, High Court Seeks Response On Compliance Of Protocol For Inter-State Arrests

The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Commissioner of Police, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh as to whether any protocol has been agreed to with the Delhi Police in case of Inter-State arrests as per a 2019 decision of a division bench.A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Dharmesh Sharma said that there is a need to ensure that the prescribed protocol...

Kerala High Court Grants Extraordinary Family Pension To Kin Of CRPF Personnel Who Died On Duty, Denied On Allegation Of Being Inebriated

The Kerala High Court recently granted extraordinary family pension to the wife of a deceased CRPF personnel who died during the course of his duty due to drowning in a tank of water while employed as Constable General duty in the 85th Battalion (Bn) deployed in Chhattisgarh. In doing so the court held that when the Court of Inquiry (CIF) conducted by the CRPF did not indicate that the...

If A Man's Intention While Making Promise To Marry Is To Deceive A Girl Into Sexual Relations, Her Consent Gets Vitiated: Bombay High Court

When the promise to marry is false and the intention of the maker at the time of making the promise itself was not to abide by it but to deceive her to convince her to engage in sexual relations, there is a 'misconception of fact' and the same 'vitiates' the girl's consent, the Bombay High Court held recently while upholding the rape conviction of a man, accused of raping a...