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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...
Advocate Moves Allahabad HC Seeking ₹1 Crore Fees From Law Ministry For Filing Cases To 'Save Ex-CJI From Humiliation, Removal'
A Lucknow-based lawyer has approached the Allahabad High Court seeking a direction to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice to pay him Rs. 1 crore as fees and expenses, claiming that he filed certain cases in the Supreme Court to save the then Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra, from "humiliation, insult, torture, and removal." In his writ petition, Advocate Ashok Pandey...
Appeal Can't Be Dismissed Due To Procedural Delay When Assessee Has Complied With Statutory Requirements Including Pre-Deposit: Madras HC
The Madras High Court stated that appeal can't be dismissed due to procedural delay, when assessee has complied statutory requirements including pre-deposit. “The appeal should not be dismissed merely due to a procedural delay, especially when the petitioner has made an effort to comply with the statutory requirements, including the pre-deposit of 10% of the tax...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Monthly Digest: January 2025
Citations [2025 LiveLaw (PH) 01 - 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 44]XXX v. STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 01ICICI BANK LTD. v. M/S ORIENT CLOTHING CO. PVT. LTD. AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 02Kuldeep Kumar Sharma v. Randeep Rana 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 03Amit Katyal v. CBI 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 04Devender v. State of Haryana [along with connected matters] 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 05PARVEEN ALIAS DADA v....
Probation Of Offenders Act | Orissa HC Releases Man Accused Of Deceitfully Having Sex, Causing Miscarriage Of Minor In 1991
The Orissa High Court has upheld the order of conviction and sentence passed against a man, who was held guilty of having sex with a minor girl by deceitfully inducing her to believe that he was her lawfully married husband and thereafter, causing miscarriage by administering pills.The Single Bench of Justice Biraja Prasanna Satapathy, however, released him under the provisions of Probation...
Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea To Fill Vacancies In Special Juvenile Police Units
The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea for filling up of vacant posts in all Special Juvenile Police Units (SJPUs) in every district in consonance under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela sought response of the Lieutenant Governor and Delhi Police and listed...
Karnataka High Court Defers Order On Plea To Stay Notification Appointing State CIC, Information Commissioners
The Karnataka High Court on Monday (February 24) deferred passing its order on an interim prayer seeking a stay on the operation of a January 30 State government notification appointing State Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners, till March 5. Justice R Devdas while pronouncing the order said, "Consideration of prayer for grant of interim relief is put off till matter...
Delhi High Court Asks NIA Court To Expeditiously Decide MP Engineer Rashid's Bail Plea In UAPA Case
The Delhi High Court on Monday (February 24) asked a National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court to decide expeditiously the bail plea filed by Jammu and Kashmir MP Rashid Engineer in a terror funding case registered under UAPA."The ASJ-03, Patiala House Court is requested to dispose of the bail application of the petitioner expeditiously,” Justice Vikas Mahajan said. Rashid's counsel...