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Community Guilt? Madras High Court Reads Down TASMAC Circular Initiating Action Against All Employees Of Shop In Case Of Overpricing
The Madras High Court has read down a circular issued by the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) initiating action against all employees of a shop including the supervisor of the shop whenever it was found that an employee of the shop was overpricing the customers. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy made it clear that a collective action could be taken only when there was...
Position Of "Lambardar" Is A Civil Post, Dismissal Or Removal Attracts Article 311 Of Constitution: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held that the post of Lambardar is a civil post and his dismissal or removal attracts the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution.Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Kirti Singh said that a Lambardar who occupies a civil post, thus cannot claim eligibility for his being appointed against some other civil post.These observations were made...
Plea In Orissa High Court To Declare Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose As 'National Son' & To Declassify Secret Files On Him
A writ petition has been filed in the Orissa High Court with a prayer to declare Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as the 'National Son' and to declassify as well as to make public secret files, including Intelligence Bureau (IB) documents, regarding him.The petition filed by one Pinakpani Mohanty also seeks to declare the birthday of Netaji (January 23) as a 'National Day' and his birthplace museum...
Calcutta High Court Quashes Case Against Actress Zareen Khan Booked For Failing To Appear As Guest At Kali Puja Celebrations
The Calcutta High Court has quashed a case against actress Zareen Khan for allegedly failing to appear in Kali Puja celebrations at various pandals across the city in 2018.Justice Bibhas Ranjan De held: "The opposite party no. 2 herein approached the petitioner to come as a guest artist. Accordingly, this proposal was accepted by the petitioner but ultimately she committed a breach. This...
Plea In Madras High Court Says Uniform Worn By Delivery Partners Of Quick Commerce Platforms Being Misused By Criminals, Seeks Guidelines
The Madras High Court on Thursday (January 23) issued notice to the Director General of Police on a plea seeking formation of guidelines for monitoring and regulating delivery partners of online delivery service providers such as Swiggy, Zomato, etc. Justice P Velmurugan issued notice to the DGP on a petition filed by Nithyanantham and adjourned the case by 4 weeks. In his...
Rajasthan HC Issues Notice On Plea Against Circular Classifying Transgender Persons As OBCs, Seeks Implementation Of Horizontal Reservation
The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice on a petition challenging a 2023 Circular issued by the State, classifying transgender persons as Other Backward Classes (“OBCs”), instead of providing horizontal reservation to them.The division bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Nupur Bhati asked the Respondent authorities, including State's Department of Social...
BJP Legislator CT Ravi Booked For Abusing Female Congress Leader Gets Interim Protection From Karnataka High Court Till January 30
The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Thursday (January 23) asked the State not to precipitate till January 30 any action against BJP Legislator CT Ravi booked for allegedly using derogatory words against Congress Legislator Laxmi Hebbalkar inside the State Council at Belagavi.After hearing the arguments for some time, Justice M Nagaprasanna in its order dictated, "Heard parties....
Delhi High Court Seeks NIA's Response On MP Engineer Rashid's Plea Seeking Expeditious Decision On Bail Plea In UAPA Case
Jammu and Kashmir MP Rashid Engineer on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking expeditious ruling by the trial court on his second regular bail plea in connection with a terror funding case. Justice Vikas Mahajan sought response of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and listed the matter for hearing next on January 30. Rashid has sought directions to the trial court judge to expedite...
Advocate Not Liable To Verify Fake Documents Provided By Client For Firm Registration To Evade Tax: Jharkhand High Court
The Jharkhand High Court stated that an advocate is not liable to verify fake documents provided by a client for registration of a firm to evade tax.The bench of Justice Anil Kumar Choudhary was dealing with a case where an advocate had moved a petition for anticipatory bail in a case registered under sections 406/420/468/471/120B of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 132 (1) (b)/131...
Karnataka High Court Issues Notice To Centre On PIL To Appoint Adequate Number Of Experts To Examine And Certify Electronic Evidence
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (January 23) issued notice to the Union of India while hearing a petition seeking a direction to designate adequate number of examiners/experts under section 79-A of the Information Technology Act for examining and certifying electronic evidence.A division bench of Chief Justice N V Anajaria and Justice M I Arun issued notice to the Union Government on...
PIL On Inaction Against 'Illicit Liquor Trade': Madhya Pradesh HC Directs Indore Excise Commissioner To Decide Representation In 4 Weeks
The Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Excise Commissioner, Indore to take a decision on a representation regarding inaction against liquor merchants for carrying alleged illicit trade of liquor in Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar districts.The division bench of Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Vivek Rusia observed, “The petitioner has made representation...
Briefing Standing Counsel, Obtaining Approvals From Officials Not 'Sufficient Cause' For Condoning Delay In Filing Appeal: Delhi High Court
While rejecting an appeal moved by Delhi Government's Directorate of Education, the Delhi High Court has ruled that obtaining approvals from officials of its departments and briefing the standing counsel are not “sufficient cause” for application of condonation of delay under Section 5 of the Limitation Act. “In any event, in our considered view the aforesaid plea taken by the appellant...