Madhya Pradesh High Court
MP High Court Issues Notice On PIL Seeking Pension Schemes For Advocates Practising For Over 35 Years
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently issued notices to the State Government, State Bar Council and the Bar Council of India on a public interest litigation plea seeking enactment of a welfare scheme for advocates who have completed 35 to 40 years of practice.The petitioner, Advocate Rajendra Shrivastava, claimed that while advocates contribute substantially to the legal profession, many...
Wife's Anger Doesn't Entitle Her To Tarnish Husband's Reputation With False Allegations Of Infidelity: MP High Court Grants Divorce
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that making baseless and false allegations of moral turpitude against one's spouse amounts to cruelty and can be a ground for divorce. The court also said that wife's anger does not entitle her to tarnish her husband's image by making baseless allegations and thus granted divorce to the husband, setting aside trial court decree which had granted...
Why Spend ₹500 Crore If No Flights? MP High Court Questions State For Neglecting Jabalpur Airport
The Madhya Pradesh High Court today slammed the state government for 'second-handed treatment' of Jabalpur, in respect of its flight connectivity to other major cities.The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf was hearing a petition filed by Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch, highlighting that despite spending nearly ₹500 crores on upgrading the...
'Police Can't Test Veracity Of Witness Statements': MP High Court Slams IO For Trying To Discredit Testimonies, Summons SP
In a tragic accident that led to the death of a 3-year-old boy, the Madhya Pradesh High Court reprimanded the police over the conduct of the IO who instead of conducting an investigation, questioned the complainant and witnesses in a manner trying to discredit their testimonies. Directing the Superintendent of Police to be personally present on the next date of hearing, the high court stayed...
'Right To Practice Religion Has No Nexus With Particular Place': MP High Court Rejects Plea To Rebuild Ujjain's Takiya Masjid
Dismissing a plea seeking reconstruction of Ujjain's Takiya Masjid by litigants who used to offer namaaz there, the Madhya Pradesh High Court reiterated that right to practice religion has no nexus with a particular place and this right is not infringed by acquisition of a land having a mosque. The high court referred to Allahabad High Court's decision in Mohammad Ali Khan v Special...
Collector Can't Reopen Land Ownership After Decades Without Inquiry: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court observed that in the absence of a specific limitation period under Section 50 of the MP Land Revenue Code, 1959, the mutation and ownership records cannot be reopened after decades under the guise of revisional power, that too without conducting any full-fledged enquiry.The bench of Justice Himanshu Joshi held; "This Court has no hesitation to say that even if...
MP High Court Stays Coercive Action Against School Peon Transferred Over Allegations Of Religious Conversion
The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed authorities not to take any coercive action against a school peon who was transferred to a school 40 km away for allegedly converting to another faith and for influencing others to convert religion. Accordingly to the facts, the petitioner was appointed as a clerk in Madhyamik Vidyalaya Sultanpur by the Dhar District Collector on January 19, 2004. It...
Indore Truck Rampage: MP High Court Asks State About Road Safety & Traffic Regulation Measures Adopted After SC Directions
Taking note of Supreme Court's comprehensive directions regarding road safety and traffic regulation, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (October 10) directed the State Government to file an affidavit listing what measures are being taken to comply with the apex court's order. The court passed the order while hearing a suo-motu plea initiated regarding an incident where reportedly a...
MP High Court Issues Contempt Notice To Ujjain Municipal Commissioner For Failing To Explain Delay In Releasing Contractor's Security Deposit
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday (October 7) summoned the Commissioner of Ujjain Municipal Corporation to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for failure to explain the delay in releasing a contractor's security deposit, despite explicit orders.The court was hearing a petition filed by CMM infrastructures seeking the release of security deposit that...
'Revengeful & Vulgar': MP High Court Upholds Expulsion Of School Student For Posting Derogatory, Abusive Content About Teacher Online
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Thursday (October 9) dismissed a father's plea challenging school's decision to expel his child following the discovery of an Instagram page where the boy created and posted memes of teachers using abusive and derogatory language. Noting that the school was justified in their actions, the bench of Justice Pranay Verma observed;"A perusal of the material...
'Aadhar Can Give Clues On Person's Whereabouts': MP High Court Asks UIDAI To Verify Aadhaar-Linked Activities Of Missing Girl To Trace Her
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday (October 7) asked the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) to verify if the Aadhaar number of a missing girl had been used in any form of online transactions, in order to discover clues about her location, also directing the body to share it with the police for tracing her. The court, in doing so, observed that since Aadhar is unique to...
MP High Court Directs Factory Owner To Plant 25 Saplings For Failing To Cure Defects In Plea Despite Grant Of Sufficient Time
The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the proprietor of a factory to plant 25 saplings of native plants/trees within the factory premises as a condition for restoring its writ petition, which was earlier dismissed for non-compliance with a peremptory order. The division bench of Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi noted that despite sufficient time being granted to the...