High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered CBI probe into the entire process of selection initiated for the recruitment of 68,500 assistant teachers in primary schools in Uttar Pradesh after the Yogi Adityanath government submitted that it was not ready to hand over the probe to the CBI despite its three-member inquiry committee coming under question for sitting over evidence of corruption.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court on Monday yet again refused to defer framing of charges against Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, one of the main accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case that killed six and injured over a 100 people.The High Court on Monday passed an 18-page judgment in a criminal public interest litigation filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar in 2017.The High Court on Friday dismissed the PIL filed by Bombay Lawyer’s Association seeking a writ of mandamus to be issued directing the CBI to challenge BJP president Amit Shah’s discharge in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh.Delhi High CourtThe Delhi High Court on Monday, ordered the CBI to maintain status quo till November 1 on proceedings against its Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who was sent on leave by the government.The High Court on Monday also issued contempt notice to the editor of a Chennai-based, Tamil news magazine for his tweets against Justice S Muralidhar. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Yogesh Khanna initiated contempt proceedings and sought response of Swaminathan Gurumurthy, the editor of the weekly ‘Thuglak’ magazine, and listed the matter for further hearing on December 11.The High Court issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) on a petition seeking inquiry into the death of Nitisha Negi, the teenage footballer from Delhi who drowned at Gelnelg beach in Adelaide, Australia, where she was on a tour as part of a 120-member Indian contingent participating in the Pacific School Games.The High Court amended its Rules (Original Side) to bring in features such as ‘Hot-Tubbing’ and ‘Confidentiality Club’ besides various other amendments which will come into effect from November 1.The High Court on Thursday stayed the notice of eviction issued to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF), a charitable trust chaired by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi by which it was asked to vacate its premises at Teen Murti Bhavan, once the residence of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.The High Court has set aside the trial court judgement that had acquitted 16 Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) officials in the 1987 Hashimpura mass murder case. The Court convicted all the accused and sentenced them to life imprisonment.The High Court stayed the recruitment of 2,000 nursing officers at various centres of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on a petition moved by an acid attack victim alleging discrimination in the eligibility criterion for the recruitment process.The High Court issued a series of directions to ensure that the provisions of Sections 107 and 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 are not abused or misused by the Special Executive Magistrates and Police.The High Court dismissed a petition seeking an end to gender-discriminatory practices in all faiths and make acts of discrimination a penal offence. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and VK Rao refused to entertain the plea saying it lacked “territorial jurisdiction”.In an important judgment dealing with the violation of trade mark rights by e-commerce platforms and the extent of protection/exemption enjoyed them; the High Court held that when an e-commerce company claims exemption under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, it ought to ensure that it does not have an active participation in the selling process.Jammu & Kashmir High CourtThe Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently pulled up a law publisher for incorporating misleading and incorrect provision regarding an amendment of Section 167 of Jammu and Kashmir Code of Criminal Procedure.Karnataka High CourtThe Karnataka High Court held that merely because a reassessment order is passed under the Value Added Tax law after coming into force of the GST regime, it would not make that reassessment order void in the eyes of law. Kerala High CourtWhile considering a petition seeking to restrict entry of non-Hindus in Sabarimala temple, the High Court of Kerala orally observed that Sabarimala belonged to all and not just Hindus. The petition filed by T G Mohandas, Convenor of BJP State Intellectual Cell, contended that non-Hindus and non-idol worshippers cannot be permitted entry on the basis of SC judgment in Indian Young Lawyers’ Association case.On Thursday, the High Court admitted a petition challenging the participation of judicial officers of subordinate judiciary in direct recruitment for district judgesWaiving ‘cooling-off’ time for divorce for a Christian couple, the High Court of...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

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