Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi Dispute: Mathura Court Directs Court Amin To Survey Disputed Site, Submit Report On April 17

A Court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district has once again directed the Civil Court Amin (also known as court officers) to visit and survey the Sri Krishna Janmasthan-Shahi Idgah dispute case and submit an aakhya report (along with maps) before the Court on April 17.The order is similar to Court's order passed in December last year (Civil Judge III Sonika Verma) wherein the Civil Court Amin...

Can't Declare Entire Animal Kingdom As Legal Entity With Same Rights As Humans : Supreme Court Dismisses PIL

The Supreme Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking for declaration of the entire animal kingdom, including avian and aquatic species, as "legal entities" having a distinct persona with corresponding rights of a living person. The matter was listed before a bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice Vikram Nath.The bench stated that it could not entertain the petition in...

Breaking: Delhi Court Denies Bail To Manish Sisodia In Liquor Policy Case

A Delhi Court on Friday denied bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia in the case alleging corruption in implementation of excise policy for the year 2021-22.Sisodia is currently under judicial custody in the cases registered by the CBI and ED.Special Judge MK Nagpal of Rouse Avenue Courts pronounced the order in Sisodia's plea for bail...

After Serving 16 Years In Jail, Man Accused Of Possessing RDX, Detonators Granted Bail By Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court last week granted bail to one Mohammad Tariq Qashmi who was arrested in december 2007 on the allegation of possessing 1.25 Kg of RDX and three detonators. Qashmi is also an accused in 2007 serial blasts case that targeted courts in Lucknow, Banaras and Faizabad districts of the state.The bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Saroj Yadav ordered his release...

Alteration In Vehicle For Persons With Disability Exempted From Payment Of Tax, Vehicle Need Not Be Driven By Such Person: Madras High Court

In December 1976, the Government of Tamil Nadu Home (Transport -T) Department had issued a notification exempting payment of tax on all motor vehicles specially designed or adapted for the use of physically handicapped persons, provided the adapted vehicles are used by the physically handicapped persons only.The Madras High Court recently noted that under the above GO, the only condition was...

BREAKING: Gujarat High Court Quashes CIC’s Order Directing Gujarat Varsity To Provide Info On PM Modi’s Degree; ₹25K Imposed On Delhi CM Kejriwal

The Gujarat High Court today quashed and set aside the 2016 order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) directing the Gujarat University to provide “information regarding degrees in the name of Mr. Narendra Damodar Modi" to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. With this, the bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav allowed the appeal filed by Gujarat University challenging CIC’s order...

'Not Accused In Any Crime, Not Shown As Guarantor To Loan': Karnataka High Court Allows Businessman To Travel To Saudi Arabia, UAE

The Karnataka High Court has permitted a businessman,against whom a look out notice was issued by the Bureau of Immigration in connection with a loan default case, to travel to UAE and Saudi Arabia. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna disposed of the petition filed by Himayath Ali Khan and said. “The petitioner is authorized to travel to United Arab Emirates and Saudi...

Custom Authorities Don’t Have Any Power To Seal Immovable Property: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court recently held that the Custom authorities do not have any power to seal the premises of a person allegedly involved in smuggling goods.A division bench of Justice Sunil B Shukre and Justice Kamal Khata in a writ petition held, “…we find that there is no power available with the custom authorities to seal premises of any person, which are nothing but a form of...

Inadvertence To Produce Document Not Substantial Cause To Invoke Order XLI Rule 27 CPC: Jammu & Kashmir High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has recently ruled that inadvertence on the part of a party to produce a document before the Court cannot be construed as a substantial cause within the meaning of Rule 27 of Order XLI of the Civil Procedure Code(CPC) to allow application for production of additional documents."Mere fact that certain evidence is important per se is not in itself...

Orissa High Court CJ Muralidhar Lauds Justice Anoop Chitkara Of Punjab & Haryana HC For Using ChatGPT While Writing Bail Order

Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar on Wednesday launched free Wi-Fi and e-inspection of records facilities for the advocates of the High Court in the presence of the Judges, the Advocate General and the Bar members. While addressing the gathering, he talked about the highly-advanced AI tool, Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). He said it...

Kerala High Court Refuses To Quash Defamation Case Against Elected Members Of Governing Committee Of St John's Orthodox Church, Ayroor

The Kerala High Court on Monday refused to quash the complaint against the elected members of the governing committee of the Parish of St.Johns Salem Orthodox Church, Ayroor, for the alleged defamatory statement against other members of the Parish in the representation submitted to the Metropolitan Bishop.Justice K. Babu observed that the facts of the present case do not fall within the ambit...

Legally Free Certificates For Adoption Issued By CWCs Prior To Dissolution In August 2022 Valid In View Of Status Quo Order: Jammu & Kashmir High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Monday held that Legally Free Certificates for adoption issued by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Srinagar before dissolution in August 2022, are legally valid in view of status quo order passed by a single Judge.Due to the interim direction, the dissolved CWCs are in position and exercise all the powers conferred upon CWCs under the...