Future Generations Won't Have Walkable City: Kerala High Court Issues Directions To Address Perils Of Pedestrians

The Kerala High Court on Thursday issued a slew of directions addressing the concerns of pedestrians on roads."The lives of citizens particularly pedestrians are in peril every moment and this has to change very very rapidly, lest the next generation will find this City and our State to not be capable of being walked upon", Single Bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran remarked. The order comes...

Supreme Court Restores Odisha Lokayukta's Probe Order Against Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi MLA

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, reversed the order of Orissa High Court, which set aside Odisha Lokayukta’s direction to the Director of Vigilance, Odisha, Cuttack to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the allegations of corruption against Dr. Pradeep Kumar Panigrhi, an elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Gopalpur Constituency.A Bench comprising Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice...

NEET-PG 2023 : Supreme Court Seeks NBE's Response On Pleas To Postpone NEET-PG Exam By 3 Months

The Supreme Court, on Friday, sought the response of the National Board of Examinations to the petitions filed by doctors who are aspirants of NEET-PG 2023-24 seeking to postpone the NEET-PG 2023 exam scheduled on March 3 by three months.A Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice Dipankar Datta will consider the matter next on Monday, February 27.Arguments of the...

[PIT-NDPS Act] Detaining Authority Takes Over Two Months To Decide Detenue’s Representation, Gauhati High Court Orders Immediate Release

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday set aside a detention order under Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 (PIT-NDPS Act) on the ground that the detaining authority took more than two and half months to dispose of the representation of the detenu.The division bench of Justice Achintya Malla Bujor Barua and Justice Robin...

Contempt Of Court Case: Punjab & Haryana High Court Sentences Dismissed Punjab DSP, His Aide To 6 Months In Jail

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today sentenced dismissed Punjab Police DSP Balwinder Singh Sekhon and his aide, one Pardeep Sharma to 6 months imprisonment in the contempt case for circulating 'malicious', 'libelous', and 'derogatory' videos on social media pertaining to judicial proceedings of the Judges of the HC. The bench of Justice G. S. Sandhawalia and Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan...

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui Approaches Bombay High Court Seeking Whereabouts Of His Children Who Are In Estranged Wife's Custody

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has approached the Bombay High Court in a Habeas corpus petition seeking the whereabouts of his children who are in his estranged wife Aaliya's custody.After a brief hearing the division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik asked Siddiqui and his wife's counsels to arrive at a consensus regarding visitation rights for Siddiqui. He expressed the desire to speak to...

Delhi High Court Judge Hints At Recusal In Asif Iqbal Tanha’s Case Against Media After NBDA Seeks Impleadment

Delhi High Court judge, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani on Friday hinted at his recusal from hearing Asif Iqbal Tanha's plea against leak of his alleged confession statement to media in the larger conspiracy of 2020 North East Delhi riots, after News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) filed an application seeking impleadment in the matter. As the proxy counsel appearing for NBDA...

Additional Document Can Be Produced After Prosecution Evidence Is Complete If It Is Vital And Omission Was Bonafide Mistake: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Thursday held that an additional document can be produced after prosecution evidence is complete if the omission of such document was a bonafide mistake and the document is purported to be vital. A single bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas was considering a challenge to an order of the Additional Sessions Court that permitted the prosecution to produce an FIR to...

Justice Ashish Jitendra Desai Appointed As The Acting Chief Justice Of Gujarat High Court

Justice A. J. Desai has been appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court with effect from February 26. Chief Justice Sonia Gokani, who was recently appointed as Chief Justice of the High Court, retires on February 25.Justice Desai is the senior-most puisne judge of the Gujarat High Court. Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, in a tweet, informed that Justice Desai has been...

Calcutta High Court Sets Aside Order Of Legal Services Authority Referring Litigant For 'Psychiatric Help' Following Offensive Letter To Judges

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday set aside the order of State Legal Services Authority by which a litigant, facing financial crunch due to failed business and working as an advocate’s clerk, was referred for psychiatric treatment for writing derogatory and offensive letters to the high ranking officials and High Court judges.A single judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha observed:“Out...

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project | Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Appeal Against Acquisition Of Godrej & Boyce's Plot

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain an appeal filed by Godrej & Boyce against the Bombay High Court order which refused to set aside the acquisition of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd's plot at Vikhroli for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. The matter was listed before a bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala....

Proceedings Under Section 12 Domestic Violence Act Not Bar To Initiating Criminal Action, Lodging FIR U/S 498A IPC: JKL High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Monday ruled that merely because proceedings have been initiated by a wife against her husband under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act), no bar can be construed against lodging an first information report (FIR) for cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.The observations were made by a bench...