Virtual Dispute Resolution First Be Used For Commercial Matters Where Extreme Emotions Aren’t Involved: Bombay High Court's Justice Nitin Jamdar

A training session for judicial officers in Maharashtra on virtual dispute resolution was organised by the Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority (‘MSLSA’), Main Mediation Centre (‘MMC’) of the Bombay High Court and Presolv360, on Sunday.The session was attended by around 2,000 judicial officers and 200 advocate mediators from across the State of Maharashtra, the MSLSA said....

Supreme Court Imposes Costs On Sanjiv Bhatt For Challenging HC Direction Setting Deadline For Trial In Drug Seizure Case

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging a Gujarat High Court order which set a deadline for the trial in an alleged drug planting case in which he is an accused. The High Court has directed the trial to be competed by March 31, 2023.A bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and Aravind Kumar termed Bhatt's petition "frivolous" and imposed...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Raise Age Of Marriage For Women As 21 Years, Says It's For Parliament To Decide

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition filed by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking uniform age of marriage for men and women. The petition was listed before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala.The petitioner argued that the distinction between the age of marriage for men (21 years) and women (18 years) was...

102 Yrs Old Freedom Fighter To Get Pension Arrears After Karnataka High Court Intervenes

The Karnataka High Court has come to the aid of 102 years old Freedom Fighter and has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to pay arrears of pension which were withheld for a year as he was unable to submit the Life Certificate to the bank.A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna said “Ebbing mental prowess and physical incapacity due to age was one of the prime reasons why...

Delhi Govt’s Decision To Cap Number Of Visits By Family Members, Legal Advisers With Prisoners Not Arbitrary: High Court

The Delhi High Court has said that Delhi Government's decision to restrict the total number of visits by family members, relatives, friends and legal advisers with jail inmates to two times a week, keeping in view the number of undertrials and prisoners, cannot be said to be arbitrary. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said that the...

Huge Delay In Trial, Only 2 Witnesses Examined So Far: Delhi Riots Accused Shahrukh Pathan To High Court In Bail Hearing

Shahrukh Pathan, the man who pointed a gun at a policeman during 2020 North-East Delhi riots, Monday told Delhi High Court that there is a huge delay in conclusion of the trial and that only two witnesses have been examined so far over a period of one year and three months. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma was hearing Pathan’s bail plea in a case related to rioting and causing injuries to...

Every Instance Of Casual Police Enquiry Cannot Be Termed As Human Rights Violation: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has recently observed that though there are instances of human rights violation in police stations, every instance of casual police enquiry cannot be termed as a Human Rights Violation.The bench of Justice VM Velumani and Justice R Hemalatha noted that accusing police officers of human rights violation at the drop of a hat may be demoralising for the entire...

Hopcoms Building Outside Cubbon Park; Karnataka High Court Permits Operations For Now

The Karnataka High Court on Monday accepted a survey report carried out by City Survey Department which noted that building constructed by Karnataka Pradesh Krishik Samaj (for short, ‘Krishik Samaj’), popularly known as Hopcoms building is outside the purview of Cubbon Park and thus it permitted the Samaj to use the building to provide assistance to farmers. A division bench of...

Employee Can't Seek Alteration Of Date Of Birth At Fag End Of Career : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has reiterated that an employee cannot seek alteration of date of birth in the service records at the fag end of the career.A bench comprising Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal was hearing a special leave petition filed by South Eastern Coalfields Ltd challenging a Bombay High Court order which allowed the alteration of an employee's date of birth.Observing "it...

Jammu & Kashmir & Ladakh High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 13 To February 19, 2023

Nominal IndexTajinder Singh alias Happy Vs UT of J&K & Ors 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 22Abdul Rashid Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 23Prof S K Bhalla Vs Haq Nawaz Nehru 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 24Gopal Krishan & Ors Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 25Parwez Samuel Koul & Ors Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 26Santosh Kumar & Ors Vs Kuldeep Singh and another 2023 LiveLaw...

Hate Speech Case | Investigation Over Hindu Yuva Vahini Event In Advanced Stage, Delhi Police Tell Supreme Court

The Delhi Police informed the Supreme Court on Monday that the investigation in the hate speech case over the Hindu Yuva Vahini event organised under the leadership of Sudarshan News TV editor Suresh Chavhanke in Delhi in December 2021 had reached an advanced stage. "The investigation is in an advanced stage. The voice sample report from Forensic lab needs to come", Additional Solicitor...

Plea To Quash S.138 NI Act Conviction Not Maintainable U/S 482 CrPC: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said that a petition filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, seeking to quash conviction handed down to an accused under the Negotiable Instruments Act is not maintainable.Petitioner Vuppalapti Satish Kumar had approached the court seeking to quash the conviction handed down to him on 2.1.2023, for the offence punishable under Section 138 of...