RTI | Delhi High Court To Hear Pleas Seeking Copies Of Documents Relating To Collegium Recommendations On April 12

The Delhi High Court is set to consider the question as to whether information relating to recommendations made by Supreme Court Collegium can be disclosed under Right to Information Act, 2005.Justice Prathiba M Singh listed for hearing on April 12 a batch of three petitions seeking information in respect of Collegium recommendations. One of the pleas have been filed by one Dr. Vinod Surana...

Kerala Court Remands CM's Former Principal Secretary M. Sivasankar To ED Custody In LIFE Mission Case

The Ernakulam District and Sessions court, has on Tuesday, remanded the former Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala, M. Sivasankar, to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for a period of 5 days (until 2:30 pm on Monday, February 20) in connection with the LIFE Mission case.LIFE(Livelihood, Inclusion and Financial Empowerment) Mission' is a housing project mooted by...

Remand Order Prolongs & Delays Litigation : Supreme Court Explains Scope Of Appellate Court's Power To Remand

An order of remand prolongs and delays the litigation, the Supreme Court observed while setting aside a High Court order remanding a case to the trial court.In this case, the Patna High Court passed an order of remand observing that the judgment of the trial court was not written as per the mandate of Section 33 and Rule 4(2) and 5 of Order XX of the Code of Civil Procedure, as the discussion...

Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Allahabad HC Grants Interim Bail To 8 Accused In View Of SC's Order Granting 8 Weeks Bail To Ashish Mishra

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to 8 accused in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri Violence case till March 20 on the ground of parity with the co-accused Ashish Mishra (who was granted 8 weeks interim bail by the Supreme Court last month). The bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan passed this order on the application moved by 8 accused namely, Nandan Singh Bisht,...

KFC Has No Exclusive Right In Word ‘Chicken’ But Trademark Registry Can Consider Its Application For ‘Chicken Zinger’: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has said though American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has no exclusive right on the word “Chicken”, the trademark registry can consider its application for registration of mark “Chicken Zinger” in Class 29.Justice Sanjeev Narula was hearing an appeal moved by Kentucky Fried Chicken International Holdings challenging an order dated...

Allegation Of 'Consent On Pretext Of Marriage’ Gets Shattered When Woman Continues Relationship With Man Even After His Marriage: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, while upholding an order of acquittal passed by trial court in a rape case, said that the allegation of commission of rape on the pretext of marriage loses significance if the woman continues to be in a sexual relationship with the man even after his marriage with some other woman. A division bench of Justice Sureshwar Thakur and Justice Kuldeep...

Review Provision Is Not To Scrutinize The Correctness Of Decision : Supreme Court

The Supreme court reiterated that the provision of review is not to scrutinize the correctness of the decision.It is to correct the error, if any, which is visible on the face of the order / record without going into as to whether there is a possibility of another opinion different from the one expressed, the bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal observed.The court observed...

Bank Managers Can't Be Prosecuted For Acting On Mandate Of Locker Holder To Change Joint Access: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings initiated against two Bank managers for changing the access of a locker, purportedly on the application of one of the joint holders.A single judge bench of Justice V Srishananda said that no intention of criminality can be attributed to Bank managers for merely acting on the mandate of the customer.Ramchandra and Gururaj Deshpande...

Take Action Against Domain Name Registrars For Not Complying With IT Rules: Delhi High Court To IT Ministry

The Delhi High Court has directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Department of Telecommunications to take action in accordance with Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 against domain name registrars (DNRs) who are not complying with the Rules. Justice Prathiba M Singh observed that stringent steps are required...

All High Courts Family Law Digest 2022

LiveLaw brings to you the most awaited High Courts Digest on Family law cases from the year 2022.ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT Interim Maintenance- Extremely Difficult For Woman To Maintain Herself With ₹1500 Per Month: Allahabad High CourtCase title - Sanjeev Rai v. State of U.P. and AnotherCase citation: 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 14Emphasizing that it is the duty and responsibility of the husband to...

'It's Quality & Not Quantity Of Witnesses Which Matters' : Supreme Court Relies On Solitary Eyewitness Testimony To Affirm Sentence

"It is not the quantity of the witnesses but the quality of witnesses which matters", observed the Supreme Court while affirming the conviction and sentence of four persons for murder of four persons.Only one eye-witness was examined in the case. She was one Pinky Singh, whose parents, brother and brother-in-law were murdered by the accused at night over a property dispute. She was also...

S.311 CrPC | Error Different From Lacuna, Courts Should Be Magnanimous In Allowing Errors By Parties In Trial To Be Corrected : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High on Monday held that principles of fair trial demands that no party be denied the opportunity to correct its errors and that courts must be magnanimous in allowing such mistakes to be corrected. A single bench of Justice K Babu observed that an error or omission on the part of a party to trial is not to be confused with lacuna. While a lacuna points to an intrinsic weakness in...