'People In Villages Also Must Get Services Of Specialists': Madras High Court Refuses To Interfere With Rural Posting Of PG Doctors

In a plea challenging the posting of non-service PG doctors in Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC) and Additional Primary Health Centre (APHC), the Madras High Court refused to interfere with the decision of the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and directed the doctors to report to duty in the Centres allotted to them. The main contention of the doctors was that the posting...

MCD Mayor Polls : Supreme Court Issues Notice On AAP Leader's Plea Against Allowing Nominated Members To Vote

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday issued notice to the offices of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor and the Pro tem presiding officer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in a petition filed by Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) mayoral candidate Dr Shelly Oberoi and AAP for urgent completion of mayoral elections of MCD. The matter was listed before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY...

Take Down URLs Or Posts Containing Sexually Explicit Video Of Judicial Officer: Delhi High Court To Social Media Platforms

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the social media platforms, including WhatsApp and Google, to take down URLs or posts relating to a video, showing a judicial officer in a compromising position, if not already removed in terms of the interim restraining order passed earlier.Justice Yashwant Varma was hearing a suit seeking permanent injunction to restrain the social media platforms...

Karnataka High Court Sends Lawyer To Jail For One Week For Making ‘Wild Allegations’ Against Judges & Judicial System

The Karnataka High Court has directed an advocate to be taken into judicial custody for a week for contempt of court. A division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Ashok S Kinagi passed the order in a suo-motu contempt initiated in 2019, against advocate K S Anil, on February 2. “This Court is left with no other option except to pass an order for taking the accused...

Jurisdiction of PMLA Court To Try Money Laundering Offence Not Limited to Place Where Proceeds Of Crime Come Into Possession Of Accused : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court stated that the offence of money laundering is constituted by various activities, namely, concealment, possession, acquisition, use, projecting as untainted property, or claiming as untainted property. So, the the offence can be tried at the places where any of these acts have taken place have. The Court held so while rejecting the argument of journalist Rana Ayyub that...

[Mohsin Sheikh Lynching] Eye-Witnesses Failed To Identify Accused, “Hate Speech" By Hindu Rashtra Sena President Not Exhibited: Pune Court On Acquitting 21

Not a single eye-witness in court identified the men who lynched Pune techie Mohsin Sheikh (28) neither was the “hateful” speech by Hindu Rashtra Sena President Dhananjay Desai brought on the record by the prosecution, the Pune Sessions Court observed in the detailed judgement acquitting 21 people for the 2014 brutal murder. “It is clear that the accused no.19 (Desai) who...

Principles Of Res Judicata Would Apply To Criminal Proceedings, Reiterates Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that principles of res judicata and constructive res judicata would squarely apply not just to civil proceedings but to criminal proceedings as well.Justice A. Badharudeen was hearing a petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to quash a complaint pending before Magistrate Court, where she was alleged to have committed...

“You May Be The President, Don’t Raise Your Voice”, Justice MR Shah To SCBA President

The Supreme Court bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar on Tuesday expressed unhappiness with Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, President, SCBA, sternly stating that while Mr. Singh "may be the President", he must not "raise his voice" and "try to browbeat the Court".The bench was hearing a SLP by a Special Judge (POCSO Cases) from Sawaimadhopur, Rajasthan against the November 2020 decision...

Chhawla Rape-Murder Case : Delhi Police Urges SC To Urgently Hear Review, Cites Another Crime Committed By Accused After Release

The Delhi police's petition seeking a review of the Supreme Court's acquittal of the three death row convicts of the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in Delhi’s Chhawla area in 2012 was mentioned before the Supreme Court bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala today. CJI DY Chandrachud assured that he would constitute a bench...

Article 226 Petition Can Be Moved Even When Fundamental Right Is Threatened, Provided Apprehension Is Well Founded: JKL High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday reiterated that a petition under Article 226 can be entertained even when the fundamental right of a citizen is threatened and one need not await the actual prejudice or adverse effects for filing the same, provided his apprehension is well founded.The observations were made by Justice Rajesh Sekhri while hearing a plea in terms of which...

Delhi High Court Restrains 24 Food Entities From Using ‘Khan Chacha’ Trademark, Directs Zomato And Swiggy To Delist Infringers

The Delhi High Court has restrained 24 food entities from using “Khan Chacha” trademark and also directed their delisting from the platforms of food delivery companies Zomato and Swiggy.Justice C Hari Shankar observed that Gupta and Gupta Private Limited, which has been using “Khan Chacha” trademark since 1972, has made out a clear prima facie case of infringement in its favour....

Plea Alleging Attacks Against Christians : Supreme Court Seeks Reports From Six States

In a plea seeking directions to stop alleged attacks against Christian priests and Christian institutions across the country, the Supreme Court, directed Chief Secretaries of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh to share the information regarding steps taken by their respective law enforcement agencies with respect to the violence alleged in...