Allahabad High Court Half Yearly Digest: January to June 2022 [Citation 1- 306]

CITATIONS 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 1 to 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 306 Monthly Digests Allahabad High Court Monthly Digest: January 2022 [Citations 1-28] Allahabad High Court Monthly Digest: February 2022 [Citations 29-80] Allahabad High Court Monthly Digest: March 2022 [Citations 81 To 150] Allahabad High Court Monthly Digest: April 2022 [Citations 151 To 220] Allahabad High Court...

1.78 Crore Cases Disposed Of By Virtual Courts, 19.2 Million Cases Heard By HCs & District Courts Through VC: Justice D.Y. Chandrachud

While delivering the Vote of Thanks in the inaugural function of the 1st All India District Legal Services Authorities Meet, Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, judge of the Supreme Court, highlighted the impact of technology on furthering access to justice to citizens of India. While accentuating upon the technological advancements undertaken by the judiciary, Justice Chandrachud stated...

Bombay High Court Directs National Board To Decide Couple's Plea To Import Cryo-Preserved Embryos From US Lab

The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the National Board – constituted under the 2021 new Assisted Reproductive Technology Act (ART) and Surrogacy Act to decide a couple's plea to import their cryo-preserved embryo to India, stored in a laboratory in the United States since 2016. A division bench of Justices SV Gangapurwala and SM Modak asked the couple in their 40s to appear...

S.195(1) CrPC Does Not Bar Registration Of FIR Or Require That Written Complaint By Public Servant Be Filed Before Court: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench, recently held that Section 195(1) of CrPC nowhere states that that written complaint by the public officer has to be filed before the Court. The Court noted that the said provision also does not debar registration of FIR.Rejecting the application to quash the FIR against the Applicant/ accused, Justice S.K. Singh observed- Section 195(1)...

Expedite Release Of Undertrials, Provide Them Legal Aid : Prime Minister Urges District Legal Services Authorities

Underscoring the issue of undertrials who remain incarcerated for want of legal aid, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the District Legal Services Authorities to expedite the release of undertrials by using their position in the District Level Undertrial Review Committees. Speaking at the 1st First Meeting of the All India District Legal Services...

'Strengthening The District Judiciary Is The Need Of The Hour': CJI N.V. Ramana

While delivering his speech at the First Meeting of the All India District Legal Services Authority, organised by NALSA, Chief Justice of India, N.V. Ramana emphasized on the urgent need to strengthen the subordinate judiciary. District Courts being people's first point of contact with the judiciary plays a pivotal role in the dispensation of justice. Every progressive policy needs a...

Kerala High Court Directs Registry To Not Accept 'Statements' Filed By Lawyers As Reply To Writ Petitions; Says Counter-Affidavits Should Be Filed

It has to be a counter affidavit based on some official record duly verified by authorised officer.

Right To Property May No More Be A Fundamental Right, But Its Sanctity As Human Right Is Still Intact: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday ruled that the Right to property might have fell from the pedestal of being a fundamental right but it continues to enjoy the sanctity of being a Human Right. A bench comprising Justices Tashi Rabstan and Wasim Sadiq Nargal observed: "No person shall be deprived of his/her property saved by authority of law or procedure...

Can't Invoke Article 32 To Enforce Places Of Worship Act In Dispute Among Same Religious Denomination : Supreme Court To Jain Sect

The Supreme Court, on Friday, refused to entertain a plea filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by members of the Mohijit Samudaya of the Tapagachh denomination of the Shwetambar Murtipujak Jain religion seeking to enforce the Places of Worship(Special Provisions) Act 1991 against the alleged conversion of places of worship by another segment of the same denomination. The...

Telegraph Act | Suit Over Insufficiency Of Compensation Maintainable In Civil Court: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court recently ruled that under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, determination of full compensation to the aggrieved can be done by the civil court if the dispute is regarding the insufficiency of compensation paid under Section 10(d) of the Act. Justice Umesh Trivedi found that such claims need not be filed before the District Judge as contended by the...

Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest 2022 on BAIL

Anticipatory Bail - SLP Against Madras HC Judgment dismissing anticipatory bail with some observations about requirement of custodial interrogation- Dismissed - High Court, after having found no case for grant of pre-arrest bail, has otherwise not given any such direction of mandatory nature - Observations are essentially of the reasons assigned by the High Court in declining the prayer...

'Wish/Desire Of Child' Is Different From 'Best Interest Of Child' : Supreme Court Allows A Father's Plea Seeking Child Custody

The Supreme Court observed that the question of 'what is the wish/desire' of the child is different and distinct from the question 'what would be the best interest of the child'."The question 'what is the wish/desire of the child' can be ascertained through interaction, but then, the question as to 'what would be the best interest of the child' is a matter to be decided by the...