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POCSO Act: Rajasthan High Court Issues Notice On PIL For Compulsory Sex Education In Schools, Committee To Check Special Courts
The Rajasthan High Court bench comprising Chief Justice S.S. Shinde and Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand has recently issued notice on a public interest litigation seeking formation of a committee to check the condition of Special Courts constituted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) in the state.The public interest litigation filed by one Kunal Rawat also...
ED To Investigate Bhima Koregaon Accused For Money Laundering, Seeks Permission To Record Surendra Gadling's Statement
Over four and a half years after the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad caste violence incident, the Enforcement Directorate is pursuing money laundering proceedings against certain civil liberties activists accused in the case. The ED has approached the Special Court in Mumbai seeking permission to record accused Advocate Surendra Gadling's statement under section 50(2) of the...
Prison Violence: Delhi Court Directs Tihar DGP To Install CCTVs Inside Offices Of Senior Jail Officials To Ensure Transparency
A Delhi Court has directed the Director General of Prisons, Tihar to install CCTV cameras inside offices of Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent in order to dispel false allegations by inmates regarding beating at the hands of jail officials. Additional Sessions Judge Sonu Agnihotri of Saket Courts was dealing with a plea filed by an inmate Monu alleging that he was beaten inside the...
Justice BS Chauhan Commission Recommends Disciplinary Action Against Public Servants For Loss Of Records Of Vikas Dubey's Cases
The inquiry commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd) B S Chauhan to probe into the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey recommended initiation of disciplinary proceedings against the erring public servants for loss of records of cases relating to Vikas Dubey, gangster who was killed in an encounter by the UP Police in 2020. The recommendations which have been made in...
Gwalior Resident Seeks FIR Against Jyotiraditya Scindia For Allegedly Filing False Election Affidavit; High Court Directs To Avail Statutory Remedy
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a Gwalior resident, seeking registration of FIR against Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for allegedly filing a false election affidavit, to avail statutory remedy under the Criminal Procedure Code.70 years old Gopi Lal Bharti alleged that Scindia provided false statement under oath by not mentioning to the Election Commission that a criminal case...
Peremptory Directions Affecting Third Party Cannot Be Issued In Anticipatory Bail Orders, Reiterates Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reiterated that a peremptory direction affecting a third party cannot be issued in an anticipatory bail order.Very recently, in another case, the Apex Court had held that it is not open for High Courts to implead third parties in exercise of powers under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.In this case, while granting an anticipatory bail to an accused...
Challenge To Places Of Worship Act : Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain New Petitions, Allows Intervention In Pending PIL
The Supreme Court, on Friday, refused to entertain petitions challenging the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991, but granted liberty to file intervention application in similar matters pending before it. Appearing before a Bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and J.B. Pardiwala, on behalf of one of the petitioners,...
Actor Assault Case: Dileep Moves Supreme Court Seeking Completion Of Trial Within Time Limit
Actor Dileep has approached Supreme Court seeking resumption of trial pending before the Trial Court in the actor assault case. Contending that serious prejudice would be caused if the trial is delayed, the actor in the plea, along with requesting the Top Court to fix a time limit, has also urged for directing the trial court to not use the further investigation report dated July...
No Recovery Can Be Made From Pension If Employee's Promotion Was Not Based On Any Misrepresentation: J&K&L High Court
A division bench of J&K&L High Court today ruled that in absence of any misrepresentation on the part of the petitioner with regard to factum of seeking her promotion, no recovery, whatsoever, can be made from her retirement benefit or for that matter her promotion cannot be withdrawn. A bench comprising Justices Tashi Rabstan & Wasim Sadiq Nargal observed "By no stretch...
Drains Left Uncovered, Grates Missing: Kerala High Court Seeks Response From Kochi Corporation, CSML
The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the Cochin Corporation and Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) to file a report on the missing grating covering the drains on the roads in the city. The matter came to the notice of the Court from a newspaper report in the 'Malayala Manorama' that the gratings were missing on certain roads in Kochi, covering the holes to draw water into the drains,...
Irony That We Celebrate Women's Rights In All Spheres But Show Little Concern For Her Honour: Allahabad HC On Increasing Rape Cases
"...crime against women in general and rape, in particular, is on the increase. It is an irony that while we are celebrating women's rights in all spheres, we show little or no concern for her honor. It is a sad reflection on the attitude of indifference of the society towards the violation of human dignity of the victims of sex crimes," the Allahabad High Court remarked on Thursday.The bench...