Wife Stitching Clothes Domestically Entitled To Maintenance; Welder-Husband Is Like Skilled Workman With Sufficient Income: Rajasthan High Court

While hearing a matter pertaining to maintenance, the Rajasthan High Court observed that the husband, who is a welder, is almost like a skilled workman, and thus, it cannot be presumed that he is not earning sufficiently to maintain the petitioner-wife.The court also opined that even if the petitioner-wife is stitching clothes domestically and has some income source, then also the husband...

Victim May Seek Enhancement Of Accused' Sentence By Filing Revision Application: Bombay High Court

A victim can seek enhancement of her/ his offender's jail time (sentence) only through a revision application and not by filing an appeal against the trial court's judgement, the Bombay High Court has held. The division bench of Justices Sadhana S. Jadhav and Milind N. Jadhav noted that the victim can prefer an appeal in view of the proviso under section 372 of the CrPC, only under...

Jharkhand Govt Moves Supreme Court Against HC's Order On Maintainability Of PIL Seeking CBI/ED Probe Against CM Hemant Soren

The State of Jharkhand has approached the Supreme Court assailing the High Court's order accepting the maintainability of a PIL seeking independent probe against CM Hemant Soren for alleged money laundering through shell companies. On being mentioned by the counsel for the State of Jharkhand, the vacation bench of Justices AS Bopanna and Vikram Nath on Tuesday asked the counsel to...

Disclosing Elaborate Reasons For Passing 'Interception Orders' May Affect Intelligence: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the disclosure of elaborate reasons for interception orders would be against the modified disclosure requirements of procedural fairness. "The disclosure of elaborate reasons for interception orders would be against the modified disclosure requirements of procedural fairness which have been universally deemed acceptable for the protection of other facets...

Minor's Custody With Maternal Grandparents Not Illegal Confinement Especially When Husband Remarried During Subsistence Of First Marriage: Gujarat HC

A division bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising Justices Vipul M. Pancholi and Rajendra M. Sareen has held that custody of a minor with his maternal grandparents could not be considered illegal custody or illegal confinement, given that the husband/ the father of the minor had remarried during subsistence of his marriage with his first wife, who was the mother of the...

Kerala High Court Asks State To Produce Alleged FIS In Swapna Suresh's Plea To Quash Conspiracy Case

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the prosecution to produce a copy of the FIS and the alleged complaint against Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the infamous gold smuggling case, in her plea to quash the FIR registered against her for allegedly spreading false information against MLA K.T Jaleel, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Government.Justice Ziyad Rahman also sought...

Calcutta High Court Orders CBI To Probe Alleged 'Illegal' Appointments By State's Primary Education Board

The Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe into recruitment of teachers in government-aided primary schools by the State's primary education board.Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay directed the CBI to file an FIR to initiate an investigation into alleged illegal recruitment of teachers by the board based on the teachers' eligibility test in...

Ayodhya Case Mediator Sriram Panchu Moves Madras High Court Against Withdrawal Of Police Protection

Senior Advocate Sriram Panchu, who was the Supreme Court-appointed mediator in the Ayodhya Case, has recently approached the Madras High Court against withdrawal of police protection granted to him.Mr. Panchu was given Z Category protection following an order of the Supreme Court in 2019. However, the Security Rearrangement Committee had withdrawn this security recently.When the matter came...

Determination Of Paternity Not Moot Point When Factum Of Marriage Itself Is Disputed: P&H High Court Sets Aside Order For DNA Test In Maintenance Plea

Punjab and Haryana High Court while dealing with a revision petition against the order passed by the Family Court, allowing respondent's application seeking DNA test to determine the paternity of the petitioner's child in response to her maintenance petition, held that since the marriage is disputed by the respondent, order of DNA test to determine paternity is not...

High Court's Powers Under Letters Patent Are Subject To Legislative Enactments: ASG Opposes Concurrent Jurisdiction In Child Custody Cases

On day two of the hearing pertaining to the original jurisdiction of the High Court to hear child custody and guardianship matters owing to the advent of the Family Courts Act 1984, the Additional Solicitor General for Madras High Court R. Sankaranarayanan made his submissions favouring the ouster of High Court's jurisdiction. The reference is being heard by a full bench of...

S.147 NI Act | Every Offence Under Negotiable Instruments Act Is Compoundable: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court recently said that Section 147 of the Negotiable Instruments Act makes every offence punishable under the Act as compoundable and there is no bar on parties to compound the offence. A single judge bench of Justice H.B. Prabhakara Sastry allowed the joint applications filed by accused Arun Vincent Rajkumar and complainant S Mala, seeking to compound the...

Kerala Municipality Rules | Pending Cases Not A Ground For Chairperson To Reject Request To Convene Municipality Meetings: High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently held that a request for convening a meeting as per Rule 7 of Kerala Municipality (Procedure for Meeting of Council) Rules can be rejected only if the conditions mentioned in the proviso to Rule 7(1) are not complied with or if the request is not made by one-third of the members in the Council existing at that time."The procedure for moving a resolution in...