"Agencies Callously Disregarding Care": Delhi High Court Expresses Concern Over Damage To Trees During Thunderstorm

The Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed concern over damage to the trees in the national capital during a recent thunderstorm observing that the agencies had permitted concretisation around them and callously disregarded care of the trees.Justice Najmi Waziri, who was dealing with contempt pleas raising the issue of felling of trees, observed thus:"The city has witnessed extensive...

KSRTC Employees Allegedly Not Paid Salary: Kerala HC Calls It A 'Serious Predicament', Seeks Corporation's Response

The Kerala High Court on Thursday sought the response of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and the State on a plea moved by the KSRTC employees alleging that they are not being paid salary promptly. Justice Devan Ramachandran took exception to this situation while finding it to be a 'serious predicament' if found to be true and asked KSRTC to explain how it plans to...

Supreme Court Monthly Digest- May 2022 With Nominal And Statute/Subject Wise Index

Aadhaar Act 2016 - UIDAI directed to issue Aadhaar cards to sex workers without insisting proof of residence. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 525 Advocate - Senior Advocate Designation - Instead of ten marks to be allocated to a counsel who has put in between ten to twenty years of practice, the marks be allocated commensurate with the standing of...

Calcutta High Court Permits TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, Wife To Travel Abroad For Medical Treatment Amid Coal Scam Probe

Right to life includes right to get proper medical treatment, said Court.

[Jahangirpuri Riots] 'Appears To Be Of A Phishing Kind': High Court Dismisses Plea By Accused Alleging Harassment By Delhi Police

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by an accused in connection with the Jahangirpuri riots seeking directions on the city police not to harass him and his family members in the name of interrogation. The plea was filed by one Sheikh Ishrafil, who is alleged by the prosecution to be one of the main conspirators and perpetrators of the entire incident, thereby adding that he...

Doctrine Of Proportionality | Constitutional Courts Cannot Be Disproportionately Harsh To Arguable Guilts Of Litigants: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has observed that Constitutional Courts cannot be disproportionately harsh to the arguable guilt of the litigants. A division bench of Justice Krishna S.Dixit and Justice P.Krishna Bhat, sitting at Dhawad allowed the appeal filed by Dr. Yasin Khan and others challenging an order of the single judge bench which had by its order dated October 25, 2021,...

Kerala High Court Asks State To Expressly Prohibit Illegal Installations On Pedestrian Handrails Or Any Such Utilities

The Kerala High Court on Thursday asked the State to issue an additional circular or a clarificatory circular specifically communicating that the illegal erection of flag poles and advertisements in any public place or on pedestrian handrails that affects its use by the common man should be acted against. This direction was issued after Justice Devan Ramachandran was informed that the...

Bar On CLAT Mentor Navneet Singh Purohit Against Giving Law Entrance Coaching Restricted Only On Use Of "Law Prep" Properties: Rajasthan HC Clarifies

A vacation bench of Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur has disposed of an appeal filed by CLAT Mentor Navneet Singh Purohit, challenging an ex-parte order of the Trial court imposing teaching restrictions on him, in a civil suit filed by Law Prep Tutorials.The Trial court had issued a temporary injunction against Navneet Singh, restraining him from running any business/ venture/ teaching service...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: May 2022 [Citations: 154 - 179]

Nominal Index Sudarshan Purohit v. The Hon'ble High Court For Judicature Of Rajasthan & Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Raj) 154 Bharat Sharma v. State Of Rajasthan 2022 LiveLaw (Raj) 155 Prem Chand Deshantri v. Union of India 2022 LiveLaw (Raj) 156 Mahendra Yadav & Anr. v. Bhagwan Devi & Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Raj) 157 Kumar Indu Bhushan v. Union Of India and...

"Even If She Had Survived, How Would She Have Lived?": Mumbai Court Sentences Man To Death For Barbaric Rape & Murder Of 32-Yr-Old

A Sessions Court in Mumbai sentenced a 44-year-old man to death for the barbaric rape and fatal assault on a 32-year-old woman in a Mumbai suburb. On the intervening night of September 9 and 10, 2021, between 2.54 am and 3.10 am, near a footpath in Sakinaka, Mumbai, the convict had an altercation with the woman. He pulled her inside the tempo and raped her, piercing a knife with...

Supreme Court Criticises "Cyclostyled" HC Orders Disposing FIR Quashing Pleas With Direction To Police To Follow "Arnesh Kumar" Judgment

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stated that it does not "appreciate" the manner in which a Single Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court has disposed off various criminal writ petitions in a "cyclostyled manner"- without looking into the merits and only with a direction to the police to follow the judgment of the top court in Arnesh Kumar's case before proceeding to make arrests. Restoring the...

Order Of Land Tribunal Granting Occupancy Rights To Tenant Not Sustainable If Legal Heirs Of Deceased Owner Not Made Party: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has set aside an order of the Land Tribunal conferring occupancy rights in respect of a land in favour of the tenant, on the ground that all the legal heirs of the deceased owner were not arrayed as parties to the proceedings and their right to oppose was snatched away. A single judge bench of Justice N S Sanjay Gowda while allowing the petition filed by Dr...