Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Nigerian National's Plea Challenging Levy Of Fees For Exit Permits To Her Children

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition by a Nigerian national assailing the levy of fees of Rs 4,34,000/- by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Foreign Regional Registration Office, Bangalore for issuing exit permits to three of her children.The vacation bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose in which the Nigerian National had also sought for issuance of Exit Permits...

Two Additional Judges Take Oath In Madras High Court

Justice Sunder Mohan and Justice Kabali Kumaresh Babu were sworn in as Additional Judges of the Madras High Court on Monday. Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari administered the oath for the newly appointed judges. The swearing-in ceremony was followed by a welcome address by the Advocate General, followed by speeches from the Chairman of Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, President...

Re-Examination Can't Be Used To Give Chance To Witness To Undo Statement Made In Cross Examination & Fill Lacunae In Evidence: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the opportunity of re-examination cannot be used to give a chance to a witness to undo its statement made in cross-examination and fill in the lacunae in evidence.Justice Amit Bansal was dealing with a suit filed seeking to injunct the defendants, who were occupants, from unlawfully entering any part of the first floor including the balcony of a Shop on...

Gujarat High Court Refuses To Quash Extortion FIR Against Ex-ASG IH Syed

The Gujarat High Court has refused to quash a FIR registered against former Assistant Solicitor General and Senior Advocate IH Syed for alleged assault and extortion, stating that the investigation is underway and thus, it is too early to opine on his innocence."If the allegations found to be true, it is a very serious matter as being an advocate and that too, a designated senior advocate...

Pink Legal Trust Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Impleadment In Plea Challenging Vires Of Assisted Reproductive Technology Act & Surrogacy Act

Pink Legal Trust, a registered public charitable trust established for the benefit of citizens across India particularly for women and children, has moved the Delhi High Court seeking impleadment in a plea challenging the vires of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 and the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.Moved through Advocate Aarzoo Aneja, the impleadment...

Supreme Court Monthly Criminal Digest- May 2022

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Part II of First Schedule - If the offence is punishable with imprisonment for three years and onwards but not more than seven years the offence is a cognizable offence. Only in a case where the offence is punishable for imprisonment for less than three years or with fine only the offence can be said to be non­cognizable. (Para 5.3) Knit Pro...

Rajasthan High Court Gets Husband-Wife Duo As Judges

Today, the Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava administered the oath to two new judges, namely Justice Shubha Mehta and Justice Kuldeep Mathur.The swearing-in ceremony is noteworthy because this is the first time in the history of the Rajasthan High Court that a husband-wife duo will be sitting at the High Court at the same time. Notably,...

Explainer : Which Is The 'Appropriate Government' To Grant Suspension, Remission And Commutation Of Sentences Under Section 432/433 CrPC?

Recently, the Supreme Court reiterated that the Governor has the power under Article 161 to remit/commute/pardon sentences imposed under Section 320 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. A three-judge Bench of the Apex Court was considering the issue appertain to remission of sentence, against the backdrop of the Tamil Nadu Governor forwarding the recommendation of the State Cabinet approving...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: May 30 To June 5, 2022

Nominal Index: Sangeeta Gadagin v. State Of Karnataka, & C/W Matters, 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 175 Vikram Vincent v. State of Karnataka, 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 176 Prakash Sharma S/O Mehdi Sharma v. State By Marathahalli Police Station, 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 177 SATHISH K and others v State of Karnataka, 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 178 The Bangalore Development Authority and Others...

IPR Suits Below Rs. 3 Lakhs Threshold To Be Listed First Before District Judge (Commercial) To Determine Whether Valuation Is Deliberately Undervalued: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that in a case where a plaintiff values an IPR suit in the city district courts below the threshold of Rs.3 lakhs, such suits would be listed before the District Judge (Commercial) first in order to determine as to whether the valuation is arbitrarily whimsical or deliberately undervalued.Justice Pratibha M Singh added that it would be mandatory for IPR suits to...

Police Post Not A Place Where Public Servants Are To Be Attacked With Fire Arms, Dandas Or By Pelting Stones On Them: Delhi High Court

While denying bail to a man accused of attacking a Police Post and firing at the police officials from an illegal weapon, the Delhi High Court has observed that the Police Post is not a place where the public servants are supposed to be attacked with fire-arms, Dandas and Lathis or by pelting stones on them.Justice Talwant Singh was of the prima facie view that the FSL report showed that the...

Concealment Of Material Facts By Insurance Company, NCDRC Imposes Costs

A bench comprising Justice C. Viswanath, Presiding Member and Ram Surat Ram Maurya, Member, has observed that the Insurance Company deliberately tried to conceal the separate report submitted by the Surveyor regarding cause of fire and did not file the same along with the Appeal. The bench noted that, there is clear concealment of material fact on the part of the Insurance...