'Tareekh Pe Tareekh' Sought Despite Specific Directions: MP High Court Directs Centre To Release Compensation To Senior Citizens For Resuming Their Property

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench recently directed the Union of India to release the amount of compensation awarded to Petitioners, senior citizens, for their Bungalow that was resumed by the Ministry of Defence for their own purposes. The Court observed that the Union of India was dragging its feet in paying the amount to the Petitioners despite its specific directions to...

Moynaguri Sexual Assault: Calcutta HC Recommends Police Investigation Supervised By Senior IPS Officer As Victim's Father Opposes CBI Probe

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday interacted in person with the father of the deceased minor victim upon whom an attempt to rape had been committed at Moynaguri in West Bengal last month. The purpose was to ascertain whether his request to now allow a CBI investigation in the matter is out of his own free will or due to political pressure. The minor victim girl who had...

Insurer Can't Use Definition Of "Terrorism" In Penal Laws To Repudiate Claim When Exclusion Clause Exhaustively Defines It : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the terms in the exclusion clause in an insurance policy will govern the parties and that the insurer cannot rely upon definitions in external sources such as statutes to repudiate a policy."When the policy itself defines the acts of terrorism in the Exclusion Clause, the terms of the policy being a concluded contract will govern the rights and liabilities of...

Supreme Court Expresses Alarm At Criminal Appeals Pending In High Courts For Decades; Seeks Suggestions From Centre

Expressing alarm at the pendency of criminal appeals in High Courts for over three to four decades, the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, sought suggestions from the Union Government to tackle pendency. A Bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai was apprised that in Madhya Pradesh High Court there are appeals which are pending for 20-30 years and the oldest appeals...

"Defamatory": Delhi High Court Directs Twitter To Take Down 5 More Tweets Posted By Historian Audrey Truschke Against Vikram Sampath

The Delhi High Court has directed micro blogging site Twitter to take down five more tweets posted by historian Audrey Truschke against historian Dr. Vikram Sampath over alleged plagiarism with respect to his two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.Justice Amit Bansal was of the view that the tweets in question were defamatory in nature and that there was a link posted in the said...

Trees Only Hope Of Environmental Redemption In Commercialized Cities, Must Not Be Cut Needlessly: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that trees hold out as welcome and assuring living entities of hope, sanity, environmental redemption and even companionship and that they must not be allowed to be cut needlessly or wantonly. Justice Najmi Waziri observed thus:"In this capital city with its ever-bourgeoning populating, the cacophony of voices and rampant commercialization of every other...

MediaOne Case : Will Decide Sealed Cover Issue, Says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted more time to the Union Government to file their counter in the plea challenging the telecast ban imposed on Malayalam news channel MediaOne.A Bench comprising Justices D.Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Bela M Trivedi granted four more weeks to the respondents to file a counter affidavit in the case. Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for the...

Karnataka High Court Dismisses Challenge To Law Validating Recruitment Of 362 KPSC Gazetted Probationers Of 2011 Batch

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed a petition filed seeking to declare the Karnataka Civil Services (Validation of Selection and Appointment of 2011 Batch Gazetted Probationers) Act 2022 as unconstitutional, illegal and void.Through the said Act, the government has validated the recruitment of 362 gazetted 'probationers' of the 2011 batch, selected by the Karnataka Public...

LeT Terrorist On Death Row To Argue Appeal In Person: Calcutta HC Orders To Shift Him To Presidency Jail, Extends Police Protection, Appoints Amicus

A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was produced before the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday from Tihar Correctional Home in New Delhi as he has expressed his desire to argue in person his appeal against the order of conviction and death sentence imposed upon him. A Bench comprising Justice Bivas Pattanayak and Justice Joymalya Bagchi conducted a hearing on a vacation day considering the urgency...

Supreme Court Stays Holding Of Haryana JS(Mains) Exam From May 6-8 Due To Clash With MP Judicial Exams

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the holding of the Mains Examination of Haryana Civil Service (Judicial Branch)- 2021 from May 6 to May 8 in view of the clash with the date announced for conducting the Preliminary Exam of Madhya Pradesh Civil Judge, Junior Division (Entry Level) Exam-2021.Taking note of the fact that the MP Judicial Service exam is being held on May 6, a bench...

[Video Call Facility For Prison Inmates] Was There Any Security Breach When It Was Permitted? Bombay High Court Asks State

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra Government if there was any breach of security when video calls were allowed for prison inmates during the pandemic, while hearing a PIL filed by the Peoples Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) seeking resumption of the video calling facility. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice VG Bisht directed to the...

Fake Indian Passports Held By Srilankan Nationals: Madras High Court Directs UIDAI To Share Details Of 35 Aadhaar Cards With 'Q' Branch-CID

The Madras High Court has recently directed the Deputy Director, UIDAI to furnish details of 35 Aadhaar Cards sought by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, "Q" Branch CID, Chennai City. Justice G Jayachandran made the above order on a plea by the Deputy Superintendent following rejection of his request by the UIDAI, seeking information about the Aadhaar Card Numbers along with...