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'Keep A Hawk's Eye': Calcutta HC Orders CBI To Guard Data Room Of SSC's Office To Prevent Evidence Tampering
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is probing the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in West Bengal government schools to take possession of the data room in the head office of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SCC) at Salt Lake, Kolkata and put in their own padlock in order to avoid any tampering of...
Supreme Court Issues Notice On KSRTC's Plea Challenging Diesel Price Hike By Oil Companies; Stays HC Direction To Go For Arbitration
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, issued notice in a plea filed by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (Corporation) assailing Kerala High Court's order setting aside the interim order of its Single Judge which directed Oil Marketing Companies to supply high speed diesel at retail prices. "We will issue notice returnable in 8 weeks. We want to hear this. You (respondents)...
Employees Eligible For Gratuity For Period Before Their Employment Is Regularised: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash an order passed by the Controlling Authority/ Appellate Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, which directed government bodies to pay gratuity amount claimed by former employees from the time they were employed as daily wage earners till their employment was regularised. A single judge bench of Justice K S Mudagal...
"No Other Way To Mitigate Ecological & Environmental Degradation In City": High Court Stays Felling Of Trees In Delhi As An Interim Measure
As an interim measure, the Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed further felling of trees in the city observing that there is no other way to mitigate the ecological and environmental degradation.Justice Najmi Waziri, who was hearing a contempt plea concerning felling of trees, stayed the said exercise by the authorities till June 2, the next date of hearing.Noting that ex-facie, it was...
NEET-AIQ : Supreme Court To Hear Plea Challenging Validity Of Rs 8 Lakhs Annual Income Criteria For EWS Quota In July 2022
The Supreme Court on Thursday posted the petitions challenging the validity of criteria of Rupees 8 Lakhs annual income limit as the upper limit for seeking Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) reservation in the All India Quota for NEET admissions for July. The petitions were listed before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant and PS Narasimha. When the matter was called...
Allahabad HC Quashes Service Dismissal Order Passed Against Police Constable Who Allegedly Misbehaved With SO In Inebriated State
The Allahabad High Court last week quashed an order passed against an Uttar Pradesh Police Constable removing him from service allegedly because he entered into an argument with the Station Officer in an inebriated state.The Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma observed that the finding, that the Constable was in a drunken state, was arrived at simply because the petitioner was smelling...
Gyanvapi Mosque Dispute: Varanasi Court Receives Survey Report, Invites Objection From Parties; Next Hearing On May 23
The Gyanvapi Mosque Survey report was today submitted to Varanasi civil judge (senior division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar, pursuant to Court's May 17th Order.The comprehensive report has been compiled by a court-appointed commission after surveying the Mosque premises on May 14, 15, and 16. The Court has now invited objections to the report from both sides in the matter.Earlier, the Court had decided...
Teacher Recruitment Scam: Calcutta HC Orders Police Commissioner To Be Present At Kolkata Airport Today Evening To Take WB Minister Paresh Adhikari Directly To CBI Office
The Calcutta High Court today directed the Police Commissioner of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate to be present at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Airport, Kolkata on Thursday evening so that Minister of State for School Education Paresh Chandra Adhikari can be directly taken from the airport to the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata for questioning over the alleged illegal appointment of...
Supreme Court Vacates Stay On Delhi HC Order On Citizens' Right To Feed Street Dogs
The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated the stay the operation of an order of the Delhi High Court which had held that citizens have a right to feed street dogs and issued guidelines pertaining to feeding street dogs.A 3-judge bench comprising Justices UU Lalit, S Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia vacated the stay order passed on March 4, 2022, by a division bench comprising Justices Vineet...
Delhi High Court Sets Aside Delhi Govt's Doorstep Ration Delivery Scheme
The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside scheme of the Delhi Government for doorstep delivery of ration. A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh delivered the verdict in the pleas filed by Delhi Sarkari Ration Dealers Sangh and Delhi Ration Dealers Union, opposing the scheme.The Bench however said that the Delhi Government is entitled to frame a...
No Valid Sale Under Law If Notice Of Sale On Which Parties Acted Upon Has Been Set Aside: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that when the notice of sale based on which the parties bid for property has been set aside, it can be presumed that there is no valid sale under the law. Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas thereby dismissed the plea which had sought a direction to the respondent to confirm the sale of the property auctioned by the petitioners after accepting the balance...