Persons Removing Invasive Species Like Seemai Karuvelam Can't Be Brought Under MGNREGA Scheme: Centre Tells Madras High Court

The Central Government on Monday informed the Madras High Court that the benefits of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005, cannot be applied in the removal of invasive and exotic species from the Western Ghats area. The bench of Justice V Bharatidasan and Justice N Sathish Kumar was considering a batch of pleas for the protection of the Western...

Patna High Court Summons Traffic SP In Matter Concerning Disposal Of Seized Vehicles From Police Stations

The Patna High Court has summoned the Superintendent of Traffic Police, Patna in the matter of removal of roadblocks including seized vehicles at Gandhi Maidan Police Station. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S. Kumar, while hearing a PIL filed by advocate Shilpi Keshari, expressed displeasure over putting the seized vehicles on the roads again. ...

Weekly Digest Of IBC Cases: April 18th To April 24th, 2022

Supreme CourtWages/Salaries Of Only Those Workmen/Employees Who Actually Worked During CIRP Are To Be Included In CIRP Costs Case title: Sunil Kumar Jain v Sundaresh Bhatt 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 382 Case No.: Civil Appeal No. 5910 of 2019 Supreme Court division bench comprising of Justice M.R. Shah and Justice Aniruddha Bose has held that the dues towards the wages/salaries of...

'Having NCLT Benches At Different Locations Causes Administrative Difficulties': Delhi High Court Orders Status Quo On Space Vacated By MNRE

The Delhi High Court has recently directed the maintenance of status quo with regards to the occupation, renovation or construction of the space vacated by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the building, where the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is located, till May 4, 2022.A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla was of the...

Physical Literacy To Be Recognised As Fundamental Right? Supreme Court Seeks Response From Union & States

The Supreme Court, on Monday(April 25), asked the Union and State Governments to provide their opinion with respect to the submission of the Amicus Curiae, Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan that physical literacy ought to be recognised as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. The Apex Court had also sought the response of the Government on the other interim...

Bhima Koregaon Case : Bombay High Court Dismisses Gautam Navlakha's Plea To Shift Him To House Arrest

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by senior journalist Gautam Navlakha seeking to shifted out of Taloja Prison and be placed under house arrest, instead, in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad Caste violence case. A division bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and GA Sanap said that whatever grievances Navlakha had in prison could be placed before the trial court...

Boarding Crowded Mumbai Local Train A "Calculated Risk"; Not A "Criminal Act" : Bombay HC Awards Compensation To Injured Passenger

The Bombay High Court observed that boarding a crowded train for a Mumbaikar was a 'calculated risk' not a 'criminal act' and directed the railways to pay over Rs. 3 lakh compensation to a septuagenarian who slipped and fell right after boarding a crowded train in 2011. Justice Bharati Dangre set aside the Railways Claims Tribunal's order rejecting the senior citizen's claim and held...

Writ Of Habeas Corpus Can't Be Issued In 'Missing Persons' Case: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court recently held that cases of missing persons cannot be brought under the provision of the Habeas Corpus petition. Noting that such cases are to be dealt with as regular cases by the competent Court of Law and that extraordinary jurisdiction of the Constitutional Courts cannot be invoked, a Division Bench of Justices Arup Kumar Goswami and N.K....

Certified Copies Of Answer Scripts Written By Applicant Can Be Provided Under RTI Act During Ongoing Criminal Investigation: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by the state government challenging an order of the State Information Commission which directed the authority to provide certified copies of answer scripts written by the applicant for the post of Assistant Public Prosecutor, in the year 2013. The Member Secretary of APP Cum AGP Recruitment Committee, and the Director of...

BREAKING| Contai Municipality Polls: Calcutta HC Orders CFSL To Conduct Forensic Audit Of CCTV Cameras, Report To Be Submitted Within 6 Weeks

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), New Delhi to conduct a forensic audit of the CCTV cameras that were used during the recently concluded Contai Municipality elections. The Court was adjudicating upon a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition moved by BJP leader Soumendu Adhikari alleging that large scale violence and rigging of votes...

Supreme Court To Examine Conflicting Decisions On Retrospective Impact Of 2015 Amendment To Section 11(6) Arbitration Act

The Supreme Court has decided to examine whether Section 11(6) as amended by the Arbitration & Conciliation (Amendment Act), 2015 ("2015 Amendment Act") would be applicable to arbitral proceedings commenced before the Court prior to the 2015 Amendment came into force on 23.10.2015, or the cases wherein notice was issued prior to 23.10.2015 or cases where notice invoking arbitration...

Delhi High Court Constitutes Committee To Monitor Situation In Ashram Housing Women In 'Animal-Like' Conditions, Retd. IPS Kiran Bedi To Supervise

The Delhi High Court today constituted a Committee, to be led by a District Judge, to keep a close watch and monitor the situation at Adhyatmik Vidyalaya, a spiritual ashram in Rohini led by absconding self-styled godman Virendra Dev Dixit. The ashram is said to confine over 100 women in "animal-like" conditions.The Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice...