PIL Seeks Direction To CM Adityanath To Disclose Actual Name, Stop Using 'Yogi' As Title: Allahabad HC Dismisses It With ₹1 Lakh Cost

The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed seeking direction to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to disclose his full and actual name in the public domain, with Rs. 1 Lakh Cost.The PIL plea moved by one Namaha also sought a direction to CM Yogi Adityanath to take the oath of office and secrecy under his real name and to refrain...

PIL Filed In Calcutta High Court Seeking NIA Probe Into Crude Bomb Blasts In WB's Malda District Which Injured 5 School Children

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition has been filed in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday seeking a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the incident of crude bomb blast in West Bengal's Malda district on Sunday. Five school children were reportedly injured after the crude bombs they were playing with, mistaking those for balls, exploded in Kaliachak's Gopalnagar...

Supreme Court Dismisses PIL For Judicial Enquiry By Former CJI Into Communal Violence During Ram Navami-Hanuman Jayanti

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL which sought a judicial enquiry by a commission headed by a former Chief Justice of India into the instances of communal violence during the recent Ram Navami- Hanuman Jayanthi celebrations.A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai was hearing a PIL filed by lawyer Vishal Tiwari.Tiwari submitted that the situation is alarming and only...

Justice Oka Recuses From Hearing Bengaluru Civic Body Polls Matter

Justice A. S. Oka on Monday recused from the hearing of state of Karnataka's challenge to the December 4, 2020 decision of the Karnataka High Court directing the State Election Commission to hold elections of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike as expeditiously as possible by publishing election programme within six weeks from the date of publishing of final list of Electoral rolls.Elections...

'The British School': Delhi High Court Directs Sanjay Gandhi Educational Society To Change Name Of 4 Schools Infringing Trademark

While dealing with a trademark infringement suit filed by the British School Society over the mark 'The British School', the Delhi High Court has directed changing of names of four schools run by Sanjay Gandhi Educational Society, purportedly using identical name. Justice Pratibha M Singh directed the defendants to change the name of their schools w.e.f. 1st May, 2022 and apply to the CBSE,...

'No Imminent Threat': Rajasthan High Court Directs SP To Consider Postgraduate Woman's Protection Plea

The Rajasthan High Court disposed of a plea filed by a postgraduate woman raising grievance that she wants to pursue her studies, whereas she is being harassed by the police as her father has lodged a missing person report. Being a resident of Ganganagar, the petitioner is presently residing as a paying guest at Jodhpur and wants to continue her study. In this regard, she prayed...

Second Section 9 Application, Relief Can't Be Granted As It Would Amount To Main Relief In Arbitration :Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has ruled that once an application under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A&C Act) seeking interim measures has been disposed of, a subsequent similar application seeking similar reliefs, which were already dealt with in the earlier proceedings, is not maintainable. The Bench, consisting of Justices N.V. Anjaria and Samir J. Dave,...

Wife's Transfer Petition Can Be Allowed If Husband's Offer To Pay Conveyance Charges For Attending Hearings Not Bonafide: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has recently ruled that even if the husband offers to pay the conveyance charges for the wife to appear for the family court hearings, if such an offer seems to have been made without bona fides, it can order for the case to be transferred to the Family Court near the residence of the wife. Justice A. Venkateshwara Reddy ruled that although it is settled that a wife...

[I-Site v. Eye Site] "Phonetic Identity" An Important Index To Test Deception: Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Sun Pharma

The Delhi High Court has observed that the phonetic identity or similarity is an important index of similarity or deceptive similarity of one mark against the other competing mark and that the tests of phonetic, visual and structural similarity or identity are disjunctive and not conjunctive.Justice Jyoti Singh was dealing with a suit for permanent injunction filed by Sun...

Insufficiency Of The Stamp Duty On The Arbitration Agreement Is A Jurisdictional Issue Under Section 16 Of The A&C Act: Delhi High Court

The High Court of Delhi has held that the sufficiency of the stamp duty on the arbitration agreement is a jurisdictional issue under Section 16 of the A&C Act. The Single Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula has held that an objection as to the deficiency in the stamp duty shall be decided as a preliminary issue since the inadequately stamped arbitration agreement can neither be taken...

"Numbers Are Mind Boggling": Bombay High Court Observes About Child Marriages In 16 Tribal Districts In Maharashtra

Three thousand children born out of child marriages were found to be severely malnourished, while six hundred and one children born out of such unisons died in the past three years, an expert committee formed by the Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court on Monday. A survey conducted by ASHA Workers and Anganwadi workers found that a total of 15,000 severely or...

S.167(2) CrPC | 'Date of Remand' To Be Excluded From Calculation Of Statutory Period For Granting 'Default Bail': Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has reiterated that while counting the statutory period for the purpose of grant of 'default bail' under Section 167(2), Cr.P.C., the 'date of remand' has to be excluded. A Single Judge Bench of Justice Bibhu Prasad Routray held, "Law is no more res integra on this issue. Recently in the case of M. Ravindran v.Intelligence Officer, Directorate of...