Calcutta High Court Seeks WB Speaker's Response Over Suspension Of Suvendu Adhikari & 4 BJP MLAs From State Assembly

The Calcutta High Court on Monday sought sought response from West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay in a writ petition challenging his decision to suspend BJP MLA and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari from the Assembly for future sessions this year.Five BJP MLAs, including Suvendu Adhikari, were suspended by the West Bengal Assembly Speaker on March 28 for their alleged...

Nominative Fair Use Permissible If It Does Not Depict Sponsorship By Trademark Owner & Use Is "Reasonably Necessary": Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the nominative fair use is permissible in so far as the use is such that it does not depict sponsorship by the trademark owner and the use is "reasonably necessary".Normative use refers to use of another's trademark to identify one's own goods or services. This defence has following three requirements: First, the product or services in question must be...

Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea To Regulate Pharma Companies 'Bribing' Doctors To Market Drugs

The Supreme Court on Monday sought Centre's response in a plea for direction to frame a uniform code of pharmaceutical marketing practices for regulating "unethical practices" by Pharma Companies. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant while granting 8 weeks time for the Centre to file their counter in their order said, "ASG KM Nataraj appears for the Respondent. Time...

Inter-Faith Couple Wrongly Advised To Marry In Temple, Seeks Time To Register Under Special Marriage Act: MP High Court Stays Kidnapping FIR

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently granted relief to an inter-faith couple in the form of protection from their parents and the society. The Court further directed the Police to not take any action against the Petitioner/boy pursuant to the FIR registered against him by the family of the Petitioner/girl for the alleged offence of kidnapping.Hearing the Writ Petition, Justice Nandita...

Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani Re-Arrested By Assam Police Soon After Getting Bail In FIR Over Tweets Against PM

Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was re-arrested in Assam in another case for allegedly assaulting officials, reported PTI. The second arrest was made after Mevani was granted bail in the case related to tweets against Prime Minister.Mevani was arrested by the Assam Police from Gujarat on 20 April in an FIR registered on a complaint by a local BJP leader from Assam's...

Outright Rejection Of Stay Application Is Not Justified, Need To Exercise The Appellate And Revisional Jurisdiction Judicially:Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has held that the appellate and revisional authorities must judiciously exercise their discretionary power to grant a stay under the Telangana VAT Act.A division bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Surepalli Nanda, while staying the demand in terms of the assessment order, directed the petitioner to deposit twelve and a half percent of the disputed tax...

Assessee To Claim Refund of Tax Collected By State Without Authority Within 3 Years From The Date of Payment: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court bench of Justice R.Mahadevan and Justice Mohhammed Shaffiq has held that any tax collected without authority would certainly amount to unjust enrichment and the assessees must claim a refund of the tax collected or retained by the state within three years from the date of their payments to the department.The assessee has sought the order to quash the orders passed...

Hanuman Chalisa Row - 'Persons In Public Life Expected To Act Responsibly' : Bombay High Court Dismisses MP-MLA Duo's Plea To Quash FIR

The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed independent MLA from Amravati Ravi Rana and his wife MP Navneet Rana for quashing a second FIR against them for resisting their arrest over the row to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's family home.A bench comprising Justices PB Varale and SM Modak observed in the order as follows :"We find...

Breaking | 'We Are Not Satisfied With Your Bandobast': High Court Directs Delhi Police Commissioner To Look Into Security Lapse At CM Residence

The Delhi High Court on Monday expressed dissatisfaction at the report filed by the Delhi Police with respect to the security arrangement made outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, which was attacked by an "unruly mob" on March 30."This kind of incident happening at residence of a constitutional functionary is very disturbing state of affairs. What kind of bandobast did you...

MP High Court Directs Enquiry Into Conduct Of Public Prosecutor For 'Adopting Delaying Tactics' By Joining Hands With Accused

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Gwalior Bench has recently directed the State authorities to look into the conduct of a Special Public Prosecutor for not cooperating with the trial court in recording testimony of a witness. The Court also directed the authorities to enquire if her continuation on the post would be in the interest of justice or not.Hearing the bail application moved by...

'Deal With Them Humanely, You Can't Simply Throw Them Away' : Supreme Court Asks Centre To Stop Eviction Of Sarojini Nagar Jhuggi Dwellers

In an interim relief to jhuggi dwellers from Sarojini Nagar in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Government to desist from taking coercive steps to evict them."Deal with them humanly when you deal with them. As a model government, you can't say you won't have a policy (to rehabilitate) and simply throw them away. You're dealing with families..", a bench led Justice KM...

Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With Karnataka Govt's Vaccine Mandate To Attend Colleges

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with State of Karnataka's Government Order dated July 16, 2021 by which the students, teachers and non teaching staff who have received one doze of vaccine could attend the colleges. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant while dismissing a plea challenging the Karnataka High Court's judgment of dismissing...