Bhima Koregaon: Umar Khalid Claims He Was Invited To Elgar Parishad By Former Judge Of Bombay High Court

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) submitted a bunch of additional documents and witness statements to the court in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad Case, in which student rights activist Umar Khalid claims that he heard that BJP-RSS persons had attacked visitors at the Bhima-Koregaon, near Pune. On January 1, 2018 several Dalit's had gathered to commemorate a...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up: April 11 To April 17, 2022

Supreme Court Judgements 1. Disclosure Of Material Information Itself Could Be A Ground For Termination Of Services : Supreme Court Case Name: Union of India vs Dillip Kumar Mallick | CA 2754 OF 2022 Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 360 The Supreme Court bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and MM Sundresh has reiterated that non-disclosure of material information...

Plea In Delhi High Court Challenges Vires Of Waqf Act, Seeks Uniform Law For Charitable Institutions & Religious Endowments

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking uniform law for Trust and Trustees, Charities and Charitable Institutions and Religious Endowments and Institutions and challenges the vires of sec. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 of the Waqf Act, 1995 as being manifestly arbitrary and irrational.Moved by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, the plea also seeks direction on the...

Former Judge Of Patna, Gujarat HCs Justice J. N. Bhatt Passes Away

Former judge of Gujarat and Patna High Courts, Justice J. N. Bhatt has passed today. He was 76. Justice Bhatt was born on October 16, 1945, at Jamnagar in the Family of Lawyers, Justice Bhatt passed M.Com. L.L.M. (Gold Medalist) University First in D.T.L.P. and D.L.L.P. and Ph. D. in Law. Justice Bhatt enrolled as an Advocate on August 1, 1968, he joined the office of the Government Pleader,...

Allahabad HC Frowns Upon Law Students 'Flooding' Court With PILs Based On Internship Projects, Failure To Pursue Case Thereafter

Referring to the practice of law students filing Public Interest Litigation (PIL) pleas in the High Court based on their internship projects and thereafter not pursuing the matters, the Allahabad High Court recently frowned upon such students as it remarked that the Court can't be made a dumping ground for pushing all such internship reports.The Bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and...

Allahabad High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Reorientation Of Teacher-Student Ratio In Schools Run By UP's Basic Education Dept

The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh Government to take a decision for reorientation of the teacher-student ratio in the Schools being run by the Department Of Basic Education in Uttar PradeshThe Bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Jaspreet Singh perused the pleadings and noted that...

Compliance Of Pre-Deposit Under Section 43(5) Of The RERA Act Mandatory To Be Complied Before Entertainment Of Appeal In A Tribunal: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the statutory compliance of a pre-deposit under Section 43(5) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 ("the Act") by a 'promoter' before the entertainment of an appeal in an Appellate Tribunal is mandatory. A Single-judge Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Agarwal, by an order dated 12.04.2022, rendered this observation...

Mandatory To Place Report Of Further Investigation Carried Out U/S 173 (8) CrPC Before Magistrate: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that in cases where a further investigation has been carried out then irrespective of its outcome, such further investigation report is required to be placed before the Court of Magistrate.The Bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri observed thus while relying upon the ruling of Supreme Court recent ruling in the case of Luckose Zachariah @ Zak Nedumchira Luke...

Panchayat Has No Authority To Decide Question Of Revenue Entries As It Lies In Domain Of Revenue Authority Of State Of Rajasthan: High Court

The Rajasthan High Court observed that Panchayat has no authority to decide the question of the revenue entries as the same lies in the domain of the revenue authority of the State of Rajasthan. Justice Vineet Kumar Mathur, observed, "Thus, the revenue entries in the name of petitioner as stand today creates no doubt with respect to the title of the land in question. It is also...

Witness Examined U/S 165 Evidence Act Is Required To Be Cross Examined To Elicit Further Truth/Other Relevant Facts: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that when a witness is examined/questioned under Section 165 of the Indian Evidence Act in a given case, then he/she is required to be cross-examined to elicit further truth/other relevant facts.The Bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri observed thus while allowing a plea filed by a rape accused whose application moved to summon and cross-examine...

Special CBI Court Refuses Further CBI Custody Of Anil Deshmukh In Corruption Case

The Special CBI court on Wednesday refused further CBI custody of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in a case relating to corruption in police transfers and postings.All four accused were remanded to Judicial custody. The CBI had sought only Deshmukh's custody for an additional 3 days. "In my view, since sufficient CBI custody was granted, the grounds for further custody of...

When Legality Of A Preventive Detention Order Is In Question, Courts Must Determine If The Ordinary Law Can Deal With The Offence: Gujarat HC

"Whenever an order under a preventive detention law is challenged one of the questions the court must ask in deciding its legality is : Was the ordinary law of the land sufficient to deal with the situation ? If the answer is in the affirmative, the detention order will be illegal", the Gujarat High Court has affirmed today. The Bench comprising Justice Nirzar S Desai was hearing a...