Two New Judges Take Oath In Patna High Court, Working Strength Rises To 27

Two new judges took oath as Patna High Court judges on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Chief Justice Sanjoy Karol administered the oath to the newly appointed Judges namely: Justice Rajiv Roy and Justice Harish KumarWith the new appointments, the working strength of the High Court has now increased to 27.It may be noted that Justice Rajiv Rai, was a practicing advocate in constitutional,...

Holding Public Political Meeting After Enforcement Of MCC & S. 144 CrPC Order Amounts To Formation Of Unlawful Assembly: Jharkhand HC

The Jharkhand High Court has observed that holding a public political meeting by a candidate of election, after coming into force of Model Code of Conduct followed by the issuance of prohibitory order under Section 144 Cr.P.C. of the aforesaid nature, would prima facie amount to formation of unlawful assembly.The Bench of Justice Anubha Rawat Choudhary further clarified that the common object...

Workmen Must Be Heard Before Their Wages Are Deducted For "Go Slow" Approach : Supreme Court Directs Bata To Pay Full Wages

The Supreme Court has affirmed a Karnataka High Court judgment of 2008 which held that an employer must give proper opportunity of hearing to the workmen before deducting their wages for "go slow" approach by which they had failed to produce the agreed output. The High Court's judgment was in a case filed by Bata India Limited with respect to the "go slow" approach adopted by its workmen as...

Foreign Tax Credit Cannot Be Denied For Delay In Filing Form 67: Bangalore ITAT

The Bangalore Bench of ITAT has ruled that Foreign Tax Credit cannot be denied to the assessee for delay in filing Form 67. The Bench, consisting of members Beena Pillai (Judicial Member) and Chandra Poojari (Accountant Member) has ruled that Rule 128 of the Income Tax Rules which requires the assessee to submit Form 67 before filing the income tax return for claiming Foreign Tax...

Murder Of Congress Councillor Tapan Kandu| Calcutta HC Directs Police To File Case Diary & Status Report, Grants Police Protection To Nephew

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Superintendent of Police, Purulia to submit the case diary and a brief status report pertaining to the investigation into the death of former Congress councillor of Jhalda Municipality in Purulia, Tapan Kandu who was reportedly shot dead by miscreants a fortnight ago.According to reports, Congress councillor Tapan Kandu and TMC's Anupam Dutta...

NEET-PG: Delhi High Court Expresses Disinclination To Interfere With Cut-Off Percentile

The Delhi High Court today said that it is not inclined to interfere with the cut-off percentile arrived at by the expert examination body for counselling and admissions to post graduate medical courses through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla noted that with the lowering of cut-off by 15 percentile...

Break The 'Constitutional Deadlock' On OBC Reservations In Local Body Elections: DMK MP Wilson In Parliament

The Union Government doesn't have the political will to release the Caste Census data collected in Socio-Economic Caste Census-2011 and thus empirical data cannot be obtained by the States, he added in his Speech.

Criminal Appeals From 1980s Pending In Allahabad HC; Convicts Awaiting Bail Even After 16 Yrs Sentence : Supreme Court Says "Disturbing State Of Affairs"

The Supreme Court recently termed the state of affairs before the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court as "disturbing" on being apprised of the pendency of bail applications of convicts who have undergone more than 16 years of incarceration and non availability of criminal bench to hear the same for the last 25 days. The bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh made these remarks...

Challenge To Karwar Port Expansion: Supreme Court Orally Asks Company To Halt Further Construction

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice in a petition challenging the second stage development of the commercial Karwar port in Karnataka.A Bench comprising CJI NV Ramana, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Hima Kohli has orally asked the construction company to not carry out further construction activities with regard to the project.The Court was considering a special leave...

NSEL Investors Group v 63 Moon Technologies| Nobody's Case That Money Was Given For Deposit With An Obligation To Return: 63 Moon Technologies Tell Supreme Court

"It is nobody's case that money was given for Deposit with an obligation to return,'' 63 Moons Technologies told the Supreme Court in the SLP preferred by the State of Maharashtra and NSEL Investors Action Group assailing Bombay High Court's order of freeing attachment of assets of 63 Moons Technologies. The High Court bench of Justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre in the writ...

'Why Concrete Poles Engraved With 'K-Rail' Used Instead Of Ordinary Survey Stones?' Kerala High Court Raises Further Queries On SilverLine

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday posed further questions on the State's manner of proceeding with the K-Rail Silver Line Project while conceding with the Supreme Court's observation that it should not have stalled the project.Yesterday, the Supreme Court had refused to interfere with the land survey and social impact assessment process of the project observing that the Single Judge could not...

Matrimonial Case Can't Be Transferred On Gound Of Distance/ Financial Stress If Plea U/S 24 HMA Has Already Been Allowed: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that once an application under S. 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 [Maintenance pendente lite and expenses of proceedings] has been allowed and uninterrupted litigation expenses are being paid to a party to a matrimonial dispute, he/she cannot move transfer application on the ground of distance and financial stress.The Bench of Justice Neeraj...