'Part Of Judgement Relates To Some Other Matters' : Gauhati HC Pulls Up Addl. District Judge For Copy-Paste Order

The Gauhati High Court while hearing an arbitration appeal held that the infamous copy-paste culture causes miscarriage of justice and such culture is absolutely unacceptable as it is bad in law.The High court found that on a plain reading of the impugned judgment, some parts of it were related to the case in hand while some parts of it were related to some other matter."On a plain reading of...

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala Of Bombay High Court Resigns

Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, judge of the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) has resigned.She was an additional judge of the High Court, whose extended tenure was set to expire on February 12, as the Supreme Court collegium did not recommend the extension of her term. She became a district judge in 2007 and was elevated as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on February 13, 2019, for a...

BREAKING- Hijab Ban: Student Moves Supreme Court Challenging Karnataka HC's Interim Order Disallowing Religious Dress In Colleges During Pendency Of Cases

A special leave petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the interim observations made by the Karnataka High Court yesterday directing no religious dress in colleges during pendency of the case challenging the Hijab Ban.A Full Bench of the Karnataka High Court had on Thursday observed that it will issue an order in this regard.The petitioner has produced tweets from Live...

Candidates Cannot Change Domicile Status In Counselling Form After Last Date Of Registration: High Court Of Madhya Pradesh

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh recently dismissed a petition filed by a NEET candidate seeking directions of the Court to allow him to change his domicile status to M.P. on his counselling form, since the last date of registration had passed. Citing Rule 6 of the Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Admission Rules, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as, "the Admission Rules"), the...

PMLA's Original Intent Getting Lost With Ordinary Crimes Being Added As Scheduled Offences : Senior Lawyers Argue In SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday continued hearing batch of petitions concerned with the interpretations of various provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 ("PMLA Act")The matter was listed before the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar.Submission Of CounselsVacuum In Special Legislation Is To Be Filled By CrPC: Senior Advocate Vikram...

'Judicial Officer Battling With Mother In Her': Supreme Court While Reinstating District Judge Who Resigned Out Of Desperation

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, reinstated a woman Additional District and Sessions Judge ("AD&SJ"), who was constrained to resign, after she raised allegations of sexual harassment against a then sitting Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The Court's indulgence was, inter alia, sought in directing the reinstatement of the petitioner as AD&SJ from the date...

Plea To Extend Cut-Off Date To Consider Experience Of Service In Government Hospitals Of Remote And Difficult Areas: SC Asks Petitioners To Approach Concerned Authorities

Giving liberty to them to submit a representation to the concerned authorities, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere on the plea of 3 doctors for a direction to extend the September 30, 2021 cut-off to consider their experience of service in Government hospitals of remote and difficult areas.The petitioners are doctors serving in the Rajasthan state services. They have been...

President Appoints 7 New Judges To Andhra Pradesh High Court

In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President of India has appointed seven new judges in Andhra Pradesh High Court with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices.(1) Konakanti Sreenivasa Reddy alias Srinivasa Reddy, (2) Gannamaneni Ramakrishna Prasad, (3) Venkateswarlu Nimmagadda, (4)...

President Appoints 3 New Judges To Orissa High Court

The President has appointed 3 new judges to the Orissa High Court. A notification in this regard was issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice today.All of them are Advocates. They are :1. Shri V. Narasingh,2. Shri Biraja Prasanna Satapathy, and3.. Shri Murahari Sri Raman.As per the notification, the appointment is in this order of seniority.The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on...

President Appoints 6 New Judges To Madhya Pradesh High Court

The President of India has appointed 6 new judge to the Madhya Pradesh High Court. A notification in this regard was issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice today.They are 3 advocates and 3 judicial officers. They are : ADVOCATES:1. Shri Maninder Singh Bhatti,2. Shri Dwarka Dhish Bansal @ DD Bansal, and3. Shri Milind Ramesh Phadke.JUDICIAL OFFICERS:1. Shri Amar Nath Kesharwani,2. Shri...

Bombay High Court To Resume Physical Functioning From Next Week

Owing to the improving Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court has decided to suspend hearing matters virtually and resume full physical functioning from February 14 till March 4. The decision to switch to physical hearings was taken by the Bombay High Court's administrative committee during a meeting with all High Court Bar Associations. Representatives from the BMC...

Supreme Court Gives Last Chance To Vijay Mallya To Appear In Sentence Hearing In Contempt Case

While giving last opportunity to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya to appear, the Supreme Court of India on Thursday expressed a clear intention to go ahead with the sentence hearing in the contempt case against him, and posted the matter for hearing on February 24th, 2022.Vijay Mallya was found guilty of contempt in 2017 for disobeying court's orders in not disclosing full particulars of...