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'Wholly Illegal': Calcutta High Court Quashes Decision To Outsource Services Of Contractual Employees Of Indian Statistical Institute To Gov Contractor
The Calcutta High Court on Friday came down heavily on the administration of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) for its decision to outsource the services rendered by a batch of contractual employees who had been working as gardeners since 2013 to a government contractor. The Court set aside the resolution dated January 3, 2022, which contained such a direction and further ordered that...
PG Medical Courses: MP High Court Refuses To Grant Incentive Marks To In Service Doctors Who Served In COVID Affected Districts
While holding that in the absence of specific categorization, Government Doctors and medical officers working in Civil and District Hospitals are also entitled to benefit of reservation meant for in-service doctors in the PG Medical Courses, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, however, refused to grant 10% additional/incentive marks to such doctors who had served in COVID-19...
Marital Rape - 'Classification On Basis Of Marriage Unreasonable' : Amicus Curiae Tells Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court on Friday continued hearing a batch of petitions challenging the exception to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife from the offence of rape, provided the wife is above 15 years of age.Senior Advocate Rajshekhar Rao, appearing as amicus curiae in the matter, told a bench comprising of Justice Rajiv...
PG Medical Courses- Grant Reservation Benefits To Dist Hospital Doctors As In-Service Candidates: MP High Court To State Govt
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that in the absence of specific categorization, Government Doctors and medical officers working in Civil and District Hospitals are also entitled to benefit of reservation meant for in-service doctors in the PG Medical Courses and the counseling to be conducted by the State Government.This ruling has come from the Division Bench of Justice Sujoy...
Sikkim High Court Issues Directions To Address Indiscriminate Felling Of Trees Under Gangtok Smart City Project
On Monday (10th January), the Sikkim High Court issued directions to the Forest, Environment and Wildlife Management Department, Government of Sikkim to prevent indiscriminate felling of trees in order to implement the Gangtok Smart City proposal. A letter petition from Kailash Pradhan, an Architect from Sikkim concerned about the erratic and rampant felling of trees in...
'Not In Public Interest': Calcutta High Court Directs Jhargram District Magistrate To Decide On Postponement Of Jangalmahal Utsav Amid Covid Surge
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the District Magistrate, Jhargram to consider postponing the upcoming Jangalmahal Utsav, scheduled to take place across 6 districts of West Bengal from January 17- January 19, 2022, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the State. The decision has to be taken within a period of 24 hours, the Court directed further. Earlier in the day,...
Bulli Bai App Creation "An Affront To Dignity Of Women Of Particular Community" : Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi
A Delhi Court on Friday denied bail to Neeraj Bishnoi, a 21 year old arrested from Assam in connection with Bulli Bai App case observing that the act is an "affront to the dignity of the women of particular community and communal harmony of the society".Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court, Pankaj Sharma, denied bail to Bishnoi who, as the police claimed at the time of arrest,...
"Prima Facie Accusation Not True": Punjab & Haryana High Court Grants Bail To An Accused In 'Tarn Taran Bomb Blast' Case
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today granted bail to an accused in the 2019 Tarn Taran Bomb Blast case as it recorded that the accusation against him is not prima facie true and therefore, he is entitled to the benefit of regular bail during the pendency of the trial in the case.This order came from the Bench of Justice G. S. Sandhawalia and Justice Vikas Suri while hearing the bail plea...
IT Union Approaches Labour Department Against HCL's Bonus Recovery Policy
HCL Technologies has asked its employees to pay back their Engagement Performance Bonus (EPB). This bonus is granted to all employees in every financial year. HCL's Stand On The Issue HCL claimed that it is not doing something new of which the employees are not aware. It already had in place a policy to recover the Advanced Monthly Performance Bonus (AMPB) back from the employees...
Plea To Postpone Jangalmahal Utsav Amid Covid Surge: Calcutta High Court Seeks State's Response
The Calcutta High Court on Friday sought the State government's response in a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking postponement of the upcoming Jangalmahal Utsav, scheduled to take place across 6 districts of West Bengal from January 17- January 19, 2022, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the State.The Jangalmahal Utsav takes place every year in the month of January to...
Delhi High Court Calls For Uniform Protocol Across City For Dealing With Menace Of Mosquito Infestation
The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the municipal corporations and local bodies to examine and identify the adequate steps for incorporating a 'common protocol' to be followed by all the authorities for dealing with the menace of mosquito infestation and spreading of vector borne diseases in the city. Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh was of the view that the reasons for...