Calcutta High Court: Annual Digest 2021

As we step into 2022, LiveLaw brings to you a yearly Round-up of important updates from the Calcutta High Court. This yearly digest includes 182 orders and judgments divided into 21 different subject heads. Criminal Law 1. Section 173(8) CrPC No Bar For Writ Courts To Transfer Investigation To CBI [Jyotsna Roy v. State of West Bengal & Ors]Taking note of the wide gaps in a...

Supreme Court Instructs Registry To Expedite Verification And Listing Process Of Petitions Where Parties Appear In Person

On Monday, the Supreme Court instructed its Registry to expeditiously list matters which are to be presented by parties appearing in person, after verifying at the earliest, whether they are in a position to address the Court. However, the Apex Court refused to prescribe a fixed time-line for the same. The Petitioner, 'a spokesperson for his Holiness Jagat Guru Shankaracharya ji' and...

BJP MLA Nitesh Rane Approaches Bombay High Court Seeking Anticipatory Bail In Attempt To Murder Case

BJP MLA Nitesh Rane, son of Union Minister Narayan Rane, has approached the Bombay High Court seeking pre-arrest bail in an alleged attempt to murder case in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra.A Sessions Court had, last week, denied anticipatory bail to him and a co-accused Sandesh Sawant. The Kankavli Police booked them under sections 307, 120(B) read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code.The case against...

Kerala High Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging CLAT Clearance As A Prerequisite To Be Appointed As Law Officers At NTPC

The Kerala High Court has issued notice on a plea seeking to quash the condition mandating applicants to clear CLAT for applying to the post of Assistant Law Officer in National Thermal Power Corporation Limited. When the matter came up for hearing today, Justice V.G. Arun posted it to be taken up on 5th January. The petitioner is an aspirant to the post of Assistant Law Officer at the EO...

'Will Unsettle Everything' : Supreme Court Dismisses OBC Student's Plea To Change IIT-JEE Course After Mistakenly Clicking Wrong Option

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition filed by an IIT JEE aspirant who secured AIR 1008 in OBC category seeking directions to Centre, Ministry of Education and Organising Chairman, JEE Advanced, Kharagpur to allocate him the seat for academic programme ie Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati and rectify the unintentional mistake committed by him. A bench...

CBSE Students Move Supreme Court Alleging Illegal Action By A School In Class X Exam Assesment

The Supreme Court today adjourned the petition filed by Class X pass out students alleging illegal action of St Xavier International School, Orissa of not providing detailed scorecard and answer sheet for concealing its malpractices in awarding marks to the students for January 17, 2022.The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar while directing the petitioner's counsel Advocate...

Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Challenging Inner Line Permit System In Manipur

The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice in a plea filed challenging the system of Inner Line Permit in State of Manipur. A Bench comprising Justice Abdul Nazeer and Justice Krishna Murari was considering a writ petition which has also sought quashing of the the Manipur Inner Line Permit Guidelines 2019.The petitioners were represented through Advocate Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, and...

Advocate General Of Karnataka Prabhuling K Navadgi Inaugurates E-Filing Centre In Bengaluru

Advocate General of Karnataka Prabhuling K Navadgi on Monday inaugurated the e-filing centre at the old K.G.I.D Office, next to the High Court building in Bengaluru, to facilitate digital filing. Following the directions issued by the Supreme Court, the Karnataka High Court had recently notified that from January 1, 2022, all the Departments of the Central and State Government...

Telangana High Court Issues Notice On PIL Challenging Deployment Of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) In Telangana

The Telangana High Court today issued a notice to the Telangana State Government in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed challenging the deployment of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in the State of Telangana.The notice has been issued by a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili on the PIL filed by a social activist from Hyderabad, S....

J&K Terror Funding Case: Delhi HC Issues Notice On NIA's Plea Challenging Denial Of Police Custody Extension For Three Accused

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on the plea filed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenging a Trial Court order which had rejected it's application seeking extension of police custody for three accused persons in connection with the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar sought response of the three accused persons namely Owais Ahmad Dar,...

AIIMS Students Association Moves Supreme Court Seeking JIPMER Model Roster For Institutional Preference In PG Admissions

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in the Writ Petition filed by AIIMS Students Association challenging the existing system for institutional preference for post-graduate admissions in AIIMS. A Bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B.R.Gavai heard Senior Advocate Arvind Datar appearing for the petitioners and directed that the matter be heard on 10.01.2022 along with a similar...

Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: UP Police File Chargesheet Naming Ashish Mishra As Prime Accused Before Local Court

The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed a charge sheet in the Lakhimpur Kheri Violence case before a local Court in Lakhimpur naming Union Minister Ajay Mishra's son, Ashish Mishra as the prime accused, reported NDTV.However, the 5,000-page charge sheet doesn't name Union Minister as an accused in the case, but the name of one Virendra Shukla, a relative of Asish Mishra has been added as an accused...