Rehabilitation Of Street Children : Supreme Court Seeks Status Report From States

The Supreme Court on Friday issued directions in the suo motu case In Re Contagion of COVID-19 Virus in Children Protection Homes to the State Governments on the status report regarding rehabilitation of the street childre.A division bench of Justices Nageswara Rao and B.R.Gavai directed state governments/union territories to file status reports of their implementation of the Standard...

Seriousness & Gravity Of Crime Relevant Considerations For Grant Of Bail : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has aside an order of the Rajasthan High Court by which it granted bail to an accused for murder of the village sarpanch, after noting that the High Court did not consider the relevant considerations of seriousness and gravity of the crime and the specific role attributed to the accused. While directing the accused to surrender on or before 7 November 2021, a Bench...

Tripura High Court Allows MP Abhishek Banerjee's TMC Rally After Police Cancelled The Permission

The Tripura High Court last night gave its nod for the proposed Trinamool Congress proposed 31st October rally to be led by the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee today, after the local police canceled its earlier permission and asked the party to change the venue of its proposed rally.The bench of Justice Subhashish Talapatra was hearing an urgent plea filed by All...

'Illegalities Being Committed In Name Of Religion': Madras HC Directs State To Take Action Against Noise Pollution, Building Violations

The Madras High Court has recently directed the State authorities to take appropriate actions to ensure that noise pollution or violations of building rules on account of religious activities are dealt with strictly. The Court was adjudicating upon a plea by a pentecostal church seeking protection to carry out its religious activities. Justice SM Subramaniam suo moto impleaded the...

'Legally Unsustainable': CAT Order Transfering IFS Officer's Case From U'khand To Delhi Set Aside By Uttarakhand High Court

The Uttarakhand High Court last week set aside an order passed by the principal bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) allowing the Centre's plea to transfer a petition of an IFS officer, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, from the regional bench in (Nainital) to its principal bench (Delhi). The Bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma observed that the...

Sections 91/92 Evidence Act: When Parties Put Their Agreement Into Writing, It is Conclusively Presumed To Be Full & Final Statement Of Intentions - Supreme Court

"It has been held that when parties deliberately put their agreement into writing, it is conclusively presumed, between themselves and their privies, that they intended the writing to form a full and final statement of their intentions, and one which should be placed beyond the reach of future controversy, bad faith and treacherous memory"A Bench of Justices L...

Gauri Lankesh Murder : Bengaluru Court Frames Charges Against 18 Accused

A special court in Bengaluru through video conference on Saturday (October 30) has framed charges against 18 accused arrested in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. Principal City Civil and Sessions Judge Anil Bheemsen Katti in its order said "Charge for the alleged offences framed. The same was read over and explained to the accused persons in the language known to them...

NIA Act- Division Bench Of High Court Should Hear Revision Petition Against Special Court Order : Supreme Court

Holding that a revision petition against an order passed by a Special Court under the National Investigation Agency can lie only before a division bench of a High Court, the Supreme Court has set aside an order passed by the Kerala High Court in the case relating to alleged Maoist leader Roopesh.A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and AS Bopanna set aside the order passed by the single bench...

Can't Direct Relocation Of Bar If Distance From Temple Meets Statutory Limit : Supreme Court

Noting that its distance from the entrance of the Throwbathiammam temple in Puducherry is in excess of the statutorily prescribed limits, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to intervene to disturb the present location of a bar merely on grounds of it being in the vicinity of the temple.The bench of Justices D. Y. Chandrachud and B. V. Nagarathna was hearing an SLP against the July order of...

'First Come First Serve' Policy Of Granting Licence Is Fundamentally Flawed: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that there is a fundamental flaw in the policy of granting licence on the First Come First Serve basis.It is the solemn duty of the State to ensure that a non-­discriminatory method is adopted, whether it is for distribution or allotment of licence on his own land, or alienation of property, the bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S. Oka observed.In this case,...

Prisoner Cannot Be Deprived Of Attending Important Family Event, Relatives, Take Care Of Family: Punjab And Haryana HC

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that a prisoner cannot be deprived of attending an important family event owing to the reason that immediate relatives usually take care of the family members of the person under incarceration. Justice Anoop Chitkara made the said observation while dealing with a petition filed by a prisoner undergoing his sentence seeking the grant of parole on...

Telangana High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Debarring Of Advocates Aged Above 35 From Applying To Welfare Fund

The Telangana High Court upheld the Section 15 of the Telangana Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 1987 which debars advocates who have crossed the age of 35 years from the benefit of applying to the Welfare Fund."When an advocate below the age of 35 years applies for membership of the Fund, it would mean that he is an advocate who has joined the profession from the law school without any...