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Karnataka High Court Issues Notice To Former HC Judge In Plea To Probe Bribe Scandal For Governor's Post
The Karnataka High Court has issued notice to a former judge of the court in a petition seeking directions to the police to initiate action against her for allegedly paying a bribe amount of Rs 8.50 crore, to an accused of securing the post of Governor. A single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit issued the notice while hearing a petition filed by Advocate N P Amrutesh. The court...
Fill Up Vacancies In Central Administrative Tribunal : Supreme Court To Centre
While hearing a contempt petition preferred by Ajesh Luthra, President Central Administrative Tribunal ("CAT") Bar Association with respect to the non-compliance of the order dated January 4, 2021, wherein the Top Court had directed the Government to "expedite" the appointment of 4 posts to the CAT in accordance with the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and Other Authorities...
Anti-CAA Protest- "Identification Of Persons Involved In Occurrence Not Probed Properly": Madras HC Quashes Criminal Proceedings
The Madras High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings initiated pursuant to an FIR filed against two persons for conducting a demonstration against the Amendment of CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) noting that the identification of persons, who were involved in the occurrence, was not properly investigated.The Bench of Justice G. Ilangovan observed that it is common knowledge that...
Arbitrator Cannot Grant Pendente Lite Interest If Contract Contains A Specific Clause Expressly Barring Payment Of Interest: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that an arbitrator cannot grant pendente lite interest if the contract contains a specific clause which expressly bars payment of interest.Such a contractual clause will not be a violation of Section 28 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari observed. The court said that the Arbitration and...
Plea For Model Builder-Buyer & Agent-Buyer Agreements Under RERA: Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre on a batch petitions under Article 32 raising the grievances of flat-purchasers that in the absence of uniform Builder-Buyer and Agent-Buyer Agreements, the purchasers are left to the mercy of developers over the terms and conditions imposed.The bench of Justices D. Y. Chandrachud and B. V. Nagarathna recorded that the string of...
Ex-Gratia For COVID Deaths, Death Certificates, Grievance Redressal : Supreme Court Issues Slew Of Directions
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a slew of directions in relation to the grant of ex-gratia compensation to the family of COVID victims and issuance of death certificates.A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and AS Bopanna issued the directions approving the guidelines framed by the National Disaster Management Authority and the Central Government. The guidelines were framed pursuant to...
Plea Before Kerala High Court Alleges No Arrangements Were Made At JEE Advanced Exam Centre; Candidate Seeks Permission To Appear Again
A plea has been filed before the Kerala High Court through Advocate K. Shaj that in one of the JEE examination centres, no arrangements were made by the concerned authorities and that a student was thereby prevented from appearing in the examination.The petitioner was a candidate for the JEE (Advanced) Examination 2021 having qualified for the Mains for being admitted to any one of the 23...
Supreme Court Allows Student Rusticated For Attempting To Organise Anti-CAA Protest To Take Semester Exams
The Supreme Court today allowed a student who was rusticated from Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi Farsi University on the reasons that he was attempting to organize protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 to take the 6th Semester BA Hons Examination which is likely to be held in May 2022 or at a later date. Considering the peculiar facts of the case and on...
"Investigating Agency Presented False & Guilty Image": Wrestler Sushil Kumar Moves Delhi Court Seeking Bail In Chhatrasal Stadium Murder Case
Olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar has moved a Delhi Court seeking regular bail in connection with the Chhatrasal Stadium murder case of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankhar.The bail plea moved through Advocate Pradeep Rana states that the investigating agency has left no stone unturned in presenting a false and guilty image of Kumar and that he has wrongly received...
"Even Permanent NRIs Can Become PM/CM In India": Plea In Allahabad High Court Against Representation Of People Act, Reply Sought
A plea has been moved before the Allahabad High Court challenging the constitutional validity of 3 provisions of the Representation of the People Act,1950 contending that they are violative of Articles 14 and 326 of the Constitution of India.Hearing the plea, the bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I today issued notice and sought a reply from the...
Madhya Pradesh High Court Directs SLSA To Make Surprise Visits to Prison Facilities To Audit The Prevailing Conditions
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Member Secretary, District Legal Services Authority accompanied by Chief Judicial Magistrate of each district to make a surprise inspection of all the Central Jails and District Jails falling in their jurisdiction, on any day within next six weeks, and privately interview as many prisoners as they may consider necessary and submit their report...