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Fraudulent Practice To Gain Public Employment Cannot Be Countenanced: Supreme Court Upholds Termination Of 38 Workmen By BCCL
The Supreme Court observed that fraudulent practice to gain public employment cannot be countenanced to be permitted by a Court of law.The sanctity of public employment, as a measure of social welfare and a significant source of social mobility, must be protected against such fraudulent process which manipulates and corrupts the selection process, the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul...
"Police Failing In Supervisory Duties, Trying To Avoid Responsibility By Not Concluding Investigation": Court Again Raps Delhi Police In Riots Case
A Delhi Court has rapped up the Delhi Police for failing in their supervisory duties thereby avoiding to take any responsibility in a Delhi riots case by not concluding investigation despite repeated court orders, thereby causing a delay in the trial.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar reported the matter to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi in order to bring the conduct of the SHO and...
Plight Of Migrant Workers An Endless, Sad Narrative: Kerala High Court While Upholding Bengal Native's Conviction For Partner's Murder
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a Bengal native's appeal against his conviction for the murder of his live-in partner, who was another migrant worker, and her minor child.A Division Bench of Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Ziyad Rahman A A while upholding his conviction remarked, "Far from their homes and family, the plight of migrant workers is an endless narrative,...
19-Yr-Old Girl Mature Enough To Realize Consequences Of Consensual Sex Sans Precaution: MP High Court Denies Permission To Abort Fetus
[NOTE: This order has been set aside by the Division Bench of the High Court and the Girl has been granted permission to abort the fetus. More details here: "Not Necessary That Rape Allegation Is Proved Before S. 3 Of MTP Act Is Invoked": MP HC (DB) Allows Abortion, Sets Aside Single Judge Order]The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) recently refused to permit medical termination...
Jayaraj- Bennix Custodial Deaths Case : Supreme Court Rejects Bail Pleas Of Cops In Custody
The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to Inspector S Sridhar and Sub Inspector P Raghu Ganesh who were charge-sheeted as accused(s) by the CBI in the Jayaraj-Bennix case, in which a father-son duo were brutally murdered in police custody last year. The matter was heard by the division bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari. Expressing their disinclination...
Suit Simpliciter For Injunction Without Claiming Declaration Of Title Not Maintainable If Plaintiff's Title Is Disputed: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a suit simpliciter for permanent injunction without claiming declaration of title is maintainable only in cases where the plaintiff's title is not in dispute or under a cloud.The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai observed that if the matter involves complicated questions of fact and law relating to title, the court has to relegate the parties...
NSA Invoked For FB Post On 'Babri Masjid': "Detention Justified But Delay In Disposing Representation": Allahabad HC Quashes Detention Order
The Allahabad High Court today quashed a detention order passed by the DM, Lakhimpur Kheri under the National Security Act, 1980 against a man for his alleged Facebook post on Babri Masjid ("Babri Masjid will one day be rebuilt, just like Turkey's Sophia Mosque was rebuilt", the accused had posted on FB).The Bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Saroj Yadav was hearing the habeas corpus...
'What The Court Says, And How It Says It, Is Equally Important As What It Decides': Supreme Court Explains Purpose & Importance Of Judgment
The Supreme Court, while setting aside a High Court order that granted bail to a murder accused, explained the 'importance of judgment; purpose of judgment and what should be contained in the judgment'.The court said that a judgment should have a clarity, both on facts and law and on submissions, findings, reasoning's and the ultimate relief granted. What the court says, and how it says it,...
Uttarakhand- UP Highway Project: Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea Against Forest & Wildlife Clearances, Grants Liberty To Approach NGT
While stressing that the reliefs sought are amenable to jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal, Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea challenging the forest clearances and wildlife clearances granted for the improvement, upgradation and expansion of the Highway Project in Uttarakhand and UP which would allegedly result in the felling of around 11,000 trees in...
Karnataka High Court Calls For Action Against Authorities Who Granted Building Permissions In "No Construction Zone" Along National Highways
The Karnataka High Court has directed the State Government to take action against persons in authority, who granted "illegal permissions" in respect of various building structures to be constructed in the "no construction zone" along the National Highway. A Bench of Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum further ordered that the illegal structures in question should...
High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea For Quashing Delhi LG's Order Staying GNCTD's Doorstep Ration Scheme
The Delhi High Court has issued notice on an application seeking to quash an order passed by Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, staying Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's "Ghar Ghar Ration Yojana Scheme" for doorstep delivery of ration to the poor.The application was filed in a plea seeking provision for food, shelter and medical treatment to destitute people, living on footpaths.A...