Haryana Court Grants Bail To Rambhagat Gopal In Alleged Communal Speech Case

A Haryana Court has granted bail to Rambhagat Gopal in a case registered against him for allegedly making communal speeches at Pataudi in Gurugram. He has been granted Bail by an Additional District and Sessions judge. Gopal was arrested in this case for allegedly making provocative comments at a mahapanchayat in Pataudi wherein he allegedly provoked people to abduct Muslim girls and to...

'Permanent Wound On Environment': Calcutta High Court Directs Man To Pay Rs 40 Crore Penalty For Axing 62 Trees

The Calcutta High Court last week directed one Soumitra Kanti Dey to pay a penalty amount of Rs 40 crores and also plant 100 trees for illegally cutting down nearly 62 trees on a premises, under the garb of removing stagnated water."The cutting of trees has nothing to do with the removal of accumulated water. Yet under the garb of removing water, as many as 62 (sixty two) trees have been...

Delhi HC Recalls It's Order Directing CBI Probe After Income Tax Dept Informs That Email Received By Assessee Was 'Triggered Due To System Error'

The Delhi High Court has recalled its order directing a CBI enquiry for ascertaining the source of an adjournment email sent by Income Tax Department to an assessee firm after the department informed the Court that the same triggered due to system error and in fact was genuine.A division bench comprising of Justice Manmohan and Justice Navin Chawla recalled its earlier order dated 16th July...

Kerala High Court Provides A Second Chance To Nursing Students Unable To Give Offline Exam Due To Covid Attributable Reasons

Their second chance should be considered as a fresh attempt, the Court iterated.

Street Vendors Expected To Take Pro Active Steps For Getting Vaccinated To Avoid Third Covid Wave: Delhi High Court

While dealing with a plea challenging the Delhi Government's decision to open malls and markets but not weekly markets, the Delhi High Court on Monday remarked that it is expected that the street vendors are expected to take Pro active steps in getting vaccinated in order to avoid a third covid wave.A single judge bench comprising of Justice Rekha Palli issued notice on a plea filed by...

A Writ Court Is Required To Intervene Even At A Suggestion Of Any Plan Or Attempt To Take Away The Liberty Of A Person:Calcutta HC

The Calcutta High Court on Monday granted bail to BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari's aide Rakhal Bera who had earlier been arrested for his alleged participation in a job racket where he had allegedly promised a job in the State Irrigation Department in lieu of 2 lakh rupees back in 2019. Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was then the Minister of Transport, Irrigation and Water Resource in...

Supreme Court Expresses Displeasure On Gujarat Govt.'s "Clarficatory Notification" In The 'Fire Safety Audit of Covid Hospitals' Matter

"You please advise the government properly. They have come up with another notification, a clarificatory notification saying that the fire safety requirement will not be applicable to Covid premises. So far as building regulation is concerned, nobody can get the BU permission without the fire safety", Justice M. R. Shah told SG Tushar Mehta on Monday. The Bench of Justices D....

'Teaching & Non-Teaching Staff Can Be Included in the Category of Frontline Workers for Vaccination': Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to place on record the district wise break up of vaccinated teaching and non-teaching staff in schools.

The Practice Of Not Answering Query Regarding Maintainability Of Petition By An Advocate Is Deprecated: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently deprecated the conduct of a practising Advocate who chose not to answer the repeated queries of the Court regarding the maintainability of his petition seeking issuance of a writ of quo warranto and regarding non-impleadment of necessary partyThe Bench of Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Anil Verma also dismissed his petition challenging the posting...

Newly-Wedded Couple Seperated By Wife's Family: Delhi HC Reunites Couple, Directs Police To Escort Her Back To Delhi

While dealing with a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a husband alleging that his wife was illegally detained in Uttar Pradesh's Etah District after her parents seperated them, the Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh Police to depute a lady constable to company his wife along with a constable of Delhi Police to escort her back to Delhi and also to coordinate and...

Judge Uttam Anand's Death: PIL Before Supreme Court Seeks Guidelines For Protection Of Judicial Officers & Legal Fraternity

In the aftermath of the recent killing of Justice Uttam Anand of Dhanbad, a PIL has been filed before Supreme Court seeking directions to immediately enforce and initiate guidelines and directions for the protection of the judicial officers, advocates and legal fraternity as a whole.Further, directions have been sought to Centre and States for grant of 'X' Category Security to the...

'Get A Criminal Case Registered': NHRC to DGP, UP; Pulls Up SP & Principal Secretary In Electrocution Death Case

The National Human Rights Commission has issued a show-cause notice to the Superintendent of Police, Uttar Pradesh, as to why it should not recommend a departmental inquiry against him for not acting under the law in a matter of the death of a senior citizen due to electrocution. In the same matter, a notice has been issued to the Director-General of Police, Uttar Pradesh, to register a...