Delhi High Court Seeks Centre, Delhi Govt's Response On Plea For Building Seperate Public Toilet Facilities For Transgenders, Third Gender

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of Centre and Delhi Government on a plea seeking directions for building seperate public toilet facilities for Transgenders and third gender. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to Union of India through Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Delhi Government and Delhi Municipal Corporations....

Bhima Koregaon Case : Bombay High Court Reserves Order On Surendra Gadling's Bail Plea To Attend Mother's Death Anniversary

The Bombay High Court on Monday reserved for orders the temporary bail appeal of Bhima Koregaon- Elgar Parishad Case accused – Advocate Surendra Gadling to perform his mother's funeral rites on her first death anniversary on August 15, 2021. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar said they would pronounce the order on July 30 2021, after hearing submissions...

IS Recruit Nimisha Fathima's Mother Approaches Kerala High Court Again Seeking Repatriation

A plea seeking the same had been filed as a habeas corpus previously, which was dismissed by the Court.

Parliament Passes Bill To Declare Two Food Technology Institutes As Institutions Of National Importance

The Lok Sabha today passed the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2021, to declare certain institutes of food technology, entrepreneurship, and management as institutions of national importance. These institutes are: the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli the Indian Institute...

Kangana Ranaut's Passport Renewal : Bombay High Court Refuses Javed Akhtar's Intervention

The Bombay High Court, on Monday, refused to hear lyricist Javed Akhtar's interim application in Kangana Ranaut's quashing petition regarding the Didda Copyright Ro asking him to approach the complainant or the public prosecutor as he was not a party in the present proceedings.Akhtar accused Ranaut of deliberately concealing his defamation case pending against her to mislead the court and get...

'Public Should Not Be Cheated' : Supreme Court Records Franklin Templeton Will Not Launch Any New Debt Scheme Till Disposal Of Appeal Before SAT

The Supreme Court on Monday recorded that Franklin Templeton Asset Management India Pvt Ltd will not launch any new debt scheme till disposal of its appeal pending before the Securities Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai.The appeal being referred to here has been filed before the SAT against the order dated June 7, 2021 passed by Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India...

Indicate In Mark Cards Of Karnataka Open School Students That They Appeared For SSLC Exams In Regular Format : High Court

The Karnataka High Court on Monday refused to interfere with a government notification mandating nine days regular format SSLC examination for students registered with the Karnataka Open School System. The examination began today. A division bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice P Krishna Bhat disposed of the petition filed by a student Puneeth Acharya Y. However, it...

Give Respect To Leaders Of Country/State While Publishing Matters Related To Them: Madras High Court Directs Tamil Newspaper

Noting that while reporting a matter related to the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalitha, a Tamil Magazine/Newspaper 'Dinamalar' had referred to her as 'J', the Madras High Court recently directed the publisher of the Magazine that: "While printing and publishing matters with regard to the leaders of the Country or State, the petitioners are supposed to give respect...

'Sorry State Of Affair': Jharkhand High Court Pulls Up Registry For Over 3 Months Delay In Registering Case

The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday criticized the Registry and Judicial Sections of the High Court for over 3 months' delay in registering and stamp reporting a case.While noting that the case, which was filed on 7th April got registered after 36 days and is yet to be stamp reported, Justice Ananda Sen stated that even if the Office and the Judicial Sections are functioning with 50% of...

Chief Minister's Social Media Posts Not Equal To Administrative Order/Instruction: Madhya Pradesh High Court

While upholding the detention of a man, accused of black marketing of Remdesivir injections amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Madhya Pradesh High Court recently observed that the social media posts of a Chief Minister can't be equated with an administrative order/instruction. A Division Bench of Justices Sujoy Paul and Anil Verma further held that it is not necessary that...

[BREAKING]: West Bengal Govt Constitutes Panel Headed By Justice Madan Lokur To Probe Pegasus Scandal [Read Notification]

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday constituted an Inquiry Commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B. Lokur and former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya to investigate into the allegations pertaining to the Pegasus spyware scandal. A notification to this effect was issued on Monday by B.P Gopalika, Additional...

'Reservation For Physically Disabled Horizontal' : MP High Court Allows Plea Of SC-PwD Candidate In Civil Judge Selection

The Jabalpur Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that vertical reservation can be granted in favor of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes concerning Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India and the reservation in favor of physically handicapped concerning Article 16(1) of the Constitution of India shall be considered as a horizontal reservation.Holding so,...