Madhya Pradesh High Court To Live Stream Court Proceedings Of All HC Benches By End Of This Month

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday announced via a press release that it would start the live streaming of court proceedings for its Benches at Jabalpur, Indore and Gwalior by the end of this month. The High Court had already begun to live stream court proceedings for the for the bench led by its Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq from June 25 pursuant to a plea filed by a group of...

Right To Summon Document Has To Be Exercised When Trial Is In Progress And Not When Trial Is Completed: Supreme Court

The right to summon document(s) has to be exercised when the trial is in progress and not when the trial is completed, the Supreme Court observed.The court observed thus while allowing an appeal filed against a judgment of the Telengana High Court. The High Court allowed the revisional application and reversed the decision of the Trial Court in rejecting the application for summoning of...

Ascertain The Reasons Behind Vaccine Hesitancy Among State Population: Manipur High Court Directs State Govt

The Manipur High Court has directed the State government to specify as to how it proposes to augment the vaccination drive undertaken by it, in the light of the clear reluctance on the part of a lot of people to avail the benefit of such vaccination.The Government has also been asked to ascertain the reason behind the COVID Vaccine hesitancy among the people.The Bench of Chief Justice...

Shifting Principal Benches Of Certain Tribunals Outside Delhi May Help Bar To Grow At Different Places: Justice Hemant Gupta

In his dissenting opinion in Madras Bar Association case, Justice Hemant Gupta highlighted the concern of lawyers and litigants about concentration of Tribunals in Delhi.The judge observed that shifting the principal benches of the certain Tribunals outside Delhi will help the Bar to grow at different places and would also resolve the challenge of scarcity of housing in the Capital. He added...

Allahabad High Court Holds National Lok Adalat; Over 11.6 Lakh Cases Settled

The Allahabad High Court has successfully celebrated National Lok Adalat on July 10, 2021. Under the guidance of ACJ Munishwar Nath Bhandari, also the Patron-in-Chief/Executive Chairman of UP State Legal Services Authority and Justice Pritinker Diwaker, Chairman, High Court Legal Services Committee, the National Lok Adalat helped resolution of a large number of cases, details of which are...

Uttarakhand HC Denies Bail To Man Booked For Abetting Wife's Suicide By Pressurising Her To Have Sex Chat, Nude Video Calls With Others

The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday denied bail to a man who has been booked for abetting the suicide of his wife as he would allegedly pressurize his wife to make nude video calls and to have sex chat with different persons.The Bench of Justice Ravindra Maithani perused a recorded conversation which allegedly took place between the deceased/wife and the applicant/husband revealing a...

Govt. Can Commute A Sentence Of Imprisonment Below Minimum Prescribed Sentence In Special Cases: Kerala High Court

This is in cases involving offences where the Court is entitled to impose a sentence lower than the minimum required sentence for certain reasons.

'Enhancement Of Superannuation Age A Policy Matter' : Supreme Court Sets Aside Allahabad HC Direction On Retirement Age In NOIDA

"Whether the age of superannuation should be increased and if so, the date from which this should be effected is a matter of policy into which the High Court ought not to have entered"

High Time To Frame A Policy Regarding Opening Retail Stores: Kerala High Court Seeks State's Response

The Court also expressed its dissatisfaction with the crowd control measures adopted by the State during the proceedings.

UAPA Offences Will Go Before Special Court Only When NIA Investigates : Maharashtra Govt To Bombay High Court In Sudha Bharadwaj's Plea For Default Bail

Opposing the default bail plea of Bhima Koregaon- Elgar Parishad accused Sudha Bharadwaj, on Thursday, the Maharashtra Government said that orders passed by the Pune Judge Kishore Vadane were not without jurisdiction even though he was a sessions judge and not a Special Judge under the NIA Act. During the last hearing Justices SS Shinde and NJ Jamadar had said that the Court's records...

Judicial Independence Can Be Sustained Only When Incumbents Are Assured Fair Service Conditions, Security Of Tenure : Supreme Court

If "impartiality" is the soul of the judiciary, "independence" is the lifeblood of the judiciary, remarked the Supreme Court in its judgment in Tribunals case.The bench headed by Justice L. Nageswara Rao observed that security of tenure and of service are core components of independence of the judiciary. The court added that any incursion into the judicial domain by the other two wings of...

"Gives Sweeping Powers To Social Media Intermediaries To Remove Access To Information; Constant Surveillance": Lawyer Moves Delhi HC Challenging IT Rules

A petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court by an advocate challenging the vires of Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.Moved by Advocate Uday Bedi, the plea challenges Rule 3 and 4 of the IT Rules for the reason that it provides sweeping powers to the Social Media Intermediaries to voluntarily remove access to information on...