Develop A Web Portal For Tracking Representations & Avoiding Delays: Madras High Court

Taking strong objection against inordinate delay in considering the representation of the detenus, the Madras High Court directed the State of Tamil Nadu to establish a dedicated web portal and use technologies such as e-mail, fax or WhatsApp to track their movement and avoid delays.A division bench of Justices K.Kalyanasundamaram and B.Pugalendhi noted that despite passing of several orders...

Delhi High Court Establishes Intellectual Property Division To Deal With Intellectual Property Cases

The Delhi High Court established the Intellectual Property Division (IPD) to deal with all matters related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The IP deals with original proceedings, Writ Petitions (Civil), CMM, RFA, FAO on Intellectual Property Rights disputes, except those required to be dealt with by the Division Bench. "This has been done in order to avoid multiplicity of proceedings...

IT Rules: Delhi High Court Refuses Interim Relief To The Wire And The Quint

In a hearing before the Delhi High Court challenging the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021) digital media houses The Quint and The Wire today told the court that submitting information as required by the Central government in compliance with the rules, "is not a matter of voice vote."Sr. Adv. Nitya Ramakrishnan for...

BREAKING : Justice Kausik Chanda Of Calcutta HC Recuses From Hearing Mamata Banerjee's Election Petition; But Imposes Rs 5 Lakh Costs

Justice Kausik Chanda of the Calcutta High Court has recused from hearing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's challenge to Nandigram election results, where she was defeated by BJP's Suvendu Adhikary in the 2021 Assembly Polls.But he has imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakhs on Mamata Banerjee for the manner in which the application seeking recusal was moved.In the order pronounced...

"This Very System Has Lifted Me": Justice Midha Of Delhi High Court On Indian Judiciary, On His Retirement

Bidding a teary-eyed farewell to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday on the occasion of his retirement, Justice MR Midha took a walk down the memory lane with fellow Judges and colleagues, remembering his initial days at the Bar and said, "This very system has lifted me." He expressed his appreciation and gratefulness to the system and adding the feather of impartiality on its hat, said that he...

Filing Of Caveat By Itself Does Not Entitle Caveators To Be Treated As A Party To The Proceeding: Supreme Court

'They only get the right of being notified of the lodging of the SLPs.'

Act Against 'Hardened Criminals' Who Cheat In Name Of Lucky Draw, Reward & Loan: Allahabad HC Asks DGP To Issue Circular

The Allahabad High Court last week called out the Uttar Pradesh Police to take widespread action to book 'hardened criminals' who call up citizens and make them cough up money by offering alluring schemes for the provision of loans or TV show rewards or lottery bonanzas.The Bench of Justice J. J. Munir directed the Director General of Police, U.P., Lucknow to immediately issue circulars to...

Advocate Kitty Kumarmanglam Wife Of Ex-Union Minister R. Kumaramangalam Murdered In A Robbery Attempt

Advocate Kitty Kumarmangalam, wife of late Ex-Union Minister, Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was murdered yesterday in a robbery attempt allegedly by her washerman Raju (24) at her residence in South West Delhi's Vasant Vihar. As per the statement of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South West), Ingit Pratap Singh, the accused visited her residence at around 9 pm yesterday and as soon as...

Denial Of Admission To Class XI Citing Low Score In Maths: Mother Moves Kerala High Court Against CBSE School

A mother of a Class XI student has approached the Kerala High Court seeking a direction to the CBSE and Choice School against denial of admission to Class XI (Science Stream) citing low marks in Mathematics. Justice Anu Sivaraman has posted the matter to next week for further consideration.The petitioner's elder daughter recently sought to join the Science stream in Class XI upon completion of...

Bhima Koregaon Accused Challenges NIA Court's Refusal To Allow Him To Join Family For Mother's Last Rites

"It cannot be said that the presence of the applicant would be necessary for performing the funeral rites or rituals," NIA Court had said.

VC Hearing: 'Discourteous & Shocking': Allahabad High Court Reprimands Lawyer Who Appeared With A Person Without Shirt

In yet another incident of Lawyer appearing before the Court in a 'discourteous manner', the Allahabad High Court yesterday reprimanded a Lawyer who appeared through VC mode accompanied by another person who was visible on screen, "bare body and without a shirt"The Bench of Justice Jaspreet Singh observed that it is the responsibility of a Lawyer to ensure that there is no such incident...

Civil Services Exams : COVID No Ground To Relax Condition To Submit Degree Certificate On Specified Date, UPSC Tells Supreme Court

"Conditions of eligibility cannot be relaxed for certain individuals on different grounds", said the Union Public Service Commission in the Supreme Court responding to pleas filed by civil services aspirants whose candidatures were cancelled due to non-submission of educational qualification proof on the specified date . The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has submitted in...