Punjab And Haryana High Court Confers 'Senior Designation' On 19 Advocates

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday designated 19 lawyers (including 2 women advocates) as Senior Advocates. The decision was taken at a full-court meeting held on Wednesday.In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act 1961, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh designated the following Advocates as Senior AdvocatesJai Vir YadavBaljit...

New Plea In Kerala High Court Seeks Fresh Public Consultation For Draft Lakshadweep Town & Country Planning Regulation 2021

A PIL has been filed before the Kerala High Court seeking fresh public consultation before finalization of the Draft Lakshadweep Town and Country Planning Regulation, 2021. The Regulation provides for acquisition, alteration and transfer of the landed properties owned by the islanders belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. It also proposes to impose restrictions to the use...

[COVID] Plea In SC Seeks Consecutive Sentences For Hoarding, Profiteering, Adulteration, Black Marketing; Invocation of NSA, Seizure Of Benami Properties

The Supreme Court has been moved in a PIL seeking a direction that Section 31, Cr.P.C, shall not apply to the Laws relating to Hoarding, Profiteering, Adulteration and Black Marketing and the sentence shall be consecutive, not concurrent.Petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay, Supreme Court advocate, also prays for direction to the Centre and States to invoke NSA against the person involved in...

'Clear That Police Helped Culprit' : Karnataka High Court Cancels Bail Granted To Rape-Accused Cop

Observing that "this is a classic example of how the police allow the accused person, who commits the heinous offence to go scot-free, instead of arresting him when he himself was available in the police station," the Karnataka High Court has directed the police to arrest Vishwanth Biradar, a police sub inspector accused of rape. A single bench of Justice H P Sandesh, while quashing...

Covid Bed Facility In Indira Gandhi Hospital: Delhi High Court Directs Monitoring Of Project On Weekly Basis, Disciplinary Action For Lapse

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Principal Secretary of Health of the Delhi Government to personally monitor the progress of the project of making 250 covid bed Facility on Indira Gandhi Hospital on a weekly basis.A division bench comprising of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh also directed the aforesaid official to state reasons in the event of breach and the...

State Should Ensure That Victims Of West Bengal Post-Poll Violence Can Go Back To Homes : Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Friday orally remarked that the West Bengal Government has the obligation to ensure that people, who got displaced during the post-poll violence, are able to return to their homes.A 5-judge bench lead by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal was dealing with a petition filed by Advocate Priyanka Tibrewal, who alleged that more than 200 persons got displaced due to...

BREAKING : Calcutta High Court Grants Interim Bail To 4 Trinamool Leaders In Narada Case

A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday granted interim bail to four Trinamool Congress leaders- Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee- who have been under judicial custody since their arrest by the CBI in the Narada case on May 17. They were placed under house arrest on May 19, following a split in the division bench on the question of interim bail,...

Can't Subject A Citizen Not Wearing Mask/Following Lockdown Norms To Corporal Punishment: MP High Court Orders Action Against Policemen

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday (May 27) reiterated its earlier direction that no citizen who is found not wearing mask or not following social distancing norms or not following lockdown conditions should be subjected to corporal punishment or beating. The Bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Atul Sreedharan observed thus while directing the Superintendent of...

Narada Case Hearing Live Updates : Calcutta HC Grants Interim Bail To Trinamool Leaders

A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court is hearing the Narada case related to the bail of four Trinamool Congress leaders- Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee- who have been under judicial custody since May 17.A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justices IP Mukerji, Harish Tandon, Soumen Sen and Arijit Mukherjee is hearing the applications...

Plea Filed In Delhi High Court Against Twitter For Non-Compliance With IT Rules, 2021

A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court against the non-compliance by Twitter India and Twitter Inc with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021).Filed by one Amit Acharya, a practicing advocate in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India, and a user of the platform, the petition states that Twitter is...

'Our Conduct Unbecoming Of The Majesty High Court Commands': Sitting Calcutta HC Judge Takes Objection To Listing Of Narada Case

"Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands," said Justice Arindam Sinha, a Sitting Judge of the Calcutta High Court while expressing reservations on the manner in which the transfer plea filed by Central investigation agency— CBI in the Narada scam case, was listed before a Division Bench on May 17. Justice Sinha has addressed a letter to the 5-Judges Bench...

Calcutta High Court Hearing On Post Poll Violence In West Bengal : Live Updates

A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court is hearing a PIL seeking investigation into the post-poll violence which took place in West Bengal after assembly results.Considering that the matter related to protection of life and liberty of people of West Bengal, a division bench led by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal had referred the matter to a 5-judge...