Delhi High Court Confers Senior Designation On 55 Advocates

The Delhi High Court on Friday conferred senior designation on 55 advocates.Read the list here :The applications for Senior Designation were called in early 2019 pursuant to the newly notified High Court of Delhi Designation of Senior Advocate Rules, 2018....

Delhi Court Reserves Order On Advocate Mehmood Pracha's Plea Against Police Raid Of His Office

A Delhi Court on Friday reserved orders on the application filed by Advocate Mehmood Pracha challenging the raids and seizure of data done by the Delhi police from his office.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma of Patiala House Courts said that orders will be pronounced on Monday(March 22).Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad told the Court that the application filed by Pracha...

Court Cannot Appreciate Evidence While Deciding Bail Application: Jammu & Kashmir High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Court, while hearing application for bail, cannot appreciate the evidence that has been collected the prosecution against the accused. A Single Bench of Justice Puneet Gupta observed, "The court has been called upon to assess and appreciate the different angles of the prosecution case set up against the accused as is evident from...

P&H High Court [DB] Allows Registration Of Marriage Through VC Mode, Sets Aside Single Bench 'Judgment'

Overruling a Single-Bench Judgment, the Punjab & Haryana High Court last week allowed the registration of marriage of a couple through video-conferencing facility. The Bench of Justice Ritu Bahri and Justice Archana Puri was hearing a Letter Patent Appeal directed against Single Bench Judgment refusing to permit the couple to undergo e-registration of their marriage. The...

Stop Implementation Of WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy : Centre Tells Delhi High Court

Responding to a public interest litigation before the Delhi High Court, the Centre has sought for WhatsApp to be restrained from implementing its new privacy policy and terms of service dated 04.01.2021 from 08.02.2021 or any subsequent date pending adjudication on the case by the court.The Centre also stated in its reply that in discharge of its obligation imposed by the Supreme Court to...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging 102nd Constitutional Amendment

The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court hearing the challenge against Maratha Quota has issued notice in a writ petition challenging 102nd Constitutional Amendment.This writ petition, filed by Shiv Sangram, a political party based in Maharashtra and its leader Vinayakrao T. Mete, is tagged along with Maratha Quota cases.Let formal notice be also issued to the learned Attorney General in...

'Black Friday' Judgement Not Applicable To 'Mumbai Saga' : Bombay High Court Refuses '11th Hour' Plea To Stay Film Release

The Bombay High Court, on Thursday, refused to stall the release of John- Abraham starrer Mumbai Saga on a plea by gangster Ravi Mallesh Bohra alias DK Rao. The film will hit the silver screen today. Bohra, along with the family members of late gangster Amar Naik and gangster Ashwin Naik's, have alleged that the film based on their lives violates their right to a fair trial, right to...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea By 'The Quint' Against New IT Rules On Digital News Media

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on a petition filed by Quint Digital Media Ltd, which owns the online news portal 'The Quint', challenging the constitutional validity of the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, to the extent it regulates the publishers of news and current affairs content.A division bench comprising...

Plea To Replace Symbols With Details Of Candidates In EVMs : Supreme Court Asks Petitioner To Serve Copy On AG

The Supreme Court on Friday asked a petitioner seeking directions to include the photograph, age and qualifications of contesting candidates in Electronic Voting Machines, instead of symbols, to serve the copy of the petition on the Attorney General for India.The bench comprising CJI SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian was considering a petition field by BJP leader...

'Do They Have No Right To Express An Opinion?' : Supreme Court Asks Petitioner Challenging State Assembly Resolutions On Central Laws To Do More Research

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned a petition which challenges the competence of state legislative assemblies to pass resolutions about Parliamentary laws, by asking the petitioner's lawyer to do more research."You do more research. We don't want to create more problems than solving", the Chief Justice of India told Senior Advocate Soumya Chakraborty, who was representing the...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Stay ED Summons To Former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti

A division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh of the Delhi High Court today refused to grant a stay on summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued to the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti on a case against her under S.50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Her appearance before ED is now due for Mar 22. She was represented by Sr....

Without Demonstrated Intention/Knowledge, Doctor's Absence From NICU When Fatal Injection Administered Not Culpable Homicide: Bombay High Court

“..even if everything as mentioned in the charge-sheet was presumed to be true, at the most, may lay a blame of dereliction of duty at his doorstep, for which Departmental action can always be taken by the authorities”, the Court said.