Haryana Legal Services Authority Gives Immediate Assistance To Mentally Challenged Sexual Abuse Survivor

In a shocking incident, a mentally-challenged minor girl was allegedly sexually abused by a teenager in a colony at Yamuna Nagar. Taking notice of this incident the Justice Mr. Rajan Gupta, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court-cum-Executive Chairperson, HALSA immediately issued directions to District Legal Services Authority, Yamuna Nagar to contact the...

[Malegaon Blast]This Is The Concept Of An Open Court, If You Want To Rely On Documents You Must Give A Copy To The Other Side – Bombay High Court To Purohit

The Bombay High court on Wednesday once again refused to allow 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt. Colonel Prasad Purohit to bring certain 'confidential' documents related to his service in the Indian Army, on record, without serving a copy to the intervenor, a victim of the blast. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale said in unequivocal terms that if a petitioner...

Judges, Court Staff & Lawyers Also At COVID19 Risk: Delhi HC Registers Suo Moto PIL On Vaccination For Legal Fraternity

"The need of the hour is to vaccinate the masses, in view of the raging Pandemic, on a war footing so as to secure the life and health of all those who step out of their homes to attend to their avocations and professions. Courts, by their very nature, are places which have very high density congregations of people on a daily basis." -Delhi High Court

"Can Kerala Govt Seek Transfer Of Siddique Kappan From UP, A State Can't Invoke Art 32 Against Another State":Dushyant Dave Tells SC In Mukhtar Ansari Case

"A State cannot invoke Article 32 against another State", submitted Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing on behalf of State of Punjab and Jail Superintendent, to the Supreme Court in Uttar Pradesh Government's plea seeking transfer of BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari from Ropar Jail in Punjab to Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur Jail. A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan was hearing the matter, and heard...

Delhi High Court Directs Suspension of HappyEasyGo.com Ad Account On Google, On MakeMyTrip Plea

A single judge bench of Justice Jayant Nath of the Delhi High Court has directed search engine major Google to suspend the advertising account of travel booking website, HappyEasyGo.com on its Ad Words programme, where companies bid for keywords to appear on top of Google's search results.The directive comes on two contempt petitions by Make-MyTrip (MMT) in against HappyEasyGo (HEG) for...

"Remark Smacks Of Very Patriarchal Way Of Looking At Things": Justice Deepak Gupta On CJI Asking Rape Accused If He Would Marry Victim

"Unfortunately, the remark smacks of a very patriarchal way of looking at things, it was gender insensitive", said Justice Deepak Gupta in context of CJI S. A. Bobde asking a 23-year old man, who stands accused of raping a minor girl when she was aged around 16 years, whether he will marry her.The retired Supreme Court judge was expressing his opinion in an interview with veteran...

Avoid Addressing Me As 'Your Lordship' Or 'My Lord': Punjab & Haryana High Court Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi Requests Bar Members

In a significant move, the Punjab & Haryana High Court has issued a note requesting the Members of the Bar to avoid addressing Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi as 'Your Lordship' Or 'My Lord'. The note has been issued as per the request of the Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi, who has urged Bar Members to also avoid saying 'Obliged' and 'Grateful'. The Complete note reads, "It is for...

Maharashtra Govt Ban On School Fee Hike Prospective; Won't Apply To Schools Which Fixed Fee Before May 8, 2020 : Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra state government to deal with complaints regarding fee hike in schools on a case-to-case basis, while disposing off a clutch of petitions by private unaided schools challenging a Government Resolution from May 8, 2020. The GR barred private unaided schools from increasing their fees for the academic year 2020-21, in view of the...

'This Is False' : Karnataka HC On BJP's Affidavit Claiming That No Public Gatherings Were Held During COVID19

The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) on Wednesday withdrew an affidavit filed by it before the Karnataka High Court in which it stated that no public rally or gathering was held by the party during the COVID-19 pandemic times.This happened after the Court warned that there will be action for perjury for making a false statement on affidavit."A very bold statement to make that this party has...

Chief Justice Of Himachal Pradesh High Court Constitutes 'National Law University, Advisory Committee' To Look After HPNLU

Vide Office Order dated 02nd March, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has informed that the Chief Justice of the High Court has constituted 'National Law University, Advisory Committee' to look after the matters pertaining to Himachal Pradesh National Law University. This committee will comprise the following two Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court: - Justice Tarlok...

Supreme Court Stays Disciplinary Proceedings Against Labour Judge, Issues Notice To Madras High Court

Supreme Court has on Tuesday issued notice in plea filed by a Labour Court Judge against disciplinary proceedings against him ordered by the Madras High Court. The top Court has issued notice to Madras High Court, returnable in four weeks. A three Judge Bench of CJI Bobde, Justice Bopanna and Justice Ramasubramanian has also ordered a stay on impugned order of the High Court dated...

Permanent Commission- "How Do You Ignore Those Women Who Are Not Considered In The Past, Are Now Not Being Granted PC Citing Bodily Impairments": SC Asks Centre

Justice Chandrachud observed that it is true that women go through certain aspects like childbirth, menopause etc which changes their body and this cannot be ignored. He added that the idea here is not to give women officers special dispensation but how do you ignore that those women who weren't considered for PC in the past, are now not being granted it based on bodily impairments.