"A Lady With 90% Burn Injury Can't Be Kept Like That": Jharkhand HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of The Incident Based On A Mail Received To Court

The Jharkhand High Court last week took suo moto cognizance of an e-mail complaining about the negligent attitude adopted by the MGM Hospital, Jamshedpur as it alleged that a lady with 90% burn injury was left half-naked and without any proper medical facilities. Appearing before the Bench of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad the sender of the...

Monthly Maintenance To Minor Cannot Be Deposited In Bank Account With A Direction For Disbursement On Attainment Of Majority: Kerala High Court

The High Court of Kerala has set aside the directions issued by the Family Court directing maintenance allowance to be deposited by the father in a bank account in name of the minor child that who would receive the amount on attaining majority. A Single Bench of Justice Mary Joseph issued the direction while hearing a plea by the minor's mother against Family Court's directions...

Delhi Riots- Supreme Court Reserves Judgment In Facebook VP Ajit Mohan's Plea Challenging Delhi Assembly Summons

"In the noisy times of the present, right to silence is a virtue. And leave it to me to decide, whether or not I want to go and lay down that the summon is an invitation and no more." Salve concludes as Supreme Court reserves judgment in the plea.

[2015 Sacrilege Incidents] SC Dismisses Plea Challenging Direction To CBI To Hand Over Case Diaries, Records To Punjab Police

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the challenge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court's direction to the CBI to hand over all case diaries and papers related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents, including alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, to the Punjab Police within a month.On January 4, during a hearing on the plea of one of the accused in the sacrilege incidents, Sukhjinder Singh...

Supreme Court Discusses Concept Of Separate Magistrates Cadre To Monitor Evidence Collection By Police

The Supreme Court on Wednesday discussed the feasibility of creating an independent and separate cadre of Judicial Magistrates for monitoring evidence collection during criminal investigation.A bench comprising the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, Justices L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat orally observed that supervision by a Magistrate can ensure fool-proof collection of evidence at...

Holding Peaceful Processions, Raising Slogans Can't Be An Offence: Himachal Pradesh High Court Quashes FIR Against Lady Advocate

Underlining that holding peaceful processions, raising slogans, would not be and cannot be an offence under India's Constitution, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday (22nd February) quashed an FIR filed against an Advocate under Sections 341, 143, 147, 149, 353, 504, and 506 IPC. The Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara was hearing the plea of a lady Advocate and member of the...

Religious Processions Should Spread Positivity/Brotherhood & In No Manner Should Cause Any Communal Disturbance: Madras High Court

While allowing the general public including the Petitioner to follow the ritual of taking a procession around the temple (Girivalam), the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) recently observed that all the Religious processions should spread positivity and brotherhood and in no manner should be a cause for any communal disturbance. The Bench of Justice R. Hemalatha was hearing the...

Removal Of A Blind Person From The Job Solely On Ground Of Disability Violative Of Rights of PwD Act 2016: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has set aside an order removing a blind Professor from the position of Head of the Bengali Department by the Haringhata Mahavidyalaya, primarily on the ground of his physical disability. A Single Bench of Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur noted that the memo dated 31st July, 2017, whereby the petitioner was removed, is in direct violation and contravention of...

Students Of Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur Urge MP CM Shivraj Chauhan To Release Funds For Construction Of Permanent Campus

The Students of the Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, have made a representation before Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, urging him to release the funds allocated by the State Government for construction of a Permanent University Campus. DNLU was established in the year 2018 and was inaugurated by CM Chauhan and former Chief Justice of India,...

Delhi High Court Comes Down Heavily On Tihar Jail Authorities For Alleged Murder Of 23-yo Undertrial In Prison

The Delhi High Court today came down heavily on the Delhi state government and Tihar jail authorities while hearing a compensation petition on the alleged murder of a 23-yo undertrial, Dilsher Azad in Delhi's Tihar jail, and directed the Delhi Police to file a status report within 3 days. The court also asked the respondents of the petition, the state of Delhi, the Director General and...

'A State Can Invoke Article 32 To Protect Fundamental Rights Of Citizens' : UP Govt In Plea To Transfer Mukhtar Ansari From Punjab

The State of Uttar Pradesh has filed Written Submissions in its plea seeking for transfer of custody of BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari, currently lodged in a prison in Punjab, to face trial in UP in ten cases involving murder, extortion etc. The Written Submissions lay out the following: 1. The Writ Petition by the State is maintainable under Article 32. It has been submitted by the...

Only Senior Citizens/ Parents Entitled To Prefer Appeal Against Order Of Tribunal Under Senior Citizen Act 2007: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has held that only senior citizens/ parents are entitled to file an appeal against an order passed by the Tribunal under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizen Act, 2007. Holding thus, a Division Bench comprising of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy dismissed a petition seeking a declaration that any aggrieved...