Bombay High Court Adjourns ARG Outlier And Arnab Goswami's Petitions In TRP Scam To March 5, Extends Arnab's Protection

The Bombay High Court, on Friday, adjourned to March 5 the petitions by ARG Outlier media, which owns Republic TV, and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami challenging the Mumbai Police's investigation in the Television Rating Points (TRP) Scam. The state continued its statement not to take coercive action against the petitioners, till then. On March 5, the division bench of Justices...

Tripura High Court Confers Senior Designation On 12 Advocates

The Tripura High Court on Friday appointed 12 Advocates as Senior Advocates with immediate effect. They are: Haribal DebnathAjit Kumar DasDipak Kumar BiswasPradyot Kumar DharTapas Datta MajumderBibhal Nandi Majumder Purushuttam Roy BarmanSri Somik DebDebalay BhattacharyaSamrat Kar BhowmikSubrata Sarkar A notification to this effect was issued...

Consent By Majority Of Unit Holders Who Participated In Poll Is Sufficient For Winding Up Mutual Fund Schemes: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that, for the purpose winding up Mutual fund schemes, the 'consent of the unitholders' stipulated under Regulation 18(5)(C) of the SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, would mean consent by majority of the unit holders who have participated in the poll, and not consent of majority of all the unitholders of the scheme. "The underlying thrust behind Regulation 18(15)(c)...

Former ICICI Bank Managing Director Chanda Kochhar Granted Formal Bail in Money Laundering Case

Former ICICI Bank Managing Director and CEO, Chanda Kochhar, appeared before a special court on Friday in connection with the multi-crore money laundering scam and was granted formal bail on a cash surety of Rs 5 lakh. Her husband and co-accused in the case - Deepak Kochhar – was produced via video conference, while another accused, the founder of Videocon Industries Ltd, VN...

NCLAT Refuses To Entertain Devas Shareholder's Appeal Against NCLT Order Appointing Provisional Liquidator On Antrix's Plea

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal(NCLAT), Chennai Bench, has refused to entertain an appeal filed by Devas Mauritius Employees Private Ltd - a shareholder of Devas Multimedia Private Ltd - challenging the order passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Bengaluru bench, which appointed a Provisional Liquidator for Devas while admitting a winding up petition filed by...

Office Of Profit : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea To Direct Election Commission To Give Opinion On Disqualification Of 12 Manipur MLAs

The Supreme Court has on Friday issued notice on a writ petition seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India to submit its opinion to the Governor of Manipur to enable the expeditious disposal of the petition regarding the disqualification of 12 Members of the Manipur Legislative Assembly have incurred disqualification under Article 192 of the Constitution of India for...

Report On Farmer's Death : UP Court Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Siddharth Varadarajan, Ismat Ara Of 'The Wire'

A Sessions in UP on Thursday gave interim protection from arrest to the Founding-Editor of the Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan and journalist Ismat Ara, in an FIR registered in connection to a report on the death of Navreet Sing during the farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day in Central Delhi. The FIR has been lodged against them at the instance of one Sanju Turaha at the Civil Lines...

Grant Of Leave For Compounding Offences At Appellate Stage Is Not Automatic On Settlement Between Accused & Victim: Supreme Court

The grant of leave as contemplated by Section 320(5) of the Code of Criminal Procedure is not automatic nor it has to be mechanical on receipt of request by the accused which may be agreed by the victim, the Supreme Court observed.The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Ajay Rastogi observed thus while rejecting a plea seeking compounding of offences of two police officers accused in...

Justice Yogesh Khanna Recuses Himself From Hearing Plea Seeking Criminal Prosecution Of DG BSF, Rakesh Asthana

Delhi High Court Judge Justice Yogesh Khanna, today recused himself from hearing a plea by a dentist from Chandigarh, Mohit Dhawan, seeking directions for the criminal prosecution of the Director General of the Border Security Force, and former bureaucrat, Rakesh Asthana under Sections 7 and 7A of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA). The bench has directed for the matter to be listed...

Custodial Violence Unacceptable In Civilized Society: Supreme Court Rejects Plea Of Police Officers Seeking Compounding In View Of Settlement

The Supreme Court refused the plea seeking compounding of offences of two police officers accused in a custodial violence case.Though considering their age, the sentence was reduced, the bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Ajay Rastogi enhanced the compensation to to Rs.3.5 lacs each in addition to compensation awarded by the High Court to be paid to the legal heirs of the...

Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Covid-19 Vaccination For All Undertrial Prisoners Who Were Out On Bail

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Delhi High-Powered Committee (HPC), which last assembled on 14.01.2021, to take appropriate measures for the vaccination of under-trial prisoners (UTPs) and convicts who were granted interim bail in the wake of the Covid-19 contagion, in terms of the criteria set by a Division Bench of the Delhi...

Munawar Faruqui Case : Madhya Pradesh High Court Grants Ad-Interim Bail To Co-Accused Prakhar Vyas And Edwin Anthony

The Madhya Pradesh High Court(Indore Bench) on Friday granted ad-interim bail to Prakhar Vyas and Edwin Anthony, colleagues of Munawar Faruqui who were arrested on January 2 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments during a stand-up comedy show.A single bench of Justice Rohit Arya granted them ad-interim bail while issuing notice on the bail applications filed by them. Munawar Faruquri...