Draft Rules Of Criminal Practice : Supreme Court Asks Registrar Generals Of High Courts To Appear If Response Not Given Within Two Weeks

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that the High Courts should submit their responses through Registrar Generals within two weeks to the draft criminal rules prepared by Senior Advocates Sidharth Luthra and R Basant.The apex court further ordered that Registrar Generals of the High Courts which fail to submit the reports within the said time period will have to appear before the Supreme...

"Hosting Abusive & Defamatory Content Against Govt., Judiciary, Executive": Plea in MP HC Against Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved before the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) against Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter for allegedly displaying/hosting obscene, unregulated, uncertified, sexually explicit, and legally restricted content. The petition has been filed by an NGO named Maatr Foundation, through advocates Amay Bajaj, Ashi Vaidya,...

If Married, Only Dead Man's Wife Has Right Over Preserved Sperm; Father Doesn't Have Any Right Over Son's Progeny: Calcutta High Court

Father does not have any ‘fundamental right’ to obtain preserved sperm, merely by dint of his father-son relationship with the deceased: Calcutta High Court

'A Woman Is Free To Move As Per Her Wishes. We Cannot Curtail Her Freedom, Neither Can Her Parents': Bombay High In A Habeas Corpus Petition

The Bombay High Court on Monday said that a woman is free to move as per her wishes and her freedom could neither be curtailed by the court nor by her parents. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale made the oral observations while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by a final year MBA student against his 23- year-old partner's parents. The couple had...

Programme Code - Centre Duty Bound To Immediately Deal With Complaints Regarding Broadcast Content : Bombay High Court

With its judgement on "media trials" in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, the Bombay High Court has changed the course of how complaints regarding news content will be dealt with hereon. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice GS Kulkarni has directed all complaints regarding a programme's contents to be dealt with immediacy by an authorized officer of the...

UP Govt. Moves Supreme Court Seeking Transfer Of Petitions Challenging Its Anti-Religious Conversion Ordinance From HC To SC

The Uttar Pradesh Government has filed an application before the Supreme Court seeking to transfer the petitions pending in the Allahabad High Court against its anti-conversion Ordinance. Stating that the Supreme Court is already seized of the matter, the Yogi-Adityanath led Government has filed an application under Article 139A of the Constitution for transfer of proceedings from the...

'Malice' Is Not A Ground To Challenge A Law Made By Legislature : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that 'malice' is not a ground to challenge a law made by legislature.The bench comprising Justices RF Nariman, Navin Sinha and KM Joseph observed in its judgment upholding the constitutional validity of Sections 3, 4 and 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act 2020. The court was addressing the contention of the petitioners that the amendment...

Karnataka HC Seeks Better Explanation From NHAI For Affidavit Saying 'Environment Protection Act Was Framed At Foreign Powers' Instance'

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday refused to entertain an application filed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), tendering unconditional apology and seeking to unconditionally withdraw the statement of objections, filed on January 4, wherein the authority made a bizarre statement that the Environment Protection Act, 1986, has been passed by the Parliament at the instance...

Abhaya Murder Case: Kerala High Court Admits Appeal Filed By Accused Father Kottoor, Issues Notice To CBI

The Kerala High Court has admitted the appeal filed by Father Thomas Kottoor against his conviction and sentence in the murder of Sister Abhaya in 1992.A division bench comprising Justices K Vinod Chandran and M R Anitha has issued notice to CBIKottoor was sentenced to life by the Special CBI Court, Thiruvnanathapuram on December 23.He argues in the appeal that the trial court's judgment is...

Not Necessary To Issue Summons U/S 91 CrPC In All Circumstances Before issuing A Search Warrant: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that it is not required in all circumstances to issue a summons prior to issuance of a search warrant. A search warrant could be issued in terms of Section 93(1)(c) without issuing a summon under Section 91of the Cr.P.C. Justice Suraj Govindaraj passed the order while dismissing a petition filed by Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) challenging...

"He Tried To Avoid A Particular Bench By Clever Drafting": Allahabad High Court Imposes 50K Cost On 6000-Crore Amrapali Scam Accused

Noting that Amprapali Group's Director Ajay Kumar tried to avoid a particular Bench and get his matter listed before another Bench, the Allahabad High Court last week imposed a cost of Rs.50,000/- to be deposited by him with Oudh Bar Association within a period of two weeks. [NOTE: Ajay Kumar is involved in six thousand crores infamous Amrapali mega scam and, a case, under Section...

Supreme Court Upholds Sections 3, 4 & 10 Of IBC Amendment Act 2020

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutional validity of Sections 3, 4 and 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act 2020.A bench comprising Justices RF Nariman, Navin Sinha and KM Joseph had considered the petitions. Justice KM Joseph authored the judgment delivered in Manish Kumar v Union of India and others and connected cases.While upholding the amendments, the...