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Breaking- Arnab Goswami Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Direction To Trial Court To Not Take Cognizance Of Chargesheet In Anvay Naik Suicide Case
Republic TV Chief Arnab Gowswami has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raigad-Alibaigh, not to take cognizance of the final report filed by the Raigad Police on Friday, in a 2018 Anvay Naik abetment of suicide case. Goswami has alleged that the entire case reeks with malafide on part of the State Government and is an example of...
"Prima Facie Vexatious"; Bombay High Court Asks Petitioner Challenging Constitutional Validity Of Epidemic Diseases Act To Deposit 1 Lakh
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed a petitioner challenging the constitutional validity of the Epidemic Diseases Act to deposit Rs. 1 lakh with the registry in order for it to be heard or else it will be dismissed opining that prima facie the said PIL is vexatious.Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni were hearing the Public Interest Litigation filed...
Will Consider Alternative Questions In CLAT 2021 For Visually Challenged Candidates: NLU Consortium Responds To Justice Chandrachud's Suggestions
The NLU Consortium has decided to consider if the option of alternative questions should be given in the CLAT examination to PwD candidates (Persons with Disabilities), particularly visually challenged candidates, so that they are not at any disadvantage vis-Ã -vis other candidates. The decision comes in the backdrop of recent remarks made by Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud, that the...
Married Person Living With Someone Else's Spouse An Immoral Act; Can't Give Seal Of Approval By Ordering Police Protection: Rajasthan High Court
"The married persons living with somebody else's spouse would amount to committing an immoral act and a seal of approval cannot be given by this Court by directing the police to give them protection", remarked the Rajasthan High Court (Jaipur Bench) while dismissing a plea for police protection with cost of Rs.10,000/-The Bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma was hearing the plea of...
Courts Have Internalised the Logic That Dissenters Are A Threat : Pratap Bhanu Mehta
"Courts have internalized the logic that dissenters are a threat", said political theorist Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta at the 3rd Project 39A Annual Lecture in Criminal Law. Organised by Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi, revolved around the topic of "The Dissenter as Criminal: Reflections on Dissent and the Law". Mehta commenced the lecture by remarking that dissent as...
Calcutta High Court Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Illegal Smuggling & Trading Of Endangered Species Of Birds In The State
The Calcutta High Court on Friday took suo moto cognizance of the illegal smuggling and trading of endangered species of birds in the State. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee has taken up the matter on the basis of a newspaper report that 'exposed the tip of an iceberg' regarding the 'cruel intrusion' into the life...
Is National Cooperative Society 'State' To Make Centre Liable For Salaries, Subsistence Allowances Of Employees?: Supreme Court To Consider
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider if a national cooperative society is 'State' for the purpose of Article 12 so as to attach the liability of payment of salaries and subsistence allowance of employees to the government.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran were hearing a writ petition by the NCCF (National Co-operative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd.) Employees...
SG Seeks More Time, Supreme Court Adjourns SNC Lavlin Case Hearing To January 7, 2021
Granting liberty to the CBI to file any additional documents, the Supreme Court on Friday listed the SNC Lavalin case for hearing on January 7, 2021 at the end of the board.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran was hearing the CBI appeal challenging the Kerala High Court verdict upholding a special court's decision to allow the discharge petition of Kerala Chief Minister...
Raigad Police Files 1914 Pages Charge-sheet Against Arnab Goswami And 2 Others in the 2018 Anvay Naik Abetment To Suicide Case
Raigad police on Friday filed a charge sheet against Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and two others in a 2018 Anvay Naik abetment of suicide case.The charge sheet was filed before a court in Alibaug in neighbouring Raigad district, where the case for alleged abetment of suicide of interior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud has been registered.Besides Goswami, the other...
Justice GR Udhwani Of Gujarat High Court Dies Of Covid-19
A sitting Judge of the Gujarat High Court, Justice GR Udhwani passed away this morning due to COVID-19. The 59 years old Judge was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Gujarat High Court on 12th November, 2012 and was confirmed as Permanent Judge on 10th July, 2014. Born on 25th November, 1961, Justice GR Udhwani obtained his degree in Law from Sir LA Shah Law College, Ahmedabad...
Plea For Stringent Bail Provisions, Reverse Onus, Death Sentence For Rape: Supreme Court Asks Govt. To Consider
The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, refused to entertain a writ petition seeking a direction to the Government to bring certain reforms and amendments in the law to make it stringent and deterrent in cases of rape with grievous injury, gang rape and rape/gang-rape with murder.While disposing the writ petition filed by Advocate Kirti Ahuja and others, the Court, however, granted them liberty to...
