Delhi HC Injuncts Unauthorised Broadcast Of India-Australia International Cricket 2020 Series By Websites On Sony Pictures's Plea

The Delhi High Court today accepted Sony Pictures' Network India Pvt Ltd's plea before it claiming exclusive media rights in the forthcoming India Australia International Cricket Series, 2020 and injuncted websites like www.b1.mylivecricket.biz and others from doing any unauthorized broadcast of the international series. The court also issued summons and notice on the suit after...

'ICMR Confident About Availability Of Covid Vaccine In Near Future': Allahabad High Court Orders 24x7 Vigilance For Wearing Of Masks In 6 Cities

The Allahabad High Court has ordered the Police authorities to ensure that people moving in public spaces mandatorily wear masks, to prevent the spread of Covid-19 virus. A Division Bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Ajit Kumar has asked the Additional Advocate General to see that surveillance is done viz-a-viz wearing of masks in the districts of Lucknow, Ghaziabad,...

'Adani Has No Previous Experience In Managing Airports' : Kerala Govt Moves SC Against Leasing Thiruvananthapuram Airport To Adani Group

The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the move of the Airports Authority of India to lease out Thiruvananthapuram Airport to Adani Enterprises.The Government has moved top court challenging the "arbitrary and illegal action of the Airports Authority of India".On October 19, the High Court of Kerala had dismissed the writ petitions filed against the tender given to...

Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To UAPA Accused To Take Care Of Their Old Parents

The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to two UAPA convicts for one month to take care of their parents.Hafiz Abdul Majeed and Arun Kumar Jain and some others were convicted for offence under Section 18, 18B and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and were awarded punishment of life imprisonment. The High Court, upheld the conviction and modified the sentence...

Overloading In Vehicles: Allahabad High Court Calls Upon Transport Commissioner In Plea For Compliance Of Motor Vehicles Act

The Allahabad High Court has called upon the Transport Commissioner, Uttar Pradesh to respond on the issue with regard to compliance of the mandatory provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Piyush Agrawal has asked the Commissioner to file a complete response in the form of an affidavit before next date of listing,...

Delhi High Court Orders Aniruddha Malpani To Take Down Prima Facie Defamatory Tweets Against Coding Unicorn WhiteHat Jr

A day after ordering in favour of WhiteHatJr in its defamation suit against Pradeep Poonia, the Delhi High Court today ordered yet another Twitter user, Aniruddha Malpani to take down some specific 'deprecatory, defamatory' tweets against WhiteHat Jr – a platform teaching coding to children. The court issued notice and summons on WhiteHat's plea and posted the matter for further...

'If Anybody Doesn't Fall Within The Line Of Government, Will That Be Sedition?' Bombay High Court

During the hearing of the Kangana Ranaut case, the Bombay High Court expressed concerns over the 'trend' to add the offence of sedition(Section 124A IPC) in FIRs."If anybody does not fall within the line of the government, will that be sedition?", Justice S S Shinde, the presiding judge of the division bench hearing the matter, asked the senior counsel representing Mumbai police.The...

Under Article 32 We Can't Go Into Issues Of Facts: Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Bank Employee's Challenge To 'Vindictive' Transfer

"Under Article 32 jurisdiction, we cannot go into issues of facts. If we function like this, our court system will collapse", said the Supreme Court on Tuesday.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit, Vineet Saran and Ravindra Bhat was hearing a writ petition by a Yes Bank employee, Shilesh Sivasankaran, challenging his transfer as being vindictive for having blown the whistle on the bank, seeking...

Supreme Court Issues Notice And Seeks Response From Centre On Plea Seeking Capping of Prices of RT-PCR Tests

Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice in a plea which seeks for the caping of the prices of RT-PCR tests, used to test suspected COVID patients, at Rs. 400, instead of the varying rates across the country. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde heard the submissions of Advocate Ajay Agarwal, who had filed the plea, and sought for a response from the Centre and the...

Ramani's Tweets Per Se Defamatory, Tarnished Akbar's Reputation, Geeta Luthra Argues

Before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Kumar Pandey, Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra started her final arguments afresh today on behalf of MJ Akbar in his criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani. While addressing the court, Ms Luthra submitted that Priya Ramani's tweets, which were made without any care and caution, tarnished Akbar's...

TRP Scam : Karnataka High Court To Pass Order Tomorrow On Anticipatory Bail Plea Of Republic TV COO

The Karnataka High Court will on Wednesday pass its order on the anticipatory bail application filed by Chief Operating Officer Priya Mukherjee of ARG Outlier Media Private Ltd which runs RepublicTV & R Bharat channels. A single bench of Justice H P Sandesh will be passing the order. Mukherjee has sought transit bail as she is apprehending arrest in the Fake Television...

Franklin Templeton Moves Supreme Court Against Karnataka HC's Order Restraining Winding Up Of Schemes Sans Consent Of Investors

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund (FT) has moved the Supreme Court, challenging a Karnataka high court order according to which the decision to wind down six debt schemes required simple majority consent from unit investors.Franklin has stated that in May 2020, the trustees had sought a vote by unit investors for validly undertaking an orderly sale of the debt securities held in the funds and...