'Preservation Of Life Important Than Festivals': Supreme Court Affirms Calcutta High Court's Ban On Sale & Bursting Of Firecrackers In West Bengal

The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the Calcutta High Court order banning the sale and bursting of firecrackers during Diwali, Chatt Puja, Kali Puja, etc in the entire state of West Bengal.A vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee dismissed the special leave petition filed against the November 5 order passed by a division bench of the High Court.In the brief...

[Breaking] "If State Govts Targets Individual They Must Realise That SC is Here To Protect Them": Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To Arnab Goswami

A division bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud & Indira Banerjee will hear at 10.30 AM the petitions filed by #ArnabGoswami & co-accused Neetish Sarda & Parveen Rajesh Singh against the Bombay High Court's denial of interim...

Delhi High Court Revises Schedule Of Cases Listed Before It Up To November 30, Restrictive Functioning To Continue [Read Order]

In an Office Order issued on Tuesday (10th November), the Delhi High Court has decided to continue with the present system of hearing of matters (hybrid model of both physical and virtual hearings).In effect, the court has decided to extend the restrictive functioning till 30th November in light of the on-going COVID19 pandemic.Significantly, it has been made clear in the Office Order of...

Delhi HC Issues Notice, Seeks Amazon's Reply On Future Groups's Plea Seeking Injunction On Amazon's 'Interference' In Deal With Reliance Retail

The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a plea by Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail Ltd (FRL) seeking an ad-interim injunction against Amazon Inc for sending letters to various regulatory authorities writing about an injunction award by an Emergency Arbitrator against Future Retail Ltd's acquisition by Reliance Industries Ltd's entities for about Rs. 24, 713 crores. The single...

"Malicious Attempt To Cause Prejudice": Arnab Goswami's Wife Writes To Supreme Court Against Dave's Letter On Urgent Listing Of Case

Samyabrata Ray Goswami, wife of Republic TV Chief Arnab Goswami, has written to the Supreme Court Secretary General against SCBA President Dushyant Dave's letter on alleged selective listing of Arnab Goswami's Petition against Bombay High Court Order.The President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Dushyant Dave, has written a letter to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court,...

Priya Ramani Concocted A Fictitious Story Against Akbar And Published It Without Due Care and Caution: Geeta Luthra Argues

Before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja, Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra commenced her rejoinder arguments 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 concocted a fictitious story against MJ Akbar, and then published it on Twitter without...

'Selective Listing' Of Matters: SCBA President Writes To Supreme Court Against Urgent Listing Of Arnab Goswami's Case

The President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Dushyant Dave, has written a letter to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court, strongly protesting against the 'extraordinary urgent listing' of the special leave petition filed by Republic TV Chief, Arnab Goswami, in connection to the 2018 abetment to suicide case. A vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee...

Bail Can't Be Refused On Ground That It Will Encourage Vigilantism Or Send Wrong Message To Society : Kerala High Court[Read Judgment]

While granting bail to three women who were accused of assaulting a YouTuber over a vulgar video, the Kerala High Court said it does not approve of vigilantism shown by them.The fact that granting bail to the applicants would give a wrong message to the public at large and that it would amount to an encouragement of vigilantism is no reason to refuse granting of bail, Justice Ashok Menon...

Bollywood Producer Firoz Nadiadwala's Wife Gets Bail In Drug Case

A city court on Tuesday granted bail to Bollywood producer Firoz Nadiadwala's wife, Shabana Saeed arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for alleged drug possession.The accused was arrested on Sunday after ganja (marijuana) was allegedly found at her residence in suburban Juhu during a search by the NCB and sent to 14-day judicial custody by a court on Monday.She was granted bail by...

Order Suspending Telecom/ Internet Services Shall Not Be In Operation For More Than 15 Days: Centre Amends Rules [Read Notification]

Order suspending telecom/interent Services shall not be in operation for more than fifteen days, as per the latest rule notified by the Central Government. The Central Government has amended Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017, to restrict the life of suspension orders.Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Amendment) Rules, 2020 has...

Default Bail Cannot Be Denied To Accused Just Because He Filed Application U/S 439 Instead of 167(2) CrPC : Delhi High Court

In a landmark ruling, the Delhi High Court has granted bail in a case where the accused was prepared to furnish bail and comply with the conditions under Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) but had submitted his application under Section 439 CrPC. The court held that in the instant case, although the accused had submitted his application for bail under Section...

Arnab Goswami Case : Alibag Sessions Court Reserves Order On Revision Petition Seeking Police Custody

The Sessions Court in Alibag on Tuesday evening reserved order in the revision petition filed by Raigad police challenging the order passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate refusing police custody of Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and two others in Anvay Naik abetment of suicide case. The Court has posted the case for pronouncement of verdict day after tomorrow, i.e. Thursday....