Delhi High Court Issues Notice in Plea Challenging Appointment of 11 Special PPs For Representing Delhi Police in Riots Cases

Delhi High Court has issued notice in a plea challenging the appointment of eleven Special Public Prosecutors for conducting cases pertaining to the riots that took place in the northeast districts of Delhi. While issuing the notice, the Single Bench of Justice Navin Chawla also added the Ministry of Home Affairs as a necessary party to the case. Moved by Delhi...

Arnab Goswami Moves Alibaug Sessions Court For Regular Bail In Anvay Naik Abetment To Suicide Case

Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide of an interior designer, on Monday filed a bail application before the sessions court at Alibaug in Maharashtra's Raigad district.At 3 PM today, the Bombay High Court refused interim bail to Goswami in the habeas petition filed by him against the arrest and remand in the case relating to the suicide...

"Attempt To Silence Top Journalist ": Pradeep Bhandari Writes To CJI Bobde Seeking Probe Into Arnab Goswami's Transfer To Taloja Jail

Republic TV Anchor Pradeep Bhandari has written to Chief Justice SA Bobde seeking probe by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the shifting of Arnab Goswami to Taloja Jail.Arnab Goswami was moved to Taloja jail after allegedly being found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody at a school designated as COVID-19 centre for Alibaug prison, NDTV reported.In light of the...

[Breaking] Bombay High Court Refuses Interim Bail To Arnab Goswami In 2018 Abetment To Suicide Case [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to grant interim bail to Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami, who was arrested and remanded to 14 days judicial custody on November 4, and two co-accused in the 2018 abetment to suicide case.The Court said that no case was made out for the exercise of extraordinary jurisdiction by the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution when the petitioners...

Will Arnab Goswami Get Interim Bail From Bombay High Court, Order At 3PM [Live-Updates]

A Division Bench of Bombay High Court will pronounce the Order at 3pm Today in Arnab Goswami's Petition for Interim Bail in the 2018 Abatement to suicide case....

[Rape And Murder of Minor] Orissa HC Sets Aside Conviction For Rape, Commutes Death Penalty To Life Imprisonment

The Orissa High Court last week commutted the death sentence of a 28-year-old man to life imprisonment while upholding his conviction for murder of a 9-year-old girl, but acquitting him of charges of raping her.A resident of Godaharishpur village in Jagatsinghpur district, the girl went missing on March 20, 2018. The next day, her body was found in a cashew nut orchard nearby. The same...

[Bollywood Producers Suit] 'TV Channels Can't Run Maligning Campaign' : Delhi High Court Asks Republic TV, Times Now To Comply With Program Code

Hearing a plea moved by film production houses against alleged derogatory reporting by Republic TV and Times Now the Delhi High Court today issued notice to all parties, giving them two weeks' time to file their replies. Meanwhile, the Court has directed the TV channels to follow the Programme Code and give "serious consideration" to the resolution of the matter at hand. The bench of...

J&K People's Conference Moves SC, Seeks Early Hearing Of Pleas Challenging Abrogation Of Article 370 & Reorganisation Of J&K

The Jammu & Kashmir Peoples conference has moved the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the batch of pleas' challenging the abrogation of Article 370 & reorganisation of the Jammu & Kashmir.On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status, or limited autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir Peoples...

Magistrate While Handing Over Possession U/s 14 SARFAESI Act Not Required To Seek Permission From Company Court: Supreme Court [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has held that a Magistrate exercising power under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act is not required to seek permission from the Company Judge before directing handing over of possession of a property.The bench comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant gupta and Ajay Rastogi observed that a Company Court exercising jurisdiction under the Companies Act has no control in respect...

"Citizens Are Entitled To Breathe Fresh Air": NGT Bans Sale/ Use Of Firecrackers In Delhi NCR And Places All Over India With Poor/ Worse AQI

The National Green tribunal on Monday imposed a total ban on sale/ use of all kinds of firecrackers in Delhi NCR from the midnight of November 9-10, 2020 to the midnight of November 30 - December 1, 2020. The direction will also apply to all cities/ towns in the country where the average of ambient air quality during November (as per available data of last year) fall under 'poor' and...

'Debatable As To How Dancing To Tune Of A Song & Making TikTok Video Can Hurt Sentiments': P&H High Court Grants Pre Arrest Bail

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Monday (02nd November) granted Anticipatory Bail to one Mandeep accused of hurting the sentiments of the SC/ST castes by making a TiktTok video with a background song composed by deceased Pandit Jagdish Chander Vats.The Bench of Justice Fateh Deep Singh was hearing the plea of a petitioner under Section 482 read with Section 438 Cr.P.C. in case FIR No....

Plea In Supreme Court Challenges Gadgil, Kasturirangan Committee Reports, MoEF Draft Notification On Western Ghats

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court against challenging the Draft Notification published by Central Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, demarcating over 55 sq.KM area as 'Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area'. The plea has been filed by a Kerala based NGO, Karshaka Shabdam (Voice of Farmers), alleging that the notification...