Former Judges, Lawyers, And Other Eminent Citizens Write To CJI To Suo Moto Clarify That Zakia Jafri Judgment Was Not Intended To Have Any Adverse Consequences

A letter has been written to the Chief Justice of India to suo motu clarify that its judgment in the Zakia Jafri case was not intended to have any adverse consequences whatsoever.The development came after the Apex Court recently dismissed a petition filed by Zakia Ehsan Jafri challenging the closure report filed by SIT discarding the allegations of larger conspiracy by high state...

Calcutta High Court Stays FIR Registered By WB Police Against CBI Officers Probing Coal Scam

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday imposed an interim stay for 6 weeks on the FIR registered by State police authorities against CBI officers for allegedly harassing common people during the ongoing probe into the coal smuggling scam in the State. Pursuant to the order, the State police authorities will not be able to take any further steps in the FIR which names CBI officers including...

'Palpable Inaction': Calcutta High Court Orders Dissolution Of West Bengal Medical Council For Not Holding Any Elections Since 1988

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered that the present West Bengal Medical Council will stand dissolved from July 31 on the ground that no elections for the constitution of a new Council has been held since 1988 and further directed that a newly duly-elected Medical Council should be constituted latest by October 31, 2022.Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya observed, "Thus, this...

J&K&L High Court Grants ₹5 Lakh Compensation To Reserved Category Candidate Denied Seat In NEET MDS 2021, Asks BOPEE To Keep One Seat In Next Session

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ordered the Board of Professional Entrance Examination to grant Rs. 5 lakh compensation to a medical aspirant, who was denied a seat in NEET-MDS 2021, despite being eligible under the CDP/JKPM (Children of Defence Personal/ Military Forces) category.Justice Sanjeev Kumar further directed BOPEE to keep one seat of MDS in the next session (2022)...

"Politically Induced" : Bombay High Court On PIL Seeking Direction To Eknath Shinde To Return To Maharashtra

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking an FIR against Uddhav Thackeray and directed another PIL petitioner to deposit Rs. 1 lakh as a pre-condition to hear his plea against MLA Eknath Shinde and others.The bench comprising Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik was of the view that the PIL against Shinde was politically motivated and without enough...

Compassionate Appointment Intended To Provide "Urgent Relief" To Bereaved Family: Gujarat High Court Refuses To Grant Benefit After 5 Yrs Of Death

"Compassionate appointment is always an immediate consideration and has to be a matter of urgent relief when the family of the deceased employee would have needed it. Element of immediacy has to be a sine qua non for such kind of appointment," the Gujarat High Court has observed. The Bench comprising Justice NV Anjaria and Justice Mauna Bhatt made the above remarks while hearing an...

Karnataka High Court Dismisses Habeas Corpus Plea Moved By Transgender Person After Alleged Partner Denies Relationship

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a transgender person, seeking directions to the police to produce an 18-year old girl, alleged to be his partner. A division bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice K.S.Hemalekha dismissed the petition filed by the 23-year-old after the girl, who was produced in court, made a statement that petitioner is only...

Girls Attaining Pinnacle Of Education Makes Country Proud: P&H High Court Orders Release Of Man's Passport To Travel Abroad For Daughter's Convocation

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently came to the rescue of a father precluded from attending his daughter's convocation at a foreign University, on account of impounding of his passport due to pendency of a criminal case against him.Simply because a case is pending, would not mean that a person (petitioner) would not return back to India or cannot be brought back to India, said...

Money Laundering: Madras High Court Stays ED Proceedings Against TN Fisheries Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan

The Madras High Court on Wednesday stayed, till the next date of hearing, the money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate against Minister of Fisheries, Fishermen Welfare and Animal Husbandry for the State of Tamil Nadu, Anitha Radhakrishnan. The interim relief was granted in a plea by the Minister seeking to quash the enforcement proceedings. The court also granted time...

Calcutta High Court Orders Police Authorities To Keep Vigil, Curb Kidnapping Incidents

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday personally interacted with a minor victim girl who had allegedly been kidnapped and thereafter ordered for the girl to be handed over to her parents pursuant to her request. Justice Shampa Sarkar had earlier directed the Superintendent of Police, Purba Medinipur to file a report before the Court indicating the reasons as to why the minor girl who was...

J&K&L HC Reserves Judgment On Father's Plea To Perform Last Rites Of His Son Killed In Hyderpora Encounter

The Division bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal & Justice Javed Iqbal Wani on Wednesday concluded the hearing in the plea filed by a father seeking permission to perform last rites as per religious faith for his son Amir Latief Magrey, who was killed in Hyderpora Encounter, at the graveyard where he was buried by the police....

Bombay High Court Seeks Status Report On 2008 Malegaon Blast Case From Trial Court, NIA

The Bombay High Court has directed the Special NIA court to submit a status report on the Malegaon 2008 blast trial against BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and five others. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and V G Bisht also directed the National Investigation Agency to file an affidavit within two weeks detailing the number...