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Employees Eligible For Gratuity For Period Before Their Employment Is Regularised: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash an order passed by the Controlling Authority/ Appellate Authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, which directed government bodies to pay gratuity amount claimed by former employees from the time they were employed as daily wage earners till their employment was regularised. A single judge bench of Justice K S Mudagal...
"No Other Way To Mitigate Ecological & Environmental Degradation In City": High Court Stays Felling Of Trees In Delhi As An Interim Measure
As an interim measure, the Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed further felling of trees in the city observing that there is no other way to mitigate the ecological and environmental degradation.Justice Najmi Waziri, who was hearing a contempt plea concerning felling of trees, stayed the said exercise by the authorities till June 2, the next date of hearing.Noting that ex-facie, it was...
Allahabad HC Quashes Service Dismissal Order Passed Against Police Constable Who Allegedly Misbehaved With SO In Inebriated State
The Allahabad High Court last week quashed an order passed against an Uttar Pradesh Police Constable removing him from service allegedly because he entered into an argument with the Station Officer in an inebriated state.The Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma observed that the finding, that the Constable was in a drunken state, was arrived at simply because the petitioner was smelling...
Gyanvapi Mosque Dispute: Varanasi Court Receives Survey Report, Invites Objection From Parties; Next Hearing On May 23
The Gyanvapi Mosque Survey report was today submitted to Varanasi civil judge (senior division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar, pursuant to Court's May 17th Order.The comprehensive report has been compiled by a court-appointed commission after surveying the Mosque premises on May 14, 15, and 16. The Court has now invited objections to the report from both sides in the matter.Earlier, the Court had decided...
Teacher Recruitment Scam: Calcutta HC Orders Police Commissioner To Be Present At Kolkata Airport Today Evening To Take WB Minister Paresh Adhikari Directly To CBI Office
The Calcutta High Court today directed the Police Commissioner of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate to be present at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Airport, Kolkata on Thursday evening so that Minister of State for School Education Paresh Chandra Adhikari can be directly taken from the airport to the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata for questioning over the alleged illegal appointment of...
Delhi High Court Sets Aside Delhi Govt's Doorstep Ration Delivery Scheme
The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside scheme of the Delhi Government for doorstep delivery of ration. A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh delivered the verdict in the pleas filed by Delhi Sarkari Ration Dealers Sangh and Delhi Ration Dealers Union, opposing the scheme.The Bench however said that the Delhi Government is entitled to frame a...
No Valid Sale Under Law If Notice Of Sale On Which Parties Acted Upon Has Been Set Aside: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that when the notice of sale based on which the parties bid for property has been set aside, it can be presumed that there is no valid sale under the law. Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas thereby dismissed the plea which had sought a direction to the respondent to confirm the sale of the property auctioned by the petitioners after accepting the balance...
Teacher Recruitment Scam: Calcutta HC Directs WB Minister Paresh Adhikari To Appear Before CBI At 3PM Over Alleged Illegal Appointment Of Daughter
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed Minister of State for School Education Paresh Chandra Adhikari to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by 3pm today over the alleged appointment of his daughter as a teacher in a government-aided school.The direction was issued on a petition by a candidate who had alleged that she was deprived of the job despite having secured...
Trial Court Has Power To Modify Orders Of Custody & Disposal Of Property Pending Trial U/S 451 CrPC As Per Changed Circumstances: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that the Trial Court would not be powerless to modify orders of custody and disposal of property pending trial as provided under sec. 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as per changed circumstances. Justice Asha Menon added that the power to modify orders passed under sec. 451 Cr.P.C. is inherent in the provision as the purpose is only safe custody...
SSC Recruitment Scam: Justices Harish Tandon & Rabindranath Samanta Recuse From Hearing State's Appeal Against Deployment Of CRPF In SSC Office
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday recused from hearing an appeal preferred by the State government against a Single Bench order directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take assistance of central forces to secure the West Bengal School Service Commission (SCC) building in Kolkata over claims of evidence tampering pertaining to the case of alleged...
False Rape Case: Madhya Pradesh High Court Says Prosecutrix Must Be Asked To Refund Compensation Paid By State
The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently directed the trial court to issue direction against the Prosecutrix in a rape case to refund the compensation she had received from the State Government because she had admitted in her statement that she had lodged a false report against the accused. Deciding the bail application moved by the Applicant/accused, Justice Vivek...
Kashmiri Separatist Leader Yasin Malik Convicted In J&K Terror Funding Case After He Pleads Guilty
A Special NIA Court in Delhi on Thursday convicted Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, after he pleaded guilty in connection with Jammu & Kashmir terror funding case.The arguments on quantum of sentence will be heard on May 25. The Court has sought an affidavit from Malik regarding his financial assets. Meanwhile, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also been asked to submit a...