Sexual Offences: Delhi High Court Seeks Report From DSLSA Over Payment Of Compensation To Victims

The Delhi High Court has sought details from the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) regarding payment and non payment of compensation to victims in relation to the FIRs pertaining to sexual offences.Justice Jasmeet Singh was dealing with a bunch of pleas wherein a predecessor bench had earlier sought to streamline the process of supplying FIRs pertaining to commission of sexual...

'Tareekh Pe Tareekh' Sought Despite Specific Directions: MP High Court Directs Centre To Release Compensation To Senior Citizens For Resuming Their Property

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench recently directed the Union of India to release the amount of compensation awarded to Petitioners, senior citizens, for their Bungalow that was resumed by the Ministry of Defence for their own purposes. The Court observed that the Union of India was dragging its feet in paying the amount to the Petitioners despite its specific directions to...

Moynaguri Sexual Assault: Calcutta HC Recommends Police Investigation Supervised By Senior IPS Officer As Victim's Father Opposes CBI Probe

A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday interacted in person with the father of the deceased minor victim upon whom an attempt to rape had been committed at Moynaguri in West Bengal last month. The purpose was to ascertain whether his request to now allow a CBI investigation in the matter is out of his own free will or due to political pressure. The minor victim girl who had...

"Defamatory": Delhi High Court Directs Twitter To Take Down 5 More Tweets Posted By Historian Audrey Truschke Against Vikram Sampath

The Delhi High Court has directed micro blogging site Twitter to take down five more tweets posted by historian Audrey Truschke against historian Dr. Vikram Sampath over alleged plagiarism with respect to his two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.Justice Amit Bansal was of the view that the tweets in question were defamatory in nature and that there was a link posted in the said...

Trees Only Hope Of Environmental Redemption In Commercialized Cities, Must Not Be Cut Needlessly: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that trees hold out as welcome and assuring living entities of hope, sanity, environmental redemption and even companionship and that they must not be allowed to be cut needlessly or wantonly. Justice Najmi Waziri observed thus:"In this capital city with its ever-bourgeoning populating, the cacophony of voices and rampant commercialization of every other...

Karnataka High Court Dismisses Challenge To Law Validating Recruitment Of 362 KPSC Gazetted Probationers Of 2011 Batch

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed a petition filed seeking to declare the Karnataka Civil Services (Validation of Selection and Appointment of 2011 Batch Gazetted Probationers) Act 2022 as unconstitutional, illegal and void.Through the said Act, the government has validated the recruitment of 362 gazetted 'probationers' of the 2011 batch, selected by the Karnataka Public...

LeT Terrorist On Death Row To Argue Appeal In Person: Calcutta HC Orders To Shift Him To Presidency Jail, Extends Police Protection, Appoints Amicus

A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was produced before the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday from Tihar Correctional Home in New Delhi as he has expressed his desire to argue in person his appeal against the order of conviction and death sentence imposed upon him. A Bench comprising Justice Bivas Pattanayak and Justice Joymalya Bagchi conducted a hearing on a vacation day considering the urgency...

[Video Call Facility For Prison Inmates] Was There Any Security Breach When It Was Permitted? Bombay High Court Asks State

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra Government if there was any breach of security when video calls were allowed for prison inmates during the pandemic, while hearing a PIL filed by the Peoples Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) seeking resumption of the video calling facility. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice VG Bisht directed to the...

Fake Indian Passports Held By Srilankan Nationals: Madras High Court Directs UIDAI To Share Details Of 35 Aadhaar Cards With 'Q' Branch-CID

The Madras High Court has recently directed the Deputy Director, UIDAI to furnish details of 35 Aadhaar Cards sought by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, "Q" Branch CID, Chennai City. Justice G Jayachandran made the above order on a plea by the Deputy Superintendent following rejection of his request by the UIDAI, seeking information about the Aadhaar Card Numbers along with...

Reassessment Should Only Be Done By Officer Or His Successor And Not By Any Officer Of The Same Rank : Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court bench of Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice Rajendra M. Saraen, while invalidating the reassessment initiated by the DRI, held that the officer who did the assessment could only undertake reassessment. The petitioner/assessee is a private limited company and is in the business of trading and manufacturing goods like inkjet printers, laser printers, and parts as...

Non-Supply Of Vital Documents To Detenue Hampers His Right To Make Representation: J&K&L High Court Quashes Preventive Detention Order

Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently quashed a preventive detention order declaring it to be illegal on ground that all important documents related to the matter were not provided to the detenue. Justice Sanjay Dhar observed: "Contention of the petitioner that whole of the material relied upon by the detaining authority, while framing the grounds of detention, has not been supplied...

Karnataka High Court Monthly Digest: April 2022 [Citations 98 - 144]

Nominal Index:P.C.Padmamba v Channaveeramma R, 2022 Livelaw (Kar) 98 Rehan Khan v. Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 99 A B Devaraju and Others v. State of Karnataka 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 100 NANJAPPA v. STATE BY CHIKKAJALA POLICE STATION 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 101 Faheem Ahmed V Union Of India 2022 Livelaw (Kar) 102Xxxxxxxx V The Registrar General 2022 LiveLaw...