'No Imminent Threat': Rajasthan High Court Directs SP To Consider Postgraduate Woman's Protection Plea

The Rajasthan High Court disposed of a plea filed by a postgraduate woman raising grievance that she wants to pursue her studies, whereas she is being harassed by the police as her father has lodged a missing person report. Being a resident of Ganganagar, the petitioner is presently residing as a paying guest at Jodhpur and wants to continue her study. In this regard, she prayed...

Second Section 9 Application, Relief Can't Be Granted As It Would Amount To Main Relief In Arbitration :Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has ruled that once an application under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A&C Act) seeking interim measures has been disposed of, a subsequent similar application seeking similar reliefs, which were already dealt with in the earlier proceedings, is not maintainable. The Bench, consisting of Justices N.V. Anjaria and Samir J. Dave,...

Wife's Transfer Petition Can Be Allowed If Husband's Offer To Pay Conveyance Charges For Attending Hearings Not Bonafide: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has recently ruled that even if the husband offers to pay the conveyance charges for the wife to appear for the family court hearings, if such an offer seems to have been made without bona fides, it can order for the case to be transferred to the Family Court near the residence of the wife. Justice A. Venkateshwara Reddy ruled that although it is settled that a wife...

[I-Site v. Eye Site] "Phonetic Identity" An Important Index To Test Deception: Delhi High Court Grants Relief To Sun Pharma

The Delhi High Court has observed that the phonetic identity or similarity is an important index of similarity or deceptive similarity of one mark against the other competing mark and that the tests of phonetic, visual and structural similarity or identity are disjunctive and not conjunctive.Justice Jyoti Singh was dealing with a suit for permanent injunction filed by Sun...

Insufficiency Of The Stamp Duty On The Arbitration Agreement Is A Jurisdictional Issue Under Section 16 Of The A&C Act: Delhi High Court

The High Court of Delhi has held that the sufficiency of the stamp duty on the arbitration agreement is a jurisdictional issue under Section 16 of the A&C Act. The Single Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula has held that an objection as to the deficiency in the stamp duty shall be decided as a preliminary issue since the inadequately stamped arbitration agreement can neither be taken...

"Numbers Are Mind Boggling": Bombay High Court Observes About Child Marriages In 16 Tribal Districts In Maharashtra

Three thousand children born out of child marriages were found to be severely malnourished, while six hundred and one children born out of such unisons died in the past three years, an expert committee formed by the Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court on Monday. A survey conducted by ASHA Workers and Anganwadi workers found that a total of 15,000 severely or...

S.167(2) CrPC | 'Date of Remand' To Be Excluded From Calculation Of Statutory Period For Granting 'Default Bail': Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has reiterated that while counting the statutory period for the purpose of grant of 'default bail' under Section 167(2), Cr.P.C., the 'date of remand' has to be excluded. A Single Judge Bench of Justice Bibhu Prasad Routray held, "Law is no more res integra on this issue. Recently in the case of M. Ravindran v.Intelligence Officer, Directorate of...

CIRP Cannot Be Initiated Over Undecided Claims Or Unstamped And Unregistered Agreements: NCLT Cuttack

The National Company Law Tribunal ("NCLT"), Cuttack Bench comprising of Shri P. Mohan Raj (Judicial Member) Shri Satya Ranjan Prasad (Technical Member), while adjudicating a petition under Section 9 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ("IBC") filed in the matter of Smarkworks Coworking Spaces Pvt. Ltd. v Turbot HQ India Pvt. Ltd., has held that Corporate Insolvency...

Orissa High Court Gives Direction To Resolve Dispute Between NALCO & Mahanadi Coalfields Regarding Coal Supply; Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar and Justice Radha Krishna Pattanaik of the Orissa High Court has given direction to the Secretaries of the Departments of Coal, Power and Mines and the Managing Directors (MDs) of the National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO) and the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) to hold a meeting to resolve the ongoing dispute regarding supply of...

Details Of Funds In Possession Not Necessary In A Plaint For Specific Performance Of Sale Deed: Kerala High Court

Those aspects are matters of evidence, which need not be specifically pleaded.

Centre Says 'No Conspiracy' Behind Mamata Banerjee's Flight Turbulence, Calcutta High Court Seeks Sealed Cover Report

The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the Centre to file a report in a sealed cover on the investigation into the incident of mid-air turbulence experienced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's chartered flight on March 4.On March 4, Banerjee was returning to Kolkata from Varanasi after an election campaign. She boarded a chartered flight but faced air turbulence just before landing at...

Judicial Officer's Wife Lodges FIR Against Advocate Who Accused Officer Of Taking Bribe: Allahabad HC Directs SSP To Monitor Probe

The Allahabad High Court today ordered the Senior Superintendent of Police, Muzaffar Nagar to personally monitor the investigation in an FIR by the wife of a Judicial Officer against an advocate, who accused the Judicial Officer of taking a bribe to pass favorable orders.The bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rajnish Kumar however refused to transfer the case to any...