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Govt Jobs: PIL In Rajasthan High Court Seeks Source Of Answer Keys Used In Recruitment Exams, Suggests Overall Reforms In Process
The Rajasthan High Court has recently issued notice on a public interest litigation filed by Utkarsh Classes seeking disclosure of detailed syllabus and issuance of source of reference from which the question has been asked and the answer of the same has been relied upon in various recruitment examinations conducted by the state. Justice Vijay Bishnoi and Justice Rekha...
Bhima Koregaon: Umar Khalid Claims He Was Invited To Elgar Parishad By Former Judge Of Bombay High Court
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) submitted a bunch of additional documents and witness statements to the court in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad Case, in which student rights activist Umar Khalid claims that he heard that BJP-RSS persons had attacked visitors at the Bhima-Koregaon, near Pune. On January 1, 2018 several Dalit's had gathered to commemorate a...
Plea In Delhi High Court Challenges Vires Of Waqf Act, Seeks Uniform Law For Charitable Institutions & Religious Endowments
A public interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking uniform law for Trust and Trustees, Charities and Charitable Institutions and Religious Endowments and Institutions and challenges the vires of sec. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 of the Waqf Act, 1995 as being manifestly arbitrary and irrational.Moved by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, the plea also seeks direction on the...
Former Judge Of Patna, Gujarat HCs Justice J. N. Bhatt Passes Away
Former judge of Gujarat and Patna High Courts, Justice J. N. Bhatt has passed today. He was 76. Justice Bhatt was born on October 16, 1945, at Jamnagar in the Family of Lawyers, Justice Bhatt passed M.Com. L.L.M. (Gold Medalist) University First in D.T.L.P. and D.L.L.P. and Ph. D. in Law. Justice Bhatt enrolled as an Advocate on August 1, 1968, he joined the office of the Government Pleader,...
Allahabad HC Frowns Upon Law Students 'Flooding' Court With PILs Based On Internship Projects, Failure To Pursue Case Thereafter
Referring to the practice of law students filing Public Interest Litigation (PIL) pleas in the High Court based on their internship projects and thereafter not pursuing the matters, the Allahabad High Court recently frowned upon such students as it remarked that the Court can't be made a dumping ground for pushing all such internship reports.The Bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and...
Allahabad High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Reorientation Of Teacher-Student Ratio In Schools Run By UP's Basic Education Dept
The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh Government to take a decision for reorientation of the teacher-student ratio in the Schools being run by the Department Of Basic Education in Uttar PradeshThe Bench of Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Jaspreet Singh perused the pleadings and noted that...
Compliance Of Pre-Deposit Under Section 43(5) Of The RERA Act Mandatory To Be Complied Before Entertainment Of Appeal In A Tribunal: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has observed that the statutory compliance of a pre-deposit under Section 43(5) of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 ("the Act") by a 'promoter' before the entertainment of an appeal in an Appellate Tribunal is mandatory. A Single-judge Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Agarwal, by an order dated 12.04.2022, rendered this observation...
Mandatory To Place Report Of Further Investigation Carried Out U/S 173 (8) CrPC Before Magistrate: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that in cases where a further investigation has been carried out then irrespective of its outcome, such further investigation report is required to be placed before the Court of Magistrate.The Bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri observed thus while relying upon the ruling of Supreme Court recent ruling in the case of Luckose Zachariah @ Zak Nedumchira Luke...
Quantum Of Debt Not To Be Decided At The Stage Of Admission Of A Section 7 Petition Under IBC: NCLAT,Delhi
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ("NCLAT") Bench comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan (Chairperson), Dr. Alok Srivastava (Technical Member) and Ms. Shreesha Merla (Technical Member), while adjudicating an appeal filed in the matter of Rajesh Kedia v Phoenix ARC Pvt. Ltd., has held that the quantum of debt is not be considered at the stage of admission of a petition under Section...
Arbitration Agreement Not Discharged By Death Of A Party And Is Enforceable Against The Legal Representatives: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has ruled that an arbitration agreement will not be discharged by the death of a party and it will be enforceable by or against the legal representatives of the deceased party. The Single Bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava held that though the legal representatives were not signatories to the arbitration agreement, but being the legal...
Panchayat Has No Authority To Decide Question Of Revenue Entries As It Lies In Domain Of Revenue Authority Of State Of Rajasthan: High Court
The Rajasthan High Court observed that Panchayat has no authority to decide the question of the revenue entries as the same lies in the domain of the revenue authority of the State of Rajasthan. Justice Vineet Kumar Mathur, observed, "Thus, the revenue entries in the name of petitioner as stand today creates no doubt with respect to the title of the land in question. It is also...
Witness Examined U/S 165 Evidence Act Is Required To Be Cross Examined To Elicit Further Truth/Other Relevant Facts: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that when a witness is examined/questioned under Section 165 of the Indian Evidence Act in a given case, then he/she is required to be cross-examined to elicit further truth/other relevant facts.The Bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri observed thus while allowing a plea filed by a rape accused whose application moved to summon and cross-examine...