Calcutta High Court Weekly Round-Up: 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 49 to 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 58

Nominal Index Rajib Paul v. The State of West Bengal and Anr 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 49Rakesh Kumar Singh v. Director, Alipore Zoological Garden & Ors 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 50 Anindita Mandal v. The State of West Bengal & Ors 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 51 Md. Abdul Gani Ansari v. State of West Bengal & Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Cal) 52Iti Pandit v. The Union of India and Ors 2022 LiveLaw (Cal)...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Reservation For Transgender Persons In All Public Appointments In Delhi

The Delhi High Court last week issued a notice to the Delhi Government and sought its reply on a plea seeking, inter alia, reservations for transgender persons in all public appointments in the NCT of Delhi.The Bench of Justice V. Kameswar Rao issued a notice to the Delhi Government and directed it to file a counter affidavit within four weeks.The plea moved by Jane Kaushik, a transgender...

Slum Development Schemes To Rehabilitate Encroachers On Same Land A Mockery Of Public Trust Doctrine; Must Be Done Away With: Bombay HC

Municipal authorities cannot be "pawns at the hands of land mafia and elected representatives," and encourage encroachment of public land for extraneous reasons, the Bombay High Court observed in a landmark judgement on illegal construction and building collapses in Maharashtra. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni criticised the Slum Rehabilitation Policy...

Hijab Row | 'Enforcing Uniformity At The Cost Of Religious Beliefs In Stark Contrast To Plurality': NALSAR Students, Alumni Condemn Discriminatory Actions In Karnataka

The Executive Council of the Student Bar Council, a group of alumni and students of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad has expressed their condemnation over the discriminatory actions of the State Government and several educational institutions in Karnataka. In a statement released recently, they have also communicated that they stand in solidarity with the Muslim women who have been...

Rajasthan HC Issues Guidelines For Test Identification Parade In POCSO Cases, Orders Lower Courts For Immediate Implementation in POCSO Trials

In a significant ruling, the Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur has issued guidelines for Test Identification Parade (TIP) in POCSO Cases. The court ruled that special Judges of POCSO Act cases and all the District & Sessions Judges of the State shall ensure the immediate implementation of this order amongst all the judicial officers and all courts in their respective...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Grants Stay Against State Govt. Policy Of Increasing OBC Reservation From 14% To 27% In Ayush PG Entrance Test

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh recently granted stay against the policy of the State Government to increase the reservation for the OBC category from 14% to 27%, for admission in the All India Ayush Postgraduate Entrance Test, 2021. The division bench of Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Manindar Singh Bhatti was essentially dealing with a writ petition filed by...

Delhi High Court Notifies Rules Governing Patent Suits; Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022

The Delhi High Court has notified the High Court Of Delhi Rules Governing Patent Suits, 2022 and Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022.Delhi High Court Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022The Rules have been made in exercise of the powers conferred by sec. 7 of the Delhi High Court Act, 1966; sec. 129 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and...

Social Media Posts Against HC, SC Judges: AP High Court Grants Bail To 2 Advocates, Denies Bail To A Software Engineer

The Andhra Pradesh High Court last week denied bail to a software engineer who has been accused of making wild and reckless allegations against the High Court Judges of the High Court and the Judges of the Supreme Court.The Bench of Justice Cheekati Manavendranath Roy, however, granted bail to two advocates taking into account the fact that they tendered an apology that was already accepted...

Slum Rehabilitation Laws Being Misused To Further Interests Of "Haves"; Vicious Nexus : Bombay High Court CJ

Chief Justice Dipankar Datta of the Bombay High Court, in a three page separately penned portion of the judgement in a suo motu PIL, has expressed concerns about a "vicious nexus" of builders and bureaucrats misusing the slum rehabilitation laws.In his judgement,CJ Dutta has invoked Alice in Wonderland, a famous song from a 1956 Hindi movie, and the falling moral values of public officers...

To Classify Detenue As 'Notorious Stone Pelter' Not Sufficient To Invoke Preventive Detention Powers: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday quashed a detention order passed against one Shabir Ahmad Malik as it noted that to classify the detenu as a 'notorious stone pelter' cannot be sufficient to invoke the statutory powers of the preventive detention.Having perused the grounds of detention, the Bench of Justice Tashi Rabstan found no cogent explanation as regards the...

Motor Accident | "Insurance Co. Can't Raise License Validity Issue In Appeal If It Wasn't Pleaded Before Tribunal": J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently dismissed an appeal moved by an Insurance company wherein it had challenged the award made by Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal on the ground that the offending vehicle was being driven by the driver, who was not holding a valid driving licence.The Bench of Justice Rajnesh Oswal observed that since the appellant-Insurance Company had not...

'Citizenship Kept In Limbo' : Plea In Gauhati High Court Challenges Withholding Of NRC Rejection Orders As Parties Can't File Appeals

A writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution has been filed before the Gauhati High Court seeking directions for issuance of rejection orders for inclusion in the National Register of Citizens, Assam (NRC) so that the petitioners can avail their statutory right to appeal against exclusion from the NRC. Pertinently, the petitioners have also sought for a stay on the mandatory...