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Bhima Koregaon: Prof Anand Teltumbde Seeks Interim Bail To Visit Nonagenarian Mother Following His Brother's Death In An Encounter
Professor Anand Teltumbde accused in the Bhima Koregaon - Elgar Parishad case has approached the Bombay High Court seeking interim bail to visit his 92-year-old mother for 14 days following his brother - Milind's - death in an encounter. A division bench led by Justice SS Shinde sought details of Teltumbde's interim application and listed the matter for hearing on Wednesday, February...
90% Police Officers Corrupt, Incapable; Rest Can't Do All The Investigation, Time To Sensitize The Force: Madras High Court
In a contempt petition filed against a Police Inspector alleging willful disobedience of the court order, Madras High Court observed that the police department is running with 90 per cent corruptive officers as on date.Justice P. Velmurugan remarked that the Department is also plagued by police officials not having the required expertise to go forth with an investigation. According to the...
Allahabad High Court Issues Show Cause Notice To A Civil Judge For His Failure To Sign Order Sheet
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday issued a show casue notice to the Presiding Officer of the Court of Civil Judge (Junior Division), South, Lucknow, asking him as to why the disciplinary proceedings be not initiated against him for not signing the order sheet.The Bench of Justice Sangeeta Chandra directed the Civil Judge (Junior Division), South, Lucknow, Mr. Piyush Bharti to submit...
Issuance Of Faulty Test Result From Accredited Medical Laboratory Not Cheating If There Was No 'Intention To Deceive': Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday ruled that to attract the offence of cheating, the person making the false representation should have knowledge of the fallacy and yet have proceeded to represent the same to another party with the intention of deceiving them. While partly allowing a petition, Justice Sophy Thomas observed that issuance of a faulty test result from an accredited...
Allahabad High Court Directs Second Autopsy Of The Body Of Kasganj Custodial Death Victim Altaf
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday directed a second autopsy of the body of the Kasganj Custodial death Victim, Altaf by a team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi.The Bench of Justice Anjani Kumar Mishra and Justice Deepak Verma was hearing the plea moved by Chand Miyan (father of the Altaf) seeking a CBI probe and second autopsy in the...
Kerala High Court Directs To Implead Central Govt As Party To Plea For Compensating Families Of Those Who Died Of Covid-19 Abroad
The Kerala High Court on Thursday asked the State to produce on record the letter penned by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan addressed to the Prime Minister apparently seeking permission to disburse amounts from the State Disaster Funds to families of those Indians, who died abroad of Covid-19. Justice N Nagaresh also directed the petitioner to implead the Central government and the...
After Bombay High Court's Stinging Observations On DGP Appointment, Maharashtra Govt Decides To Reconsider Its Stand
Hours after the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court observed that the Maharashtra Government had gone out of its way to recommend its senior most IPS officer - Sanjay Pandey's name for Director General of Police, the State said it would reconsider its stand. Until now, the State had maintained that the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has erred in not considering Pandey's name and...
Can't Dictate Filmmakers To Use Only Decent Language In Films, They Have Artistic Discretion Limited Only By Article 19(2): Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Thursday while dismissing a plea seeking to remove Malayalam movie Churuli from OTT platform SonyLiv for its allegedly excessive use of obscene language, observed that a filmmaker has the discretion to decide what type of language should be used by the characters in his film. Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan added that as long as the language used in a movie was within...
Govt Has Authority Under Rajasthan Land Revenue Act To Regularise Unauthorised Land Conversions : High Court
The Rajasthan High Court has held that the government has authority in terms of Section 90B of the Land Revenue Act, 1956 as it stood at the relevant time and Section 90-A as it stands today to regularise unauthorised conversions of agricultural lands. The division bench of Chief Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Sudesh Bansal, observed,"Insofar as the Government's desire to regularise...
Tribunal Cannot Trespass Into Foreign Territory Rendering Finding On Caste Status: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh recently reprimanded the Jabalpur Bench of Central Administrative Tribunal for venturing into foreign territory and rendering a finding on the caste status of the Petitioner as the same was beyond its jurisdiction. The division bench comprising of Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sunita Yadav was essentially dealing with a writ petition, wherein...
'Will Summon Finance Secretary If No Positive Response By February 21': Bombay High Court On Delay In Appointment Of DRAT Chairperson
The Bombay High Court on Thursday once again pulled up the Finance Ministry for the delay in appointment of Chairperson to the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (Mumbai), and warned of summoning the Secretary, MoF. A bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik observed that they could not "allow justice to become a casualty," and sought a positive response on the appointment...