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Removing Trustees & Directing Trust To Conduct Elections Is Beyond Jurisdiction Of Public Trust Registrar: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that Registrar of Public Trust has no discretionary power under the Madhya Pradesh Public Trust Act, 1951, to remove the existing Trustees and direct the Trust to conduct elections for the same. Justice Subodh Abhayankar was essentially dealing with a Writ Petition, wherein the Petitioners sought for quashing of the order dated 17.11.2021, passed...
Ansal Brothers Delayed Trial By Tampering Evidence, Can't Seek Benefit Of Old Age: Prosecution Opposes Suspension Of Sentence In Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court on Friday continued hearing the plea filed by real estate barons Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal, seeking suspension of their seven-year jail terms in the evidence tampering case in connection with the Uphaar fire tragedy that happened in the year 1997.Senior Advocate Dayan Krishnan appearing for the prosecution primarily contended that the Ansal brothers are...
Salman Khan Files Defamation Suit In City Civil Court In Connection With Panvel Land Deal
Actor Salman Khan has approached the Mumbai City Civil Court in a defamation suit against a Mumbai resident Ketan Kakkad, Twitter Inc, Google and others regarding Kakkad's remarks and videos on social media over a land parcel in Panvel. The bone of contention is a 2.5 acres plot situated beside Khan's palatial farmhouse 'Arpita Farms', in Panvel. Kakkad claims he purchased the land...
Controversy Regarding Chairmanship Of Bar Council Of Madhya Pradesh: High Court Refrains From Interfering With The Order Of BCI
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, while hearing a petition on Thursday, refrained from interfering with the proceedings initiated by the Bar Council of India regarding the controversy of Chairmanship of the Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh. The bench comprising of Chief Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice Purushendra Kumar Kaurav was essentially dealing with a Writ Petition, wherein...
Being Indian Citizen Every Girl Has Right To Live Peaceful Life: MP High Court Refuses To Quash POCSO Case Based On Compromise
"Every girl being a citizen of India has a right to live her life peacefully and without any threat to her dignity and life," observed the Madhya Pradesh High Court as it refused to quash a POCSO Case based on a compromise between the 17-year-old victim and a man, accused of stalking and harassing her for two years.The Bench of Justice G. S. Ahluwalia noted that it was a case where...
'Wholly Illegal': Calcutta High Court Quashes Decision To Outsource Services Of Contractual Employees Of Indian Statistical Institute To Gov Contractor
The Calcutta High Court on Friday came down heavily on the administration of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) for its decision to outsource the services rendered by a batch of contractual employees who had been working as gardeners since 2013 to a government contractor. The Court set aside the resolution dated January 3, 2022, which contained such a direction and further ordered that...
PG Medical Courses: MP High Court Refuses To Grant Incentive Marks To In Service Doctors Who Served In COVID Affected Districts
While holding that in the absence of specific categorization, Government Doctors and medical officers working in Civil and District Hospitals are also entitled to benefit of reservation meant for in-service doctors in the PG Medical Courses, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, however, refused to grant 10% additional/incentive marks to such doctors who had served in COVID-19...
PG Medical Courses- Grant Reservation Benefits To Dist Hospital Doctors As In-Service Candidates: MP High Court To State Govt
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that in the absence of specific categorization, Government Doctors and medical officers working in Civil and District Hospitals are also entitled to benefit of reservation meant for in-service doctors in the PG Medical Courses and the counseling to be conducted by the State Government.This ruling has come from the Division Bench of Justice Sujoy...
Sikkim High Court Issues Directions To Address Indiscriminate Felling Of Trees Under Gangtok Smart City Project
On Monday (10th January), the Sikkim High Court issued directions to the Forest, Environment and Wildlife Management Department, Government of Sikkim to prevent indiscriminate felling of trees in order to implement the Gangtok Smart City proposal. A letter petition from Kailash Pradhan, an Architect from Sikkim concerned about the erratic and rampant felling of trees in...
'Not In Public Interest': Calcutta High Court Directs Jhargram District Magistrate To Decide On Postponement Of Jangalmahal Utsav Amid Covid Surge
The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the District Magistrate, Jhargram to consider postponing the upcoming Jangalmahal Utsav, scheduled to take place across 6 districts of West Bengal from January 17- January 19, 2022, in view of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the State. The decision has to be taken within a period of 24 hours, the Court directed further. Earlier in the day,...
Bulli Bai App Creation "An Affront To Dignity Of Women Of Particular Community" : Delhi Court Denies Bail To Neeraj Bishnoi
A Delhi Court on Friday denied bail to Neeraj Bishnoi, a 21 year old arrested from Assam in connection with Bulli Bai App case observing that the act is an "affront to the dignity of the women of particular community and communal harmony of the society".Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Patiala House Court, Pankaj Sharma, denied bail to Bishnoi who, as the police claimed at the time of arrest,...