Real Justice Needed For The Helpless - Bombay High Court Roots For Lok Adalats To Clear Huge Backlog Of Railway Claims And Appeals

The Bombay High Court has sought constitution of Lok Adalats across various zones of the Railway Claims Tribunal (RCT) to clear the huge pendency of cases before those tribunals with a view that "Justice in real sense is imparted to helpless and hapless litigants."While passing the order on December 23, Justice Prithviraj Chavan, observed, "It is of common knowledge that most of...

Delhi High Court Rejects Suit Against Waseem Rizvi's Book 'Muhammad' For Allegedly Making Incendiary Statements Against Islam & Prophet Mohammed

The Delhi High Court has rejected a suit filed against Syed Waseem Rizvi's Book 'Muhammad' alleging that it contained various demeaning and incendiary statements about Islam, Holy Quran and Prophet Mohammed. Justice Sanjeev Narula dismissed the suit filed by Qamar Hasnain which had sought permanent injunction restraining Rizvi from making statements or publishing the impugned remarks. It...

Kidnapping And Rape Or Love Marriage: Supreme Court Summons Parties To Find A Positive Solution

In case of where a 'husband' charged with offence of kidnapping and rape against his 'wife' by the wife's family, the Supreme Court on Thursday observed that the only thing being canvassed before the Court is that the husband had some pre-marital love affairs, which can hardly be a case under Section 376, IPC. A Bench comprising Justice SK Kaul and Justice MM Sundresh made the observations in...

Delhi High Court Calls For Uniform Practice To Be Followed By Labour Courts For Deciding Inquiry Related Issue As Preliminary Issue

The Delhi High Court has called for a uniform practice to be followed by the Labour Courts in respect of deciding the inquiry related issue as a preliminary issue.Justice Pratibha M Singh was of the view that the normal procedure which ought to be adopted by Labour Courts is to first decide the validity of the domestic inquiry as a preliminary issue. The Court added that in case the the...

Specify Details Of Website, Platform Where Info On Criminal History Of Citizens Is Publicly Available: Allahabad HC To DGP

The Allahabad High Court has asked the Director-General of Police, Uttar Pradesh Police to disclose the details of the website/platform from where information regarding the criminal history of accused persons could be accessed by the public at large.The Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Om Prakash Tripathi also questioned as to why information relating to the criminal history of...

Ex-Punjab DGP Sumedh Saini Warned By Delhi Court For Attending Virtual Hearing Lying On Bed

A Delhi Court on Tuesday warned Former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini to be careful in the future after he showed up at the virtual hearing while lying on his bed.Essentially, the Special Judge, CBI, Sanjeev Aggarwal was hearing a 1994 abduction case in which Sumedh Kumar Saini is an accused and for that purpose, he had joined the proceedings through VC (Cisco Webex App).However, during...

Ludhiana Court Blast: High Court Seeks Details Of Security Arrangments In District Courts Across Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sought details of Court Complex Security Measures in place across the States of Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh.In this regard, the Registrar General of the High Court, Sanjiv Berry has written a letter to all the district and sessions Judges in Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh on the following four counts. This letter was sent within hours of the blast...

UAPA Accused In Custody For Over 2 Yrs On Allegations Of Posting About 'Sikhs for Justice Referendum' On FB: P&H High Court Grants Bail

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday granted bail to a UAPA Accused who has been booked for allegedly posting about 'Sikhs for Justice 2020 Referendum' on her Facebook account and who has been in custody for over two years and three months.The Bench of Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal referred to Apex Court's ruling in the case of Union of India versus K.A. Najeeb to observe that...

Delhi High Court Vacation Bench To Hear Extremely Urgent Cases On 27th, 29th And 31st December

The vacation bench of the Delhi High Court will hear only extremely urgent cases on 27th, 29th and 31st of December, 2021. Vacation bench will be constituted by Chief Justice DN Patel. The public notice issued in this regard states that during the ensuing winter vacations, only extremely urgent matters shall be entertained for listing through the designated mentioning link, already in use....

Interesting Observations In Kerala High Court's Judgment Upholding PM's Photo On Vaccination Certificate

The Kerala High Court has recently dismissed the petition that had sought for removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photograph from the Covid-19 vaccination certificates. There were two prayers in the plea: (i) to declare that affixing the photograph of the Prime Minister of India in the COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate of the petitioner is an infringement of his fundamental right. (ii)...

"Failure On Wife's Part To Disclose Her Mental Disorder Before Her Marriage Constituted Fraud On Husband": Delhi HC Annuls Marriage After 16 Yrs

The Delhi High Court on Friday annulled marriage between a husband and wife after 16 years observing that the failure on wife's part to disclose her mental disorder before her marriage with the husband constituted a fraud perpetrated upon him.Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh was dealing with an appeal filed by the husband challenging a Family Court order wherein his petition...

"Avoid Large Congregations, Show Restraint, Be Responsible": Delhi HC Disposes Plea Challenging Ban On Religious Gatherings On Christmas, New Year

Appealing to the people to avoid large congregations and show restraint in light of the increasing number of COVID 19 cases, the Delhi High Court on Friday disposed of the plea challenging the orders of Delhi Government imposing a complete ban on religious gatherings during Christmas and New Year at religious places of worship."We appeal to the people to avoid large congregations in the light...