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NEET-UG : Kerala High Court Dismisses Candidate's Plea Alleging OMR Sheet Manipulation
The Kerala High Court recently dismissed a plea filed by a NEET-UG 2021 candidate who alleged that the OMR sheet attached to her application number had been manipulated and sought an investigation into the same. After perusing the report submitted by the Committee constituted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Justice N. Nagaresh held: "The Committee has exhaustively considered...
PMLA Authority Can Pass Order On Attachment Of Anil Deshmukh's Assets Worth 4.2 crore, But No- Coercive Steps Till January 10 : Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Friday allowed the Adjudicating Authority under Prevention of Money Laundering Act to pass an order regarding attachment of assets belonging to former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and his family but directed that no coercive steps should be taken till January 10 or without the HC's permission. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and the Madhav Jamdar...
Plea Filed Before Patna HC Challenging Recruitment Process Of Department of Excise, Prohibition and Registration, Bihar Gov That Allowed Only CNLU Graduates To Apply
A petition has been filed before the Patna High Court challenging the notification dated December 1, 2021 wherein 31 appointments had been made to the post of Legal Consultant by the Department of Excise, Prohibition and Registration, Government of Bihar on the ground that such a recruitment process was discriminatory as it allowed only law graduates from the Chanakya National Law...
Delhi High Court Issues Directions For Revamping Security Arrangements In City Court Complexes, Appreciates Efforts Of Police And Central Paramilitary Forces
The Delhi High Court has issued a slew of directions concerning the safety and security of the city courts complexes and also for the purpose of reviewing and revamping its security arrangements.Dealing with a suo moto case registered following the gun firing incident at Rohini District Court in September this year, a Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued...
Mirzapur Web-Series: Allahabad High Court Quashes FIR Against Makers, Directors & Writers
The Allahabad High Court today quashed the First Information Report (FIR) registered against Web Series Mirzapur's producers Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani in a case registered against them alleging that the series showed Uttar Pradesh in a "bad light". A Bench of Justice MC Tripathi and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi also quashed the FIR against 'Mirzapur Series' Directors and...
Victim's Family Funded Flight Tickets For Police: Kerala HC Appoints Amici Curiae To Explore If FIR Can Be Registered Without Complaint
The Kerala High Court on Thursday appointed two amici curiae in a case where the Assistant Sub Inspector of Police (ASI) is accused of demanding a bribe for the release of two girls from a children's home to their parents. The case was registered suo motu on the basis of a news report.Justice Devan Ramachandran was distressed by the fact that the victim's family was made to finance the to and...
Karnataka High Court Stays GO Directing Educational Institutions To Collect 85% Tuition Fees As Against The Annual School Fee
The Karnataka High Court has by way of interim relief stayed the operation of the government order dated November 11, by which educational institutions were directed to collect 85 percent tuition fees as against the Annual School Fee for year 2020-21 and to adjust excess fees if collected towards academic year 2021-22. A single judge bench of Justice Ashok S Kinagi while...
"Improper Examination U/S 313 CrPC Caused Serious Prejudice": Allahabad HC Acquits Murder Accused In Prison For Over 30 Yrs
Holding that improper examination of a murder accused under Section 313 CrPC had caused serious prejudice to him and had resulted in miscarriage of justice, the Allahabad High Court recently acquitted the man (who remained in prison for over 30 years) of murder charges.The Judgment by Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Sameer Jain came in an appeal filed by a Bangladesh National, Ishaque against...
'Appeals To Our Judicial Conscience': Kerala High Court Commutes Sentence Of Man Who Killed Uncle Citing Mitigating Circumstances
The Kerala High Court recently commuted the sentence of a man who murdered his paternal uncle for assaulting his mother upon finding that there existed several mitigating circumstances in the case. Considering all the relevant factors of the case, a Division Bench of Justice Vinod K. Chandran and Justice C. Jayachandran deemed it fit to partly allow the appeal and lower the sentence imposed...
NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede And Wife File Suit Against Social Media Giants (Google, Twitter and Facebook) To Block Malicious/ Defamatory Content
Narcotics Control Bureau Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede and his wife recently approached the City Civil Court at Dindoshi seeking directions to social media giants Google and Facebook/Meta and Twitter to restrain from displaying or publishing, malicious and defamatory contents against them. In a suit accompanied by a notice of motion, Wankhede is seeking an order under section 79 of...
Delhi High Court Quashes Delisting Order Issued To Entity By Railways Without Show Cause Notice And Reasonable Opportunity To Defend
The Delhi High Court has quashed a delisting order issued to an entity by the Railways without any show cause notice and reasonable opportunity to defend itself observing that the same cannot be sustained in law. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva observed that the High Court can exercise it's jurisdiction under Article 226 in such cases where the impugned order is ex facie issued contrary to...