COVID-19: Doctor Moves Kerala High Court Against Proposal To Give Homeo Medicines As Immunity Booster To School Kids, Calls It 'Inhumane'

A plea has reached the Kerala High Court challenging the proposal to administer a homoeopathic drug, Arsenicum Album 30CH (Ars. Alb. 30) among school students as a preventive measure against COVID-19 without any study regarding its efficacy or safety.The petitioner claims to be a specialist in Hepatology and Liver Transplant Medicine and the recipient of the gold medal for academic excellence...

EPF Act : Supreme Court To Hear PF Commissioner's Appeal Against Direction To Pay Interest To Federal Bank After 3 Weeks

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the Special Leave Petition filed by Regional Provident Fund Commissioner challenging the KeralaHigh Court's decision directing the Commissioner to disburse the interest amount( to the tune of over Rs 53 crores) to the Federal Bank for funds retained with the Provident Fund from 1985 to 1992. Appearing for the Regional Provident...

Jharkhand High Court Extends 'No Coercive Action' Order Till December 7 In Defamation Case Against Rahul Gandhi

The Jharkhand High Court today extended the order of 'no coercive steps' against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi till December 7, in connection with a defamation case filed against him for his alleged statement, "why all thieves share the Modi surname".Essentially, the Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi extended the life of the High Court's order passed on February 27, 2020, directing that...

Gauhati High Court Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Creating 'Communal Atmosphere' Through FB Post On 'Assam Agitation'

The Gauhati High Court recently granted bail to a man, Abu Bakkar Siddique, booked for making a Facebook post that allegedly indicated that the leaders of the 1979 Assam agitation came to power of the State after killing thousands of people. Taking into account the length of detention (47 days), the Bench of Justice Hitesh Kumar Sarma was of the view that further custodial detention of...

Bhima Koregaon Violence: Bombay High Court Grants NIA Time To Respond In Anand Teltumbde's Bail Appeal

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) two weeks to respond to Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde's bail appeal. A division bench of Justice NJ Jamdar and Justice Sarang Kotwal granted NIA time and adjourned the case after two weeks. Teltumbde has filed two petitions; the first is an appeal against the special court's order rejecting his...

'No Faith In Investigation Carried Out By SIT Of UP Police': Plea Filed In Supreme Court Seeking CBI Probe Into Death Of Kanpur Realtor Manish Gupta

Wife of deceased Kanpur realtor Manish Gupta has moved the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into his death following a police raid in a Gorakhpur hotel early on September 28. The plea has also sought the trial to be conducted in a CBI Court in Delhi instead of in Uttar Pradesh to ensure a fair trial sans the interference of powerful police personnel....

Madras High Court Seeks Response From State Gov, DMK On PIL Seeking Compensation For 'False Promises' Made By State Gov On NEET

The Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Tamil Nadu government in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking compensation for students who had been adversely affected on account of the "false promises" made by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led State government regarding the 'cancellation' of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Tamil Nadu. ...

Only 6 Women Judges In High Court A Matter Of Concern : Kerala Advocate General

The swearing-in ceremony of Justices C Jayachandran, Sophy Thomas, PG Ajithkumar and CS Sudha as Additional Judges of the Kerala High Court took place virtually on Wednesday.Chief Justice S. Manikumar administered the oath of office to the respective judges. During his ceremonial felicitation address, Advocate General Gopalakrishna Kurup made notable observations regarding...

Technical Glitches Not To Hinder Grant Of Tax Refunds: Kerala High Court

While granting tax refund to a petitioner, the Kerala High Court ruled that technical glitches should not stand in the way of ultimate grant of relief by way of refund to taxpayers.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, while observing that such hindrance would affect the confidence of taxpayers to deposit the amount required under Section 129 of the State Goods and Services Tax (SGST) Act, directed...

'Gross Insubordination': Delhi Court Calls For Departmental Action Against Ahlmads Over Non-Compliance Of Order Citing Shortage Of Staff

A Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Karkardooma District Court complex has requested for initiation of departmental action against Ahlmads over their non-compliance of its previous order for issuance of process, citing the issue of staff shortage.Calling it gross insubordination and dereliction of duties, CMM Arun Kumar Garg said:"The aforesaid explanation is unacceptable...

Merely Abusing Complainant Does Not Constitute Offence U/s 504 IPC; Intention To Provoke Him To Break Public Peace Necessary: Bombay HC

The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court in a judgment has held that a mere allegation that the accused abused the complainant does not itself satisfy the ingredients of offence under section 504 of IPC. Section 504 speaks of 'Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace'. The Bench of Justice Rohit B. Deo observed that in the present case, the material on record...

Shahjahanpur Advocate Killing- BCI Directs UP Bar Council To Refrain From Abstaining From Judicial Work On Oct 20

The Bar Council Of India (BCI) addressed a letter to the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday directing the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council to withdraw its call for abstinence from judicial work by lawyers across the State on October 20 as a mark of protest against the killing of an advocate inside the Shahjahanpur District Complex."The Uttar Pradesh Bar Council is forthwith directed to to...