[Delhi Riots] High Court Grants Time To Prosecution For Responding To Location Proof Submitted By Accused In Bail Pleas

While dealing with two bail pleas filed on behalf of one Ankit Chaudhary alias Fauzi in the Delhi Riots cases, the Delhi High Court has granted two weeks time to the Prosecution for responding to a location chart filed by Chaudhary showing his presence on the said day in the two FIRs.Chaudhary is accused under FIR 103 and 104/2020 alleging that bodies of certain people belonging to the...

Provide Free Ration To People Without Insisting On Ration Card Till Scheme Remains In Place: High Court To Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government to continue providing free ration to people without insisting on a ration card till it's policy remains in force in the national capital.Justice Rekha Palli was dealing with a plea moved by seven families through Advocate Abhishek Anand, who had lost their jobs due to covid pandemic, seeking directions on the Delhi Government to provide...

Filing SLP Against Bail Rejection After Years 'Wrong Legal Advice'; Proper Course Is To Move HC For Bail : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that filing a special leave petition against the rejection of bail by the High Court after a long delay of years was illogical and the proper course would be to apply for bail before the High Court.The Court made this observation while hearing a petition filed after a delay of 1320 days against Allahabad High Court's 2016 order rejecting bail. A bench...

Sexual Intercourse Or Any Sexual Act By Husband With Legally Wedded Wife Not Rape Even If It Was By Force Or Against Her Wish: Chhattisgarh HC

The Chhattisgarh High Court has discharged a man of the offence of marital rape after observing that sexual intercourse or any sexual act by a husband with his legally wedded wife is not rape even if it was by force or against her wish.However, the Court went ahead to frame charges against him under sec. 377 of IPC after observing that his act of making unnatural physical relation with the...

Victim Of Sexual Offence Can't Have Any Locus To Approach Court For Quashing Of FIR: Himachal Pradesh High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently observed that a victim of a sexual offence cannot have any locus standi to approach the Court for quashing of FIR registered for the sexual assault which she had faced. The Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara was hearing a petition of a rape victim, wherein she sought quashing of FIR registered at her instance against the accused, on the grounds...

State Govt Moves Gujarat High Court Seeking Rectification Of Order Staying Section 5 Of Gujarat Freedom Of Religion Act

The Gujarat government today approached Gujarat High Court seeking rectification in its recent order (August 19) in which it stayed the operation of several sectio ofns of the Gujarat Freedom Of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021 including Section 5. The operative part of the August 19 order read as follows: "After recording the preliminary submissions and arguments advanced, we...

Fire At Nehru Place Market: Delhi High Court Directs Fire Department To Conduct Mock Drill For Identifying Shortcomings

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi Fire Services to conduct a mock drill in the Nehru Place Market, on a working day, for the purpose of identifying shortcomings for the future. The order comes in the suo moto case registered by the Court following a fire incident at a building in the market. Justice Manmohan and Justice Navin Chawla also directed that the suggestions...

Allahabad HC Imposes ₹5 Lakh Cost On Lawyer For Unauthorisedly Filing Plea On Behalf Of Absconding IPS Officer & Misleading Court

The Allahabad High Court last week imposed Rs. 5 lakh costs on an Advocate, Dr. Mukut Nath Verma after concluding that he unauthorisedly filed a writ petition on behalf of Suspended and Absconding IPS Officer Mani Lal Patidar and also levelled serious allegations against state authorities, and thereby misleading the Court. The Bench of Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani and...

Cubbon Park Vehicular Ban: Bengaluru Advocates Association Files Impleading Application at Karnataka HC, Says Lawyers Will Be Detrimentally Affected

The Association has sought to be made a respondent in the petition filed by a 5-month-old baby, seeking to ban traffic movement within & through Cubbon Park, Bengaluru.

'Can't Allow Physical Visitation Of Child Unless Parent Is Fully Vaccinated': Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court today observed that it cannot pass an order permitting physical meeting of a father with his minor son, who is living with his estranged wife, unless the former is fully vaccinated.The observation was made by Justice Rekha Palli while denying an oral request made by the father of a four year old, seeking permission to bring his son home on the occasion of...

How Can Bail Applications Be Disposed Off By Oral Orders? Anticipatory Bail Plea Can't Be Disposed off On The Same Day: Supreme Court

"An anticipatory bail plea cannot be disposed off on the same day! The courts are to pass an order posting them after 4 weeks or whenever the court has time. And they have to give reasons for any ad-interim relief!", Justice DY Chandrachud has remarked on Wednesday."I have worked at the Allahabad High Court and there are 500 bail applications listed every day! Imagine, can you dispose off...

Solitary Offence Under Prohibition Act No Ground For Preventive Detention Under PASA : Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has held that just because a solitary offence has been registered against the appellant-detenu under the Gujarat Prohibition Act, that by itself does not have any bearing on the maintenance of public order. Quashing the detention order under the Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Biren...