Punjab & Haryana High Court Imposes 1K Cost On Lawyer For Abstaining From Work, Allows Cost Recovery From Bar Association

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Monday, imposed 1,000/- cost on a lawyer who had abstained from work on the very day his application seeking early hearing of a case was listed before the court.The Bench of Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan noted that the Courts are working through virtual mode with great difficulties, and even then the lawyers had abstained from work on August 11, 2021.The...

MeitY Can't Be Saddled With Duty To Regulate Online Gambling Websites, Lotteries; Issue Falls Under State List: Centre Tells Delhi High Court

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology cannot be saddled with the duty to regulate online gambling websites or lotteries as the issue falls within the domain of State- 'Betting and Gambling' being State subjects.The development comes in a petition seeking to ban gambling/gaming websites and lotteries from operating in the country....

Dismal Physical State Apart, He Is Also A Psychological Wreck: Delhi HC Awards 20 Lacs Compensation To Man Who Became Bed-Ridden After Falling From An Electric Pole

The Delhi High Court has awarded a compensation of ₹20 lakh to a man who became bed-ridden after he fell from an electric pole in 2014 while performing his job as an electrician at M/s BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL). Apart from the monetary relief, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani went on to direct the State of Uttar Pradesh to continue treating the 28-year old as a person with...

[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.