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Varanasi Court Calls For UP Govt Response On Plea Of 5 Hindu Women Seeking To Worship Inside Gyanvapi Complex
Entertaining a plea filed by 5 women seeking performance of Darshan, Pooja of the deities inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex, a local court in Varanasi on Wednesday sought responses from the Uttar Pradesh government, Gyanvapi mosque committee and Board of Trustees of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Emphasizing that the suit was being instituted to protect right to religion guaranteed...
Political Party Members Constitute A 'Community' Within Meaning Of S. 125 Of Representation Of People Act: Jharkhand High Court
The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday ruled that members of a political party constitute a community within the meaning of Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act of 1951. The Bench of Justice Anubha Rawat Choudhary held thus while dismissing a criminal revision petition moved by petitioners who were convicted for burning the banner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by...
Elderly COVID Patient Missing From Hospital- "Matter Of Serious Concern, Trace Him Before Aug 27": Allahabad HC Raps Authorities
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rapped the Prayagraj District Administration, Police, and the TB Sapru Hospital administration (Prayagraj) in a case pertaining to the missing of a COVID Patient (82-year-old) although more than three months have passed since a missing report had been registered.The Bench of Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Justice Piyush Agrawal was hearing a Habeas...
PASA Sword Hanging Over Traders Can't Be Permitted To Continue, Citizens Can't Be Left In Lurch: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday observed that when the State on the whole and the economy, in particular, is trying to regain the momentum post COVID, the Court can't allow that the sword of PASA Act remains hanging over the traders in connection with GST matters. The Bench of Justice Paresh Upadhyay was hearing the matter of the petitioners apprehending detention under PASA...
Vikas Dubey Encounter- "No Suspicion/Doubt About Police Version": Judicial Commission Gives Clean Chit To UP Police
A three-member commission approved by the Supreme Court to probe into the encounter of gangster Vikas Dubey has given a clean chit to Uttar Pradesh police, stating that no suspicion or doubt arises about the police version of the encounter.The report of the probe panel led by its Chairman, Dr. Justice B S Chauhan was tabled before the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly on Thursday. Retired...
Foreigners' Detention Centre: Gauhati High Court Grants 45 Days To Assam Govt For Completing Construction, Shifting Detenues
In a petition concerning detention of foreign illegal migrants, the Gauhati High Court recently granted 45 days' time to the Assam Government for completing the construction of a detention centre at Matia, Goalpara and shifting of detenues to the same thereafter.Justice Kalyan Rai Surana also directed the Secretary of Assam Government, Home and Political Department to file an updated...
"Citizens' Freedom At Stake; Need To Educate Officers Where State's Territory Ends": Gujarat High Court Raps SDM For Exceeding Jurisdiction
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on the State's authorities for encroaching upon the liberty of citizens by externing people from the Union territories (outside the Gujarat State's Jurisdiction), upon which they do not have any jurisdiction. The Bench of Justice Paresh Upadhyay was hearing a challenge to the order passed by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate,...
'Relationship Protected And Permitted By Constitution': Madras High Court Reunites Transman And Woman Forcibly Separated By Woman's Father
The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court last week reunited a transman and his lover by directing the release of his 23 year old lover, Revathi, from the unlawful custody of her father. The Court was adjudicating upon a habeas corpus petition moved by the petitioner transman alleging illegal detention and confinement of his lover Revathi and accordingly sought the Court's leave to set his...
Persons Who Fled To Assam During WB Post Poll Violence Provided Temporary Relief; Left To Their Homes: State Urges Gauhati HC To Close PIL
The State of Assam has informed the Gauhati High Court that 70 displaced persons who had fled from West Bengal to Assam in view of post-poll violence were provided with temporary shelter, food and medicines by the district administration while maintaining Covid-19 protocols.The State also informed that the affected people have now left to their homes and since there is no more influx in...
Exercise Of Power U/S 319 CrPC: "Primacy To Be Given To Evidence Recorded During Trial Over Material Collected During Investigation": Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has recently observed that for the purpose of the exercise of power under Section 319 of the CrPC, the evidence recorded by the court during trial is to be accorded primacy over the material collected during investigation. Observing thus, the Bench of Justice Yogendra Kumar Srivastava said: "The contention which has been sought to be raised placing...
A Party To Dispute Cannot Nominate Arbitrator Even If The Arbitration Agreement Allows It: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has held that neither a party to an Arbitration Agreement nor a person nominated by it can be nominated an arbitrator, even if the agreement expressly allows the same. With this notion, the Court went on to disregard the stipulations of the arbitration clause to the extent to which it allowed the lessor(respondent) to nominate the Arbitrator when the parties failed...