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Court Can Interfere In Unconditional Bank Guarantee Only When There Isn't A Slightest Possibility Of Amount's Restitution: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court has recently observed that there can be no interference with an unconditional bank guarantee except when fraud is established or apprehension of irretrievable injustice is demonstrated. The Bench of Justice G. S. Patel observed that while a bank guarantee's encashment or realization has a localized adverse effect on the bank, this must be set against, and...
NGT Directs Odisha Government To Notify Elephant Corridors Within Two Months
The National Green Tribunal, East Zone Bench, Kolkata has directed the Odisha state government to notify the elephant corridors in terms of the elephant corridors as identified by the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF) and the Action Plan on the the time-line for implementation of the recommendations made by the ANCF, within a period of two months.Judicial Member, Justice B....
COVID- Delhi High Court To Resume Limited Physical Hearings From August 31, District Courts From August 24
Preponing it's earlier schedule, full Court of the Delhi High Court has resolved to resume limited physical hearings in the High Court as well as the District Courts from August 31 and August 24 respectively.The office orders issued on Thursday modifies the earlier order issued by the Court which had stated that Physical hearings in the Delhi High Court as well as the District Courts will...
'Headless, Defunct Without Qualified Incumbents': Delhi High Court Expresses Dismay Over Delay In Filling Up DRT Vacancies
The Delhi High Court recently condemned the delay by the Central Government in appointing Presiding officers to Debt Recovery Tribunals across the country, and sought the Department's response in this regard within a week. A Division Bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Jasmeet Singh remarked as such:"...the real problem being faced by the DRTs today is that they are headless and more...
Madras High Court Pulls Up Police For Non-Responsive Conduct; Says Exaggerated & Stereotyped Allegations Are Commonplace Nowadays
While granting regular/ anticipatory bail to various persons accused in an incident of ransacking the police station, the Madras High Court took judicial notice of the fact that most of the criminal complaints in the State are being registered with exaggerated versions. It noted that almost every complaint in the State is registered with the offence under Section 506(ii) [Criminal...
Gangubhai Kathiawadi Movie : Bombay High Court Stays Criminal Defamation Proceedings Against Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Alia Bhatt, Bhansali Productions
The Bombay High Court has temporarily stayed defamation proceedings against the makers of the film Gangubai Kathiawadi, including the film's director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and lead actor Alia Bhatt. The movie is based on a chapter of the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai. Justice Revati Mohite Dere issued notice to the respondents and granted a stay on the proceedings before the trial...
Right To Be Forgotten: Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Plea By Acquitted Businessmen Seeking Removal Of Judgment, News Articles From Internet
The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea filed by two businessmen acquitted in a forgery case, invoking their right to be forgotten and seeking removal of the concerned judgment and news articles from internet.The petitioners were aggrieved by the continued availability of online articles regarding their past arrest and trial despite their having been acquitted from the charges....
'Incidents Of Violence Even If Isolated, Not Good For Healthy Democracy': Calcutta High Court On West Bengal Post Poll Violence
A 5-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice IP Mukerji, Justice Harish Tandon, Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Subrata Talukdar on Thursday pronounced the verdict in a batch of petitions alleging State inaction against the alleged acts of violence unleashed by members of ruling Trinamool Congress party on those who supported the BJP during...
High Court Directs Karnataka Govt. To Consider Compensating Parents Of A School Child Who Died Of Electrocution While Erecting Flagpole
The Karnataka High Court has directed the State government to immediately consider offering compensation to the parents of a 15 years old boy who died of electrocution when an iron pole on which he was preparing to hoist the national flag on Independence Day came in contact with a live electric cable. The boy succumbed to death when he came in contact with overhead wires in the premises of...
Allahabad High Court Sets Aside Uttar Pradesh Govt's Order Designating Gond Sub-Castes Under ST Category
The Allahabad High Court last week set aside the order of the Uttar Pradesh government under which two Gond sub-castes — Nayak and Ojha were designated in the category of Scheduled Tribes (ST).The Bench of Acting Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice Rajendra Kumar-IV held that it was not permissible for the UP Government to refer to the caste Gond or its synonyms /...
'Report Still Awaited': Delhi High Court To RML Hospital On Joining Of Two Youngsters For Community Service In Order To 'Sober Them Down'
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital seeking a status report on joining of two youngsters who were directed to do a month's community service in the hospital, in order to sober them down. The direction was made while quashing a criminal case against them.Justice Subramonium Prasad had sought status report from the Hospital on July 6. However, since the same...