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'Display Women Helpline Number In Public Transport' : Calcutta HC Issues Directions To Ensure Women Safety, Recommends Sensitisation Programmes In Schools
The Calcutta High Court recently issued a host of directions to ensure the safety and security of women and transgender persons travelling in public transport buses. The plea moved before the Court contended that women are frequently harassed and sometimes sexually assaulted while travelling in such public buses and thus sought directions from the Court in this regard. An intervening plea...
Punjab And Haryana High Court Orders Inquiry Into Tweets Against Court, Judge
The Punjab and Haryana High Court earlier this week ordered an inquiry into a series of tweets allegedly made against the court. The Bench of Justice Raj Mohan Singh has set a three-week deadline for its Registrar-Vigilance to enquire into the tweets enquired. Case in brief Petitioner Vishali Kapoor was granted anticipatory bail by the High Court in a case registered for the...
ISRO Espionage Case - Concerns Of Kerala Police At That Stage Can't Be Said To Be Without Any Basis : Kerala High Court
While granting anticipatory bail to four accused officers, the High Court said that certain suspicious circumstances pointing towards ISRO scientists induced officers to proceed against them.
Local Body Elections Deferred Due To COVID Spike: State Govt Tells Karnataka High Court
The State Government on Friday informed the Karnataka High Court that the cabinet decision dated May 17, suggesting postponement of the elections of all the local bodies till December 2021, was taken considering the fact that a large number of positive cases of covid-19 were reported on that day from all districts of Karnataka. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice N...
Viju Abraham And CP Mohammed Nias Sworn In As Additional Judges In Kerala High Court
Advocates Viju Abraham and C.P. Mohammed Nias were sworn in as Additional Judges in the Kerala High Court on Friday.Chief Justice S Manikumar administered the oath for both the newly appointed Judges. The President of India had earlier notified the appointment of the said Advocates as Additional Judges of High Court for a period of two years with effect from the date they assume...
Delay In Pronouncing Judgment By Itself Is Not A Ground For Setting It Aside, Says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a delay in pronouncing the judgment by itself is not a ground of setting it aside. In this case, the appellant challenged the High Court judgment on the ground that it delivered the judgment after one and a half year of the judgment being reserved. The appellant's counsel relied on a judgment viz. Santosh Hazari vs Purushottam Tiwari (Dead) (2001) 3 SCC 179...
'Online Classes Not Feasible In Long Run': Class 12 Student Moves Supreme Court To Reopen Schools
A Class XII student from Delhi has moved Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre and States to consider and take a time-bound decision with regard to the physical re-opening of schools and conduct of offline teaching.The petitioner Amar Prem Prakash is aggrieved by the indecision and vacillation on the part of the Union Government and several State Governments and Union Territories in...
Yogesh Gowda Murder Case: Supreme Court Asks Karnataka High Court To Dispose of Plea Challenging State's Permission For CBI Probe In 2 Months
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 11, 2021) asked the Karnataka High Court to dispose of the proceedings challenging grant of permission by the State Government to the Central Bureau of Investigation ("CBI") to probe into the murder of Yogesh Gowda, Member of Dharwad Zilla Panchayat as early as possible and preferably within two months. Opining that the Top Court had not...
'Women Cannot Move Out Without Fear Even During The Day, Efforts Of Freedom Fighters In Vain': Madras HC While Dismissing Bail Plea In Pollachi Sexual Assault Case
The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest all the accused persons in the 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case and further ordered the investigating agency to make an 'earnest effort' to commence trial by the first week of September. The Sessions Judge, Mahalir Neethi Mandram, Coimbatore, was also directed to conduct the trial on a...
National Automobile Scrappage Policy Launched By PM Narendra Modi: Key Takeaways
Addressing the Investor Summit in Gujarat via video conferencing facility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched Voluntary Vehicle-Fleet Modernization Program or the National Automobile Scrappage Policy. Under this policy, the vehicles will not be scrapped merely on the basis of age but the vehicles will be scientifically tested through authorized, automated testing...