Calcutta High Court Releases 'Action Plan' To Reduce Pendency Of Cases In Subordinate Judiciary

The Calcutta High Court on Monday published an 'Action Plan' for judicial officers in order to reduce the pendency of cases in subordinate judiciary. The Action Plan envisages targets for disposal of different categories of cases pending for 7 years and more and also allots time frames for such speedy disposal. The Districts of West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands have...

Calcutta High Court Seeks West Bengal Govt's Response In Plea Challenging Appointment of TMC MLA Mukul Roy As PAC Chairman

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted time to the West Bengal government to file its counter affidavit by the next date of hearing i.e. on August 12. The Court also took on record the written submission filed by BJP MLA Ambika Ray challenging the appointment of TMC MLA Mukul Roy as the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. On July 9,...

Twitter Seems To Have Complied With IT Rules 2021: Centre Informs Delhi High Court

The Central Government has informed the Delhi High Court that Twitter Inc. seems to have appointed permanent officers, in compliance with the IT Rules 2021."Prima facie, they have appointed Chief Compliance Officer, Resident Grievance Officer and Nodal Contact Person. As of date, they appear to be in compliance," ASG Chetan Sharma submitted.The development came while Justice Rekha Palli...

Kerala High Court Issues Contempt Notice To Union Govt Secretaries Over Delay In Appointment Of KAT Chairman

The Kerala High Court has issued contempt notice to the Secretaries of the Central Government for its failure to appoint a Chairman for the Kerala Administrative Tribunal within the stipulated time as directed by the Court. A Division Bench of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Kauser Edappagath issued notice to the Secretary of Union Cabinet as well as the Secretary of Department...

Kerala High Court Refuses Interim Relief To Petitioner Challenging Restrictions On Unvaccinated Persons

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday refused to provide interim relief to the petitioner who alleged that the recent Government Order virtually puts unvaccinated persons under house arrest. Justice P.B. Suresh Kumar while hearing the matter remarked as such - "I have my doubts in the bonafides behind filing this petition as well. I had heard about certain news about this petition even before it...

Relatives Not Dependent On Claimant Will Constitute A Separate Family Unit For Purposes Of Compensation & Rehabilitation: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the relatives who are not dependent on the claimant will constitute a separate family unit for the purposes of compensation and rehabilitation.In this case, the issue was whether one Anadinath Banerjee is entitled to employment by Eastern Coalfields Limited in lieu of the acquisition of lands, on the strength of a tripartite agreement. According to the...

[Delhi Riots] There Is Difference Between Those Who Happened To Be At Crime Scene & Those Who Assembled With Common Object: Accused Tell Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday continued hearing a batch of bail applications in North-East Delhi riots case. Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid, appearing for few accused, concluded his arguments.Khurshid told the Court that mere presence of the accused persons at the crime scene does not by itself mean that were part of the alleged unlawful assembly. "Their behaviour and conduct has to...

Bombay High Court Extends Protective Orders Against Evictions And DispossessionsTill August 30, No Further Extension

The Bombay High Court has refused to continue its unconditional extension of all interim orders in Maharashtra beyond August 30, given the improving covid situation and resumption in the physical functioning of courts. (Suo Motu PIL NO. 1 of 2021) A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justices AA Sayyed, SS Shinde and PB Varale had kept all orders or decrees for...

'It Looked Like A Gambling Den': Kerala High Court Pulls Up BEVCO For Liquor Store Found In Pitiful State

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday reprimanded Kerala State Beverages Corporation (BEVCO) after finding a liquor store in a miserable condition in the city. The matter will be taken up tomorrow for further hearing. Justice Devan Ramachandran while screen sharing a live photo of the liquor store he came across yesterday, remarked as such: "Just yesterday I personally saw a liquor shop that...

CJAR Requests CJI NV Ramana To Live Stream Pegasus Case Hearing Before The Supreme Court

Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) has written to the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana requesting him to live stream the hearing in the Pegasus snoop gate matter before the Apex court.The letter refers to the "deep concern regarding the recent revelations" that the Pegasus software was used to hack into the phones of Indian citizens, "apparently at the behest of the...

'Dogs Only Become Aggressive When They Are Hungry Or Thirsty' : Kerala High Court Directs To Designate Feeding Spaces For Community Dogs

The Kerala High Court urged the State to initiate expeditious steps to set up designated feeding spaces particularly for the community dogs in the area during the hearing of the suo motu matter initiated after a dog was brutally killed by three youth in the State. A Division Bench of Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice P Gopinath directed so while observing that "dogs only...

Collusion In Bail Hearing Through Forged Vakalatnama : Allahabad High Court Deplores 'Downfall In Moral Values' Of Advocacy

The counsel for the accused had 'arranged' a forged vakalatnama and engaged a lawyer to represent the accused to record no-objection to grant bail.