"All's Well That Ends Well": Delhi HC Disposes Of Plea As Newly Wedded Couple Gets Reunited After Court's Order

"All 's well that ends well" said the Delhi High Court on Tuesday after taking note of the fact that the newly wedded couple was reunited pursuant to Court's order.The Court disposed off a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a husband alleging that his wife was illegally detained in Uttar Pradesh's Etah District after her parents seperated them.A division bench comprising of Justice Anup...

Part-Time Vocational Teacher Entitled To Payment Of Gratuity, Act Draws No Distinction Between Categories Of Employees: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that a part time vocational teacher working with the Delhi Government is entitled to gratuity under the Payment of Gratuity Act and that the said legislation draws no distinction between various categories of employees including a full time, ad hoc or a part time employee.A single judge bench comprising of Justice V. Kameswar Rao was dealing with a petition...

Delhi Riots Cases : Can Liberty Of All The Accused Be Curtailed Till Trial Ends? Delhi High Court Asks Police

While hearing a batch of bail applications in North-East Delhi riots matter, the Delhi High Court today posed the question as to what should be the parameters for grant of bail in a case involving charges under Section 149 (Unlawful Assembly) read with Section 302 (Murder). Considering the large number of people arrested and the likelihood of varied and, in some cases, lesser punishment to a...

'Rummy & Poker Are Games Of Skills' : Madras High Court While Striking Down Online Gaming Ban

The Madras High Court on Tuesday struck down the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 which imposes a ban on playing of games such as rummy and poker on cyberspace with stakes. Section 11 of the impugned legislation also banned games of 'mere skill' if such games are played for wager, bet, money or other stake.A Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and...

Access To Education: Karnataka High Court Issues Notice To BBMP For Door To Door Survey Of School Going Children

An ongoing door to door survey conducted by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department of all the children in the age group of 0 to 18 years, has found that 1,26,245 children in the age group of 03 to 06 years in rural areas are not going to school. It is recorded that 33,344 children in the age group of 6 to 18 years are not going to school and 9,716 children are not enrolled in...

"Lawyers Charge Professional Fee & Then Abstain From Work": Allahabad HC Refuses To Direct Time Bound Disposal Of A Case

"Lawyers cannot take the working of the Court for granted as on one hand, obviously, the lawyers must have charged their professional fee and thereafter, they are abstaining from work and on the other hand, they are seeking a direction to the Court concerned to decide the case within a specific period," observed Allahabad High Court today while dismissing a plea seeking time-bound...

'This Is Like Insurance': Delhi High Court On Creation Of Oxygen Buffer Stock To Combat Covid-19 Third Wave

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that there is no clarity as to whether Centre and Delhi Government have created a buffer stock of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) in the national capital to deal with the anticipated third wave of Covid-19."We have been flagging this issue ever since Supreme Court passed an order. What have you done," a Division Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and...

Madras High Court Stays NGT Office Order Mandating Suo Moto 'Pan India' Matters To Be Heard Only By NGT Principal Bench

The Madras High Court on Tuesday imposed a stay on an office order issued by the Registrar General of the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had directed that suo matters having pan-India or inter-state implications will be henceforth listed before the Principal Bench of at least three members. Pursuant to Section 4(4)(c) of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010...

"No Real Threat; Seeking Security To Flaunt His VIP Status": Allahabad HC Dismisses Lawyer's Plea Seeking Personal Security

Observing that the Lawyer (petitioner before the Court) was seeking security as an authority of symbol to flaunt his status a VIP with no real threat in existence, the Allahabad High Court recently dismissed his plea challenging State Government's order refusing to provide him personal security. The Bench of Justice D. K Singh was hearing the plea of a practicing lawyer of District...

Parliament Passes Bill To Amend Act Regulating Major Airports In India

The Government has decided to pair profitable airports with non-profitable airports that may be offered in public-private partnership mode as a package to the prospective bidders. This, the Government said will encourage development of smaller airports. To this effect, the Parliament on Wednesday passed the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill,...

"No Power To Go Beyond 'Kedarnath' Ruling": Punjab & Haryana High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging 'Sedition Law'

Stressing that the Supreme Court's ruling in Kedarnath Singh v. State of Bihar 1962 AIR 955 is binding on it, Punjab And Haryana High Court last week dismissed a plea challenging the Constitutional Validity Of Sedition Law (Section 124A IPC).The Bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha and Justice Arun Palli further observed that it has no power to go beyond the Kedarnath judgment and examine...

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh Moves Bombay HC Against Justice Chandiwal Inquiry Committee

Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has moved the Bombay High Court against the orders issued by the one member High Level Inquiry Committee headed by Justice KU Chandiwal, constituted by the State of Maharashtra. The Maharashtra Government had on March 30th appointed former Bombay High Court Judge, KU Chandiwal to conduct a high-level judicial inquiry into...