"No Testimony Worth Its Salt Connecting Accused With Offence, Identification Not Established": Court While Acquitting Man In Delhi Riots Case

"There is no testimony worth it salt which connect the accused to the present offence in question" observed a Delhi Court on Tuesday while acquitting one Suresh of all charges levelled against him involving rioting, dacoity and being a part of an unlawful assembly which had allegedly attacked and looted a shop during the North East Delhi riots that erupted in the national capital...

"No Vaccine Hesitancy In Tripura": High Court Lauds Frontline Workers, Public Participation Over Covid-19 Vaccination Drive

Observing that there is little or no vaccine hesitancy in the State, the Tripura High Court on Monday lauded the efforts of health and frontline workers in the State and also participation of the general public in receiving sufficient vaccination dozes."These figures are quite impressive and could not have been achieved without selfless and tireless work put in by the health workers and...

Delhi High Court Issues Notice To MEA On Plea For Repatriation Of Five Indian Seafarers Stranded In Iran

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea moved by families of five Indian seafarers who are said to be stranded in Iran despite their acquittal by a local Court in an alleged case of conspiracy. The plea seeks directions on the Ministry of External Affairs to take up the issue with Iran Government and repatriate them.The plea additionally prays for directions on Centre...

ISRO Espionage Case: Maldivian Women Move Kerala High Court Against Former Police Officers' Bail Plea

Two Maldivian nationals Mariyam Rasheeda and Fouziyya Hassan who were arrested in the ISRO espionage case in 1994 along with scientist Nambi Narayanan, have filed an objection before the Kerala High Court opposing the anticipatory bail plea of two former police officers involved in their arrest and detention.The two women have alleged that the joint plea moved by S Vijayan and Thampi S Durga...

Aisha Sultana Not Cooperating With Investigation: Lakshadweep Administration Tells Kerala High Court

The Lakshadweep Administration has filed its statement in the Kerala High Court opposing filmmaker Aisha Sultana's plea to quash the FIR registered against her in the sedition case. The statement filed through Central Government Standing Counsel S Manu pressed that the FIR was not liable to be quashed and urged that a detailed investigation was required in the matter. It narrated a...

Allahabad HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Noise Pollution By Modified Silencers Specifically On 'Bullets'

Comparing the menace of noise pollution with the legend of Hydra, the Allahabad High Court today took suo moto cognizance of Noise pollution generated through modified silencers specifically Bullet Bikes and the other two wheelers. The Bench of Justice Abdul Moin observed that the problem of noise pollution is like the hydra where anyone who attempted to behead the Hydra found that...

1% Seats In Govt Jobs Reserved For Transgender Persons: Karnataka Govt Tells High Court

Karnataka Government has decided to provide 1 percent (horizontal) reservation to Transgender candidates in government jobs to be filled through the direct recruitment process. The reservation is applicable to transgender candidates in each category of General merit, SC,ST and in each of the OBC categories. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj...

Animal Sacrifice Permissible Only In Licensed Slaughterhouses : Bombay High Court Ahead Of Bakr Eid

On the eve of Bakr Eid, two benches of the Bombay High Court directed authorities in different Municipal Corporations in Maharashtra to ensure animals are sacrificed only in licensed slaughterhouses or abattoirs. In fact, Chief Justice Dipankar Datta's bench directed local authorities to take action against those illegally slaughtering animals while staying Bhiwandi-Nizampur...

'Matter Under Active Consideration, Final Decision Likely To Be Taken Soon": Delhi Govt Informs High Court On Reopening Of Spa Centres

The Delhi Government on Tuesday informed the High Court that a final decision on reopening of spa centres, that were closed in wake of the second of Covid-19, will be taken by it soon as the matter is under consideration of the authorities. The development came while Justice Rekha Palli was dealing with pleas seeking directions on the Delhi Government to permit the reopening and functioning...

Ghaziabad FIR: Karnataka High Court Again Defers Order In Twitter India Head's Challenge To UP Police Notice; Fixes For July 22

The Karnataka High Court today, for the second time, deferred its order in the petition filed by the Managing Director of Twitter Communications India Private Ltd(TCIPL), challenging the notice issued to him under Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure in the Ghaziabad FIR. Justice G. Narendar said "I will dictate the order on Thursday (July 22)." Earlier, on July 13,...

Section 482 CrPC: Interim Protection Order Can Be Passed In Exceptional Cases Giving Brief Reasons: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the High Courts can pass interim protection order in Section 482 CrPC petitions in exceptional cases by giving brief reasons.What is frowned upon in Neeharika Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. vs. State of Maharashtra is the tendency of the courts to pass blanket, cryptic, laconic, nonspeaking orders reading "no coercive steps shall be adopted", the bench...

Decongestion Of Prisons: Chhattisgarh High Court Seeks Data Of Prisoners Not Released Despite Supreme Court's Direction

The Chhattisgarh High Court has directed the State Government and State Legal Service Authority (SLSA) to provide data of all such prisoners who were not released on interim bail/ parole pursuant to a recent order of the Supreme Court for decongestion of prisons.A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Rajani Dubey further directed that a Chart...