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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...
Raj Kundra Remanded To Police Custody Till July 23 In Porn Film Case
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrates Court at Mumbai remanded businessman Raj Kundra and his associate Ryan Tharp to police custody till 23rd of July in a connection with the Mumbai Crime Branch's ongoing investigation pertaining to the alleged production and distribution of pornographic videos. The accused are booked under sections 354(C) (Voyeurism), 292 (sale of obscene...
Successive Applications U/s 207 CrPC For Records Not Barred: Delhi Court Allows Devangana Kalita's Plea
While dealing with a plea moved by Delhi riots accused Devangana Kalita seeking copy of electronic evidence against her in the case, a Delhi Court on Monday observed that it is not correct for the Prosecution to say that successive application under Section 207 of CrPC cannot be moved by the accused.The provision contemplates supply of copy of police report and other documents to...
'Public Heath Over Religion': Bombay High Court Refuses To Interfere With BMC's Restrictions On Animal Sacrifice On Bakr Eid
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the BMC's circular limiting to 300, the number of water buffaloes to be sacrificed at the designated Deonar abattoir across three days of Eid-ul-Adha or Bakriid, from July 21 to July 23. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni disposed of two PILs filed by butcher associations seeking to increase...