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Delhi High Court Notifies New Nomenclature Relating To IPR Disputes Coming Into Force With Immediate Effect
The Delhi High Court has notified new nomenclature in respect of the matters relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) coming into force with immediate effect.The High Court had recently established the Intellectual Property Division (IPD) to deal with all matters related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The IP deals with original proceedings, Writ Petitions (Civil), CMM, RFA, FAO...
NEET Impact Study- "TN Committee Doesn't Defy SC Or Challenge Union's Authority": Madras HC Dismisses BJP Leader's Plea
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed the petition challenging Tamil Nadu State Government's decision to set up a committee for the purpose of ascertaining whether the NEET based admission process has prejudicially affected socially backward students. The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy observed that as long as the State Government...
Farmers' Suicide : After High Court Nudge, Karnataka Govt Includes Borrowers From Private Lenders In Compensation Scheme
The State Government on Tuesday informed the Karnataka High Court that it has now decided to compensate families of those farmers who committed suicide for failure to repay loans taken from private money lenders who are licensed. The state government placed on record of the court its order dated July 8 by which it stated that "If a farmer has taken loan from licensed money lender and...
"Clear Failure Of Authorities In Upholding Citizens' Right To Clean Environment": NGT Pulls Up Haryana State For Sewage Overflow On National Highway
The National Green Tribunal has pulled up the State of Haryana for its failure to take remedial measures for controlling sewage overflow on National Highway-19 after observing that the State authorities had failed in upholding citizen's right to clean environment.The Tribunal was dealing with a case regarding overflowing of sewage from Seekri village in Faridabad District in Haryana on...
'School Cannot Be Permitted To Be Shylock': Kerala High Court Issues Notice To School On Plea Against Denial Of Access To Online Classes Due To Non-Payment Of Fee
A plea filed before the Kerala High Court on Monday regarding a School debarring a student from attending online classes and charged an exorbitant late fee, remarked that the school cannot be permitted to be a Shylock. Justice Anu Sivaraman posted the matter to next week for further consideration. The petitioner's daughter was a student promoted to class VI, and was debarred from attending...
Govt. Land Encroachment- "Why Public Land Protection Cell Not Formed At Every District Level?": MP High Court Asks State
In view of the rising number of pleas files before the Court in connection with encroachment on government lands, the Madhya Pradesh High Court earlier this month sought an explanation from the State as to why the committee nomenclatured as Public Land Protection Cell has not yet been constituted at every district level.The bench of Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Deepak Kumar Agarwal was...
Madhya Pradesh High Court Declares Strike By Nurses As illegal, Asks Govt. To Consider Their Demands 'Sympathetically'
Condemning the action of nurses to go on strike at a time when the country has still not been able to come out of the ill effects of the second wave of COVID-19, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has declared the strike of nurses in the State as illegal.This direction comes on the plea filed by Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch inter alia with a prayer that the strike by nurses in the State called...
Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court To Hear Former AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain's Bail Pleas On August 6
The Delhi High Court will be hearing on August 6 the bail pleas filed by former Aam Aadmi Party Councillor Tahir Hussain in the two FIRs registered against him in connection with the northeast Delhi riots case.A single judge bench comprising of Justice Yogesh Khanna issued notice in the bail application and had sought Delhi Police's status report to be filed before the next date of...
Delhi Riots: Court Allows Safoora Zargar To Visit Home Town In Kashmir, Directs Her To 'Drop a Pin' On Google Maps For Location Verification
A Delhi Court has allowed student activist Safoora Zargar, accused in the Delhi riots case, to visit her home town in Kashmir for a period of one month for performing one of the ceremonies 'Aqiqah' on the occasion of festival of Eid-ul-Milad.Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat allowed Zargar's plea subject to the condition that she will drop a pin on Google Maps for the purpose...
Kerala High Court Extends Interim Orders Yet Again Till 26th July Amid Ongoing Pandemic
A full bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday further extended the life of interim orders up to 26th July 2021. Chief Justice S Manikumar, Justice C.T Ravikumar, and Justice Shaji P Chaly considered that it was pertinent to extend these orders amidst the continuing lockdown restrictions in the State. Advocate General Gopalakrishna Kurup produced before the Court government orders dated...
National Lok Adalat Settled Over 32,000 Cases: Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority
On July 10, 2021, the Madhya Pradesh State Legal Service Authorities marked a breakthrough in the disposal of cases at the National Lok Adalat organised state-wide. The Press Note by MPSLSA reads that 32,119 cases were disposed of by constituting 1267 benches resulting in a settlement of Rs. 4,93,72,35,299. Of over 32,000 cases, 5960 pertained to Motor Accident Claims Tribunal and 6037 to...
Justice Shampa Sarkar Of Calcutta High Court To Hear Mamata Banerjee's Election Petition Tomorrow
After Justice Kausik Chanda of the Calcutta High Court decided to recuse from hearing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Election petition, the matter has now been assigned to the bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar.Banerjee's petition had challenged the election of BJP candidate Suvendhu Adhikari from the Nandigram Constituency in the recently held West Bengal assembly polls.Filing...