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Delhi Riots- "Very Shocking State Of Affairs": Delhi Court Imposes Rs. 25K Cost On Delhi Police For Failing To Register Seperate FIR Of Injured Man
Observing that the investigation was done in a farcical and casual manner, a Delhi Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 25,000 on Delhi Police while dismissing a revision plea filed by them challenging an order directing them to register a seperate FIR of one Mohd. Nasir who had recieved injuries in the North East Delhi riots.Pulling up the Delhi Police for its conduct, Additional Sessions Judge...
"Acting As AAP's Agent": Delhi HC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Removal Of Chairman Of Delhi Minorities Commission Zakir Khan For Allegedly Misusing His Position
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice in a plea seeking removal of Mr. Zakir Khan from the post of Chairman of the Delhi Minorites Commission alleging that he misused his powers and position to influence others and acted as an agent of Aam Aadmi Party.A division bench comprising of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Delhi Government, Delhi...
"After Receiving Property The Children Often Abandon Parents": P&H High Court Dismisses Illegal Transfer Of Property of Aged Widow
The Punjab and Haryana High Court last week came to the rescue of a 76 years old widow who had been ousted from her house by her son consequent to the illegal transfer of her house in her son's name. A Bench comprising Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice Ashok Kumar Verma opined on the objective of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 (2007 Act)...
Don't Deploy Teachers For Non-Educational Purposes In Teeth Of RTE Act: Allahabad High Court Directs UP Govt. To Issue Directions
The Allahabad High Court last week asked the Uttar Pradesh Government authorities to instruct the concerned District Magistrates and District Basic Education Officer of different districts that Teachers shall not be assigned work in teeth of the RTE Act [Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009].The Bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary was hearing the plea filed by 3...
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...