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Delhi High Court Establishes Intellectual Property Division To Deal With Intellectual Property Cases
The Delhi High Court 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 on Intellectual Property Rights disputes, except those required to be dealt with by the Division Bench. "This has been done in order to avoid multiplicity of proceedings...
IT Rules: Delhi High Court Refuses Interim Relief To The Wire And The Quint
In a hearing before the Delhi High Court challenging the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021) digital media houses The Quint and The Wire today told the court that submitting information as required by the Central government in compliance with the rules, "is not a matter of voice vote."Sr. Adv. Nitya Ramakrishnan for...
"This Very System Has Lifted Me": Justice Midha Of Delhi High Court On Indian Judiciary, On His Retirement
Bidding a teary-eyed farewell to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday on the occasion of his retirement, Justice MR Midha took a walk down the memory lane with fellow Judges and colleagues, remembering his initial days at the Bar and said, "This very system has lifted me." He expressed his appreciation and gratefulness to the system and adding the feather of impartiality on its hat, said that he...
Act Against 'Hardened Criminals' Who Cheat In Name Of Lucky Draw, Reward & Loan: Allahabad HC Asks DGP To Issue Circular
The Allahabad High Court last week called out the Uttar Pradesh Police to take widespread action to book 'hardened criminals' who call up citizens and make them cough up money by offering alluring schemes for the provision of loans or TV show rewards or lottery bonanzas.The Bench of Justice J. J. Munir directed the Director General of Police, U.P., Lucknow to immediately issue circulars to...
Advocate Kitty Kumarmanglam Wife Of Ex-Union Minister R. Kumaramangalam Murdered In A Robbery Attempt
Advocate Kitty Kumarmangalam, wife of late Ex-Union Minister, Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was murdered yesterday in a robbery attempt allegedly by her washerman Raju (24) at her residence in South West Delhi's Vasant Vihar. As per the statement of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South West), Ingit Pratap Singh, the accused visited her residence at around 9 pm yesterday and as soon as...
Denial Of Admission To Class XI Citing Low Score In Maths: Mother Moves Kerala High Court Against CBSE School
A mother of a Class XI student has approached the Kerala High Court seeking a direction to the CBSE and Choice School against denial of admission to Class XI (Science Stream) citing low marks in Mathematics. Justice Anu Sivaraman has posted the matter to next week for further consideration.The petitioner's elder daughter recently sought to join the Science stream in Class XI upon completion of...
VC Hearing: 'Discourteous & Shocking': Allahabad High Court Reprimands Lawyer Who Appeared With A Person Without Shirt
In yet another incident of Lawyer appearing before the Court in a 'discourteous manner', the Allahabad High Court yesterday reprimanded a Lawyer who appeared through VC mode accompanied by another person who was visible on screen, "bare body and without a shirt"The Bench of Justice Jaspreet Singh observed that it is the responsibility of a Lawyer to ensure that there is no such incident...
Non-Availability Of A Judge At Headquarters Seriously Invades Citizen's Liberty: Allahabad High Court
Expressing its displeasure over the non-availability of Judgeship at the Aligarh District Court to hear the matters, the Allahabad High Court last week entertained a bail plea filed by an applicant who approached the High Court in the first instance.Noting that the Bail plea could not be filed before the lower court in Aligarh District as it was closed due to COVID, the Bench of...
Stopping Police Access To CCTV Cameras Interferes With Public Duty: Bombay High Court Asks State Govt, L&T To Resolve Contractual Dispute
The Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench, has observed that the act of a maintenance agency, stopping Police access to CCTV cameras that are installed in public places for monitoring criminal activities, interferes in performance of public duty and is prima facie questionable in law.It has therefore asked the State of Maharashtra and Larsen and Tourbo (maintenance agency in this case) to settle...
West Bengal State Assembly Passes Resolution For The Creation Of Legislative Council
In a significant development, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly today passed a resolution to create a Legislative Council in the state under Article 169 of the Constitution of India.A total of 265 members were present in the assembly today when the resolution was moved by state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee. While a total of 196 MLAs voted in favour of the resolution,...
'Students' Lives At Risk' : Plea In High Court To Cancel Karnataka SSLC Examinations
A Public interest litigation has been filed in the Karnataka High Court to quash the notification issued by the State government by which it has decided to conduct SSLC examination for the academic year 2020-21. The examination is scheduled to be held on July 19 and 20. The petition filed by S V Singre Gowda states that the whole world is fighting the pandemic which has changed the...
