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Levelling Accusation Of Unchastity And Perfidiousness Against Wife Amounts To Mental Cruelty: Kerala High Court While Granting Divorce To Couple
The Kerala High Court on Monday while allowing a matrimonial appeal established that that unsubstantiated accusation and character assassination by one spouse against the other would constitute mental cruelty. A Division Bench comprising Justice A. Muhamed Mustaqu and Justice Kauser Edappagath observed as follows: "The respondent has miserably failed to substantiate the...
Award Of Lok Adalat Cannot Be Considered As An Award Of The Court Made Under Part III Of Land Acquisition Act: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has held that an award of the Lok Adalat, being an executable decree binding between the parties, cannot be considered as an award of the Court under Part III of the Land Acquisition Act for the purposes of sec. 28A providing for re-determination of the amount of compensation of the award.A division bench comprising of Justice SC Gupte and Justice AA Sayed...
Fake Vaccine Camps Appear To Be 'State's Failure'; Don't Spare 'Big Fish' : Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Monday observed that fake vaccine camps in Mumbai were prima facie the state's failure and asked the civic authorities about measures they plan to take regarding testing and vaccinating the 2,053 innocent people who were duped. The court further asked the State's counsel to ask the investigators to conduct a thorough investigation to ensure those playing with...
Madras HC Seeks State's Response On BJP Leader's Plea Challenging TN Govt's Move To Assess NEET Impact On Socially Backward
The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to file its counter-affidavit on a plea challenging its 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 has also left it open to the...
Law Of Limitation Only Bars Judicial Remedy, The Substantive Right Survives: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court recently decided in a pension recovery matter that the Law of Limitation only bars judicial remedy, and that the substantive right itself survives and continues to be available in other ways, and clarified that the rules of limitation are not meant to destroy the rights of parties. A division bench of Justices Alexander Thomas and K. Babu while disposing the...
Why Wait For Centre's Approval For Door-to-Door Vaccination? Bombay High Court Asks Maharashtra Govt
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday criticised Maharashtra's Public Health Department's stand that it would begin home vaccination on an experimental basis only after the State and Central Government approves its proposal. Based on the State Task Force Guidelines on Home Vaccination, the proposal on experimental basis is only for bedridden patients and includes strict compliance...
UP Woman Who Converted To Islam Moves Delhi HC Seeking Protection & Direction To Media To Not Publish Malicious Content Against Her
A Hindu woman who converted to Islam has moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection while claiming that she is facing an extreme threat to her life and that of her immediate family members who are allegedly being witch-hunted by the officials of the Uttar Pradesh Police.The woman has also claimed that owing to her conversion of religion she and her family members are being targeted...
Ghaziabad FIR : Karnataka High Court Allows Mohammed Zubair To Withdraw Transit Anticipatory Bail Application
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday allowed Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking portal 'AltNews', to withdraw his petition seeking transit anticipatory bail in an FIR registered by Uttar Pradesh police over tweets on the Ghaziabad incident related to assault on an elderly Muslim man, after he informed the court that he had attended the police station and his statement...
"You Want To Be Rowdy Rathore, Unruly?": Himachal Pradesh High Court Disposes of Plea Challenging BCI's Latest 'Criticism-Disqualification' Rule
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday disposed of a plea 'as withdrawn', which challenging the recently inserted Sections V and V-A of Chapter II of Part VI of the Bar Council of India Rules as unconstitutional and violative of Articles 14, 19 (1) (a), and 21.The petition had been moved by Neeraj Shashwat, an advocate of Himachal Pradesh High Court, who challenged section-V was added in...
Detenu Has Constitutional Right To Make Representation To Detaining Authority Against Detention Order, Violation Makes It Illegal: Madhya Pradesh HC
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that it is a constitutional right of a detenu, who has been detained under the National Security Act, to make representation to the detaining authority against the detention order, violation of it which vitiate and make the order as illegal.A division bench comprising of Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Shailendra Shukla also held that the expression...
"A Strong Message Should Be Sent To Such Persons": Calcutta High Court Admonishes Party For Reconstructing Demolished Constructions
The Calcutta High Court on Friday came down heavily on individuals for carrying out illegal constructions in violation of the Court's earlier orders. In the concerned case, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation had demolished certain illegal constructions in a building pursuant to a Court order. Consequently, without taking leave of the Court, the respondents had reconstructed...