Chhatrasal Stadium Murder Case: Delhi Court's Witness Protection Committee Orders Protection To All Witnesses Based On Threat Perception

The Witness Protection Committee of the Rohini Court on Monday ordered for providing protection to all the witnesses in the Chhatrasal Stadium murder case leading to death of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankhar wherein wrestler Sushil Kumar is an accused. The decision came on the basis of a threat anaylsis report submitted by the Delhi Police stating that there was a...

20 % Students Without Digital Access : Karnataka HC Says State Has Obligation Under Article 21A To Ensure Children Attend Online Classes

The State Government informed the Karnataka High Court that an estimated 20 percent of students studying in Government and government aided schools in the state have no access to any gadgets or television or any virtual mode for taking instructions from teachers. A division bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice Hanchate Sanjeev Kumar expressed concern over this submission and...

Kerala High Court Issues Guidelines To Be Followed By Courts Before Acting Upon The "Pleading of Guilty" By An Accused

A Single Bench of the Kerala High Court while reversing the conviction imposed upon the petitioner on Tuesday, issued a set of guidelines to be followed in cases of an accused pleading guilty for the offences charged against him. This criminal revision petition was filed by Raseen Babu KM, represented by Adv. D. Anil Kumar, against the order of the Judicial First Class Magistrate...

"A Number Of Citizens Have Been Driven To Poverty During Lockdown": Madras High Court Takes Judicial Notice Of Reports

In a significant observation, the Madras High Court on Monday said that the Judicial notice has to be taken of several authentic reports indicating that a number of citizens have been driven to poverty during the lockdown and, particularly, the second surge of the pandemic.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy was hearing the matter pertaining to...

Plea Seeking Directions To Officials Not To Disturb Chief Minister On Sundays: Madras High Court Dismisses Plea With 10K Cost

The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed a plea with 10,000/- cost which sought directions the Chief Secretary and other officials not to circulate any file or seek any orders or disturb the Chief Minister, except in extraordinary circumstances on Sundays.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy called it "an utterly ridiculous petition" and said that...

Salman Khan Seeks Contempt Action Against Kamaal Khan for Defamation Despite Statement Before Court

Actor Salman Khan has sought contempt action against 'film critic' Kamaal R. Khan for allegedly continuing his "defamatory" remarks against the actor despite a statement before the City Civil Court, Mumbai, that "he will not put any remarks of defamatory nature against the Plaintiff on social media till next date". On Monday, Judge CV Marathe took the Notice of Motion, filed under...

Police Under Severe Stress During Pandemic, Can't Be Subjected To Abuse/Threat: Madras HC Directs Man Who Abused Police To Pay 10K

Noting that the Police are already functioning under severe stress due to the pandemic situation, the Madras High Court on Monday asked an accused who allegedly abused Police and prevented them from doing their public duty, to pay 10,000 as compensation.The Bench of Justice N. Anand Venkatesh was hearing the plea of the accused person who were travelling in an Auto-Rikshaw without following...

'Public Service Commission Has No Power To Relax Recruitment Norms' : Jharkhand High Court Quashes Civil Service Exams Result

The Jharkhand High Court has quashed the merit list of the 6th Combined Civil service Examination, 2016 which was conducted by the State Public Service Commission (JPSC) to fill 326 positions. A Single Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi quashed the result upon noting that the merit list was not prepared by the JPSC by following the criteria of minimum qualifying marks in...

Filing Common Chargesheet In Multiple Cases Against Same Accused Impermissible : Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said filing of a common charge-sheet for complaints filed by the individual investors against the same accused in different police stations is against the law and filing amalgamated charge-sheet is impermissible under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) A single bench of Justice K Natarajan held : "The State-C.I.D. Police have no authority to file a...

Over 100 Final Year Students From Faculty Of Law, DU Write Counter Representation To BCI To Continue With Open Book Examination Instead Of Assignment Based Evaluation

Over 100 final year students from Faculty of Law, Delhi University have written a counter representation to the Bar Council of India requesting it to continue with the open book examination for the pending intermediate exams instead of adopting the Assignment Based Evaluation.The move comes after the representation made by over 300 similar final year law students who had written recently to...

Orissa High Court Upholds Centre's Notification Abolishing Odisha Administrative Tribunal

The Orissa High Court on Monday upheld the notification issued by the Department of Personnel and Training of the Central Government dated 2nd August 2019 which abolished the Odisha Administrative Tribunal (OAT). In an elaborative order, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice B.P. Routray observed that there was sufficient material to support the view of the...

Protection Plea- Married Woman & Unmarried Man In A Live-In Relation: Punjab & Haryana High Court Directs SSP To Look Into Their Grievance

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Monday directed SSP, Faridkot to look into the grievance of an already married woman and an unmarried man living together in a live-in relationship and seeking protection of life and liberty against private parties. The Bench of Justice Vivek Puri disposed of their plea with a direction to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Faridkot to...