Being A Court Of Record, High Court Can Review Its Own Judgments Under Article 226 Of the Constitution: Kerala High Court

“…The honesty, fairness, purity of mind, and approaching the writ court with clean hands should be of the highest order and is a sine qua non to maintain a writ petition and secure orders, failing which the litigant should be shown the exit door at the earliest point of time..”

High Courts Weekly Roundup [May 24, 2021 – May 30, 2021]

Allahabad High Court 1. Devise Policy For Vaccination Of Physically Disabled: Allahabad High Court To Govt. In Suo Moto COVID19 Case [In-Re Inhuman Condition At Quarantine Centres…] Days after the Supreme Court asked the Allahabad High Court to pass realistic orders and stayed its directions for upgrading medical facilities in the state, a Division Bench comprising...

Decongestion Of Prisons- Release All Convicts, Undertrial Prisoners Re-admitted In Prions On Interim Bail: Andhra Pradesh HC

In view of the recommendations made by the High Powered Committee dated May 12, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has recently directed that all convicts and Undertrial prisoners to be released on interim bail of 90 days who were readmitted to prisons after their release on interim bails last year, unless disqualified. A division bench comprising of Justice C Praveen Kumar and Justice...

Man Allegedly Tried To Run Over & Endanger Life Of A Constable Enforcing COVID Lockdown, Delhi High Court Denies Him Bail

The Delhi High Court last week denied bail to a man who allegedly tried to hit and run over a Constable (who was enforcing COVID Lockdown) in a manner so as to endanger his life.The Bench of Justice Mukta Gupta was hearing the bail application of a petitioner under Sections 186/188/269/332/120B/308 IPC and Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act registered at PS Vasant Kunj, North, Delhi....

Hills & Hillocks Cannot Be Given For Mining Unless There Is Supervening Public Interest : Madras High Court

Man has continued his predatory activities without any break and Nature is losing her patience

Govt. Will 'Sympathetically Consider' Giving COVID Cash Relief To Transgender Persons Not Holding Ration Cards: State To Madras High Court

The Tamil Nadu State Government last week submitted before the Madras High Court that it will 'sympathetically consider' an extension of COVID-19 cash relief of Rs.4000/- to transgender persons in Tamil Nadu who do not possess Ration Cards.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed by a...

Forging RTPCR Test Reports: Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Lab-Owner Citing Covid Surge

On Friday, the Kerala High Court was faced with the anticipatory bail application by the owner of one Arma Lab and Health that allegedly forged RT-PCR Covid Reports to patients. Allowing bail to the applicant citing the Covid situation, Justice Ashok Menon however noted that the material collected by the investigating officer indicated the complicity of the applicant. "The...

'Institutions Can't Be Permitted To Indulge In Profiteering': Punjab & Haryana High Court Upholds GO Directing Private Schools In Chandigarh To Publish Balance Sheets On Their Websites

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld an April 2018 notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs, requiring private unaided educational institutions in Chandigarh to inter alia publish their balance sheets/ income and expenditure account on their websites. A Division Bench comprising of Justices Jaswant Singh and Sant Parkash has held, "if the financial statement of the...

Not For Court To Render Advice/Directions To Govt. About Line Of Treatment For COVID: Delhi HC Dismisses Plea With 25K Cost

The Delhi High Court this week dismissed a Writ Plea terming it as 'Publicity Interest Litigation' while observing that It is not for the Court to render advice much less issue directions to the Government on the line of treatment that is required to be followed for COVID.The Bench of Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a plea that sought modification of the...

Suspended Judicial Officer Who Allegedly Favoured An Accused, Used His Vehicles Reinstated By Uttarakhand High Court

The Uttarakhand High Court has reinstated the then Civil Judge (Sr. Div.), Almora, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, who was placed under suspension for allegedly using private vehicles belonging to an accused Chandra Mohan Sethi, for travelling purposes.On February 22, the Uttarakhand High Court had suspended him and had attached him with the District Judgeship's headquarter Dehradun. Now,...

Breaking: Delhi Court Remands Olympic Wrestler Sushil Kumar To 4 Days Police Custody In Murder Case

A Delhi court on Saturday remanded to further four days police custody Olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar and his associate Ajay Kumar arrested in connection with the Chhatrasal Stadium murder case of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankhar.Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Mayank Goel pronounced the order after hearing Delhi Police's Plea seeking 7 days police custody remand of both...

Transgender Person Moves Delhi High Court Challenging Insistence On Sex Change Certificate For Re-Issuance Of Passport

A Plea has been moved before the Delhi High Court challenging Passport Rules, 1980 to the extent that it makes it mandatory for a Transgender to obtain a sex change certificate so that one could be re-issued a passport recognizing one as a "Female". The plea has been moved by one Lasya Kahli Singh through advocates Siddharth Seem and Oindrila Sen, and it goes on to...