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Karnataka HC Directs BBMP Commissioner To Explain Steps Taken To Fill Potholes, Improve Road Conditions
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the Commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to file an affidavit within three weeks, enumerating the steps taken by BBMP on the basis of report submitted by Karnataka State Legal Services Authority which records issues raised by city residents regarding potholes, bad road and footpath conditions. As per the previous order...
Plea In Supreme Court Challenges Kerala High Court's Order Holding That Aided School Teachers Are Not Entitled To Contest In Elections
A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the KeralaHigh Court's order declaring that aided school teachers in Kerala are not entitled to contest in elections. The High Court has held that teacher of an aided school in Kerala is a person holding an 'office of profit', under the Government of the State of Kerala The plea has also challenged the High Court's declaration...
Plea To Postpone 'Delhi Higher Judicial Service' Exam Transferred To Delhi High Court's Chief Justice Led Bench
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (09th March) transferred to the Division Bench of Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh, a plea seeking postponement of Delhi Higher Judicial Services Examination (Main), 2021 until the completion of the COVID-19 vaccination drive for lawyers. Today, the matter was heard by the division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Asha Menon and...
"Prisons In India Continue To Be Rather Medieval In Their Functioning": Uttarakhand High Court Seeks Report On Jail Conditions In The State
Stressing that the prisons in India continue to be rather medieval in their functioning, the Uttarakhand High Court last week observed that it is high time that Jails are transported from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. The Bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma was hearing a plea, wherein the petitioners submitted that the State of Uttarakhand...
Delhi High Court Declines To Issue Notice On Plea Seeking Declaration Of PM CARES Fund As "State" Under Constitution, Lists In April
A division bench of the Delhi High Court today said that it was not inclined to issue notice on a plea seeking declaration of the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund as an authority falling under the definition of "State" under Article 12 of the Constitution of India. However, it listed the case for hearing April, with another pending...
Blanket Order Of Protection From Arrest Cannot Be Passed By High Court While Dismissing A Petition U/s 482 CrPC: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a blanket order of protection from arrest cannot be passed by the High Court while dismissing a petition filed under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure seeking quashing of FIR.The issue raised in this appeal was whether the High Court of Andhra Pradesh was justified in passing a blanket direction restraining the police from arresting the accused while at...
Publication Of Swapna Suresh's Sec 164 Statement : Kerala Advocate General Issues Notice To Customs Commissioner In Plea Seeking Sanction For Contempt
The Advocate General of Kerala CP Sudhakara Prasad has issued notice to the Customs Commissioner Sumit Kumar on a petition seeking sanction to initiate criminal contempt of court action over the publication of statements of smuggling accused Swapna Suresh, recorded under Section 164(1) of the CrPC.Swapna Suresh had purportedly implicated the Chief Minister, ministers, the Speaker and others...
Former J-K CM Mehbooba Mufti Moves Delhi High Court Challenging ED Summons Under PMLA
Former Chief Minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti has moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of summons issued to her by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). Mufti has claimed in her petition that she received the summons on her personal email ID from the official email ID of the Assistant Director,...
Hybrid Hearings To Be Exception Not The Norm: Delhi Courts To Resume Physical Functioning In Full Swing From Mar 15
Responding to a petition seeking abeyance of physical hearings till the administration of Covid-19 vaccination to lawyers, the Delhi High Court today directed that all Delhi courts will begin physical functioning in full swing from Mar 15, and that hybrid hearing mode though available will only be allowed in exceptional cases.The Division Judge bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli...
Will Not Take Any Coercive Action Against Former AMU Student Leader Sharjeel Usmani Till March 15: Govt Tells Bombay HC
The Maharashtra State government orally assured the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that it would not take coercive action against Former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Sharjeel Usmani in the 2021 Elgaar Parishad case, till Monday. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde andJustices SS Shinde orally also asked Usmani to ensure he co-operates with the investigation. He has...
"Menstruation Stigmatized In Our Society, No Reason To Call Menstruating Women Impure": Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court's recent 15-page order proposing to prohibit social exclusion of women based on their menstrual status at all private and public place sets out the ways in which Menstruation has been understood by the Society and across religions. The Plea before the CourtThe Bench of Justice J. B. Pardiwala and Justice Ilesh J. Vora was hearing public interest litigation...
Criminal Case Ought To Be Inquired And Tried Ordinarily Where The Cause Of Action Has Accrued: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reiterated that a criminal case ought to be inquired and tried ordinarily where the cause of action has accrued.The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Indu Malhotra observed thus while dismissing a transfer petition filed by accused seeking transfer of criminal case from the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate at New Delhi to the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate...