'No Person Can Be Permitted To Intimidate Or Terrorize Judges' : Karnataka High Court Issues Contempt Notice Over Threatening Letter

The Karnataka High Court on February 3 issued a notice under the contempt of courts Act, to a 72-year-old person, who wrote a letter to the High Court registry claiming that he has decided to kill two erring Judges amongst the "highly corrupt 28 Judges of this Court and the Apex Court along with two corrupt Advocates". A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Sachin...

'Lock Down A Force Majeure Event' : Madras High Court Directs Complete Waiver Of License Fee During Total Lockdown Period

In a notable judgment, the Madras High Court has directed a Municipal Corporation to waive the license fee for running a shop in a bus stand during the entire period of total lockdown from March 24, 2020 to September 6, 2020.A single bench of Justice G R Swaminathan observed that the benefit of a Government Order issued by the Tamil Nadu Government - which waived license fee for two...

Jammu & Kashmir High Court Stays Levy Of Revised Stamp Duties On Registration Of Documents

The Jammu and Kashmir has stayed a circular that issued revised stamp duty rates to be levied during registration of documents. A Single Bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar passed the order on a petition challenging retrospective application of the said revised rates. Noting that the plea raises an important questions of law, the Judge stayed the circular dated December 13, 2020 and...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Elevation Of 11 Judicial Officers As Allahabad High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 4th February, 2021, approved the proposal for elevation of 11 Judicial Officers as Judges of the Allahabad High Court. The following names have been recommended by the Collegium: 1. Mohd. Aslam, 2. Anil Kumar Gupta, 3. Anil Kumar Ojha, 4. Sadhna Rani (Thakur), 5. Om Prakash Tripathi, 6. Naveen Srivastava, 7....

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends 2 Names As Chhattisgarh High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 4th February, 2021has approved the proposal for elevation of the following persons as Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court:ADVOCATE: Shri Narendra Kumar Vyas,andJUDICIAL OFFICER: ShriNaresh Kumar Chandravanshi.Read Collegium...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Elevation Of 8 Judicial Officers As Calcutta High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 4thFebruary, 2021 has approved the proposal for elevation of the following Judicial Officers as Judges of the Calcutta High Court:1.Ms. Kesang Doma Bhutia,2.Shri Rabindranath Samanta,3.Shri Sugato Majumdar,4.Ms. Ananya Bandyopadhyay,5.Smt. Rai Chattopadhyay,6.Shri Bivas Pattanayak,7.Shri Subhendu Samanta, and 8.Shri Ananda...

Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Aditya Sondhi, Rajendra Badamikar, Khazi Jayabunnisa Mohiuddin As Karnataka High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Senior Advocate Aditya Sondhi and judicial officers Rajendra Badamikar and Khazi Jayabunnisa Mohiuddin as Karnataka High Court Judges. Read collegium...

Single Judge Bench Can Take Cognizance And Decide Civil Contempt Petitions: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that a Single Judge Bench can take cognizance and decide civil contempt petition.The Division Bench comprising the Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly struck down Rule 6 of the Contempt of Courts (High Court of Kerala) Rules as ultra vires to the Constitution of India and Section 19(1) of the Contempt of Courts Act. Rule 6 provided that a...

Victim Sending Friend Request On Facebook Does Not Mean She Intended To Have Sexual Relationship: Himachal Pradesh High Court

Just because the victim sent a friend request to the accused does not give him the right and liberty to establish sexual relations with her, the Himachal Pradesh High Court observed while dismissing a bail application filed by a man accused of raping a thirteen year old child.Justice Anoop Chitkara observed that People use social media for networking, knowledge, and entertainment and not to...

Representing Case Sitting In Stationed Car In 'A Casual Manner' Amounts To Disrespecting Court Proceedings: Madras High Court

While noting that a Lawyer appeared for a virtual hearing from a stationed car and "in a casual manner", the Madras High Court on Wednesday (03rd February) expressed its displeasure at Lawyer's conduct. "The learned counsel for the petitioner, by sitting in a stationed car in a casual manner, representing the case, which is impermissible in view of the Video-Conferencing Rules notified...

Tandav Controversy:Allahabad High Court Grants Interim Protection For Amazon Content Head Aparna Purohit, Reserves Order On Her Plea For Anticipatory bail

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (04th February) while reserving order in the Anticipatory Bail Plea filed by Amazon Prime, Original Content Head (India) Aparna Purohit, granted her protection against coercive against till pronouncement of Order. The Bench of Justice Siddharth gave this order after hearing the arguments of both the sides in the Anticipatory Bail Plea filed...

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Quash Kidnapping Case Against Private Secretary Of Chief Minister.

The Karnataka High Court on February 1, dismissed a petition filed by N R Santosh, personal secretary to the Chief Minister, seeking to quash a quash of kidnapping case registered against him in 2018, by one K.S. Eshwarappa, who works as advisor to the Opposition Leader. A single bench of Justice H P Sandesh while dismissing the petition filed by Santosh said "It is not a fit case...