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Motor Accident Compensation : SC To Consider If Retrospective Pay Revision Of Govt Employee After Death Should Be Taken Into Account
Whether pay revision applied retrospectively after the date of demise of a Government/public authorities employee is a factor taken into account while computing the monthly emoluments of the deceased for the purpose of determining compensation to him/her? The Supreme Court has issued notice in a special leave petition which raises this issue.The SLP challenges the Kerala High Court judgment...
Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Pleas By 10 Indian Nationals Seeking Quashing Of FIRs Related To Tablighi Jamaat
The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea seeking the quashing of FIRs related to the Tablighi Jamaat incident against 10 Indian nationals. The court has sought the Delhi government's response on the Section 482 CrPC application. The petition has been filed impugning FIR No. 74/2020 registered under Sections 188, 269, 270, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code,1860.The petitioners state...
Law Graduate's Application For Provisional Enrolment Kept Pending For Over A Year: Gujarat High Court Grants Interim Relief To Appear In AIBE
The Gujarat High Court on Friday granted interim relief to a law graduate, whose application for enrolment with the State Bar Council has been kept pending for over a year in contravention of the BCI Rules, and permitted her to appear for the upcoming All India Bar Examination on January 24. Stating that the examination is overhead and the issue involved in the instant case may take...
Justice Gita Mittal Appointed As First Woman Chairperson Of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council
Justice (Retd.) Gita Mittal has been appointed as the first woman Chairperson of the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), an independent, self-regulatory body for general entertainment channels set up by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF). The former Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court will succeed Justice Vikramajit Sen, a former Supreme Court...
Cases Against MPs/MLAs: Madras High Court Mulls Constitution Of Committee To Set Up Additional Infrastructure For Expeditious Disposal
The Madras High Court has observed that in order to expedite the hearing of criminal cases against MPs/ MLAs in Trial Courts, specific times on a daily or weekly basis need to be allotted, irrespective of whatever other business the relevant Court may have. The High Court further observed that it is necessary to constitute an appropriate Committee at the High Court level to look...
Judicial Record Missing For Over 20 Yrs- Jharkhand High Court Reprimands Concerned Officials, Forms 1 Member Committee To Probe
Coming down heavily on Judicial Officers and the State Administration, the Jharkhand High Court recently expressed its displeasure over the fact that record of a case went missing and even after a lapse of 20 years the record was not reconstructed by concerned officials. The Bench of Justice Anand Sen was hearing the plea of an alleged notorious criminal Surendra Bengali, who...
2019 Amendment To Companies Act 2013 Provisions Relating To Corporate Social Responsibility Comes Into Force; CSR Rules Amended
The provisions of 2019 Amendment to Companies Act, 2013, relating to Corporate Social Responsibility have come into force today.The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has issued a notification in this regard today appointing the 22nd day of January, 2021 as the date on which the provisions of section 21 of the 2019 Amendment Act shall come into force. Companies (Corporate Social...
Kerala High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Re-Opening/Functioning Of Schools & Technical Educational Institutions
The Kerala High Court recently dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Government of Kerala to permit re-opening and functioning of Schools and Technical Educational Institutions. The Bench of Justice P. V. Asha specifically observed, "There is no reason for any doubt that Government would not come forward with orders for re-opening of the Schools as and when the situation...
Allahabad High Court Imposes 3 Lakh Cost On A Petitioner For Repeatedly Filing Petitions Agitating Same Cause Of Action
The Allahabad High Court recently imposed an extraordinary cost of Rs. 3 lakh on a former Gram Sabha Pradhan for repeatedly approaching the Court with the same cause of action, despite several dismissals. The order was passed by a Single Bench of Justice Rajiv Joshi which noted that the instant petition was the fourth attempt made by the Petitioner to present the same cause of...
"There Is A Threat To Very Democracy If Agencies Like CBI, ED Do Not Act Independently": Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Thursday said the judiciary and agencies like the RBI, CBI and ED are considered independent and therefore should act impartially. A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale was hearing a petition filed by Eknath Khadse, seeking to quash an Enforcement Directorate complaint registered against him in October last year. In the interim, Khadse's...
Supreme Court Dismisses UP Govts's Challenge To Bail Granted To Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, Wife, Son In Forgery Case
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed three separate pleas of Uttar Pradesh government challenging the bail granted to Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, his wife and son in a case of alleged forgery of birth certificate. The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and M R Shah dismissed the appeal filed by the state government against the October 13, 2020, order of the Allahabad...