Bombay HC Reserves Judgment In Plea Filed By Sushant Singh's Sisters For Quashing FIR Against Them On Rhea's Complaint

The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved judgment in the writ petition filed by Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters Meetu Singh and Priyanka Singh for quashing of FIR filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty against them alleging abetment of his suicide for allegedly prescribing medicines to the late actor without actual examination.Division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice MS Karnik reserved...

Allahabad High Court Decides To Hear PILs Challenging Love-Jihad Ordinance On January 15

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday observed that pendency of a batch of PILs before the Supreme Court against UP Government's controversial Love-Jihad Ordinance does not preclude the High Court from hearing a challenge against the law. A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Govind Mathur today declined the request made by Additional Advocate General Manish Goyal to adjourn the...

MJ Akbar V. Priya Ramani- Reputation Is A Day By Day, Minute By Minute, Brick By Brick Built Structure, Making Allegations After 30 Years Tenable: Geeta Luthra

The Courtroom battle in the criminal defamation case filed by complainant, Former Union Minister Mr. M.J. Akbar against journalist Ms. Priya Ramani continued today before a Delhi Court judge, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Ravindra Kumar Pandey. Senior Advocate Geeta Luthra continued her rebuttal arguments against the accused, Ms. Ramani in the matter. The case is...

Zee Media Will Not Examine Witnesses In Defamation Case Against Mahua Moitra Until Feb 18, Delhi High Court Takes Statement on Record

Replying to an early hearing application filed by Trinamool Congress' Mahua Moitra before the Delhi High Court today, Zee Media Pvt Ltd has submitted that it will not examine witnesses in the matter until February 18, which is the next date of hearing before the High Court.The single judge bench of Justice Mukta Gupta was hearing an application filed by Moitra in her petition seeking a stay...

PIL Before Delhi High Court Seeks For Removal Of Amitabh Bachchan's Voiceover In Covid-19 Awareness Caller-Tune

A 'public interest litigation' has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Union of India for removal of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan's voiceover from the Covid-19 caller-tune. The plea states that Bachchan neither has a "clean history" nor has "served" the nation through "social work."The petition cites prior cases against Bachchan and claims that by very...

Justice Hima Kohli Sworn In As First Woman Chief Justice Of Telangana High Court

Justice Hima Kohli was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court on Thursday. Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Sounderarajan administered the oath at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad.With Justice Kohli's appointment, Telangana High Court has got its first woman Chief Justice. She is the lone woman Chief Justice in the country at present out of 25 High Courts. It was...

Delhi High Court Directs BCI To Issue SOP For Physical Conduct of AIBE 2021

Disposing off a plea by Adv. Purav Middha for the conduct of the All India Bar Examination, 2021 through the online mode, the Delhi High Court today ordered Bar Council of India (BCI) to issue the Standard Operating Procedure for physical conduct of the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) on January 24, 2021, amid COVID-19 pandemic.The BCI has rejected the option of online conduct of the exam...

Malegaon Blasts Case : Mukul Rohatgi Refuses To Appear For Lt Colonel Purohit After Objections By Relatives Of Victims

Following the objection raised by the relatives of victims in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi did not appear for accused Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit before the Bombay High Court on Wednesday.The relatives of the six deceased in the bomb blasts case sent an email to Rohatgi pointing out that he had earlier appeared for the National Investigating Agency in the case...

UAPA - Investigating Agency Not Place Of Occurrence Matters To Determine Sanctioning Authority Under Section 45: Kerala High Court

The place of occurrence will not matter for determining the sanctioning authority under Section 45 of the Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act(UAPA), held the Kerala High Court while dismissing the appeals of senior CPI(M) leader P Jayarajan and other accused in the Kathiroor Manoj murder case.A division bench of Chief Justices S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly held that what matters...

Compassionate Empathy Should Be A Trait Of Public Servants; They Are Engaged For Public Service & Not To Rule Over Them: P&H High Court

"Compassionate empathy should be one of the traits/qualities of everyone manning a public office. The Constitution of India emphasizes that the public servants and other persons working in such offices are required to treat everyone equally irrespective of his caste, creed, religion or economic condition", remarked the Punjab & Haryana High Court recently. The Bench of Justice...

Madras High Court Issues Notice On Plea Seeking GST Exemption For Incorporated Members' Clubs

The Madras High Court has decided to hear a petition seeking exemption for members' club in an incorporated form, from levy/ payment of GST under the Central Goods and Services Act, 2017. A Bench led by Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee issued notices to the Central Government and CBDT in a petition filed by Ootacamund Club, situated in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. The Petitioner-club, registered as...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Dismisses Election Petition Filed In 2002 Against Captain Amarinder Singh

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Tuesday, dismissed an election petition challenging the election of Captain Amarinder Singh to the Punjab Legislative Assembly held in the year 2002.Harkirat Singh, had filed election petition in 2002 itself, alleging that Singh had indulged in 'corrupt' practices and has projected himself as "Maharaja of Patiala" in the posters issued/published by him...