As Covid-19 Situation In State Improves, Karnataka High Court Extends Interim Orders For Last Time Till Jan 31

The Karnataka High Court has for the last time extended the interim orders passed by the Karnataka High Court, all the District Courts, Civil Courts, Family Courts, Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunals and all other Tribunals in the State, as well as the order of closure under Section 4 of the Limitation Act, 1963, till the January 31. A division bench led by Chief Justice Abhay Oka...

Covid-19: Students Of VTU Move Karnataka High Court Against Decision To Conduct Semester End Examinations Via Offline Mode

Citing health risk due to recent cases of new-strain Corona virus in the State, a group of students has moved the Karnataka High Court against the decision of the Visvesvaraya Technological University to conduct semester examinations in offline mode. The petition has been filed on behalf of 120 students, inter alia seeking to quash notification providing for conduct of exam...

Managing A Construction Project Is Not Within The Jurisdiction: Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Of Customers Of A NOIDA Project

Managing a construction project is not within the jurisdiction of the court, the Supreme Court observed while declining to entertain a writ petition filed by 25 customers of a construction project.The petitioners sought a direction for the revival of the project or refund of the money, and a court monitored probe in the matter. Taking note of the prayers made, the bench headed by Justice DY...

Possibility Of A Relationship Gone Sour Cannot Be Ruled Out : Sikkim High Court Acquits Rape Accused

The possibility of a relationship gone sour cannot be ruled out, the Sikkim High Court observed while it acquitted a man accused of raping a woman on the pretext of promise of marriage.On 10.01.2018, the victim lodged an FIR alleging that she was raped by the accused (Makraj Limboo) on 17.08.2013, due to which she became pregnant and had to abort the baby on his advice. It was further...

Punjab and Haryana High Court Directs Lok Adalats To Pass Awards In Compliance With Regulation 17 Of NALSA Regulations

While stating that "during long experience as a member of judiciary, I have not come across even a single case where the Lok Adalat has passed an award in compliance of provisions of Regulation 17 and specimen annexed thereto", Justice Rekha Mittal of the Punjab & Haryana High Court recently directed, "The Lok Adalats in the States of Punjab, Haryana and U.T. Chandigarh are...

Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia Appointed As Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court

The Central Government has notified the appointment of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court, as the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court.Gauhati High Court has been functioning with Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh as the Acting Chief Justice since September 20, 2020, following the retirement of the previous Chief Justice Ajai Lamba.The notification issued by...

Petitioner Uses Vulgar Language In VC Hearing: Bombay High Court Shows 'Judicial Grace & Magnanimity' To Avoid Issuing Contempt Notice

A Division Bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice MS Karnik of the Bombay High Court expressed difficulty in proceeding with the hearing of a case pertaining to the Malegaon Blast case as the Petitioner therein used vulgar and abusive words during the virtual hearing. The Court was adjudicating upon a writ petition filed by Dr. Sarita Kishor Parikh and Glenn Paul Fernandez. During...

"He Has Become Drug Addict & Needs To Be Rehabilitated To Bring Him To Mainstream": HP High Court Grants Bail To Man

While noting that the bail petitioner before the Court has become a drug addict and as such, he is required to be taken to some rehabilitation centre, so that efforts are made for bringing the bail petitioner to the main stream, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday (06th January) granted Bail to a man accused under NDPS Act. The Bench of Justice Sandeep Sharma was hearing...

Public Land In Uttar Pradesh Most Vulnerable To Encroachment, Authorities Not Discharging Their Functions In Timely Manner: Allahabad HC

In a significant observation, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday (07th January) said that Public land in the State of U.P. is most vulnerable to encroachment and such encroachment "over such public land is not countenanced by the legislature." Noting that the Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006, is the response of the legislature to deal with the endemic problem of encroachment over...

Bombay High Court Refuses To Intervene In the Election Of Deputy Chairman of Maharashtra Legislative Council

A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court comprising of Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Milind N. Jadhav refused to intervene in the election (impugned election) of Dr. Neelam Divakar Gorhe as Deputy Chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC). The matter arose by a writ petition filed on behalf of Member of Legislative Council, Mr. Gopichand Kundalik Padalkar challenging...

State Information Commission Has No Power To Direct Removal Of Encroachment Under RTI ACT: Uttarakhand High Court

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday (07th January) observed that the State Information Commission has got no power to direct for the removal of encroachment under the Right To Information Act, 2005. The Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari, in its order, observed that giving a direction for removal of encroachment is beyond the scope of the State Information Commission's powers under...

Sushant's Face Revealed He Was Innocent & Sober, A Good Human Being, Says Bombay HC Judge

A judge of the Bombay High Court on Thursday praised late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's work in the film "M S Dhoni: The Untold Story" and said that one could make out from the actor's face that he was a good human being.The oral remarks were made Justice SS Shinde, who presided the division bench which reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Rajput's sisters - Priyanka Singh and Meetu...