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Whether Vehicle Owner Himself Can Receive Compensation Under His Own Insurance Policy If He Was At Fault? Supreme Court To Examine
Whether the owner himself can be a recipient of the compensation under his own Insurance Policy, if he was at fault? The Supreme Court would examine this legal issue raised in a special leave petition filed against Allahabad High Court judgment.In this case, the person who was allegedly responsible for the accident was the person driving the vehicle whose wife died in the incident and the...
More Evidence Found Against Republic TV In TRP Scam Case, Mumbai Police Tells Bombay High Court
The Mumbai Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it has found more evidence against Republic TV in the Television Rating Points (TRP) scam case.In the light of that fact, the Mumbai police told the Court that it did not want to continue its earlier undertaking to refrain from taking coercive action against the accused in the case.This submission was made by the counsel of...
'Courts Are Physically Working": Allahabad High Court Closes Suo Moto PIL For Extension Of Limitation & Interim Orders During Lockdown
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday closed the suo moto PIL registered by it for extension of limitation and interim orders expiring during the lockdown period. Looking to the physical working of the Courts in the State of Uttar Pradesh, a Division bench comprising of Justices Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Rohit Ranjan Agarwal observed that there is no need to continue the PIL to...
Delhi Court Dismisses Mehmood Pracha's Revision Against Trial Court Order on His Plea for Raid Footage As Not Maintainable
A Delhi Court has dismissed as not maintainable the Delhi riots lawyer Mehmood Pracha's revision petition against an order of the Trial Court which had which ordered for the video footage of the raid on his office to be preserved, but made no directions on his demand for a copy of the raid footage.Rejecting the revision, the Additional Sessions Judge has held that under Section 165(5) CrPC,...
Even If Prosecutrix Is Quite Friendly With A Man, He Doesn't Get License To Establish Sexual Relations Without Her Consent: J&K High Court
Noting that even if prosecutrix was quite friendly with the petitioner for a long time, yet the same does not give a license to the petitioner/accused to have sexual relations with her, without her consent, the Jammu & Kashmir High Court recently denied the benefit of regular bail to petitioner for offence under Section 376 IPC. Importantly, the Bench of Justice Sanjay...
Plea Against Colors TV Show 'Namak Isqh Ka': Allahabad High Court Directs Petitioner To Approach Competent Authority First
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a PIL seeking to stop public exhibition of a new programme (serial) launched on Colors TV, titled "Namak Isqh Ka". A Lucknow based dance society, namely 'Cultural Quest' had approached the High Court stating that the show's promo wrongly puts a question mark upon marrying ladies who have danced on any occasion. They had contended that a TV...
'This Matter Has To Get Precedence' Madras HC Orders For A Comprehensive Roadmap For Clearing Pending Criminal Cases Against MPs And MLAs
A division bench of Madras High Court comprising of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice senthilkumar Ramamoorthy on Tuesday observed that a comprehensive road map must be made considering the "litigative resourcefulness" of the legislators against whom cases are pending in the trial courts and High Court to ensure that the cases are disposed of at the earliest. The...
TRP Scam-Materials Show That Partho Dasgupta Manipulated TRP For Particular TV channels Using Office Of CEO Of BARC: ACMM Court-Read Order
While rejecting the bail plea filed by former CEO of BARC Partho Dasgupta, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Esplanade, Mumbai observed- "The material available on record shows the involvement of the present accused in the alleged crime. The present applicant played the vital role in the commission of offence. He was CEO of BARC from June, 2013 to November, 2019....
After Union Bank, IOB, Delhi HC Directs SBI, RBI To Maintain Status Quo On Classification Of Anil Ambani's RComm, Reliance Telecom Accounts
About a week after Union Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank, State Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India have been directed by the Delhi High Court to maintain status quo on the classification of Anil Ambani's Reliance Communication Ltd's and Reliance Telecom Ltd's accounts as 'fraudulent' until Jan 13, 2021.Issuing notice on a plea towards the same by Punit Garg, non-executive...
S. 195 CrPC Doesn't Bar Registration Of FIR For An Offence Under S. 188 IPC By Police: Madhya Pradesh High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court last month held that there is no bar under Section 195 of the Cr.P.C. in respect of registration of FIR, therefore, FIR for an offence under Section 188 of the IPC could be very well registered by the Police. Holding thus, the bench of Justice Prakash Shrivastava refused to quash an FIR registered against 10 petitioners-accused who had allegedly staged...
Allahabad HC Seeks Response From Central & State Authorities In Habeas Corpus Petition Against Custody Of 3 Persons Arrested With Siddique Kappan On Way To Hathras
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Central and the State Government to file their counter-affidavits in a Habeas Corpus petition filed by 3 alleged PFI Members, arrested by the UP Police while they were going to Hathras to meet family of the deceased gang-rape victim and later remanded to judicial custody by CJM Mathura. A Division Bench of the Court had...
Writ Jurisdiction For Registration Of FIR Can't Be Invoked Without Availing Statutory Remedies Under CrPC: Allahabad High Court
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court recently observed that informants/ complainants should not directly invoke the writ jurisdiction of the High Court for direction to the Police to register an FIR on their complaints, but they should first avail the alternative statutory remedies under the Code of Criminal Procedure, of approaching district police superintendents or...