Mathura Court Rejects Bail Plea Of 3 Alleged PFI Members Held On Their Way To Hathras

The Mathura Court on Friday (13th November) rejected the bail plea of 3 alleged PFI activists who were held on their way to Hathras along with a Kerala journalist (Siddique Kappan) while they were going to meet the family members of an alleged gang-rape and murder victim.The Additional District and Sessions Judge Mayur Jain rejected the Bail applications of Atiq-ur-Rahman, Masood Ahmad...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Grants Bail To British National Accused Of Targeted Killings Of RSS Leaders In Punjab [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed the bail plea of British national, Jagtar Singh Johal @ Jaggi, who has been behind the bars since three years for the alleged involvement in targeted killings of RSS leaders in Punjab. A Bench of Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal ordered, "In view of the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner, especially when the petitioner...

There Is No Constitutional Right For Insisting On Continuation Of Union's Stake In BPCL; Bombay HC Dismisses Petitions Challenging UOI's Decision To Disinvest

The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed petitions primarily challenging the decision taken by the union of India of in-principle disinvestment of its shareholding in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd observing that there is no fundamental or constitutional right for insisting on continuation of Union's strategic stake in BPCL.Division bench of Justice SC Gupte and Justice Madhav Jamdar...

"Pollution Will Affect COVID Patients & May Spread COVID": Rajasthan High Court Refuses To Interfere With Firecracker Ban Order

"Right to life embodies a constitutional value of supreme importance and stands on a higher pedestal than the right to practice any profession, as right to carry any business comes with a rider and Clause (6) of Article 19 permits the Government to impose reasonable restrictions", remarked Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday (10th November) while refusing to interfere with Rajasthan...

Whether Surveillance Registers Carrying Names Of 'Bad Characters' Are Being Continuously Reviewed: P&H High Court Asks DGPs

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday (09th November) asked the Directors-General of Police (DGP) of Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh to specify as to whether the surveillance registers are being continuously reviewed.The Bench of Justice Amol Rattan Singh was hearing the plea of One Jaswinder Singh who submitted before the Court that he was acquitted in 2 criminal cases registered...

Bengaluru Riots : Karnataka HC Directs Police Take Steps To Trace And Arrest Former Mayor Sampath Raj

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Investigating officer probing the Bengaluru Riots case to take all possible steps to trace absconding accused former Mayor of the city, Sampath Raj and to arrest him. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty directed the investigating officer probing the crime no 219/2020, to file Report on steps taken...

Possibility Of Romantic Love Going Wrong Is There: Himachal Pradesh High Court Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Raping 16 Yr Old Girl

"Given the conduct of the victim of her voluntarily leaving her home under the pretext of fetching water from the water source and fact that the accused is also unmarried, the possibility of romantic love going wrong is there", remarked the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Thursday (12th November) while granting bail to a 21-year-old man accused of raping a 16-year-old girl.The Bench of...

Karnataka HC Directs SEC To Announce Schedule Of Panchayat Elections Within Three Weeks

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to finalise the schedule of conducting elections to Grama Panchayats in the state and announce the same within three weeks from today. The State government is directed to provide funds to the SEC for conducting the elections. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi said "We...

Allahabad HC Protects 2 Anti-CAA Protesters From Arrest Till Filing Of Police Report

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed that two anti-CAA protest accused shall not be arrested in the case till the submission of police report under Section 173(2) Cr.P.C.The bench of Justice Bachchoo Lal and Subhash Chandra Sharma were hearing the writ petition by the accused for quashing of the F.I.R. dated 06.03.2020 under Sections 124-A & 153-B. The allegations levelled in...

[Custodial Death Of Minor] High Time That Police Officials Be Sensitized To Deal With Child In Conflict With Law: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (12th October) directed the Home Secretary, Government of West Bengal to disclose the status of CCTVs in all police stations including child-friendly corner.The Bench of Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Soumen Sen has also asked the Secretary to specify as to whether all the police stations have child friendly police corner with proper infrastructure and...

Results Of BA Programme Almost Ready: Delhi University Inform Delhi High Court

The Delhi University has informed Delhi High Court that the results of BA programme results are almost ready.High Court has disposed off an impleadment application by a student of the undergraduate BA programme at the Delhi University, one Shriya Sethi, filed before the court seeking directions for declaration of results for her undergraduate BA programme.The court noted that despite its...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Makes It Mandatory For Parties To Engage A Local Advocate While Instituting A Case

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday (10th November) issued a notice making it mandatory for "a party, engaging an advocate not stationed at Jabalpur, Indore or Gwalior in a case instituted at such place, to also engage a local advocate."Significantly, vide amendment published in Madhya Pradesh Gazette Notification dated 2nd October, 2020, the provision of Rule 3 of Chapter-VIII of the...