Orissa High Court Notifies Rules For Court Proceedings Through VC, Restrictions Imposed On Unauthorized Recording Of VC [Read Rules]

The Orissa High Court on Monday (02nd November) notified the Orissa High Court Video Conferencing for Courts Rules, 2020.In the notification, it has been said that the rules are intended to "consolidate, unify and streamline the procedure relating to the use of video conferencing for courts."The Rules state that Video conferencing facilities may be used at all stages of judicial proceedings....

Delhi High Court Issues Notice in Plea Challenging Appointment of 11 Special PPs For Representing Delhi Police in Riots Cases

Delhi High Court has issued notice in a plea challenging the appointment of eleven Special Public Prosecutors for conducting cases pertaining to the riots that took place in the northeast districts of Delhi. While issuing the notice, the Single Bench of Justice Navin Chawla also added the Ministry of Home Affairs as a necessary party to the case. Moved by Delhi...

Arnab Goswami Moves Alibaug Sessions Court For Regular Bail In Anvay Naik Abetment To Suicide Case

Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested in connection with the alleged suicide of an interior designer, on Monday filed a bail application before the sessions court at Alibaug in Maharashtra's Raigad district.At 3 PM today, the Bombay High Court refused interim bail to Goswami in the habeas petition filed by him against the arrest and remand in the case relating to the suicide...

"Attempt To Silence Top Journalist ": Pradeep Bhandari Writes To CJI Bobde Seeking Probe Into Arnab Goswami's Transfer To Taloja Jail

Republic TV Anchor Pradeep Bhandari has written to Chief Justice SA Bobde seeking probe by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the shifting of Arnab Goswami to Taloja Jail.Arnab Goswami was moved to Taloja jail after allegedly being found using a mobile phone while in judicial custody at a school designated as COVID-19 centre for Alibaug prison, NDTV reported.In light of the...

[Rape And Murder of Minor] Orissa HC Sets Aside Conviction For Rape, Commutes Death Penalty To Life Imprisonment

The Orissa High Court last week commutted the death sentence of a 28-year-old man to life imprisonment while upholding his conviction for murder of a 9-year-old girl, but acquitting him of charges of raping her.A resident of Godaharishpur village in Jagatsinghpur district, the girl went missing on March 20, 2018. The next day, her body was found in a cashew nut orchard nearby. The same...

'Debatable As To How Dancing To Tune Of A Song & Making TikTok Video Can Hurt Sentiments': P&H High Court Grants Pre Arrest Bail

The Punjab & Haryana High Court on Monday (02nd November) granted Anticipatory Bail to one Mandeep accused of hurting the sentiments of the SC/ST castes by making a TiktTok video with a background song composed by deceased Pandit Jagdish Chander Vats.The Bench of Justice Fateh Deep Singh was hearing the plea of a petitioner under Section 482 read with Section 438 Cr.P.C. in case FIR No....

Gujarat High Court Quashes Sedition Case Against Journalist Who Reported On Possible Change In State Leadership [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court on Friday (06th November) quashed a sedition case registered against a Journalist Dhaval Rajnikant Patel (editor of online Gujarati news portal Face of Nation) for allegedly publishing a report on a possible change in state leadership due to criticism over the rising number of COVD-19 cases in the State.The Bench of Justice R. P. Dholaria quashed the case, after Patel...

[Tablighi Jamaat] Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To 9 Thailand Nationals [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (05th November) granted bail to 9 Thailand Nationals who attended Markaz at Nizamuddin, New Delhi in March 2020.The Bench of Justice Siddharth was hearing the bail application filed on behalf of the applicants, Hasae and 8 others with a prayer to release them on bail in Case Crime No. 198 of 2020 under Sections 188, 269, 270, 271 I.P.C., Section 3 of...

High Courts Weekly Roundup [Nov 2 – Nov 8]

Allahabad High Court 1. Hathras case: Allahabad High Court Expresses Concern Over No Action Against District Magistrate Pravin Kumar [Suo-Moto In re: Right To Decent & Dignified Last Rites/Cremation] A bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Rajan Roy reserved its order in the Hathras case, while expressing concern over the Uttar Pradesh government not taking any action...

Orissa High Court Grants Bail To Adivasi Leader Nachika Linga

The Orissa High Court on Wednesday (04th November) granted conditional bail to Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangha (CMAS) head Nachika Linga in connection with Narayanpatna police station attack case of the year 2009.The Bench of Justice A K Mishra allowed Nachika Linga to go on bail while directing,"The petitioner is allowed to be released on bail by the trial court on furnishing bail bond to be fixed...

Aarogya Setu RTI Row: CIC Denies Petitioner Permission to Attend Penalty Hearing Against Officials Who Failed To Furnish Information

The Central Information Commission, which is hearing a complaint filed by RTI Activist and Independent journalist Saurav Das on Aarogya Setu has declined him permission to attend the next hearing on the matter. The CIC on 27 October had passed a scathing remark against the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) for failing to...

GST Officials Cannot Use Physical Violence During Search, Investigation Or Interrogation: Telangana High Court [Read Order]

The Telangana High Court has observed that the officials belonging to the GST Intelligence Department cannot resort to physical violence while against persons they suspect of being guilty of tax evasion.The bench comprising Justices MS Ramachandra Rao and T. Amarnath Goud was considering a writ petition filed by director of a company and his relative alleging that the officials while...