Tumkur Court Reserves Order On Private Complaint Seeking FIR Against Kangana Ranaut For Tweets Against Farmers

A Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) at Tumkur in Karnataka, on Monday has reserved order on a private complaint filed by Advocate Ramesh Naik L seeking to register a first information report against actress Kangana Ranaut for her tweet on farmers opposing the Farmers Bill. The complaint filed by advocate Ramesh Naik L states that Ranaut has posted a message from her Twitter...

Delhi Court Orders To Provide Security To JNU Student Leader Umar Khalid In Prison

A Delhi court has sent former JNU student leader Umar Khalid to judicial custody for 14 days in a case related to the communal violence in north-east Delhi in February.Metropolitan Magistrate Dev Saro of Patiala House court also directed prison authorities to provide him adequate security and to take proper precautions that no harm is caused to him, while acting on the application filed by...

Interim Bail In Habeas Petition Challenging Detention Only In Exceptional Circumstances: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

The Madras High Court has observed that interim bail in habeas corpus petitions challenging preventive detention can be granted only in exceptional circumstances, when it is made out that the intervention of the cour is indispensable.Holding thus, a division bench comprising Justices T S Sivagnanam and Pushpa Sathyanarayana recalled an order passed on June 15 to grant interim bail to a...

[Criminal Cases Against MPs/MLAs] Telangana HC Directs Lower Courts To Take Up Hearing Of The Pending Cases On Day To Day Basis [Read Notification]

The Telangana High Court on Saturday (03rd October) told the lower courts to take up the hearing of pending cases against MPs and MLAs before their courts, on day to day basis (as directed by the Supreme Court).By way of a Notification released on 03rd October, the Telangana High Court gave the above-said direction to Metropolitan Sessions Judge-Hyderabad, Special Judge for the trial of...

Jamia Students Move Delhi HC Seeking Waiver Of Tuition Fee

Students of Jamia Millia Islamia University have moved the Delhi High Court seeking waiver of both the tuition fee and the fee charged for services not availed by students in light of COVID19. Filed by the students of JMI's Faculty of Law, the petition argues that charging fee under heads such as canteen, development fee, cultural activities, etc. is immaterial as the services are...

Between March 24 and September 30 Patna HC Disposes Of 3,784 Civil And 14,273 Criminal Matters In Virtual Mode [Read Order]

The Patna High Court on Thursday (01st October) while hearing a matter [In Re Functioning of Courts in Bihar during the period of COVID-19, Pandemic] mentioned the fact that between 24.3.2020 (when Lockdown commenced) and 30.9.2020 (Wednesday), a total of over 36,651 cases were mentioned, out of which 13,485 were allowed to be listed.The Full Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Karol,...

[Service Rules] The Government Being A Model Employer Cannot Act Like The East India Company Of The Bygone Days: Karnataka HC [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court on Monday (28th September) observed that the Government being a model employer cannot act like the East India Company of the bygone days when the conditions of service are broadly regulated by the Service Rules.The Bench of Justice Krishna P. Dixit and Justice P. N. Desai was hearing a Writ Petition filed by a Civil Servant of the State, challenging the order...

NLU-Delhi Announces Results Of AILET 2020

The National Law University Delhi has announced the results of AILET 2020 for B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) programme.The list of candidates based on merit is uploaded on the following websites of the University:https://nludelhi.admissionhelp.com/https://nationallawuniversitydelhi.inhttps://nludelhi.ac.in/ailet2020.aspxAILET 2020 RESULT1. The detailed result of all candidates2. Overall Merit ListThe...

Requisition To Move Motion Of No-Confidence Against Chairman/Dy Chairman Of Panchayat Samiti Must Be Mandatorily Hand-Delivered Or Posted To the Collector: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that it is mandatory that the requisition for a special meeting to move a motion of no-confidence against the Chairman or Deputy Chairman is either hand delivered or posted through a registered post to the Collector. It is the Collector under sub-section (3) of Section 72 of the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961, therein who has to call...

High Courts Weekly Roundup

Week Commencing From September 28, 2020 Till October 4, 2020 Allahabad High Court 1. Allahabad HC Takes Suo Moto Cognizance Of Hathras Case; Says 'Incidents Have Shocked Our Conscience' [In Re : Right to decent and dignified last rites/cremation] The Bench of Justices Jaspreet Singh and Rajan Roy took suo moto cognizance of the Hathras gang rape case, stating that is...

Consent To Marry A Life Convict: Madras HC Asks SCW & NCW To Ascertain Whether It Is Voluntary Or Not? [Read Order]

Recently, the Madras High Court, in a petition praying for issuance of Writ of Habeas Corpus questioned as to whether the women marrying the life convicts are examined by the State Commission for Women or National Commission for Women to ascertain as to whether the willingness of the marriage or sign for the acceptance of the marriage has been obtained from the women.Notably, the Bench of...

Encounter Death Of Maoists: Telangana HC Directs Re-Postmortem On Contention Of Wiping Of Evidence Of Encounter [Read Order]

In a significant order, the Telangana High Court last week directed the re-postmortem of the three deceased persons (two women and one man), allegedly killed by the Naxal Wing of the state police in an alleged cross-fire between the police and the maoists on September 23.Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy further directed that the re-postmortem examination...