Environment Ministry To Implement GRAP In Delhi NCR; Diesel Generators Banned From Oct 15 [Read Order]

Stating that the air quality in Delhi NCR has "slipped into the 'Poor' category", the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has prohibited the use of diesel generator sets in the area, from October 15. The order is applicable in Delhi and other NCR towns of Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram. Inter alia, the authority has...

Time For State To Identify Employees Of Other Sectors Who Can Be Allowed To Travel In Local Trains; Bombay HC After Allowing Lawyers & Registered Clerks [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court while allowing lawyers in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and registered clerks to travel in local trains, observed that time has come for the State government to identify employees/staff of other sectors too who could gradually be allowed to avail suburban train services.Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni were hearing a batch of PILs and...

Riding High-End Motorcycle Without Orientation May Be Negligence; But Not Intentional Self-Harm: NCDRC

In a significant order, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) on Friday (09th October) held that an intentional self-injury cannot be inferred in a case where a person rides a high-end motorcycle without the necessary orientation.The order has been passed by a bench of Justice V. K. Jain (presiding member) while hearing a consumer complaint filed by the Wife of Late...

[Mob Attacks On Police] 'New Found Behaviour Amongst Citizens Of Disobeying Law', Allahabad HC Expresses Its Concern [Read Order]

While expressing its concern over the increasing cases of mob attacks on police, the Allahabad High court on Thursday (08th October) declined to quash a charge sheet filed against the applicants accused of assaulting the police with sticks and iron-rods (while being a part of the mob).The Bench of Justice J.J. Munir was hearing the two applicants, who challenged the proceedings of Case Crime...

'In Democracy Role Of Civil Society Can't Be Understated', Patna HC Directs State To Engage CSOs And NGOs As Part Of Policy Framework [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court on Wednesday (07th October) observed in its Judgment that the role of the Civil Society in a democracy cannot be understated to address the miseries brought about by the pandemic.The Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S. Kumar further directed the State Government to "strive to form policies which allow CSOs and NGOs to work in direct partnership with the...

Delhi HC Restrains An Ex-Employee of Air India From Posting Allegations Against The Company On Facebook & Twitter [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Friday (09th October) restrained an ex-employee of Air India (Defendant No. 1) from directly or indirectly, publishing and/or commenting or communicating or issuing any video, tweet, article, interview containing or referring to the allegations against Air India (in any manner).The Bench of Justice Mukta Gupta further directed the Defendant No.1 (an ex-employee of...

'Tender Minds Can't Be Treated With Iron Gloves As Offender Of War Crime', Karnataka HC Quashes CBSE Action Against Class-XII Student [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (06th October) observed that "A tender student, even when the delinquency is established, cannot be treated as the offender of the war crime; it hardly needs to be mentioned that all this has entered the framing of this judgment."The Bench of Justice Krishna S. Dixit was hearing the plea of a Petitioner-student who challenging the punitive Memorandum...

High Courts Weekly Roundup

Week Commencing From October 5, 2020 Till October 11, 2020 Allahabad High Court 1. Allahabad HC Dismisses Habeas Corpus Plea Against Alleged Detention Of Hathras Victim's Family; Grants Liberty To Move SC [Om Prakash & Ors. v. State of UP & Ors.] The Bench of Justices Pritinker Diwaker and Prakash Padia dismissed the habeas corpus writ petition filed on behalf...

'Have Not Come Across Any Such Legislative State Action Legitimizing Criminal Activity': J&K HC Holds 'Roshni Act' Unconstitutional [Read Order]

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that the Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act 2001, [popularly known as Roshni Act] is completely unconstitutional and all acts done under it or amendments thereunder are also unconstitutional and void ab initio.The bench comprising the Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh Bindal directed CBI Investigation...

'Serious Threat Of Honour Killing', Allahabad HC Orders Release Of Muslim Woman Who Married Hindu Man From Custody Of Her Father [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (08th October) directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kanpur Nagar, to take out a girl named Shikha @ Sheeba, a muslim woman who had converted to Hinduism to marry a Hindu man (Rohit Rathore), from the custody of her brother and father.The Bench of Justice J. J. Munir further ordered that she should be housed at the Nari Niketan, Kanpur Nagar in...

[Political Gatherings Amid COVID] "No One Howsoever Big, Should Be Allowed To Go Scot-Free": MP HC To Law Enforcement Agencies [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (09th October) directed the law enforcement agencies of the state to ensure that the Covid-19 protocol is followed to the hilt and no one howsoever big, is allowed to go scot-free without being subjected to the rigours of the penal provision on the occasion of breach of Covid-19 protocol.The Bench of Justices Sheel Nagu and Rajeev Kumar Shrivastava...

[Studio Courts] Patna HC Issues Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) For Functioning Of Studio Based Courts [Read Procedure]

The Patna High Court has devised a new system of Studio Court on an experimental basis, for the hearing of the cases. Under the new system, the Judges would sit in their chambers, while the lawyers will be appearing before the Bench/Judges from another courtroom (a studio courtroom) and the whole proceeding will take place in virtual mode.This system of virtual hearing has been implemented by...