At Times Colleges Get Down To Blackmailing And Hand-Twisting By Retaining Original Certificates Of Their Students', HP HC Gives Relief To Students [Read Order]

The Himachal Pradesh High court on Tuesday (06th October) took a stern view of the issue of Private Educational Institutions retaining the original certificates and other documents of its students so as to ensure that students do not migrate to any other college or for that matter leave the college.Having failed to secure and get back their original documents and certificates, the petitioners...

Disheartening To Note Criminal Proceedings Of A Crime Of 1992 Is Yet To Attain Finality: Kerala HC Directs Sister Abhaya Murder Case Trial On A Day To Day Basis [Read Order]

It is disheartening to note that criminal proceedings pertaining to a crime of 1992 is yet to attain finality, whether it be by reason of providence or design, the Kerala High Court remarked while disposing a petition filed by the accused in Sister Abhaya Murder Case.Justice VG Arun directed the Special Court to reschedule the Trial to the nearest possible date and permit the Senior...

[Section 153A IPC] Contents Of Speech Indirectly Refer To Two Religions 'In The Form Of Innuendo': Karnataka HC Refuses To Quash FIR Against PFI Leader [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday refused to quash a FIR registered against a National Committee Member of the Popular Front of India (PFI), while holding that even though the offending speech does not directly refer to two religions, "it attracts the provisions of Section 153 of the IPC, which is in the form of innuendo." Section 153 of the IPC prohibits and penalizes the...

Allahabad HC Dismisses Plea To Rename High Court as Prayagraj HC [Read Order]

Recently, the Allahabad High Court dismissed a plea to rename itself either as Prayagraj High Court or the Uttar Pradesh High Court.The Bench of Justice Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh observed,"This Court is not empowered to direct the Parliament or State Legislature to enact a particular law and, therefore, we find this petition a frivolous petition, which has been...

Delhi HC Initiates Suo Motu Matter On Expediting The Trials Against MPs/MLAs, Issues Notice To Centre And Delhi Govt

Delhi High Court has initiated a suo motu matter concerning the issue of expediting the trials against MPs/MLAs. The said suo motu matter has been initiated after the direction of the Supreme Court on September 16 whereby all the high courts were directed to formulate a framework to expedite the pending trials against Members of Parliament and the Members of...

Bombay HC To Pronounce Verdict In Bail Applications Filed By Rhea Chakraborty & Four Others Tomorrow

The Bombay High Court tomorrow will pronounce verdict in the bail applications filed by actor Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik, Dipesh Sawant, Samuel Miranda and Abdel Parihar in the Narcotics Control Bureau's case against them under various provisions of the Narcotics Drugs And Psychotropic Substances Act for allegedly procuring drugs for actor Sushant Singh Rajput and being part of a...

Bengaluru Urban The Worst COVID-19 District In Country: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has observed that Bengaluru Urban District is one of the worst affected Districts in the entire country in terms of the number of COVID-19 infections. However, no efforts are made by the Monitoring Committee appointed to monitor the functioning of the Private COVID-19 hospitals in the city. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay OKa and Justice Aravind Kumar...

Allahabad HC Disposes Plea Seeking Permission For Organizing Durga Puja With Direction To Approach DM [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed that the representations seeking permission to organise Durga Puja in Prayagraj, may be made before the concerned District Magistrate. The Bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Siddhartha Varma refused to grant permission for organizing the festival as the same is "subject to guidelines prescribed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh...

No Stand-Off Between Executive & Judiciary In Matters Of Appointment Of HC Judges: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad [Read Letter]

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has stated that there were 398 Judges' vacancies in the High Courts across the country, as of September 1, 2020.The development comes in the backdrop of a concern raised by Senior Advocate P. Wilson over "mounting judicial vacancies in High Courts", during Zero Hour in Rajya Sabha on February 4, 2020. However, he has clarified that the same is...

NCW Issues Notices To Amit Malviya, Swara Bhasker, Digvijaya Singh For Allegedly Revealing Hathras Victim's Identity

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has issued notices to BJP IT Cell head Amit Malavya, Congress MP Digvijay Singh and actress Swara Bhaskar, seeking explanation on their Twitter posts, revealing the identity of the victim in the Hathras Gang Rape case, along with a direction to remove these posts immediately. On October 2, the BJP leader tweeted a 48-second video, suggesting that...

2G Spectrum: Appeal Against Acquittals Has Been Filed By Special PP Duly Authorised By The Central Govt, CBI Informs Delhi HC

Central Bureau of Investigation has informed the Delhi High Court that the leave to appeal moved against the acquittals of A Raja and others in the 2G Spectrum case has been filed by a Special Public Prosecutor who is authorised by the central government. While addressing the Single Bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi, Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain submitted that Special PP...

No Interference Now With FIR Against Sushant Singh Rajput's Sisters, Says Bombay HC

Priyanka Singh and Meetu Singh, deceased actor Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters, have filed a writ petition before the Bombay High Court for quashing of FIR filed against them by Mumbai police on actor Rhea Chakraborty's complaint. The petitioners have also contended that the FIR against them was clearly a counter-blast to the FIR filed against Rhea Chakraborty by their father in Patna.The...