[MJ Akbar Vs Priya Ramani Defamation Case] Ramani's Vogue Article Is Her Truth, She Stands By Her #MeToo Story Against Akbar: Rebecca John Begins Final Arguments

After a long period of more than 6 months, the hearing in MJ Akbar's defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani resumed today with Senior Advocate Rebecca M John commencing her final arguments on behalf of Ramani. Before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja, Ms John clarified at the outset that Ramani admits that she did write the Vogue article and...

'Earmark Share Of The Corpus And Her Child In Family Property' Gujarat HC Gave Unprecedented Order In Habeas Corpus Proceeding [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (01st September) passed an unprecedented order in a habeas corpus proceeding asking the parents of Respondent no. 4 (the boy with whom the teen corpus had eloped) to earmark share of the family land in her favour.The bench of Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice N. V. Anjaria also talked to the corpus, who was produced before the court. The court observed that...

"Petitioners Have Approaches Us At The Eleventh Hour"; Bombay HC Refuses Stay On Final Year Examinations Of Undergraduate Students [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Saturday rejected the ad-interim prayer of nine students of various streams of the Maharashtra University Of Health Science, Nashik who sought stay on examinations in physical mode of final year undergraduate medical students set to begin across the State from September 8.A division bench of Justice AA Sayed and Justice SP Tavade observed-"The Petition itself...

Rajasthan HC Directs State Govt. To Take Steps To Revise The Wages In Accordance With SC Judgment [Read Judgment]

The Rajasthan High Court has declared that non revision of the wages payable to the prisoners for last five years is ex facie violative of the provisions of Rule 31 of the Rajasthan Prison Rules, 1951 and amounts to defiance of directions issued by the Supreme Court. As per mandate of Rule 31(1) of Part XII of the Rules of 1951, all the prisoners sentenced to rigorous imprisonment...

'The Appellant And The Prosecutrix Are Ready To Solemnize Marriage', MP HC Grants 2-Month Bail To Rape Accused To Marry Complainant [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) on Wednesday (02nd September) granted temporary two-month bail to a man (appellant) so that during this period the appellant can solemnize the marriage with the prosecutrix/complainant.The bench of Justice S.K. Awasthi was hearing the plea of the appellant who had preferred an appeal under Section 14-A (2) of the SC/ST (PA) Act, 1989, feeling...

'How S.124A Is Added?,Is It A Cruel Hand Of The State, Which Is Running Over?', U'khand HC Asks While Granting Interim Bail to Journalist In A Sedition Case

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday (03rd September) posed a series of detailed and serious questions for the State Government to answer by way of filing a counter-affidavit and granted interim bail to the applicant until the instant bail application is decided.The bench of Justice Ravindra Maithani was hearing the plea of one Rajesh Sharma who was seeking bail in FIR No. 265 of 2020,...

Pecuniary Jurisdiction Of Consumer Fora To Be Determined By Value Of Goods/ Services 'Paid' As Consideration: NCDRC [Read Order]

In a significant order, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held that for determining the pecuniary jurisdiction of Consumer fora, the value of the goods/ services "paid" as consideration alone has to be taken and not the value of the goods/ services "purchased". The order has been passed by a bench of Justice RK Agrawal (President) and Dr. SM...

[Doctrine Of Merger] When Writ Appeal Partly Allowed & SB's Order Modified, Contempt Plea For disobedience Of Order Maintainable Only Before DB: Madras HC [Read Order]

Declaring that the doctrine of merger does not make a distinction between an order of reversal, modification or an order of confirmation, the Madras High Court has ruled that once the Writ Appeal is partly allowed and an order has been passed modifying the order of the Single Judge, the latter merges with the order passed in the Writ Appeal. The Court on Wednesday expressed the view...

[FB Post Against PM Modi And UP CM] Freedom Of Speech Cannot Be Extended To Matters Prejudicial To National interest: Allahabad HC Refuses To Quash Sedition FIR Against Dr.

The freedom of speech cannot be extended to such extent which may be prejudicial to the National interest, said the Allahabad High Court while refusing to quash an FIR lodged against a lady Doctor.Dr. Imrana Khan, a Unani Medical Officer, was named in the FIR registered under Section 67 of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, Section 153-A, 153-B and 124-A of the Indian Penal...

Obey Our Order In Letter And Spirit: SC 'Requests' Madras HC [Read Order]

We request the High Court to obey our order in letter and in spirit, the Supreme Court said taking note of the fact that the Madras High Court did not comply with its direction to dispose of a writ petition within the time stipulated by it.MG Saravanan had filed a writ petition before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court against setting up of a Petroleum Retail Outlet Station...

Delhi Court Stays Publication Of Book On Asaram Bapu's Rape Case On Plea By Co-Convict [Read Order]

The Court said that the publication of the book could cause irreparable harm to the reputation of the plaintiff.

Allahabad HC Refuses To Order Inquiry Into The Utilisation Of Funds Released Under The MPLAD Scheme [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (03rd September) ruled that the Court cannot direct to make an inquiry with regard to utilisation of the funds released under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS).The bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Yogendra Kumar Srivastava observed that the scheme contains sufficient guidelines to maintain transparency in the work to...