[UAPA] Accused Has Right To Oppose Police Plea For Extension Of Time For Completion Of Investigation Beyond 90 Days But Cannot Be Provided Copy Of The Application:Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court ruled that an accused has a right to be heard to oppose an application for extension of time for completion of investigation accruing out of the proviso to Section 167 of the Cr.P.C. as modified by Section 43(D)(2) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 for investigations under UAPA. The petitioner was an accused charged under the UAPA in relation to...

[Death Of Lady Advocate] Another Plea Filed In MP HC By MPHC Bar Association, Indore Seeking Action Against Erring Hospitals [Read Petition]

A Writ Petition has been filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) seeking strict action against the illegal, careless and negligence action on the part of the Respondent No.6 (The Bombay Hospital Indore) and 7 (The Aurobindo Institute of Medical Science) in ill-treating a patient/deceased (Advocate Achla Joshi).The Petition has been filed by 'The M.P. High Court Bar...

Can Banks Continue SARFAESI Proceedings With Respect To Loan Accounts Declared As NPA Prior To Lockdown? Kerala HC Seeks Response From Centre,State [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court has sought response from the Central Government about the banks' plea seeking permission to continue SARFAESI proceedings with respect to loan accounts which were declared as NPA prior to the declaration of lockdownThe Full bench comprising the Chief Justice S. Manikumar, Justices CT Ravikumar and Shaji P. Chaly was considering an application filed by State Bank of India...

Kerala HC To Examine Validity Of KMMC Rules Amendment Reducing Distance Rule From 100 Metres To 50 Metres [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court said it would examine the reasonableness and constitutional validity of the amendment made in 2017 to the Kerala Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 2015, to the extent it reduces the earlier distance rule from 100 metres to 50 metres.If as a matter of fact, there are no compelling reasons based on public interest for the State to engraft the impugned amendment in 2017 for...

'A Court Is More A Service Than A Place': Parliament Standing Committee On Personnel, Public Grievances Recommends Continuation Of Virtual Courts Post Covid Period [Read Report]

"A court is more a service than a place," remarked the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances in its report supporting continuation of Virtual Courts for some identified categories, even after Covid-19 pandemic is over. After holding extensive meetings with Secretaries of Departments of Justice and Legal Affairs, Secretary General of the Supreme Court...

'You May Approach The Appropriate High Court', Madhya Pradesh HC Allows Withdrawal Of Plea Challenging NLAT 2020

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (11-September-2020) took up the plea by a CLAT aspirant who had moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Jabalpur Bench) challenging the sudden withdrawal of NLSIU Bangalore from CLAT 2020, to hold a separate entrance test namely NLAT (National Law Aptitude Test) 2020.When the Bench of Justices Sanjay Yadav and BK Shrivastava took up the plea in the...

"Lady Advocates, Not Only Successful Professionals, But Also Brave, Successful Mother": P & H HC Denies Impleadment Of Grandparents To Custody Lis [Read Order]

The stand that a lady who is an Advocate by profession cannot take care of her child and would not be able to watch the welfare of the child, is a "fiction of a polluted mind", where a working woman is "looked down upon as a careless and carefree person", ignoring the fact that she also is a mother of the child, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday observed.Justice Augustine George...

Leader Of Opposition In Assam Legislative Assembly Files PIL In Gauhati HC Against Hospitals Refusing Treatment To Non-COVID Patients [Read Petition]

The Leader of Opposition (Assam Vidhan Sabha/Legislative Assembly) and Senior Congress leader Debabrata Saikia has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition in the Gauhati High Court against hospitals in Assam State that are refusing to treat patients who fail to produce COVID-19 negative reports.The Petition has been filed through Advocate Syed Burhanur Rahman, contending that as...

'Stamp Duty Cannot Be Levied On Contract Security': Allahabad HC Raps State Govt For Ignoring Previous Judgments [Read Order]

In a recent judgement, the Allahabad High Court rapped the state authorities for overlooking a trite law that stamp duty cannot be levied on contract security. "This issue had arisen before this Court before one and a half decades but it appears that the authorities concerned have not shown that the said decision is binding on them as a similar issue came before this Court before...

Pre-Arrest Bail To Accused In Assault Of On-Duty Police Officials Sends Wrong Signal To Society, Demoralises Public Servants: P & H HC [Read Order]

"If the concession of pre-arrest bail is granted to the persons accused of assaulting public servants on duty, that may further embolden the people to take law in their own hands and indulge in further such acts, resultantly demoralising such public servants especially when they are from Law Enforcement Agency", the Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed. Justice H. S. Madaan was...

Books, Slogans, Diary Entries, Etc., Not Evidence For UAPA Charges Without Overt Acts Of Violence Or Instigation: NIA Court Kochi [Read Order]

"A provocative thought does not ipso facto prove preparation for crime", the court observed.

How Can A Writ Court Decide If Allopathy Or Ayurveda Will Work For COVID-19 Treatment? Karnataka HC Asks

"How can a writ court decide whether allopathy treatment will work or whether ayurvedic treatment will work while treating a patient infected with COVID-19," the Karnataka High Court observed on Thursday while hearing a public interest litigation filed by two qualified practitioners of Ayurveda. The petitioners A. Varghese, (66) and Dr. Priyanka Arora, have sought to quash the...