Public Interest Litigation Is Not A Pill Or Panacea For All Wrongs And Can't Be Used For Suspicious Products Of Mischief: HP HC [Read Order]

The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday (05th August) took up a plea seeking the postponement of the 'HP Subordinate Allied Services (Main) Examination-2019' to any subsequent dates, post normalization of COVID-19 crisis.[Note: The said examination was conducted on 6th (Thursday) and 7th (Friday) August at various examination centres established in Shimla, Mandi and Dharamshala.]A...

Delhi HC Issues Notice In Bail Plea Moved By Pinjra Tod Member Natasha Narwal [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has issued notice in a bail plea moved by Pinjra Tod member Natasha Narwal who is accused of instigating the riots that took place in the northeast districts of Delhi. The Single Bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru has issued notice to the Delhi Government and granted 10 days to file the status report. Narwal is currently lodged in Tihar prison as an...

Council of Architecture (Minimum Standards of Architectural Education) Regulations Notified; To Come Into Force From 1 November 2020 [Read Notification]

Council of Architecture (Minimum Standards of Architectural Education) Regulations, 2020 have been notified yesterday. These Regulations shall come into force from the 1st day of November, 2020 and would supersede 1983 Regulations. Last year, the Supreme Court had held that All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will not be entitled to impose any regulatory measure in connection...

GN Saibaba Seeks Emergency Parole To Attend Mother's Post-Funeral Rites; Bombay HC Seeks State's Reply

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to file a reply to the emergency parole application filed by former Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba who has been convicted under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for having links with Maoists. Saibaba's mother passed away on August 1, he is seeking parole to attend his mother's post-funeral rites in...

NCLAT Sets Aside NCLT's Order For Acquisition Of RICOH By Dharamshi- Jhunjhunwala Consortium [Read Order]

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) allowed the appeal filed by Kotak Investment Advisors Limited (KIAL) challenging an order passed by the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) which had approved the resolution plan submitted by a consortium of Kalpraj Dharamshi and Rekha Jhunjhunwala. KIAL was one of the bidders for Ricoh India Limited...

State Govt. Has No Power To Amend Art. 341 List Notified By President: P & H HC Stays Haryana Govt. Notifications Including OBC Community In SC Category [Read Order]

Noting that the state government has no power under Article 341 to specify any caste, race or tribe, or part or group thereof, as Scheduled Caste, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday stayed two notifications of the government of Haryana including the OBC 'Gadaria' community as SC. The List of Scheduled Castes in Haryana State, as incorporated in the Constitutional Order 1950...

Class X Students Seek Quashing Of Annual Results Declared By National Institute Of Open Schooling & Re-Assessment In Petition Before Bombay HC [Read Petition]

A petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court on behalf of a total of twenty students in the tenth standard who seek re-assessment of results for March-April public examination 2020 as the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) cancelled the tenth standard examinations and decided to assess theory paper scores on the basis of marks secured in practical exams and tutor...

Ensure Not More Than 20 People Attend Burial/Crematorium Grounds : Karnataka HC Directs State Govt.

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to ensure that direction mandating not more than 20 people can attend burial/crematorium grounds is scrupulously followed. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar said "State must take measure to ensure that said clause is implemented in as much as there is a direction issued...

Plea In Andhra Pradesh HC Against Disbursal Of State Sanctioned Amount For Advocates' Welfare In The Form Of Interest Based Loans [Read Affidavit]

A Circular issued by the Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh providing loans to Advocates in need amid the pandemic and consequent lockdown, has been challenged before the High Court as illegal and arbitrary. Advocate Syed Ziauddin, practicing at the Andhra Pradesh High Court, has contended that the Council's decision to release the State sanctioned amount of Rs.25,00,00,000/- in the form...

Plea In SC Seeks Identification of Minorities At 'State Level'; Challenges S. 2(f) Of National Commission for Minority Education Institution Act [Read Petition]

BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction upon the Central Government to lay down guidelines for identification of minorities "at State level", in spirit of its verdict in the TMA Pai case. In the case of TMA Pai, the Top Court had held that the unit for determining status of linguistic and religious minorities would be State. It...

Disclosure Of COVID Patients' Identities Must Pass 'Triple Test' Of Privacy Judgment; Identity Of Deceased COVID Warriors May Be Disclosed To Honor Them: Orissa HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Orissa has disposed of a PIL filed by Advocate Ananga Kumar Otta against disclosure of personal details/ identities of Covid patients. The bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice S. Pujahari has held that the State has to uphold the right to privacy of the patients by preserving their identities. However, it has also stressed that right to privacy, like...

P&H HC Imposes Cost Of Rs. 1,00,000/- On Plea Filed Without Territorial Jurisdiction Only To 'Gain Benefit' Of Its Interim Order [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently imposed exemplary costs on the Directors of a Mumbai-based company, who had appeared before it against disqualification order passed against them, only to reap benefits of a precedent set by the High Court, without there being territorial jurisdiction. The single-Judge bench of Justice Alka Sarin noted that neither the Petitioners...