Challenge Against BSP-Congress Merger : Rajasthan HC Asks District Judge, Jaisalmer To Ensure Service Of Notice To BSP MLAs

The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday directed the District Judge, Jaisalmer to give necessary assistance to ensure service of notice before August 8 on 6 BSP MLAs in the petitions challenging the merger of the state unit of BSP with Congress party.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta added that the District Judge can seek the assistance...

BCI Issues Notice To New Delhi Bar Association On A Complaint Alleging Misappropriation Of National Relief Fund For Advocates [Read Notice]

Bar Council of India has issued notice to the Executive Committee of the New Delhi Bar Association on a complaint alleging misappropriation of funds from the sum allocated to National Relief Fund For Advocates. The said Executive Committee of the NDBA is directed to submit a reply within 21 days of the receipt of notice. The said reply shall then be placed before...

Karnataka HC Issues Notice To UGC and Others In Plea Filed By Engineering College Students Seeking Cancellation Of Final Year Exams

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday issued notice to the respondents in the matter filed by students of the Bangalore Institute of Technology, challenging UGC Guidelines to conduct final year exams. Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav, while hearing the petition, clarified that the submission of application forms for hall ticket for the exam as per notification dated July 31, issued by the...

Delhi HC Frames Formats Of Assets And Income For Disclosure Of Judgment Debtor's Financial Capacity, Asks Centre To Consider Incorporating In Statute [Read Judgment]

"This Court is of the view that the mandatory filing of the affidavit of assets, income, expenditure and liabilities by judgment-debtor in a detailed prescribed form at the very threshold of execution litigation should be incorporated in the statutes, as in the developed countries"

Why N-95 Masks & Hand Sanitizers Removed From List Of Essential Commodities? Karnataka HC Asks Centre

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the Central Government to clear its stand on whether face mask including N95 masks and Hand sanitizers should be included in the list of Essential Commodities, for effective price control and availability of the items, as the number of COVID-19 cases are multiplying across the country. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice...

Begging Before Someone To Stand As Surety Comes At Cost Of Pride, Accused Shall Be Allowed To Furnish Cash Deposits For Getting Bail: HP HC [Read Judgment]

"Choosing between sureties and deposits, accused is the Queen and let her be."

Franklin Templeton: Karnataka HC To Start Hearing Petitions Against Winding Up Of Debt Schemes From August 12

The Karnataka High Court will commence hearing on a daily basis on petitions challenging winding up of six debt schemes of Franklin Templeton, from August 12. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi said that it will first hear the counsel in a petition filed before the Delhi High court, followed by Gujarat and Madras High Courts. It has put the counsels on...

Delhi HC Directs Action Against Unregistered Online Health Service Aggregators Taking COVID-19 Samples

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Delhi Government to take action against unregistered online health services aggregators, if any, collecting samples of COVID-19 illegally. The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan has asked the Delhi Government to take action against such 'violators of law' expeditiously after providing them with an adequate...

Bombay HC Refuses To Quash High Power Committee's Decision Classifying Categories Of Prisoners For Temporary Release Due To Covid-19 [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday, refused to quash the decision of the High Power Committee constituted by the State for decongestion of prisons due to the threat of Covid-19, to classify categories of prisoners who will be released on emergency parole. However, the Court reiterated that the amended parole rule which states that convicts whose maximum sentence is above 7 years shall...

Gujarat HC Achieves Case Clearance Rate Of About 74% In July 2020; Records Surge In E-Filing [Read Press Note]

Case Clearance Rate for the month of July, 2020 stands at 73.77%. The Gujarat High Court has recorded a significant rise in its electronic filing traffic. As per a press release issued by the High Court, over 5,000 cases, both civil and criminal, were filed before it in the month of July, 2020, through exclusive email addresses notified for accepting the soft copies of the...

NCLT Delhi Seeks Reply Of Bhushan Steel's Monitoring Committee On Policy For Retirement [Read Order]

The Principal Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal at Delhi has sought response from the Monitoring Committee of debt-ridden Bhushan Power & Steel Limited (BPSL) in relation to its retirement policy issued to over 200 BPSL employees last month. The Tribunal was hearing a challenge to the validity of the Retirement Policy which provides that all BPSL employees who are older...

It Is The Fundamental Right Of Press To Publish News Not Palatable To Administration: Calcutta HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To Journalist [Read Order]

"It is the fundamental right of a press reporter to publish any news, which may not be palatable to the administration", observed the Calcutta High Court last week. The bench of Justices Bibek Chaudhuri and Soumen Sen was hearing the plea for anticipatory bail, the petitioner being a reporter of ETV Bharat, in connection with a case against him for a news item imputing bribery and rash...