Homeless Mentally Ill Persons Should Be Allowed To Get Tested For COVID19 Even Without Identity Proof, Delhi HC Directs Delhi Govts. To Consider The Issue

Delhi High Court has granted a week's time to both the Central as well as the Delhi Government to decide as to whether the testing facilities for COVID19 can be extended to homeless mentally ill persons without demanding identity proof. The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan has asked both the governments to consider setting up a camp for...

Welfare Of Law Students Is Also A Matter Of Public Interest As Far As The Institution Of Judiciary Is Concerned : Karnataka HC

The Bar Council of India on Friday informed the Karnataka High Court that it has constituted a sub-committee to address the issue of how mandatory regulations for all final year students of Five Year Law Course, to engage themselves in moot courts, internships, pre-trial preparation etc, can be relaxed or alternative rules can be formulated. Advocate Shridhar Prabhu...

Delhi HC Recommends Centre To Consider Having A Dedicated Helpline For Grievances Of Nurses In Private Clinics

Delhi High Court has recommended the Central Government to consider having a dedicated helpline for addressing the grievances of the nurses working in private clinics. The Division Bench Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan, however, refused to entertain the demand seeking inclusion of nurses working in private clinics, who are not on COVID duty, as beneficiaries in...

Mother Publishing Video Of Children Painting On Her Nude Body : Kerala HC Prima Facie Says Its Use Of Child For Sexual Gratification [Read Order]

Rejecting the argument of controversial Kerala activist Rehana Fathima that she published the video showing her children draw paintings on her naked body with the aim of imparting sex education, the High Court of Kerala on Friday dismissed her application seeking anticipatory bail.The Court observed that while she was free to give sex education to her children - a boy aged 14 years and a...

"We Expect Organizers & UP Govt. Would Ensure Social/Physical Distancing Protocol": Allahabad HC Dismisses PIL Against 'Bhoomi Poojan' Of Ram Mandir [Read Order]

"We expect the organizers and the Government of Uttar Pradesh would ensure all the protocol applicable for social and physical distancing", said the Allahabad High Court while dismissing a plea to restrain "Bhoomi Pujan" for laying down foundation stone of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya.One Saket Gokhale, who claims to be a social activist at Mumbai had approached the High Court by filing a...

[Palathayi Rape Case] Court Orders Further Investigation Into the Alleged Rape of a 10 Year Old Child by Local BJP Leader [Read Order]

Recently, in an infamous rape case which shook the political sphere of Kerala, the Court ordered the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Team (CB-CID) to further investigate the charges against the accused Kuniyil Padmarajan after a petition was filed by the mother of the victim and public prosecutor PP Saseendran under Section 173(8) of Cr.P.C. claiming that the investigation by CB-CID and...

Madras HC Directs To Invoke Prevention Of Corruption Act Against Police Officials "Fleecing" Convicts Coming Out On Parole [Read Order]

The Madras High Court recently pulled up the state prison authorities on being intimated that the police officials accompanying the convicts coming out on parole are taking money in the name of charges from the latter's families. "If it is happening, then it is illegal and it would amount to bribe", was the strict observation of the bench of Justices R. Kirubakaran and V. M. Hemalatha,...

Arbitration: 2019 Amendment To Section 29A Timeline Has Retrospective Effect From 23 October 2015, Holds Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Infusing clarity on the applicability of the amended Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, ("the Act"), the Single Judge of the Delhi High Court ("Court") in the case of ONGC PETRO ADDITIONS LIMITED vs. FERNS CONSTRUCTION CO. INC, pronounced on 21 July 2020, has found that the amendments to Section 29A (1) in 2019, fixing the 12 month time frame from the completion...

Court's Proceedings Are Sacrosanct And Should Not Be Polluted By Unscrupulous Litigants: Himachal Pradesh HC [Read Judgment]

Court's proceedings are sacrosanct and should not be polluted by unscrupulous litigants, remarked the Himachal Pradesh High Court recently. The bench comprising of Justices Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Jyotsna Rewal Dua observed thus while dismissing two writ petitions. The petitioners in this case had challenged the notices by the Local authorities requiring them to vacate the houses...

Uttarakhand HC Modifies Its Earlier Judgment Setting Maximum Noise Limit For Loudspeakers [Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court has modified a directive issued in its 2018 judgment setting maximum noise level for loudspeakers.In the said judgment, the state was directed to to ensure that no loudspeaker or public address system shall be used by any person including religious bodies in Temples, Mosques and Gurudwaras without written permission of the authority even during day time, that too,...

Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules Comes Into Force [Read Notification]

The Central Government has notified Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 to prevent unfair trade practices in e-commerce, direct selling and also to protect the interest and rights of consumers. Section 94 of the Consumer Protection Act 2019 empowers the Central Government to take measures to prevent unfair trade practices in e-commerce, direct selling and also to protect the...

'Victim's DNA Report Not Matching: No Ground To Rule Out Involvement In Crime, P & H HC Denies Bail To Gang-Rape Accused [Read Order]

"Merely because the DNA report (of the rape victim) does not match with the petitioner cannot be termed to be a circumstance to conclude that the petitioner is not involved in the crime", observed the Punjab and Haryana High Court in denying bail to a gang-rape accused. The petitioner before Justice Vivek Puri sought regular bail in connection with a FIR dated 04.05.2018, under...