Plea Seeking E-Registration Of Documents and Digitisation of Sub-Registrar's Office, Delhi HC Gives Liberty To Make Representation Before Concerned Authority

Delhi High Court has given the liberty to make a representation before an appropriate authority in a plea seeking establishment of a system for e-registration of all documents in order to dispense with the physical presence of all the parties. However, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan refused to issue any direction to the concerned...

Religare Finvest: Delhi HC Grants Bail To Shivinder Mohan Singh

The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh in a money laundering case against him. The Single Bench of Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani has directed Shivinder Mohan Singh to furnish a personal bond of ₹1 crore and two sureties of ₹25 lacs each. In addition to this, Singh has also been directed to surrender...

Delhi University Open Book Examination: Delhi HC Adjourns Hearing Till July 28

The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the petitions challenging the conduct of open book examination by the Delhi University to 28th July, in view of the plea pending in the SC challenging the UGC directives on the conduct of university examinations."We have to see what SC will choose to do. If it issues notice, whole dynamics will change", observed by the Court The Court...

Schools Shall Not Strike Out Students' Names For Non-Payment Of Tuition Fees Until They Decide Representations For Concession/ Waiver: P&H HC [Read Order]

A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified that even though the schools are permitted to collect tuition fee, they shall not strike out the names of such students who have either sought concession/ waiver of school fee (until disposal of their representations). While hearing an appeal against the single bench order of the High Court, permitting all...

J&K HC Grants Interim Protection To Woman Allegedly Threatened For Religious Conversion [Read Order]

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Monday allowed the protection petition of a woman, allegedly being threatened by her family members and relatives, for having converted her religion/faith to Islam. The single-judge bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey has granted interim relief to one Fatima, who claimed that she had converted her religion from Hinduism to Islam, "out of her own...

Kerala HC Comes To Rescue Of Two Students Deprived Of Online Education; Directs Panchayat To Provide Them Laptops

In a relief to two Dalit sisters who were deprived of online education, the High Court of Kerala directed a Panchayat to provide them laptops. The state government had promulgated a scheme to provide computers and laptop to the students belonging to SC/ST Community.The implementation of the plan was entrusted to the local self government institutions. Though the petitioners - Anakha Babu...

Students Shall Neither Be Barred From Accessing Online Classes Nor Prohibited From Participating In Online Examinations Till August 15 :Calcutta HC [Read Order]

A writ petition was filed in the Calcutta High Court, demanding no student enrolled with the private, unaided schools should neither be barred from accessing online classes nor prohibited from participating in online examinations. On Tuesday, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court comprising of Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya, issued the...

SC Issues Notice In Anti-Sikh Riots Convict Sajjan Kumar's Interim Bail Plea

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice in in the interim bail plea of Ex-congress MP Sajjan Kumar, convicted and serving a life sentence in a 1984 anti-sikh riots case. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna & V. Subramanian took up the matter of co-convict Balwan Khokhar along-with Kumar's plea as well.In May, the Supreme Court had refused to grant interim bail...

Clarify Your Stand On The Requirement Of Doctor's Prescription For COVID Testing: Delhi HC Directs ICMR [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has directed the Indian Council Of Medical Research to file an affidavit stating its stand on the requirement of a doctor's prescription for testing of COVID19. The said direction has been issued by the Single Bench of Justice Navin Chawla in a plea challenging the mandatory requirement of a doctor's prescription to undergo a COVID19 test. Filed by Mr...

In An Interim Measure, Bombay HC Directs State To Prefer Govt Officials Over Private Individuals As Administrators Of Gram Panchayats [Read Petition]

As elections in 14,000 gram panchayats across the State of Maharashtra have been deferred due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bombay High Court while hearing a batch of petitions filed on behalf of gram panchayats across the State, in an interim measure, directed the state government on Wednesday to prefer government officials over private individuals while appointing administrators for...

Google Pay Is A Third Party App Which Operates Within the Regime Set Up By National Payments Corporation of India: Google Informs Delhi HC

Google India has informed the Delhi High Court that Google Pay is a third party application for providing United Payments Interface service to various banks and it works within the regime and as per the guidelines of National Payments Corporation of India. The information was provided to the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan in a plea seeking a ban...

Kerala HC Stays Munsiff-Magistrate Notification On Prima Facie Finding That It Excluded EWS Reservation [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday stayed a HC notification dated June 20, 2020 inviting applications for appointment to the post of Munsiff Magistrate, on the prima facie finding that the it excluded Economically Weaker Section (EWS) from the category of reservation. After going through the grounds taken by the writ petitioner and since no instructions were forthcoming from...