Draft Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020, Published [Read Notification]

Central Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has published a draft of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020, in the official Gazette calling for suggestions and objections from the public.The Parliament passed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in November, last year, which aims at protecting the rights of transgender persons by granting them recognition...

Benefit U/s 427 CrPC Can Be Claimed Only Before The Court Dealing With The Subsequent Offences: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

"Seeking such a relief from the court dealing with the first conviction is totally out of place.”

Allahabad HC Dismisses Plea Seeking Judicial Probe Into Alleged Encounter Of Kanpur Gangster Vikas Dubey As Infructuous [Read Order]

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking Judicial probe into the alleged encounter of Kanpur Gangster Vikas Dubey, noting that the UP Government has already taken steps in that direction. "Considering the fact that Special Investigating Team and Judicial Commission have already been constituted by the State of U.P. to enquire into the...

MHA Order Directing Employers To Pay Wages During Lockdown, Not Applicable To Workers Who Were Unemployed Or Unpaid Before The Lockdown: Bombay HC

In a significant order, the Bombay High Court has held that order passed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs under the Disaster management Act directing all states and union territories to ensure that all the employers shall make payment of wages to their workers without any deduction during the lockdown, is not applicable to those workers who remained unpaid and unemployed for a long...

Plea In Allahabad HC Against UP's "Name-And-Shame" Ordinance [Read petition]

A PIL has been filed before the Allahabad High Court, challenging the constitutional validity of the Uttar Pradesh Public and Private Property Damages Recovery Ordinance, 2020. The petition has been filed by two practicing Advocates of the High Court along with a social activist and a journalist, stating that the Ordinance fails its objective of "de-escalation of...

Delhi HC And Subordinate Courts To Continue Restrictive Functioning Till July 31 [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has decided to continue with the current mode of restricted functioning in light of the extension of the nationwide lockdown. As per the decision taken by the Administrative and Supervision Committee of the Delhi High Court, the restrictive functioning of the courts subordinate to the High Court will also be extended till July 31. It has also...

Recalculate Marks Awarded In Administrative Law Paper : Bombay HC Directs College In Final Year Law Student's Petition [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Savitribai Phule Pune University and Director, Board of Examination and Evaluation to recalculate the marks obtained by a final year law student in the 'administrative law' paper in the ninth semester held in December 2019 as he contended that there has been an arithmetical error in calculating the marks. A division bench of Justice Ujjal...

PIL In Kerala HC Against Public Protests And Huge Gatherings Organised By Political Parties Amid COVID-19

A plea to put a stop to larger public gatherings organised by the political parties ,violating the COVID 19 regulatory norms has been filed before the Kerala High Court. The major plea of the petitioner is against the public protests and huge gatherings organised by the political parties violating the COVID protocol."The political parties and its associated organisations in Kerala are...

Failure To Deliver Food Kits In Containment Zones : Karnataka HC Summons BBMP Commissioner And ACS Urban Development Dept

The Karnataka High Court on Monday issued summons to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner and the Additional Chief Secretary of the State Urban Development Department to appear before the court through video conferencing on Tuesday over failure to deliver food kits in containment zones in the city.A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Alok Aradhe...

Allahabad HC To Remain Closed On July 14 & 15; No Physical/ E-Filing of Fresh Cases [Read Order]

In view of the "rapid increase" in the number of Covid cases in the city of Prayagraj, the Allahabad High Court will remain closed on July 14 and July 15, 2020, for sanitization purposes. It is intimated that judicial as well as administrative sections of the High Court will remain closed and no fresh filings, either physically or through e-filing will take place on the...

'Witness Not Expected To Have Photographic Memory, Variations In Facts/Improvements Natural In Depositions': P & H HC [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asserted that in a criminal case,"one cannot be expected to have an eidetic/photographic memory" and that "slight changes in the facts or alleged improvements are bound to happen, being natural". "Natural variations do happen and such depositions are considered and relied upon by the courts after its careful analysis", observed Justice...

BHEL Employee Suicide [Sexual Harassment]: SC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Transfer Of Investigation From Telangana Police To CBI

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea seeking transfer of criminal investigation from Telangana State Police to the CBI (or any other central agency) in the commission of suicide of a BHEL employee due to sexual harassment at workplace.A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar & Sanjiv Khanna while admitting the petition, issued notices to the Telangana Government, Telangana Police,...