Zee Media's Plea Seeking Interview With Nirbhaya Convicts: Delhi HC Directs Tihar To Take A Decision By Tomorrow

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Tihar authorities to decide on the request moved by Zee Media seeking an interview with the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case. The Single Bench of Justice Navin Chawla has asked the Tihar authorities to deal with the said request in accordance with law and pass a reasoned order by tomorrow. The present plea was filed...

Preserve Unidentified Bodies Of Persons Killed During Riots : Delhi HC To Hospitals Run By Central & Delhi Govt.

Today, the Division Bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar has asked the government run hospitals to preserve the unidentified bodies for a period of at least two weeks from the date of publishing the information about such bodies on Delhi Police's website. On March 06, a Division Bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice IS Mehta had ordered all...

Madras HC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Special Discounts Offered To Fast Tag Holders [Read Order]

The Madras High Court on Friday issued notices to the Union of India and the National Highways Authority of India in a petition challenging special discounts offered to the users of FASTag. A challenge has been made to a circular dated January 15, 2020, whereby the NHAI has restricted the discounts applicable on fee plaza like return fare discount and local exemption to payments made...

IRDA Instructs Health Insurers To Include Medical Cover For COVID-19 In All Policies [Read Circular]

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has instructed all the health insurance companies to include medical cover for COVID-19, irrespective of the type of policy. Through a circular issued on March 4, 2020, the IRDA issued the following Guidelines on handling of claims reported under Coronavirus, with immediate effect: "1. In respect of the products filed...

Sending Minor Girls To Nari Niketan In Cases Of Elopement Cannot Be Treated As Illegal Confinement: Patna HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Patna held that sending minor girls to Protection Home/Nari Niketan in cases of elopement cannot be treated as illegal confinement giving rise to a remedy under the writ of habeas corpus. The three-judge bench comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Singh, Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Birendra Kumar said, "Being merely confined within the four walls of...

Bombay HC Grants Injunction Against Clothing Manufacturer From Using The Trade Name ISKCON [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court last Friday granted an ad-interim injunction against an apparel company using the trade name ISKCON Apparel Pvt Ltd after hearing a commercial suit filed by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) alleging infringement of their trade mark. Justice BP Colabawalla concluded that the adoption of the ISKCON trade name was "deliberate with a view...

CSE Rule Declaring Persons Who Had Undergone Organ Transplant Unfit For Selection Is Archaic: Delhi HC [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has held that the candidature of a Delhi Judicial Services aspirant cannot be rejected on the ground that he had undergone a renal transplant. While directing against the rejection of the candidature, the Division Bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Sanjeev Narula opined that the provision in Civil Services Examination Rules which declare persons...

Madras HC Grants Interim Relief To Singer 'Mahanadhi' Shobana In Copyright Infringement Suit [Read Order]

In an interim relief to famous Tamil singer 'Mahanadhi' Shobana, the Madras High Court has restrained Symphony Recording Company Ltd from distributing, manufacturing or selling her songs.Justice M S Ramesh noted in the interim order that the assignment agreements based on which Symphony was claiming rights were executed when Shobana was a minor, and were hence unenforceable.Even otherwise,...

Eligibility For Post Should Be There As On Last Date Of Application : Patna HC Dismisses CNLU Students' Plea [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by four final year students of Chanakya National Law University seeking consideration of their applications to the post of Assistant Prosecution Officer.As per the advertisement issued by the Bihar Public Service Commission, the applicants to be the post must be a law graduate as on the last date for application, March 6. The students...

NCLT Chennai approves Cochin Shipyard's Resolution Plan To Acquire TSL [Read Order]

The Chennai Bench of NCLT has accepted the Resolution Plan (RP) filed by public sector company Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) to acquire Chennai based shipbuilding firm Tebma Shipyards Limited (TSL) under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).CSL's RP had proposed a paltry sum of Rs 65 crores which amounts to only 9.74% of pay out...

[Bringing Lawyers Under Consumer Protection Act] Legal Profession Not A Trade Or Commercial Activity: BCD Writes To Consumer Affairs Minister [Read Letter]

Objecting to the addition of legal services within the ambit of Consumer Protection Act, Bar Council of Delhi has written to the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs. The letter marked to Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs states that lawyers being an integral part of the justice delivery system & cannot be included within the definition of...

'Eminent Senior Advocate' Mentioned In SC/ST Rules Does Not Mean Designated Senior Advocate : Madras HC [Read Judgment]

The Madras High Court has held that the words "eminent senior advocates" are not synonymous with the definition of a Senior Advocate as contained in the Advocates Act, 1961. The division bench comprising Chief Justice AP Sahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad has emphasized on the word 'eminence' to state that a lawyer, even though not designated senior but having expertise in...