[COVID 19] Lawyers To Submit Adjournment Slips Today To Adjourn Matters In Tomorrow's List: P&H HC [Read Order]

As a measure to guard against the transmission of novel COVID-19, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has issued an order stating that, Advocates may submit their request for adjournment of cases listed on Monday, March 16, in the DRR Section of the court. The decision was taken pursuant to representations made by the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association. An adjournment slip for...

Delhi HC Upholds Validity Of The Provision Which Prohibits Prisoners From Voting In Elections [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has refused to declare section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, which prohibits prisoners from voting in elections, as unconstitutional. While upholding the validity of the said provision, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has held that the classification of the persons who are in jail and who are out of jail is...

28 Persons Accused Of Violence During Anti-CAA Protests In Lucknow Slapped With Gangster Act [Read Press Note]

The Lucknow police on Friday booked 28 persons, accused of perpetrating violence during the anti-CAA protests in Lucknow on December 19, 2019, under the UP Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986. As per a press not released by the Lucknow Police, the accused have been slapped with the Gangster Act as investigations confirmed that they conspired as a "gang" to...

Delhi HC Sets Aside Conviction In Murder Case Observing That Testimony Of Sole Eye Witness Wasn't Reliable [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside the conviction order of three convicts in a murder case dating back to 1998, while holding that the testimony of the sole eye-witness based on which the trial court had convicted them was not reliable. The judgment rendered by a division bench comprising of Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Siddharth Mridul, raises a caution that conviction...

Forgery and Fabrication Of High Court Order A Serious Matter : Bombay HC Orders Registration Of FIR [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court last month directed its registry to lodge an FIR before the Azad Maidan police station after Vasant Parakh, a Pune based businessman forged a favourable "stay order" in order to avoid attachment of his properties under the SARFAESI Act. This is the second such instance in the recent past that a "forged order" has been found. Justice GS Patel last month had ordered a...

Labour Ministry Of Delhi Urges NLU-D University To Negotiate For 100% Retention Of Housekeeping Staff [Updated]

Pursuant to a meeting between the representative of Labour Ministry of Delhi and all the stakeholders in the matter of alleged unlawful termination of housekeeping staff of the National Law University, Delhi, certain crucial suggestions have been made to the University Administration to resolve the deadlock. After the meeting, the Presiding Officer in the meeting, Mr. Anil...

COVID-19: Bombay HC Restricts Functioning of All Benches To Urgent Matters For A Week, Issues Directions To District Courts [Read Notification]

In light of the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, the Bombay High Court has restricted the functioning of the Courts in the principal bench at Bombay as well as its benches functioning at Nagpur, Aurangabad and the High Court of Bombay at Goa to urgent matters only for a week commencing from March 16, 2020. The notice issued on Saturday cites the Office Memorandum dated March...

Death By Rash Driving: Delhi HC Court Holds Debarment From Obtaining Driving Licence For Life As Excessive Sentence [Read Judgment]

In a case pertaining to death caused due to rash and negligent driving, the Delhi High Court has noted that lifetime ban on the convict from getting a driving license is too harsh a sentence when his entire livelihood is depended upon driving. While modifying the order of sentence in a revision petition, the Single Bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva noted that: ...

'Personal WhatsApp Account Not A Public Place':Sending Of Abusive Messages On Personal Account Not An Offence U/s 294 IPC, Says Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

"WhatsApp cannot be a public place if messages are exchanged on personal accounts of two persons. If these messages had been posted on WhatsApp Group, in that case the same could have been called as public place because all the members of the group, will have access to those messages"

Revoke License Of Drunken Drivers, Install Alcohol Sensing Ignition Interlocking Devices : Madras HC Issues Slew Of Directions To Curb Drunk Driving [Read Order]

"This Court has every responsibility to give appropriate directions, to safeguard the rights including the right to live as enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution of India as this Court is the guardian of fundamental rights of the citizens. When thousands of fellow citizens are being killed due to drunken driving, this Court cannot remain a silent spectator with folded hands and...

Babri Masjid Demolition: 313 Examination of Accused Will Begin On March 24

A special CBI court hearing the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case in Ayodhya on Friday fixed March 24 for examining and questioning the accused.The court has summoned accused Champat Rai, Lallu Singh and Prakash Sharma on March 24.Special Judge S K Yadav will also summon the other accused in the case.Earlier, the CBI led its last prosecution witness -- main investigating officer M Narayanan...

Centre Notifies Both IBC Amendment Act & Mineral Laws (Amendment) Act [Read Acts]

The Central government on Friday notified the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2020 and the Mineral Laws (Amendment) Act, 2020. Both the Bills were cleared by the Rajya Sabha on March 12, after being passed by the Lok Sabha on March 6. IBC Amendment Act The Bill to amend the IBC Code, 2016 was introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 12 last...