High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court Marital Status Of A Daughter Alone Not A Ground For Rejecting Claim For Compassionate Appointment: Reiterates Allahabad HC [Mala Devi v. State of UP] The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has reiterated that marital status of a daughter alone cannot be the ground for rejecting her application for compassionate appointment in terms of The U.P. Recruitment...

SC Affirms Conviction In Rape Case Rejecting Prosecuterix's Affidavit That Her Complaint Against Accused Was Under Pressure [Read Order]

While affirming conviction of the accused in a rape case, the Supreme Court refused to accept affidavit filed by the prosecuterix that she had lodged the case against the accused under pressure. Rakesh Kumar Yadav had filed an appeal before the Apex Court challenging his concurrent conviction in a rape case. The Chhattisgarh High Court had affirmed the conviction and sentence imposed...

Temporary Reunion During Pendency Of Divorce Proceedings Will Not Defeat The Claim For Dissolution Of Marriage: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

"Act of cruelty once condoned could certainly revive and give rise to a cause of action for dissolution of marriage."

Registration of FIR Simplicitor Doesn't Implicate A Person As Perilous To Maintenance Of Public Order: Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court has held that mere registration of FIR against a person does not mean that he is a threat to the maintenance of public order. "Unless and until, the material is there to make out a case that the person has become a threat and menace to the Society so as to disturb the whole tempo of the society and that all social apparatus is in peril disturbing public order at...

Kerala HC Refuses To Quash Woman's Complaint Against Youth Who Followed Him & Invited Her To Accompany Him [Read Judgment]

"The invitation made by the petitioner to the lady contained an insinuation that she was a woman of easy virtue who was ready and willing to go with any man during night."

Calcutta HC Allows Use Of A4 Sheets For All Filings On Both Original & Appellate Sides

Through a notification issued on Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court has paved way for the use of white A4 sheets for filings on both its Original and Appellate sides, ToI reported today. This notification supersedes an earlier notification issued by the high court on January 20, prescribing the use of legal chart papers instead of the Green embossed paper, on...

Madras HC Permits Public Conference Against CAA-NRC-NPR [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has permitted 'Makkal Athikaram', a social organization to conduct a public conference titled "Withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act-National Register of Citizens-National Population Register, which destroy the Secularism and Basic Structure of the Constitution of India" on the eve of Sunday, i.e. February 23, at the Thenur Ulavar Santhai Corporation...

Five Additional Judges of Karnataka HC Made Permanent

Five additional judges of the Karnataka High Court have been made permanent. They are-(i) Mohammad Nawaz(ii) Harekoppa Thimmanna Gowda Narendra Prasad (iii) Ashok Golappa Nijagannavar(iv) Hethur Puttaswamygowda Sandesh, and (v) Krishnan NatarajanWhile Justices Muhammad Nawaz and Harekoppa Prasad were made additional judges on June 2, 2018, Justice Nijagannavar, Justice Sandesh and...

Bombay HC Rejects Plea By Doctors Accused In Payal Tadvi Case To Continue Studies At Same Hospital

The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected a plea by three doctors accused of abetting Dr.Payal Tadvi's suicide seeking permission to enter BYL Nair Hospital, observing hat the possibility of intimidating witnesses in the case cannot be ruled out.In Thursday's hearing, Justice SS Jadhav had summoned the head of department, gynecology and obstetrics of BYL Nair Hospital in order to decide if...

Delhi HC Allows Delhi Police To Interrogate Sanjeev Chawla In Tihar Till Feb 28 [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has allowed the Delhi Police to interrogate Sanjeev Chawla, alleged cricket bookie involved in one of cricket's biggest match-fixing scandals, in Tihar jail. The Single Bench of Justice Anu Malhotra has held that the Delhi Police will be allowed to interrogate Chawla in Tihar, only till February 28. Post that date, his arrest period of 15 days will conclude....

Gujarat HC Permits Double-Sided Printing On Administrative Side [Read Circular]

After Supreme Court, the Gujarat High Court has now permitted double-sided printing on papers in 15 areas of working in the Registry. As per the official circular issued on Thursday, the Standing Committee of the High Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Justice Vikram Nath has instructed the Registry to implement double sided printing in the following areas: Judges'...

Deceased Entitled To Compensation Even If He/She Boarded The Wrong Train & Died While Alighting; Bombay HC Directs Railways To Pay Rs. 8 Lakh [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court last Friday allowed an appeal against the order of the Railway Claims Tribunal, Nagpur and directed Central railways to pay Rs.8 lakh as compensation to the family of one Arjun Gawande who died while alighting from a train at Badnera station.Justice MG Giratkar of the Nagpur bench relied on Supreme Court and Bombay High Court judgements cited by the appellant's counsel...