SC Denies Relief To Horse Cart Owners Who Wanted To Ply On Table Land At Panchghani [Read Order]

The Supreme Court of India, has denied permission sought by horse cart owners to use the famous tourist spot, 'Table Land', in Panchghani, for plying their carts. However, it has directed the panchghani municipal council to set out a plan, within six weeks for providing a levelled track for horse carts, within 20 acres demarcated for them, below the Table Land area. A bench of Chief Justice...

[Safety Of School Children] Allahabad HC Directs All DMs To Give Fitness Report Of School Buses By March 2 [Read Order]

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has ordered all the District Magistrates of the state to conduct a fitness test of school buses as per Supreme Court orders and to submit a compliance report thereto. As per the order dated January 13, passed by Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, the District Magistrates will submit their reports to the...

Jamia Library Violence: Delhi HC Issues Notice On Plea Seeking Compensation For Injured Student

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to Delhi Police and Central Government in a plea seeking compensation for a student who has incurred severe injuries due to the alleged police brutality that took place inside the University's library. A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar, while issuing notices to the concerned authorities, expressed...

Delhi HC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking CBI Inquiry On Instances Of Molestation Inside Gargi Campus

Delhi High Court has issued notices to Central Government, CBI and Delhi Police, in a plea moved by Advocate ML Sharma seeking CBI Inquiry on alleged instances of molestation and sexual misconduct inside the campus of Gargi college. The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has scheduled the matter for hearing on April 30. The plea arises from alleged...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court Time-Bound Contractual Services On Honorarium Basis Cannot Be Classified To Be An Office Of Profit [Neelam Nigam v. State of UP] Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi held that time-bound contractual services on honorarium basis cannot be termed to be an office of profit and hence, an elected pradhan, receiving honorarium in a private contractual service, alone is not...

Govt Deliberately Omitted To Revise Property Tax Rates For Their Political Interests: Madras HC Pulls Up Chennai Corporation [Read Order]

The Madras High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Greater Chennai Corporation for failing to revise the property tax rates for about 20 years, affecting the revenue required for providing amenities to the citizens. The division bench comprising Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice P Velmurugan observed that successive governments had "deliberately omitted to revise the property tax...

Land Revenue Receipts, PAN Card & Bank Docs Do Not Prove Citizenship : Gauhati HC [Read Judgment]

The Gauhati High Court has observed that land revenue paying receipts do not prove citizenship of a person.Also, following a previous judgment, the Court observed that PAN Card and Bank Documents do not prove citizenshipA division bench of Justices Maojit Bhuyan and Parthivjyoti Saikia made these observations while dismissing a writ petition filed by one Jabeda Begum against the order passed...

[Sting Operation Allegedly For Blackmailing] SC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Journalists [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from arrest to journalists who tried to carry out sting operation allegedly to gain access to various politicians in the State in order to blackmail them on the lure of money and women.After hearing Senior Advocates Harish Salve, Mahesh Jethmalani and Anupam Lal Das, who appeared for the journalists, Bhupendra Pratap Singh, Abhishek Singh,...

Allahabad HC Dismisses Plea To Revoke Citizenship Of Akshay Kumar & Alia Bhatt,Asks Petitioner To Move Appropriate Forum [Read Judgment]

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking seizure of citizenships of film artists Akshay Kumar and Alia Bhatt, for want of jurisdiction. The court has however granted liberty to the Petitioner to approach the appropriate court having territorial jurisdiction, or the competent authority to look into the matter. The order was passed by...

Electoral Photo Identity Card Not A Proof Of Citizenship: Gauhati HC [Read Judgment]

The Gauhati High Court has reaffirmed that an electoral photo identity card is not a conclusive proof of citizenship and it cannot be considered while assessing whether a person is a foreigner under the Assam Accord of 1985. The division bench comprising Justice Manojit Bhuyan and Justice Parthivjyoti Saikia has reiterated the law laid down by the high court in Md. Babul Islam v. State...

Non-Payment Of Subsistence Allowance To An Employee During Suspension Will Be Antithetical To Article 21:Madras HC [Read Judgment]

“A total denial of subsistence allowance to a suspended employee, in our opinion, would be violative of Article 21 of the Constitution of India”

PIL Seeking Ban On Sanatan Sanstha: Show Us The Procedure; Bombay HC Tells State and Centre

The Bombay High Court asked the Centre on Thursday to submit on record the procedure followed in deciding an application seeking ban on an organisation for indulging in unlawful activities.Division bench of Justice RV More and Justice SP Tavde was hearing a PIL filed by one Arshad Ali Ansari seeking directions to the Union Home Ministry and State of Maharashtra to ban Sanatan Sanstha.More...