Cartel Of Doctors, Pharma Companies And Diagnostic Labs Fleecing The Patients : Madras HC Takes Suo Moto Case [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has observed that the cartel of doctors, pharma companies and diagnostic labs is fleecing the patients by over pricing the drugs over and above the maximum scale price fixed by the Government. Thus, the patients are compelled to pay more unnecessarily, the bench remarked. The bench comprising Justices Kirubakaran and Velmurugan noted that in spite of...

Nirbhaya Case: Convict Mukesh Moves Delhi HC Seeking Stay On Death Warrant Until The Mercy Plea Is Decided

One of the four convicts of Nirbhaya rape case, Mukesh, has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the death order issued by the Sessions Judge Satish Arora on December 7. As per the death warrant, the four convicts are scheduled to be hanged on January 22, 7 am. Filed under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution, the petition challenges the issuance of death warrant...

For Inter-State Arrest, Police Must Follow Guidelines : Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has issued guidelines that must be followed by the police of one State, when they go to some other State or Union Territory, to effect an arrest while investigating a complaint or a First Information Report (FIR) disclosing a cognisable offence. A Division Bench of Justice Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh has asked Delhi Police to implement...

"Requiem For a Falling Tree and a Failing Human"; Bombay HC Dismisses Petition u/A. 227 Due To 'Trouble' Caused By Tree

Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu sitting in the High Court of Bombay at Goa last month penned a thought provoking three-page oral order that he himself summarised as, "Requiem for a Falling Tree and a Falling Human." Justice Naidu was hearing a writ petition filed by representatives of one Vithal Sambri (now deceased) in whose residential compound a tree grew and it happened...

Bombay HC Refuses Urgent Relief To Television Broadcasters Challenging TRAI's Amended New Tariff Order

Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused ad-interim relief in a plea filed by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation, a unified representative body of television broadcasters in India which challenged the amendments made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to New Tariff Order notified in January. Division bench of Justice SC Dharmadhikari and Justice RI Chagla directed TRAI...

'Why Are you Aggrieved By Global Injunction Order?': Delhi HC Asks Facebook In Baba Ramdev's Case

In a proceedings challenging the global injunction order passed by the Single Bench of the Delhi High Court, the Division Bench of Justice Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh asked Facebook about its stand in the present appeal. The appeal was filed against an order passed by the Single Bench of Justice Prathiba Singh imposing a global injunction against Facebook to take down defamatory...

Mangalore Firing : Karnataka HC Issues Notice On PIL For Judicial Inquiry

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government on a PIL seeking a judicial inquiry by a sitting/retired judge of the High Court into the incident of violence and excessive use of force by the police, leading to the killing of two civilians and injuring seven others, at Mangalore during an Anti Citizenship Amendment Act.A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka...

Delhi Lawyers Hold Protest March Against CAA-NRC

A protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) was organised on Tuesday under the banner of 'Lawyers for Democracy'. Around 3 PM lawyers, mostly from Supreme Court, started assembling opposite the main gate of the apex court. Around 3.45pm, when a large number of lawyers had gathered, the group began walking from Supreme Court to Jantar Mantar. The group of lawyers...

[Anti-CAA Protests] Police Attacked' Peaceful Protestors, Prevented Constitutional Rights': Chairman Of Delhi Minorities Committee Writes To CJI Seeking Action

Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Committee, Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan has strongly criticized the alleged police brutalities and state sponsored onslaught during nation-wide peaceful protests against the NRC and CAA. In a letter addressed to CJI SA Bobde, Dr. Khan has condemned the manner in which the Police allegedly tried to mute the dissenting voices, by unnecessarily imposing Section...

40-Year-Old Man Files Suit Before Bombay HC Seeking 1.5 Cr In Damages From Alleged Biological Mother Who Abandoned Him

A 40-year-old man has filed a suit before the Bombay High Court seeking Rs.1.5 cr in damages from one Aarti Mhaskar, who is allegedly his biological mother. Plaintiff Shrikant Sabnis, who works as a make-up artist has alleged that in order to marry one Uday Mhaskar 'illegally', his mother Aarti hatched a conspiracy to abandon him and elope with Uday, "leaving behind her own son, in...

Allahabad HC Seeks Reply From Centre & State Govt. In Plea For Regulation Of Sale & Distribution Of Acid [Read Order]

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has sought replies from the Centre and the UP State governments in a PIL seeking implementation of the Supreme Court's directions, to regulate sale and distribution of acid in the country. The bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Chandra Dhari Singh has asked the governments to file their counter affidavits latest by...

JNU Violence: Delhi HC Directs Whatsapp, Facebook And JNU Authorities To Preserve Data Relating To Jan 5 Incident

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed WhatsApp and Google to preserve and provide data relating to the violence that took place in the JNU campus on January 5. The data pertains to two WhatsApp groups, namely: 'Unity Against Left' and 'Friends of RSS'. The Single Bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi has also directed the Chief Security Officer and Registrar of JNU to...