Kerala HC Adjourns Hearing Of PIL Challenging CAA To Next Week [Read Petition]

The Kerala High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a writ petition challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.The PIL has been filed by one Shamem MS through Advocate AX Varghese. The petitioner, apart from a prayer to declare CAA unconstitutional, also urges Court to direct all the respondents not to implement CAA.Advocate AX Varghese, representing the petitioner, submitted...

Search And Seizure Before Magistrate Under Section 50 Of NDPS Not Mandatory In All Cases: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has held that the requirement to conduct search and seizure before a Gazetted Officer/Magistrate under section 50 of NDPS is mandatory only when the accused requires such procedure to be carried out. The Single Bench of Justice Vibhu Bhakru has noted that if Section 50(1) of NDPS Act is read to mean that it is necessary in all cases that a search be conducted...

'Reading Of Preamble Not Incitement To Offence' : Delhi Court In Chandra Shekhar Azad's Bail Order [Read Order]

In the order granting bail to Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, a Sessions Court in Delhi has observed that the offences alleged by the police are not prima facie made out against him at the present moment.Azad was arrested by Daryaganj police on December 21 on allegations of violence during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.The FIR registered against him mentioned...

Nothing In RTI Act Empowers CIC To Constitute Any Committee Or Conduct Any Enquiry On Its Behalf : Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Monday ruled that nothing in the Right to Information Act, 2005 empowers the State or Central Information Commission to constitute any committee or conduct any enquiry on its behalf and stayed the implementation of an order passed by an Information Commissioner directing the Department of Economic Affairs to conduct an enquiry.Division bench of Justice KK Tated...

Free Kashmir Placard At Mysore University : Bar Association Passes Resolution Deciding None Would Represent Accused

The Mysuru Bar Association has passed a resolution on January 14, deciding none of it's members would represent the woman, Nalini Balakumar, who had raised 'Free Kashmir' placard at a protest held in Mysuru University on January 8. Bar association President, S Anand Kumar, confirmed over the phone about the resolution being passed he said "On the request received from few...

Nirbhaya Case : Delhi HC Refuses To Interfere With The Death Warrant Issued By Trial Court

Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with the order passed by the Sessions Court on January 7 for the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case. The Division Bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Dhingra noted that the Session Court's order is not erroneous, as the same was passed in compliance with the previous orders of the Supreme Court. Moreover, till the passing...

PMC Bank Crisis: Bombay HC Allows Auction Of HDIL Assets

In a huge relief for the account holders of crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed a public interest litigation filed by one Sarosh Damania seeking auction of all Housing Development and Infrastructure Limited (HDIL) assets either mortgaged with the bank or attached by the Economic Offences Wing, Mumbai.Division bench of Justice Ranjit...

Taking Note Of Casual Remand Orders, Patna HC Directs Judicial Academy To Give Training To Magistrates [Read Order]

The Patna High Court has asked the Director of the Judicial Academy at Patna, to train Judicial Officers in matters of custody and remand applications. The order has been passed by the bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Anil Kumar Upadhyay in a writ petition, after noticing the casual remand orders passed by a Magistrate in violation of SC guidelines. As per the law...

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...