Section 142(2) Of Negotiable Instruments Amendment Act, 2015 Is Constitutionally Valid: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Reiterating that the Parliament/State Legislature can take away the basis of a judicial pronouncement by enacting legislation, the Madras High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Section 142(2) of the Negotiable Instruments Amendment Act, 2015. The Petitioner-Company, Refex Energy Ltd. had asserted that the amendment is in violation of the Supreme Court ruling in...

CAA Protest: Court Orders To Provide Immediate Medical Treatment To Man, Who Was Arrested From Seelampur

Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Richa Parihar of Karkardooma court today directed jail authorities to provide immediate medical treatment to Moinuddin, one of the accused arrested in connection with alleged violence that took place during the anti-CAA protests which took place at Seelampur last week. An application was filed today at the Karkardooma district court for provision of...

'CAA Protests Attempt To Save Constitution': Bar Council Member Urges BCI To Express Solidarity With Protests [Read Letter]

In a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Bar Council of India, a Member of the Bar Council resisted its call for abating protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and urged the Council to express solidarity with the protests going on across the country. Coming out in support of the protestors, Advocate N Manoj Kumar said, "The protests against CAA and NRC are the...

Delhi HC Dismisses Plea Challenging Internet Shutdown In Delhi Over CAA Protests

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL challenging the DCP's order of shutting down mobile interent services in Delhi on 19/12/2019 in light of the Citizenship Amendment Act protests. While refusing to entertain the plea, the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar declared that issuing writ is the prerogative of the court, and the Petitioners can make...

'CAA Unconstitutional, Divisive' : Former Students Of NLSIU, NUALS Release Statements [Read Statements]

Terming the Citizenship Amendment Act "unconstitutional", and condemning the police violence on student protests against the law, 538 former students of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore and 432 former students of National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) Kochi have released statements.The statement by NLSIU alumni said :" As professionals trained in the...

Calcutta HC Directs Govt. To Withdraw Anti CAA Publication From All Its Web Portals [Read Order]

The Calcutta High Court has directed the West Bengal Government to withdraw Anti Citizenship Amendment Act publications from all Government portals and Facebook sites of government institutions and departments for the time being.The Court passed this order in a writ petition which raised an issue whether State funds could have been spent to put across the view relating to the applicability...

Anti- CAA Protest: UP Court Denies Bail To Sadaf Zafar

The bail application of activist and Indian National Congress (INC) worker Sadaf Zafar was rejected by Special Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lucknow, Sudesh Kumar. Zafar was arrested during anti-CAA protests taking place on 19 December in Lucknow. She was in the process of recording a Facebook Live video when the police picked her up. The video shows her asking the police about why she is...

NGT Refuses Relief To UP Jal Nigam, Directs To Pay Rs 1 Crore Compensation For Polluting River Ganga [Read Order]

National Green Tribunal refuse relief to UP Jal Nigam, it will have to deposit Rs 1 crore as Environmental Compensation with the Central Pollution Control Board for illegal permission granted by the Principal Secretary, Urban Development, for release of large quantity of untreated sludge and effluents directly into river Ganga on the ground of cleaning trunk sewer. A bench led by...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court Took suo moto cognizance of the shocking incident where three men began to open fire inside a courtroom in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh.The preventive detention is an encroachment upon the personal liberty of an individual and cannot be said to be encroached in a casual manner as has been done in the instant case,'' said High Court bench, Justices...

Madras HC Directs Police To Videograph DMK's Anti-CAA Rally [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has directed videographing of DMK's proposed rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday if the party goes ahead with it despite denial of permission by the police. It gave the interim direction late Sunday night on PILs opposing the rally after the Tamil Nadu government counsel informed that police have denied permission for the protest as there was no...

PIL Seeking Action Against Media For Revealing Identity of Rape Victim: Home Ministry Files Reply Before the Delhi HC

Central Government has filed its reply before the Delhi High Court in a PIL seeking action against media portals that had published the identity of the Hyderabad rape victim and the accused persons. At the outset, Union Government has clarified that the direction sought in the said plea doesn't fall under the mandate of Ministry of Home Affairs. It says that as 'police' and 'public order'...

Delhi HC Asks Police Commissioner To Institute Inquiry Against Police Officers For Brandishing Firearms In a Public Street [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has directed Commissioner of Delhi Police to institute an inquiry against police officers who were allegedly brandishing a firearm in a public street. The Single Bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru also noted that the court finds it difficult to accept that a police official should be walking in a street brandishing a weapon in the manner as is reflected...