DV Act Not Maintainable If Family Member Leave Shared Household To Establish Own Household : Karnataka HC [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has held that where a family member leaves the shared household to establish her own household, she cannot claim to have a right to move an application under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act. A bench of Justice B A Patil while allowing a petition filed by a mother and son, challenging the order passed by the lower court on a plea filed by a woman,...

HC Issues Contempt Notice To Deccan Herald For Publishing False News Report

Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Registrar General of the High Court to issue notice under the Contempt of Court Act, against Editor and Publishers of 'Deccan Herald', for printing a false news report titled, "Rupees 9 crores was seized from the residence of a City Civil Court (Bengaluru) Judge in a raid by the "vigilance wing of the Karnataka High Court", in it's edition...

Delhi HC Asks Newspaper To Tender Apology For Publishing Name Of Rape Victim

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked 'The New Indian Express' to tender an apology for disclosing the identity of the Hyderabad rape case victim. A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar asked the media portal that whether such publication happened ignorantly or deliberately. The order has come in a PIL, asking the court to take action against...

Jamia Violence: Three Former Students Move SC For Judicial Probe [Read Petition]

Three former students of Jamia Milia Islamia moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking an independent judicial inquiry by a retired Supreme Court and/or High Court Judge into the alleged police atrocities on students of the varsity protesting peacefully against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. The petition was mentioned before Chief Justice S A Bobde by advocate M...

'Equity Can't Bend Arms Of Law Where An Individual Acquires Status By Fraud'; HP HC Condemns Suppression Of Material Facts [Read Judgment]

Taking a stern approach against parties resorting to suppression of material facts before the court, the Himachal Pradesh High Court observed, "Person who seeks equity must come with clean hands. He, who comes to the Court with false claims, cannot plead equity nor the Court would be justified to exercise equity jurisdiction in his favour. A person who weeks equity must act in a fair...

NGT Says Major Railways Stations Having Potential Of Causing Pollution Are Not Beyond Environmental Laws Of Land [Read Order]

Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has held that Major Railway stations, must secure Consent to Establish/Expansion and Consent to operate under the Water Act and the Air Act, within three months failing which the State Board will take necessary action under the provisions of Water and Air Act in accordance with law. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel,...

Allahabad HC Disqualifies Rampur MLA Md Abdullah Azam Khan From UP Assembly [Read Judgment]

Court found that he had not attained the age of 25 years at the time of contesting elections.

Jamia Milia Protests: Delhi HC Refuses Urgent Hearing To Plea For Judicial Enquiry Into Police Violence [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to provide an urgent hearing in a plea seeking action against Delhi Police for using excessive force against the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University.The petition,which was mentioned before the Chief Justice D N Patel by Advocate Rizwan Nazmi, asked the court to constitute a judicial enquiry to investigate the incident. The plea also asked for...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Bombay High Court Asked the Reserve Bank of India to file an affidavit-in-reply in former ICICI bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar's plea challenging ICICI's decision to terminate her. Division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice SP Tavade heard Kochhar's writ petition which contends that the bank could not have terminated Kochhar retroactively in 2019 when her retirement was approved...

Plea Challenging The Blocking Of Website : Delhi HC Issues Notice To Centre [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Central Government in a plea challenging the blocking of the website called 'Dowry Calculator' by the Ministry of Information Technology and Electronics. Court has granted 4 weeks to the central government standing counsel Gaurang Kanth, to take instructions and file counter-affidavit. The present petition has asked the court to quash all actions taken...

Delhi Court To Pronounce Verdict In Unnao Rape Case Against Ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar On Monday

A Delhi court is scheduled to pronounce on Monday its judgement in the case of alleged kidnapping and rape of a woman by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao in 2017.During in-camera proceedings, District Judge Dharmesh Sharma had said he was likely to pronounce the verdict on December 16 after conclusion of hearing of final arguments by the CBI and the accused in the case.The...

Habeas Corpus Not Maintainable When Detention Is Under The Witness Protection Scheme, 2018: MP HC [Read Judgment]

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a petition in the nature of habeas corpus is not maintainable in cases where the detention is made for protection of witnesses, as envisaged under the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018. Thus while dismissing the petition, the bench of Chief Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice S. C. Sharma held, "merely because,...