Student Gets Bail In Chinmayanand Case

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday allowed the bail application moved by the Shahjahanpur law student, who was arrested by the SIT in September this year, for extorting money from former Union Minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, whom she accused of rape.The SIT had booked her and her three friends on a complaint made by Chinmayanand that they had demanded Rs. 5 crore from him...

'Mandatory Legal Requirements Not Complied': Plea In SC Challenges Notification Of Elections To Rural Local Bodies In Tamil Nadu [Read Petition]

A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court, impugning the notification issued by the government of Tamil Nadu for conducting election for rural local bodies in the state, allegedly for bypassing mandatory legal requirements. As per the plea filed by CR Jayasukin, the state government of Tamil Nadu had issued notifications for bifurcation and creation of nine new districts in...

Search Without Warrant Is Breach Of Right To Privacy Says Bombay HC, Fines State Rs.25,000 For illegal Search :[Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court last Friday ruled that conducting a search without warrant is a breach of Right to Privacy. Court also fined state government Rs.25,000 payable to the aggrieved petitioner for conducting such illegal search.Division bench of Justice TV Nalawade and Justice SM Gavhane of Aurangabad bench were hearing a criminal writ petition filed by one Dnyaneshwar Todmal, a driver...

Union Cabinet Clears Citizenship Amendment Bill

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the bill to amend the Citizenship Act, reported the PTI.The amendment seeks to relax the conditions for granting Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bangladesh.As per PTI, the bill is likely to be tabled in the Parliament in the next two days.The proposal has already generated a lot of controversies. Critics of the...

Kerala HC Directs Govt. Take Control Of Marthoman Church[Read Order]

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to remove all persons who had been squatting in and outside the Marthoman Cheriyapalli (Church) in Kothamangalam area of Kerala and to take over its precincts and all its movables. The order passed by Justice PB Suresh Kumar follows the order of the Supreme Court in KS Varghese v. St. Peter's & Paul's Syrian Orthodox...

Rape Victim Anonymity : Delhi HC Issues Notice On Plea For Action Against Media For Revealing Identity Of Rape Victim

Delhi High Court has issued notice to Respondents in a PIL seeking action against certain media houses for revealing the identity of the victim and the accused persons of the Hyderabad rape case.The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has issued notice in the petition filed by Yashdeep Chahal to the following respondents: a. Union of...

Delhi HC Dismisses Plea Seeking Issuance Of Guidelines To Expedite Sanctions To Prosecute Sedition Cases

Delhi High Court has dismissed the petition seeking guidelines to be issued to the Delhi Government for granting sanction to prosecute sedition and corruption cases. The court said that it sees no reason to draft guidelines for government to follow while granting sanctions to prosecute sedition or corruption cases. The Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar...

Party Alleging Bias Need To Show Only Reasonable Likelihood Of Its Existence And Not Absolute Proof : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

"Bias connotes a state of mind, and establishment thereof is, therefore, necessarily an uphill exercise. It is for this reason that the degree of proof, where bias is alleged, is somewhat diluted, with the law requiring, not absolute proof of bias, but a reasonable apprehension of a real likelihood that bias exists".

Parliament Passes Bill To Merge UTs Of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, & Daman & Diu [Read Bill]

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union territories) Bill, 2019, by voice vote. The Bill introduced by the Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah proposes to merge the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which presently has only one district with the UT of Daman and Diu, which has two districts. The Bill was passed by the Lok...

NCLT Admits RBI's Petition Seeking Initiation Of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process Against DHFL [Read Order]

The National Company Law Tribunal on Tuesday admitted a petition filed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seeking to initiate Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process against the crisis hit Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd, a Financial Service Provider under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016. Coram of MK Shrawat, Judicial Member and Chandra Bhan Singh, Technical Member...

Parliament Clears Bill To Limit SPG Protection To Prime Minister & Immediate Family Of PM

The Rajya Sabha today passed the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019, by voice vote. The Bill was introduced in the house by the Minister of State G. Kishan Reddy to amend the provisions of the Special Protections Group Act, 1988, which provides for constitution and regulation of the Special Protection Group (SPG). The Bill seeks to restrict the facility of SPG security,...

Extracting Services From Employee Without Paying Remuneration Amount To Beggar Prohibited Under Article 23: Karnataka HC [Read Order]

Karnataka High Court while quashing a circular issued by Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation denying allowances for over time job said "Extracting services from an employee without paying the remuneration therefor amounts to begar prohibited under Article 23 of the Constitution of India." Justice Krishna S Dixit while quashing a circular issued in 2015, said "The right...