A Detailed Order Is Not Required Under Sec 228 Of CrPC, If There's A Prima Facie Ground : Delhi HC [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has held that the order of the trial court on charge need not be a lengthy or a detailed one. Such an order should indicate that in the opinion of the trial court a prima facie case is made out. The court made this observation while disposing off a revision petition filed under section 397, read along with section 401 of CrPC wherein the Petitioner had challenged...

Company Law Committee Suggests Further Decriminalization And Relaxation of Punitive Measures

Company Law Committee Submits Report, Suggests Further Decriminalization and Relaxation of Punitive MeasuresThe Company Law Committee, which was formed to track the progress consequent to the passing of Companies Act 2019, has presented its report to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman. The Committee was constituted in September 2019 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to...

Plea To declare An Acquittal Judgment of Trial Court As "Honourable Acquittal" Not Maintainable: Madras HC [Read Judgement]

A Division Bench of the High Court of Madras comprising of Chief Justice Mr. A. P. Shahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad held that a Revision or a Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking declaration to declare that an acquittal judgment of a trial court as "Honourable Acquittal" is not maintainable. An Appeal had been filed against the Order dated...

'Lawyers Are Obligated To Ensure Smooth Functioning Of Courts': CJ Of Karnataka HC Appeals To Advocates To Not Abstain From Court Work [Read Statement]

The Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Abhay S. Oka, has issued a statement, requesting the lawyers in the State to refrain from abstaining from Court work and to ensure smooth functioning of the court. "It is a settled position of law that the acts of abstaining from Court work or boycotting the Court proceedings and the acts of the office bearers...

Registrar Of Companies Cannot Strike Off Company When Insolvency Process Is Pending : NCLT [Read Order]

The Registrar of Companies (ROC) cannot strike off the name of a company during Corporate Interim Resolution Process, which is reported to have pending litigation, the Ahmadabad Bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held. A bench of Harihar Prakash Chaturvedi (Member Judicial) and Prasanta Kumar Mohanty (Member Technical) said so while deciding the appeal moved by the liquidator of...

Rape Is A Serious Offence, Cannot Be Quashed Even When A Settlement Is Reached Between Victim and Accused: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has rejected an application seeking quashing of a rape case, filed under section 376 of IPC, on the ground of a settlement being reached between the victim and the accused. Refusing to exercise the inherent power under section 482 of CrPC, Justice Brijesh Sethi held that rape not only causes serious injury to a woman's body, but also to her honour and...

Delhi HC Allows ED's Application Seeking Factual Corrections in Chidambaram's Bail Order; Issues Clarifications

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed the application filed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) to correct "inadvertent factual errors" and "accidental slips" in the order denying bail to P Chidambaram in the INX Media case and issued clarifications.Appearing on behalf of ED, Advocate Amit Mahajan requested that the Court to clarify that observations made in paragraphs 35, 36, 39 and 40 were...

Where Is Dr. Farooq Abdullah? MPs Ask On First Day Of Parliament Winter Session

The question deserves an answer. Where is Dr. Farooq Abdullah?

Parents Move Gujarat HC Alleging Illegal Confinement Of Their Daughters At Godman's Institute

A couple moved the Gujarat High Court on Monday, seeking custody of their two daughters who are being allegedly held in illegal confinement at an institution run by self-styled godman Swami Nithyananda at Ahmedabad. Petitioners Janardana Sharma and his wife told the court they had admitted their four daughters to an educational institution run by Swami Nithyananda in Bengaluru in 2013...

Are Contractual Employees Covered Under Maternity Benefits Act? Delhi HC To Decide

The Delhi High Court is faced with a question whether the Maternity Benefit Act of 2017 carves out an exception for women hired on contractual basis to provide consultancy services.The question is posed in a petition moved by National Commission for Women on behalf of a woman who was denied maternity benefits by the National Highways Authority of India on the ground that her engagement with...

Centre Notifies Rules For Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process Of Guarantors To Corporate Debtors

The Centre, through the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has notified rules for corporate insolvency resolution process in respect of guarantors of corporate debtors, called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to Adjudicating Authority for Insolvency Resolution Process for Personal Guarantors to Corporate Debtors) Rules, 2019. With the rules set to be enforced from...

NGT Directs UP Govt. To Pay Rs 10 Crore As Environment Compensation: Read Order To Know Why

The National Green Tribunal has directed State of Uttar Pradesh to pay Rs 10 crore as Environment Compensation, for causing damage to the environment by permitting discharge of untreated sewage, containing toxic Chromium, into 'River Ganga'.. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said "It was not considered that the sewage/effluents had highly toxic Chromium content. Its...