Court Should Lean In Favour Of Declaring Accused A 'Juvenile' In Borderline Cases; Bombay HC Sets Aside Death Penalty [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed a criminal application filed by one Sandeep Shirsat, convicted of murder and rape and declared him to be a juvenile at the time of crime. Consequently, Shirsat will not face the death penalty awarded to him by the trial court.Division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice SK Shinde set aside the findings recorded against the applicant accused...

Plea In Delhi HC Seeks Linkage Of Social Media Accounts With Aadhaar

A plea has been filed before the Delhi High Court, seeking linkage of Social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter, with Aadhaar Cards. The plea also seeks in the alternative directions to the Central Government to take apposite steps to deactivate fake and ghost social media accounts in order to control fake and paid news. A petition in this behalf was earlier filed by...

Karnataka HC To Decide If Smoking In Separate Rooms At Restaurants, Airport Legal

The Karnataka High Court has issued rule and will finally hear a Public Interest Litigation filed by Healthcare Global Enterprises, which operates a network of Cancer hospitals in India, seeking to hold Section 4 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (COTPA) Act, as unconstitutional. The section prohibits smoking in public places, but allows smoking in separate rooms at restaurants...

MP HC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Rule Exempting Women From Wearing Helmets

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday issued notice on a petition challenging Rule 213(2) of the Madhya Pradesh Motor Vehicles Rules, 1994, by virtue of which the Section 129 of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, which mandates wearing a helmet while riding a two-wheeler, does not apply to women riders in the state. The impugned rule states, "the provision of Section 129 of the Act, shall...

Delhi Court Dismisses Complaint Against Gautam Gambhir Alleging Commission Of Electoral Offences [Read Order]

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal has dismissed AAP leader Atishi Marlena's complaint against BJP MP Gautam Gambhir for committing electoral offences under sections 17, 31 and 125A of The Representation of The People Act. Marlena had submitted before the court that since Gambhir is registered as a voter in two different constituencies, and the same was...

Kathua Rape-Murder Case: Jammu Court Orders FIR Against SIT On Allegation Of 'Making False Evidence' [Read Order]

A Jammu Court today directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu to register a FIR against the six-member SIT which investigated the infamous Kathua rape case, for allegedly coercing the Applicants, who were witnesses in the said rape case, to depose false statements. The SIT had investigated the case of an eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped last year and was...

Phone Tapping Permitted Only In Case Of Public Emergency Or In Interest Of Public Safety:Bombay HC[Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted relief to a 54-year-old Mumbai based businessman and quashed three separate orders passed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs allowing Central Bureau of Investigation to intercept phone calls of the petitioner businessman in a case of bribery involving an official of a public sector bank.Division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice NJ...

Bombay HC At Goa Strikes Down Article 19 Of Portuguese Law As Ultra Vires To The Constitution Of India [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court at Goa has struck down Article 19 of the Decree Law No.35461 enacted to give recognition to judgments and annulments of marriage with respect to Catholics by Patriarchal Tribunal and Metropolitan Tribunal, as unconstitutional and ultra-vires to Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.Division bench of Justice RD Dhanuka and Justice Prithviraj K Chavan in a...

Delhi HC Issues Notice To EC On A Plea Challenging Reduction In Disqualification Of Prem Singh Tamang

Delhi High Court has issued notice to Election Commission, Central Government and Sikkim Government in a petition challenging the reduction in disqualification term of Prem Singh Tamang from 6 years to 1 year and 30 days. Tamang, Sikkim's Chief Minister, was found guilty of misappropriation of funds in a case involving procurement of cows. He was sentenced to one year of...

Delhi HC To Hear A Plea Challenging Validity Of Delhi Govt's Odd-Even Rule [Read Petition]

Delhi High Court will hear on November 1 a PIL challenging the validity of the Delhi Government's flagship programme, 'Odd-Even Rule', which is aimed at reducing vehicular pollution in the national capital. Filed by Advocate Shashwat Bhardwaj, the petition seeks the writ of certiorari to be issued to quash the decision of the Delhi Government to implement the Odd-Even Rule between...

Husband Commits Perjury In DV Proceedings; Delhi HC Enhances Interim Maintenance, Directs Proceedings U/S 340 CrPC

Taking stern view of a false rent agreement filed by a husband in Domestic Violence proceedings pending against him before the Trial Court, the Delhi High Court enhanced the interim maintenance payable by him to his wife and directed initiation of an inquiry under Section 340 of CrPC. The Petitioner-husband, Abhishek Dubey, had approached the high court seeking revision of the...

Save Thevara- Perandoor Canal, Kerala HC Issues Directions [Read Order]

The High court of Kerala takes cognizance of the alarming water-logging and water rising in the Kochi city.Justice Devan Ramachandran has issued also issued directions to curb the menace on a war footing basis. The issue in hand pertained to the Thevara- Perandoor canal which has turned into a rancid, putrid sewage canal. Terming the canal as the 'life line of the city',...