Minimum Age Limit For Purchasing Liqour Not Applicable To Drinking:Delhi HC

It is a "wrong notion" that the minimum prescribed age for drinking liquor is 25 years under the Delhi Excise Act which only prohibits its sale to people below that age, the Delhi High Court ruled on Thursday. The court passed the verdict while dismissing a petition seeking to set aside and quash Section 23 of Delhi Excise Act, 2009 on the ground that it prescribes 25 years as legal...

Delhi HC Launches Mobile App For Digitising Multiple Services for Lawyers and Litigants

Delhi High Court has launched an official mobile application for making its services digitally available to lawyers and litigants. It was inaugurated by the Chief Justice DN Patel in the company of other judges of the court. The application provides details about various significant services related information such as case status, display board, cause list and access to other important...

Informant Entitled To Copy Of C-Summary Report To File Protest Petition: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently held that copy of c-summary report must be provided to informant who wishes to file a protest petition and directed the investigating officer in a case to do so free of cost. Justice SS Shinde heard a petition filed by 59-year-old resident from Pune who sought directions to the Magistrate to ensure police provides a copy of the c-summary report filed by them...

Collegium Decision On Justice Kureshi At The Behest Of Govt. Undermines Independence Of Judiciary: Bombay Bar Association [Read Resolution]

The Collegium's decision to appoint Justice A. A. Kureshi as the Chief Justice of the Tripura High Court has not gone down well among the advocates of various associations. After the Advocates' Association of Bengaluru which had expressed its distress in this regard and had written to the CJI asking him to disclose the reasons behind some of the most "mysterious" transfers of judges,...

Detenue Not Supplied With Documents Relied Upon By Authority: J&K HC Quashes Preventive Detention [Read Judgment]

The Srinagar Wing of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday allowed the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of detenue Masood Ahmad Bhat, on account of authority's failure to supply him a copy of the detention order. The petition was decided by Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey who quashed the preventive detention dated January 22 and directed his release forthwith. Bhat...

Wife Entitled To Maintenance After Divorce If She Is Not 'Living In Adultery': Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

'Under 125(4) CrPC, to deny the maintenance, the words used are "living in adultery". '

Calcutta HC Receives Multiple Bomb Blasts Threat

In an "extremely urgent" letter addressed to the Union Home Secretary, the Registrar General of the Calcutta High Court, R. Samanta, informed the Ministry of Home Affairs that it had received a letter threatening to cause multiple bomb blasts in the high court premises. The letter issued at the directions of Chief Justice Thottathil Radhakrishnan disclosed that the threat was made by...

Doctors Will Have To Do One Year Compulsory Public Service : Karnataka HC Upholds The Rule [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has upheld the constitutional validity of Karnataka Compulsory Service Training by Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act, 2012 and Rules of 2015. Under which it mandates all students who have enrolled for Graduation, Post Graduation and Super Speciality course in medicine, post the enactment of rules of 2015, to complusorily render public service for one year,...

Preparation Of CZMP In Relation To A Plot Is 'Empty Formality' If It Continues To Be CRZ II In 2019 Notification : Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

"If the undisputed position would be that a land comprised in CRZ-II under CRZ 2011 would continue to be in CRZ-II under CRZ-2019, the preparation of coastal zone management plan in relation to the said plot would be a mere formality"

Chinmayanand Case : Shajahanpur Court To Consider Regular Bail Application Of Law Student On September 30

The law student, who accused BJP leader Chinmayanand of rape, on Thursday filed a fresh application for regular bail before the District & Sessions Judge, Shahjahanpur in the extortion case filed against her. This is following her arrest by the Special Investigation Team yesterday, which rendered her pending application for anticipatory bail infructuous. The Court had posted the plea...

Delhi HC Mandates Presence Of Informant Or Authorized Person While Hearing Bail Application Of Accused In Rape Cases

The Delhi High Court has mandated the presence of the informant or any person authorized by him in the court, at the time of hearing of the bail application of a person accused of rape, with immediate effect.Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Justice D. N. Patel, made the aforesaid directions on Tuesday in view of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 which had amended Section 439 of CrPC...

NGT Directs Karnataka State Authorities To Check Pollution In Papnash Lake

NGT Principal Bench at New Delhi has directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to monitor the actions to be taken by state authorities of Karnataka, to conserve the Papnash Lake in Bidar District, Karnataka. The Principal Bench was considering the issue of pollution of the Papnash Lake, on a plea filed by activist Ambresh Kencha, on behalf of the NGO...