Punjab And Haryana HC Imposes Rs. 50,000 Cost On HC Bar Association For Restricting Entry Of A Litigant [Read Order]

After issuing notice to High Court Bar Association (HCBA) for obstructing administration of justice by restricting entry of litigants in the court, Punjab and Haryana High Court has imposed costs of Rs.50,000/- on the HCBA in a related matter. The case titled Monu Rajput v. State of Haryana & Ors was filed by Monu Rajput, praying for the release of his live-in partner Neeshu from the...

ITAT Allows Sec.37(1) Deduction For Harish Salve's Foreign Scholarship As Business Expenses To Promote Professional Profile [Read Order]

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi, has accepted the claim of Senior Advocate Harish Salve for deduction of the foreign scholarship given by him to two Indian students as "expenditure solely and exclusively for the purposes of business".Allowing the claim for deduction of Rs. 28,45, 372 under Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act,1961, the ITAT ruled that the scholarship expenses...

Gujarat High Court Designates 12 Advocates As Senior Advocates

The Gujarat High Court has designated 12 lawyers as Senior Advocates with effect from August 13, 2019. The names of the newly designated Senior Advocates are as follows: Devang Sudhir Nanavati Mitesh Ramanbhai Amin Satyajeet Atul Desai Jal Soli Unwalla Asim Jayantbhai Pandya Hasmukh Mohanlal Parikh Bharatkumar Shanubhai Patel Iqbal Hasanali Syed Maulin Ramesh...

Law Firm Issues Public Apology To Indiabulls For Filing False Cases

(Updated)The law firm Managium Juris LLP has issued a public apology to Indiabulls Housing for filing false cases against it. The father-son duo Mani Ram Panday and Kislay Panday, who head Managium Juris, came into limelight when the financial services company, Indiabulls, moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent listing of the plea filed by their law firm against the company,...

Unexplained Delay Of 13 Years In Initiating Inquiry Vitiated The Disciplinary Proceedings: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court grants relief to a government servant who was held liable for misconduct through a disciplinary proceedings that took place 15 years after the alleged incident took place. The court held the delay to be unreasonable, devoid of any justification and of a nature that vitiated the disciplinary proceedings. In the present case, an inquiry for misconduct was initiated against...

P&H HC: Entry Of Litigants To HC Allegedly Restricted By Lawyers, HC Issues Notice To The Bar [Read Order]

The Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana constituted a full bench today, in order to address the law and order catastrophe in the court premises itself. The court noted that the Advocates as well as members of the Bar Association of Punjab and Haryana High Court have not only been abstaining from work but were also restraining entry in the court premises. They have locked...

HC Can't Reappreciate Evidence While Exercising Revisional Jurisdiction U/s 20 Of Kerala Rent Control Act, Reiterates SC [Read Judgment]

While exercising revisional jurisdiction under Section 20 of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, the High Court cannot re-appreciate the evidence, the Supreme Court has reiterated.In this case [Thankamony Amma vs. Omana Amma N.], setting aside concurrent orders of the Rent Control Court and the Appellate Tribunal in favour of the landlord, the High Court of Kerala had held...

Prosecution For Offence Of "Waging War Against India" Will Not Stand Without Sanction U/S 196 CRPC: Allahabad Quashes Life Term Of Pak Citizen

The Allahabad High Court has held that prior government sanction under Section 196 of CrPC is mandatory to take cognizance of offences like Section 121-123 IPC and it thereby set aside the order of conviction and sentence of life imprisonment imposed on a Pakistani Jais-E-Mohommad Terrorist group member and another Indian citizen, for want of such sanction. Background The factual matrix of...

Bombay HC Directs Civic Body To Pay Rs 2 Lakhs To Mother Of Vegetable Vendor Killed In Wall Collapse [Read Judgment]

The amount is ordered to be paid as interim compensation.

Chopper Deal: Delhi HC To Hear Ratul Puri's Anticipatory Bail Plea Tomorrow

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday listed for tomorrow the anticipatory bail plea of Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in connection with a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper scam. The matter came up before Justice Mukta Gupta who was informed by Puri's counsel that order has been reserved on his another petition by a coordinate bench of...

Bombay HC Confirms Death Sentence To Man Who Killed Daughter And Unborn Grandchild For Performing Inter-Caste Marriage [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has confirmed the death sentence awarded to one Eknath Kumbharkar who was convicted of killing his 9 months pregnant daughter by strangulation as he had kept a 'grudge' against her for performing an inter-caste marriage against his wishes.A division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice Swapna Joshi held that the accused was a menace to the society and had broken...

Hindu Pakistan Remark : Kolkata Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Shashi Tharoor

In a major development in the criminal case that was filed against Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor over his alleged "Hindu Pakistan" remark, the Metropolitan Magistrate of Kolkata issued an arrest warrant against the MP on Tuesday, a report from ANI said. The case was filed by Advocate Sumeet Chowdhary under Section 153A/295A of the Indian Penal Code and Section 2 of The Prevention...