Gujarat High Court Launches Dedicated Section For Gujarati Translations Of Supreme Court Orders, Judgments On Official Website

A dedicated section has been created on the Gujarat High Court Website for publishing Gujarati-translated versions of orders and judgments of the Supreme Court.This was done based on the guidance from the AI-Assisted Legal Translation Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court and per the directions and approval of the Acting Chief Justice A. J. Desai and the Judges of the I. T. Committee &...

Calcutta High Court Orders Premature Release Of Life Convicts In Absence Of Presiding Judge's Opinion U/S 432 CrPC

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to release two life convicts who were languishing in jail for 18 years, on premature release, after the same was denied by the government on the ground that it did not receive the opinion of the Presiding Judge of the court before or by which the conviction was held.The single judge bench of Justice Bibek Chaudhuri observed...

Orissa High Court Will Have Its Own Database With Judgments From 1948 Onwards: Justice Subhasis Talapatra

Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court Dr. Justice S. Muralidhar on Wednesday launched ‘free Wi-Fi facility’ and ‘e-Inspection facility’ for the members of the High Court Bar Association in presence of the Judges of the High Court, the Advocate General, newly elected President and office bearers of the High Court Bar Association. While speaking on the occasion, Justice...

DMRC’s Salaries, O&M Expenses Not To Be Attached In Case Of Failure To Pay Unpaid Dues To Reliance Infra: Delhi High Court Clarifies

The Delhi High Court has clarified that the salaries and other Operation & Maintenance (O&M) expenses to be borne by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will not be attached in case of its failure to pay dues to Reliance Infra-owned Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL) under the 2017 arbitral award. Justice Yashwant Varma was hearing a petition moved by DMRC seeking review of...

Maharashtra Govt To Allot 30 Acres Land In Bandra East For New Bombay High Court Building

The Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court that it will allot 30.16 acres of land for construction of the High Court Complex in Bandra East.Advocate General Birendra Saraf said that the Public Works Department has agreed to surrender the land for a new High Court Complex. The process of formal reservation and GR will follow.The complex would have central tribunals, chambers...

Justice T S Sivagnanam Appointed Acting Chief Justice Of Calcutta High Court

The Central Government has notified the appointment of Justice T. S. Sivagnanam, the senior most judge of the Calcutta High Court, as its Acting Chief Justice with effect from March 31, 2023. Justice Sivagnanam will take charge as the Acting Chief Justice consequent to the retirement of the sitting Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava. The notification dated March 30, 2023 issued by...

'He Was Trained To Defend Country, Not Mercilessly Butcher Citizens': Court Awards Death Sentence To Former Army Man For Murdering Six In Haryana

A former Army Officer has been sentenced to death by an Additional Sessions Court in Haryana's Palwal for murdering six people in 2018. The convict, Naresh Dhankar, was found guilty and convicted under Sections 302, 307, 332, 353, and 186 of the Indian Penal Code. Dhankar brutally killed six people in one night, using an iron pipe to repeatedly inflict blows that resulted in fatal...

NCDRC: Medical Negligence Is Not Automatically Presumed Against The Medical Professional If The Treatment Fails

The National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench comprising presiding member, Dr. S.M. Kantikar allowed an appeal on account of lack of any scientific analysis and medical evidence against the appellant hospital. Two contentions were reiterated by Dr. Kantikar, firstly, if patient was in a critical condition and he could not survive even after surgery, the blame can’t...

Karnataka High Court Permits Class X Student To Take Exams Without Opting For Kannada, Dismisses Appeal Against Single Bench Order

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed the Director of Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board's appeal against an order of the Single judge bench that permitted a 10th standard student of Vidya Bharathi English School to take exams without opting for Kannada as one of the three languages. The State government has introduced Kannada Language Learning Rules, 2017. All schools,...

Anushka Sharma Sales Tax Case: Bombay High Court Asks Actor To Approach Appellate Authority Under Maharashtra VAT Act

The Bombay High Court on Thursday disposed of four tax petitions filed by actor Anushka Sharma and asked her to approach the appellate authority under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act.A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Abhay Ahuja said that there were disputed questions of fact which would require an inquiry. Therefore Sharma should approach the Joint Commissioner Appeals, of...

Kerala High Court Directs Railways To Periodically Review Measures Undertaken For Enhancing Safety Of Passengers

The Kerala High Court recently directed the Indian Railways to periodically review the steps undertaken by it, to ensure the safety of passengers, especially women, on trains and in railway stations. A division bench of Justice S Manikumar and Justice Murali Purushothaman passed the order while considering a public interest litigation for improving the safety of railway passengers. The suo...

12 Years After Arrest, Rajasthan High Court Says Jaipur Bomb Blast Convict Was Juvenile On Date Of Occurrence

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside District & Sessions Judge, Jaipur Metropolitan's order by which it had quashed Juvenile Justice Board's decision to declare Mohd Salman, who was a convict in Jaipur Bomb Blasts case of 2008, to be a juvenile on the date of occurrence. Salman and other convicts were acquitted by the court on Wednesday in a common decision on merits in their appeals ....