Maintainability Of Home Buyers' Complaint Before Consumer Fora After Enactment Of RERA: Delhi HC To Decide [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court will consider the maintainability of complaints filed by Home Buyers before the Consumer Forums after enactment of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. Before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Today Homes & Infrastructure Pvt Ltd., objected to maintainability of complaints filed by some home buyers contending that section 79 of...

Delhi HC Dismisses PIL Seeking Recognition Of Relations Between Persons Belonging To LGBTQ Community

Delhi HC dismissed a PIL seeking legal recognition of marital and familial relations of persons belonging to the LGBTQ community. The court recognised the prayer of the petitioner to be legislative in nature, hence it refused to exercise the jurisdiction over the same. The petitioner had argued the personal laws regarding marriage, divorce, custody and maintenance to incorporate familial...

Malegaon Blast: Special NIA Court Examines Motorcycle Used In The Blast Registered In Pragya Thakur's Name

Spl NIA judge VS Padalkar presiding over the Malegaon blast trial on Monday examined a crucial piece of evidence in the 2008 blast that killed six and injured over 100. The motorcycles and bicycles recovered from the blast site at Malegaon.The evidence, ie, two motorcycles and five bicycles, were brought in before the Special NIA Court in a tempo. According to the prosecution, one of...

Divorce Can Not Be Granted Only On Ground of Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has held that irretrievable breakdown of marriage alone cannot be a ground of divorce and can only be considered as a circumstance by the Court if it is merged with cruelty. The Court was hearing an appeal challenging a decree of divorce, passed by the Family Court in a petition filed by the respondent. The appellant/wife and the respondent/husband had married as per...

Parliament Passes Aadhaar Amendment Bill [Read Bill]

The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Aadhaar(Amendment) Bill 2019, which seeks to replace the Ordinance brought by the Centre last March to modify the existing laws in relation to the use of biometric data for authentication of identity for the purposes of grant of services, benefits and subsidies. The Bill proposes to allow voluntary use of Aadhaar voluntary use of Aadhaar for getting...

CIC Warns CPIO Against Unwarranted Invocation Of Exemption Clause Under Section 8(1)(i) Of RTI Act [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission recently denigrated the CPIO of the Department of Training and Personnel of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions against inappropriate and unwarranted use of the exemption clause under Section 8(1)(i) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in denying information to the complainant pertaining to appointment of Central...

Parents Not Grand Parents Are Best Guardians Of A Minor : Karnataka HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court has said that "Parents rather than the grand parents are the best guardians of a minor child." The view was taken while directing a grand father to hand over custody of a minor child to her father, but disallowing the father to become a legal guardian to her property. A division bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice K Natarajan in their order of July...

Different Transactions Of Cheating The Investors Cannot Be Clubbed In the Single FIR: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has held that in a case of inducement, allurement and cheating of large number of investors/ depositors in pursuance to a criminal conspiracy, each deposit by an investor constitutes a separate and individual transaction. All such transactions cannot be amalgamated and clubbed into a single FIR by showing one investor as the complainant, and others as witnesses. The...

Guj HC Holds Partly Illegal Centre's Press Release On Last Date For The Filing Of Return In Form GSTR-3B [Read Judgment]

Expressly stating that return in Form GSTR-3B is only a stop-gap arrangement and not a return in lieu of Form GSTR-3, the Gujarat High Court today held as illegal Centre's Press Release dated October 18, 2018 to the extent that it clarified that the last date for availing input tax credit relating to the invoices issued during the period from July, 2017 to March, 2018 is the last date for...

'There Are Adequate Guidelines Under Law to Govern Phone Surveillance': Delhi HC Dismisses PIL

Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition seeking guidelines to be given for tracing, tapping and surveillance of phones by law enforcement agencies. The court cited that there are adequate guidelines in place to govern the same. The petition was moved by Advocate Sarthak Chaturvedi who claimed that there have been instances of abuse of power by CBI officers while conducting tapping,...

Delhi HC Dismisses PIL Seeking Appointment of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition seeking directions to be given to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha to appoint a Leader of Opposition. The court noted that there's no statutory provision that mandates the appointment of a Leader of Opposition. The petition filed by Manmohan Singh and Shishmta Kumari mentioned that the procedure of appointing the Leader of Opposition is...

Kerala HC Upholds Rs.1 Lakh Compensation To Man Who Was Illegally Detained On Suspicion Of Being A 'Maoist' [Read Judgment]

A Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala on Monday dismissed the appeal filed by the Kerala Government against the 2015 judgment of the single bench which had ordered Rupees One Lakh compensation to a man who was illegally detained on suspicion of being a Maoist."we have no hesitation in holding that, in view of the primacy that is accorded under our Constitution to a person's...