Punjab & Haryana High Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Deletion Of Question In Civil Judge Exam

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government, the state Public Service Commission and the high court Registrar Recruitment to respond to a petition challenging the deletion of a question from the paper of the preliminary examination held for Punjab Civil Judge (Junior Division Cum Judicial Magistrate) posts. The petition also challenges the answer of another...

‘Updation Application’ Seeking To Change The Amount Of Counter-Claims In Arbitral Proceedings, Is An Application For ‘Amendment’: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that where a party has filed an application seeking to update/revise its counter claims before the Arbitral Tribunal, intending to primarily alter/change the amount of the counter-claims, the said application was, in effect, an application for amendment of the counter-claims, even though it was termed as an ‘updation application’. The bench of Justice...

Weekly Update Of IBC Cases: 20 To 26 March 2023

Supreme Court IBC- Once Resolution Plan Is Approved, No Modifications Are Permissible: Supreme Court Case Title: SREI Multiple Asset Investment Trust Vision India Fund v Deccan Chronicle Marketeers & Ors. Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 231 The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Bela M. Trivedi, has held that the declaration made by the NCLT to...

Financial Creditor Who Does Not Attend Proceedings, Cannot Claim That Cirp Has Been Wrongly Conducted: NCLAT Delhi

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”), Principal Bench, comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan (Chairperson) and Mr. Barun Mitra (Technical Member) while adjudicating an appeal filed in Consolidated Finvest & Holdings Ltd. v Subhash Kumar Kundra, has held that a Financial Creditor who does not attend the CIRP proceeding, cannot be heard in saying that CIRP has...

Calcutta High Court Refuses To Vacate Stay On Warrant For Arrest Of Cricketer Mohammad Shami In Domestic Violence Case

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday upheld an order of the Sessions Judge, Alipore stayed the arrest warrant issued against cricketer Mohammad Shami in a cruelty and assault case filed by his wife in 2018.The single judge bench of Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) observed:“In the present case the learned Session Judge passed an order of stay. The hearing of the revision is still pending. And as...

Kerala High Court Transfers Kavaratti District Judge Amidst Sexual Harassment Allegation

The Registrar General of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the Director (Services) of the Lakshadweep Administration to repatriate District and Sessions Judge of Kavaratti, Anil Kumar K, to the Kerala Judicial Services. The judge was facing a sexual harassment complaint filed by a woman lawyer.Anil Kumar, who is currently serving as District and Sessions Judge of Kavaratti, is to...

Allahabad High Court Refuses Relief To Man Accused Of Making Hate Speech Against UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Dhirendra Shastri

The Allahabad High Court last week refused to quash an FIR lodged against a Bhim Army leader who has been accused of making hate speech against the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath and Bageshwar Baba, Dhirendra Shastri.The Bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha (now serving as the Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court) and Justice Narendra Kumar Johari also declined to stay...

Gyanvapi 'Controversial' Remarks Case| Varanasi Court Issues Notice To Akhilesh Yadav, Asaduddin Owaisi In Revision Plea

A Varanasi court earlier this month issued a notice in a revision plea seeking the registration of criminal cases against Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly making controversial remarks in relation to the Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath Temple Dispute.Last month, a plea filed by Advocate Hari Shankar Pandey was dismissed by the court noting...

LIFE Mission Case| M Sivasankar Was Kingpin Who Orchestrated Money Laundering Since Beginning; ASGI Tells Kerala HC

The Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan told the Kerala High Court on Tuesday that the former Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala, M Sivasankar, is the kingpin, who orchestrated the money laundering and bribery since the very beginning, and that he could impede the investigation if released on bail. The Single Judge Bench of Justice A. Badharudeen was considering...

Allahabad High Court Begins Publishing Translated Judgments In Hindi

The Allahabad High Court has started publishing judgments translated into the Hindi language. The decision was taken soon after Justice Pritinker Diwaker took oath as the new Chief Justice of the High Court.The first judgment that has been translated from the English language to the Hindi language relates to a direction to the UP Government to prepare a revised select list of 69,000...

Assistant Teachers Recruitment: Allahabad HC Directs UP Govt To Revise Select List After Rectifying Irregularities In Fixing Quota

The Allahabad High Court recently directed the UP Government to prepare a revised select list of 69,000 Assistant Teachers selected through the Assistant Teachers Recruitment Examination (ATRE) 2019 rectifying the irregularities committed in fixing the quota for their appointment. The bench of Justice Om Prakash Shukla observed that the rules were not followed in fixing reservations in...

Putting Vermillion, Garlanding Each Other Sufficient To Induce Belief Of Lawful Marriage: Delhi Court Directs Registration Of FIR In Alleged Rape Case

A Delhi court has directed the Delhi police to register an FIR against a man for allegedly raping a woman on the false pretext of marrying her observing that acts of putting vermillion on head and garlanding each other are sufficient to induce the belief of lawful marriage.Additional Sessions Judge Arul Varma of Saket Courts directed the police to register FIR within a week against Veer...