Two Judicial Officers Appointed As Judges Of Rajasthan HC [Read Notification]

The President of India has appointed two Judicial officers Abhay Chaturvedi and Narendra Singh Dhaddha as Judges of Rajasthan High Court.The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names two weeks ago, vide resolution dated 1st April 2019.A notification to that effect has been published in the Gazette.Read...

4 Lawyers Appointed As Patna HC Judges [Read Notification]

Advocates Anjani Kumar Sharan, Anil Kumar Sinha, Prabhat Kumar Singh and Partha Sarthy have been appointed as Patna High Court Judges. The Supreme Court collegium had recommended them as High Court judges in its resolution dated 1st April 2019.A notification to that effect has been issued by Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.Read Notification...

HC Has No Jurisdiction To Appreciate Evidence While Hearing A Petition Under Section 482 Cr.P.C.: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has held that the High Court has no jurisdiction to appreciate the evidence of the proceedings under section 482 Cr.P.C. The division bench of the Supreme Court Comprising of Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari held so while allowing an appeal in a case (Md. Allauddin Khan v. State of Bihar) against the order of the High Court of Judicature of...

Accident, While Returning To Join Duty, Should Be Construed As An Accident While On Duty: Delhi HC [Read Order]

The High Court of Delhi, while deciding a writ petition, has held that an accident while returning to join duty should be held to be construed as an accident while on duty. The petitioner, the widow of an Assistant Sub Inspector of CRPF, raised a plea before the court to direct the respondent State to grant the petitioner extra-ordinary family pension and ex gratia...

ECI Bars Yogi Adityanath & Mayawati From Campaigning For Making Communal Speeches [Read Orders]

The Election Commission of India today barred UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in elections for three days from April 16, for making communally provocative speech. The ECI also found BSP Chief Mayawati to have made communal appeal for votes, and has barred her from campaigning for two days from April 16.The ban is imposed invoking powers of ECI under Article 324 of...

Regularization Obtained By Misrepresenting Facts Cannot Be Sustained; SC Upholds Termination Of A 'Chowkidar' [Read Judgment]

"An order of regularization obtained by misrepresenting facts, or by playing a fraud upon the competent authority, cannot be sustained in the eyes of law."

'Personal Inconvenience' Of Couple Not A Ground To Waive Cooling Off Period For Mutual Consent Divorce: Madhya Pradesh HC [Read Order]

"They should have pointed out that there is no possibility of cohabitation or there is a possibility of alternative rehabilitation"

'Moderate Corporal Punishment' For Juvenile Offenders Unconstitutional, Holds Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe [Read Judgment]

"A deliberate and systemic assault with a cane on the buttocks of an individual, inflicted by strangers as a form of punishment authorised by a judicial tribunal, is inherently a demeaning invasion on the inherent dignity of the person punished."

PIL Seeking Ban On PUBG: Take Action If Any Objectionable Content Is Found, Bombay HC Tells MEIT

The Bombay High Court has directed the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEIT) to assess and review online game PUBG and take action if any "objectionable content" is found. The PIL was filed in the name of an 11-year-old boy from Mumbai, Ahad Nizam, represented by his father Tanveer Nizam. The PIL alleged that the popular online game promotes immoral conduct, such as violence,...

Reserve Bank Employees Are Not Central Government Servants, Says Madras HC [Read Judgment]

“The fact that the Central Government has persuasive control over RBI would not make its employees Central Government employees.”

High Courts Weekly Round Up

Allahabad High Court Dismissed a challenge against appointment of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose as the Chairman of Lok Pal.The Division bench comprising Justice Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Justice Rajnish Kumar observed that the Chairperson and Members of Lokpal are not an employment under the Government therefore the prohibition for employment under the Government of India or under...

Whether Revenue Officials Performing Judicial Functions Violate Doctrine Of Separation Of Powers - Karnataka HC To Decide

"Whether the appointment of a revenue official in the rank of an Assistant Commissioner as an Appellate Authority under Section 136(2) and Rule 69 of the KLR Rules and Deputy Commissioner as revisional authority under Section 136(3) of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, leading to adjudication of various complex adversarial revenue disputes, inter- partes, involving adjudication of question...