'Pension Is For Survival Which Cannot Be Attached' : NCDRC Directs SBI To De-Freeze Pensioner's Account [Read Order]

Rejecting a revision petition filed by State Bank of India, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission(NCDRC) upheld the orders passed by the District Forum and State Commission which had directed the Bank to de-freeze the account of one Manika Sarkar, in which her monthly pension was credited.The account was held Manika Sarkar jointly with her son, who was an employee of the Bank....

'Appoint Good & Patriotic Judges To Serve As Servants Of Lord Krishna': Grounds In A Plea Before Karnataka HC

Recently, the High Court of Karnataka came across a review petition which took 'strange grounds'. B. Umapathy, not only sought to review the judgment which went against him, but also wanted 'action' against a news portal 'Bengaluru mirror' for publishing 'wrong news' about the said judgment. He also claimed damages not less than Rupees Fifty Lakhs! Umapathy filed a suit in...

High Courts Weekly Round Up

Allahabad High Court Dismissed public interest litigations filed challenging the renaming of Allahabad to Prayagraj observing that it is a policy decision of the State Government which cannot be said to be without basis.Directed the Aligarh Muslim University to hold a post decisional hearing in a case where a student was expelled from the rolls for a period of 10 years,...

Former Solicitor General of India Senior Advocate Dipankar Prasad Gupta Passes Away

Former Solicitor General of India Senior Advocate Dipankar Prasad Gupta passed away. He was the Solicitor General of India from April 1992 to April 1997.He also served as Advocate General for the State of West Bengal.His son Jaideep Gupta and brother Bhaskar P. Gupta are Senior Advocates in Supreme Court of India.The cremation will be on Monday 04.03.2019 at 2 pm at Electric Crematorium...

Remarks On Pulwama Terror Attack: Gauhati HC Grants Interim Anticipatory Bail To Papri Banerjee [Read Order]

The Gauhati High Court has granted interim anticipatory bail to Papri Banerjee, Assistant Professor at Icon College, accused of posting a controversial comment about Pulwama Terror Attack in her Facebook page. Silchar and Chandmari Police Stations had registered case against her under Sections 294/505/507 IPC read with Section 66 of the Information Technology Act.In her post...

Trusts Can Now Seek Establishment Of SEZs As President Promulgates SEZ Amednment Ordinance

The Special Economic Zone (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 promulgated by the President yesterday permits trusts to seek establishment of SEZs.This is done by amending the definition of "person" under Section 2(v) of the SEZ Act 2005 to include 'trusts'. Apart from trusts, any entity that the central government may notify from time to time is also included in the definition of 'person' as per...

Ordinance To Set Up International Arbitration Centre At New Delhi Promulgated

The President Ram Nath Kovid yesterday promulgated the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Ordinance 2019.It proposes to establish an international arbitration centre at New Delhi, replacing the International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution set-up in the year 1995, which is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act. A Bill for this purpose was passed by Lok...

Vandalism In Colleges: Allahabad HC Issues Guidelines For All State Aided Universities [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court has disposed of a suo moto PIL that it had instituted after violent protests caused injuries to many staff members of Lucknow University on July 4, 2018, by issuing temporary guidelines to all state-aided universities. The guidelines were formulated by a committee appointed by the court on July 6 and will remain in effect until the state government and...

President Promulgates Aadhaar Amendment Ordinance Permitting Use Of Aadhaar For SIM Connections & Bank Accounts

The President has promulgated Aadhaar and other laws(Amendment) Ordinance 2019 to make amendments to the Aadhaar Act 2016, Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2005 & Indian Telegraph Act 1885. The amendments proposed are the same as those contained in the Bill passed by the Lok Sabha on 4th January 2019. The Constitution Bench of the SC in the judgment delivered on September 26 had upheld...

Karnataka HC Reserves Orders On Plea By Christ Law College Students Challenging 1-Yr Suspension In Sexual Harassment Case

The Karnataka High Court recently heard a petition filed by two students of School of Law, Christ University, against the decision of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the varsity to suspend them for one year for sexually harassing their fellow classmate for a year. The argument forwarded by both the petitioners was that the procedure followed by the ICC was malafide and...

NGO Challenges Amendment To Karnataka RTE Rules That Conditionally Waives Off 25% Quota Mandate For Private Unaided Schools [Read Petition]

The RTE Students & Parents Association [R], a non-profit organisation, has filed a PIL challenging an amendment to the Karnataka Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2012, that removed the obligation of private unaided schools to admit 25% of their students from disadvantaged groups or weaker sections where there are government-run or aided schools within...

Vivek Doval's Defamation Plea: Court Summons Jairam Ramesh, Caravan's Editor, Reporter

A Delhi court Saturday summoned senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, The Caravan magazine's editor and its reporter as accused on April 25 in a defamation plea filed by NSA Ajit Doval's son Vivek against the magazine. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked them to appear before the court on April 25. The Caravan had alleged in its article that Vivek Doval, "runs...