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...

Allahabad HC Directs To Grant Post Decisional Hearing To Student Expelled By AMU For 10 Years [Read Judgment]

The High court of Allahabad has 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, after finding that the expulsion order was made without complying with the principles of natural justice.The petitioner, a PhD student of the university, assailed the order of the university by which he...

Foreign Nationals Overstaying By Obtaining 'Bail Orders': Bombay HC At Goa Issues Directives [Read Judgment]

"They indulge in petty offences only so that they may not be deported from India. Such foreign nationals secure bail from the Courts and one of the conditions of bail is that such foreign nationals do not leave India"

NCDRC Orders Builder To Pay Rs.2.52 Crores To Homebuyer Who Was Not Delivered Flat As Promised [Read Order]

A homebuyer-couple who was not delivered a 60th floor flat as promised by Mumbai-based Lodha Crown Buildmart Pvt Ltd has been granted relief by National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission(NCDRC), which directed the builder to pay Rs 2.52 crores with interest at the rate of 9%. Apart from the builder-company, the NCDRC also held its present directors Ramandas Pandey and Pranav Goel jointly...

Madras HC Has Stopped The Practice Of Treating Cases As 'Part Heard' [Read Judgment]

“In case the parties are of the view that it would be in the interest of both sides to continue to hear and decide a particular matter by a learned Judge who heard it earlier, notwithstanding the change of roster, it is open to them to submit a joint application to the Hon'ble Chief Justice for posting before the very same learned Judge.”

Inadvertent Mistakes In The Plaint Cannot Be Refused To Be Corrected: SC [Read Judgment]

"It is well settled that amendment in the pleadings cannot be refused merely because of some mistake, negligence, inadvertence or even infraction of the Rules of Procedure."