Cabinet Approves Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2018 With Relaxed Restrictions

The Union Cabinet  has approved the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification, 2018 which seeks to replace the existing CRZ Notification of 2011.Salient Features:FSI Norms EasedAs per CRZ, 2011 Notification, for CRZ-II (Urban) areas, Floor Space Index (FSI) or the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) had been frozen as per 1991 Development Control Regulation (DCR) levels. In the CRZ, 2018 Notification,...

Ragging A Barbarous Practice; Should Be Abolished: Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

“It [Ragging] has become a wide-spread virulent disease prevalent in all educational institutions and more in the Professional colleges and hostels. It causes deep sorrow and anguish that in a country which had very lofty University ideals expounded in the Vedas, this shameful and disgusting evil of ragging degenerating into bestiality should come to stay in the educational institutions,...

Seeking Information Under RTI Act Can’t Put Question Mark On One’s Integrity, Says P&H HC [Read Order]

The administration of Union Territory of Chandigarh has come in for severe criticism from the Punjab and Haryana High Court for being vindictive towards one of its employee of the Department of Food & Supplies and Consumer Affairs who had sought information from under the RTI Act as it said that the staffer “has absolute right to get the information under the Right to Information Act”...

Multiple Proceedings On Same Issue Not Permissible Under RERA 2016; Maharashtra RERA Dismisses Complaint Seeking Refund For Delayed Possession [Read Order]

In an important ruling, the Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has held that multiple proceedings on the same issue cannot be allowed under the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act 2016. MahaRERA dismissed the complaint seeking a refund along with interest at the rate of 24% per annum for the delayed possession in respect of booking of a flat in Rare...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice Chagari Praveen Kumar As Acting Chief Justice Of Andhra Pradesh HC [Read Notification]

The Central Government has notified the appointment of Justice Chagari Praveen Kumar as the Acting Chief Justice of the newly created Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amaravati.The notification said, “Consequent upon the constitution of separate High Court for the State of Andhra Pradesh by the President vide notification dated 26.12.2018, and in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 223...

Justice Biswanath Somadder To Take Over As Acting Chief Justice Of Calcutta HC From Jan 1, 2019 [Read Notification]

The Government has notified the appointment of Justice Biswanath Somadder as the Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court.Justice Somadder obtained his law degree from University of Calcutta and enrolled as an Advocate in July, 1989. He was elevated to the Bench as a permanent judge in June, 2006, and was appointed as the Executive Chairman of the State Legal Services Authority in...

Justice TB Radhakrishnan To Continue As Chief Justice Of Hyderabad HC [Read Notification]

The Centre has notified the continuation of Justice TB Radhakrishnan, the Chief Justice of the erstwhile Hyderabad High Court for both states, as the Chief Justice of Hyderabad High Court, which is set to become the High Court for the state of Telangana from next year onwards.The notification also states that Justices Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and V Ramasubramanian, who are from different...

Despite NGT Ban And SC Scanner, Rat-Hole Mining Rampant In Meghalaya, Advocate Writes To CJI For Urgent Intervention

The entrapment of 15 miners inside a flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia hills comes as another human tragedy of illegal rat-hole mining which continues under the very nose of the authorities despite a ban ordered by the National Green Tribunal four years ago and the pendency of an appeal against the ban before the Supreme Court.Livelaw has learnt that an advocate has sent a...

Secretly Recorded Telephonic Talk Between Wife & Friend In Breach Of Privacy Right Admissible In Family Court, Says Delhi Court

Court says Privacy judgment silent on the admissibility of evidence recorded n breach of privacyIs the evidence in the form of an audio-video recording of a private telephonic conversation collected in violation of a person’s fundamental right to privacy (after the Supreme Court’s Privacy judgment) by planting a recorder in the bedroom of that person admissible in a Family Court?A Delhi...

Allahabad HC Refuses To Quash FIR Against Accused in Bulandshahr Violence Case [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court last week refused to quash the FIR filed against one Satish, who is an accused in the Bulandshahr violence case in which police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth was killed on December 3.The violence had erupted over alleged cow slaughter in the area. An FIR in connection with Subodh Singh’s killing was then lodged by Subhash Chandra, a sub-inspector...

Governance Is A Matter Of Joke Today Because Of Corruption: Gujarat High Court [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court recently lamented the effect of corruption on our society and lives, asserting that it is responsible for governance being considered a “matter of joke”.Justice JB Pardiwala observed, “If governance is a matter of joke today, making it a laughing stock and leaving it in a pitiable situation, and if cynicism towards the system is the order of the day, the full...

Aboriginal Tribes Have Right To Development; Their Right In The Property Is Inalienable: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Judgment]

“Their right in property is inalienable right and being   notified aboriginal tribes, they have right to development and come to main stream of the society.”Aboriginal tribes have right to development, remarked Chhattisgarh High Court while holding that their right in the property is inalienable and their land cannot be auctioned for recovery of loan amount without permission from...