Nanded Farmers Seek Compensation For Land Acquired For Highway Uplift, Bombay HC Issues Notices

The Bombay High Court has issued notice to the Centre and the Maharashtra government on plea of 12 farmers from Nanded district seeking compensation in lieu of their land acquired for facelift of a stretch of NH50.The Aurangabad bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice KK Sonawane issued notices to the governments and also the National Highways Authority of India on the petition filed by...

Punjab & Haryana HC Stays Rape Proceedings Against Punjab’s “Healer Baba”

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the proceedings in the rape case against Jalandhar-based priest and self-styled healer, Baljinder alias Pastor.Pastor used to claim that he could heal any illness by his power, and was hence, popular as “Healer Baba”. He was, however, arrested from Delhi in July this year, after the prosecutrix alleged that he had sexually assaulted her and...

Any policy of Govt. is subject to public scrutiny: Madras HC Stays Probe Against 'Sarkar' Movie Director

If every person, who is not in agreement with the issue projected in the Movie, starts giving complaint against the director and an FIR comes to be registered on each complaint, it will sound the death knell to the mother of all other liberties namely; the freedom of speech and expression

Delhi HC Allows Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust To File FCRA Annual Returns Offline, Without Aadhaar Linking

The Delhi High Court has allowed the NGO, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust to file its annual returns under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 offline, without registration with the NGO-DARPAN portal maintained by NITI Aayog, which mandatorily requires input of Aadhaar details.The NGO receives foreign contributions from time to time and is registered under the FCRA. It is...

Provide Info On Number Of Rs. 2000 & Rs. 500 Notes Printed During Demonetisation Month: CIC to RBI [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ordered disclosure of information on the number of Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 notes printed daily from November 9, 2016 to November 30, 2016—the month when demonetisation was effected.Information Commissioner Sudhir Bhargava opined that the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had failed to establish as to how...

Bombay HC Refuses To Stay RBI Deadline To Kotak Mahindra Bank To Dilute Promoter Stake

The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to stay the Reserve Bank of India’s deadline of December 31 for dilution of promoter stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank. The RBI had ordered the bank to reduce its promoter shareholding to 20% of paid-up capital by December 31, 2018, and 15% by March 31, 2020.A division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice SV Kotwal said there was no need to pass...

Madras HC Restrains Online Sale Of Medicines Till Rules Are Notified [Read Order]

“As the draft rules are framed by the Central Government, after deliberations including the stakeholders, till the aforesaid rules are notified, the on-line traders are bound not to proceed with their on-line business in drugs and cosmetic,”The Madras High Court has restrained online business in drugs and cosmetics until Central Rules in this regard are notified.Justice Pushpa...

Tolerance, Patience, Harmony Are The Basic Tenets Of Hinduism: Gujarat HC Refuses To Ban Kedarnath Movie [Read Judgment]

Tolerance for all religions, patience, harmony and welfare of mankind are the basic tenets of Hinduism, the Gujarat High Court observed recently, while refusing to ban showcase of the movie “Kedarnath” in the State of Gujarat.The order was passed by a bench comprising Acting Chief Justice AS Dave and Justice Biren Vaishnav on a petition filed by an organisation called International...

Delhi HC Upholds Conviction Of Three Men Who Attacked Judges In 2012; But Reduces Sentence [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of three men for attempting to murder three judges by hurling bricks at their official car in 2012.Justice Mukta Gupta, however, modified the sentence awarded to the three convicts—Rohit (five years), Anil Raj (five years) and Prashant Kumar (period already undergone).The then judges in Saket district court - Ajay Garg, MK Nagpal and...

Serving Judicial Officers Can't Participate in District Judge Selection Meant For Lawyers: Orissa HC

The Court has to keep in mind that while taking struggle, the experience which he has earned as a lawyer is to be considered as a direct recruit.

Serving Judicial Officers Can’t Participate in District Judge Selection Meant For Lawyers: Orissa HC [Read Judgment]

‘The Court has to keep in mind that while taking struggle, the experience which he has earned as a lawyer is to be considered as a direct recruit.’The Orissa High Court has observed that serving judicial officers cannot participate in the selection process of the direct recruitment meant for lawyers in the cadre of District Judge.Some candidates, who had seven years of practice at the...

Archakas To Be In Service As Long As They Are Physically Fit: T&AP HC [Read Order]

“The T.T.D. ought to have taken note of the fact that the State Government as well as the Supreme Court have time and again treated hereditary Archakas as a special category entitled to special benefits (not on par with other employees of the TTD) notwithstanding the abolition of hereditary rights.”The High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh has quashed an order of Tirumala...