SRPF Deployed At KIIT University After Engineering Students Allegedly Attack Law College Hostel

Violent clashes broke out at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneshwar on November 24, between the Law School and the Engineering department.At the heart of the discord is an incident that occurred a day before on the evening of November 23, when a second-year B-Tech Mechanical Engineering student allegedly harassed and teased a final year female law student.As per...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court The Allahabad High Court recently observed that, where a boy and a girl are major and they are living with their free will, then, nobody, including their parents, has the authority to interfere with their living together.The High Court quashed punishment of a UP Government employee who was found chewing tobacco at work.  In the year 2017, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister...

‘Co-Accused Was My Lay Client’: Calcutta HC Judge Recalls Order In Criminal Case [Read Order]

‘Though it has nothing to do with the present criminal case, had this been brought to my notice, I would surely have recused myself then and there and not taken up the matter during vacation.’Justice Protik Prakash Banerjee of the Calcutta High Court has recalled an order he passed in a criminal revision petition on the ground that the co-accused in the case was his ‘lay client’ and...

"Attempt To Cast Aspersions On Collegium Without Substantiating It", Kerala HC Dismisses Challenge Against Collegium Recommendations [Read Judgment]

A Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala comprising Justice P R Ramachandra Menon and Devan Ramachandran has dismissed a plea challenging recommendations made by Collegium for elevation of five advocates as judges."The attempt of the appellants, therefore, is obviously to cast aspersions on the Collegium of Judges, but without in any manner substantiating it", observed the judgment...

Police Seek More Time To Charge-sheet Sudha Bharadwaj, Others

Pune Police on Friday moved a court here seeking another 90 days to file a supplementary charge sheet against left-wing activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.A charge sheet has already been filed in the case against activists Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale (who were arrested...

Nashik Municipal Corporation Failed To Follow Procedure While Categorising Unauthorised Religious Structures: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has directed the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to carry out afresh the exercise of categorising unauthorised religious structures that were constructed prior to September 29, 2009 in the city.The direction was issued by a bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice MS Karnik, which noted that the procedure being followed by NMC was in contravention of the...

Father Of Brain Dead Child Moves Madras HC For Euthanasia, Gets Introduced To Therapy Which Improves Boy’s Condition [Read Order]

The father of a brain dead child recently approached the Madras High Court seeking euthanasia for his son who has been in a persistent vegetative state for the past ten years. Little did he know that this would actually lead him to a technique that would finally help his son.The petitioner’s son is suffering from Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), a type of brain damage that occurs when...

Madras HC Notice To TN Govt On PIL Seeking Effective Implementation Of DV Act For Timely Justice

TN records maximum number of DV complaintsThe Madras High Court has issued notice on a PIL seeking effective implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act).The PIL has been filed by Sudha Ramalingam, an advocate, who is also a former national vice-president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties.In the PIL, the petitioner, who has 40 years of...

Karnataka HC Refuses Relief To Student Who Couldn’t Complete LL.B Course In 7 Years [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court recently denied relief to a student who had failed to complete his three-year LL.B Course within the prescribed period of seven years.The order was passed by Justice R. Devdas on a petition filed by one Anand, who is a student of the three years LL.B course in JSS Sakri Law College, Dharwad. He had enrolled in the year 2011 and had now approached the court challenging...

Delhi HC Dismisses Abbott’s Plea Against CCI Enquiry Into Alleged Price Cartelisation [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by US drugmaker Abbott that wanted to stall a probe by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into allegations of price cartelisation over a key diabetes drug.The order was passed by Justice Vibhu Bakhru.Abbott had challenged an order passed in July last year by the CCI under Section 26 (1) of the Competition Act, 2002, whereby...

Book On Interface Of Law & Genetics Released By Justice Chelameswar

“Indian judiciary found it difficult to resolve conflict between two legal principles – the principle of “master of roster” and that “no one shall be a judge in one’s own cause’. How it will resolve new-age conflicts, one needs to wait and see”, said Justice Chelameswar."There exists a gap between the mind of the inventor and the mind of a lawmaker. Law does not often keep...

Aeronautical Study Of Any Structure To Assess Risk To Aviation Safety Doesn’t Call For Prior Demolition: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

A request for aeronautical study of a structure to determine if it would adversely affect the operation of aeroplanes has to be considered on a case-to-case basis and there is no rule or policy which says that aeronautical study cannot be undertaken unless the excess height of the structure as against the permissible limit is demolished, the Delhi High Court has held.Justice Vibhu Bakhru said...