Amit Shah Benefitted Politically And Financially From Sohrabuddin Encounter Case, Says Amitabh Thakur, Former Chief Investigating Officer

Amitabh Thakur, former Chief Investigating Officer in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and the death of Kausar Bi has told the Special CBI Court on Monday that BJP national president Amit Shah and four others benefitted politically as well as financially from the fake encounter case.Amit Shah allegedly benefitted financially as he was paid Rs 70 lakh...

Allahabad HC Quashes Punishment Of UP Govt Employee Found Chewing Tobacco At Work [Read Order]

In the year 2017, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had banned chewing of tobacco on duty.A government employee faced the wrath of the orders in February 2018 when he was inflicted with the punishment of permanent stoppage of two annual increment after being found consuming tobacco in office.The Allahabad High Court, however, found the punishment excessive and quashed the...

NGT Imposes ₹ 50 Crores Penalty On Punjab Government For Pollution of Sutlej & Beas Rivers [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has imposed a penalty of Rupees 50 crores on the Punjab Government for failing to take effective steps to control pollution of rivers Sutlej and Beas.The order was passed by NGT Principal Bench at New Delhi headed by Justice A K Goel, acting on an application filed by one  Shobha Singh in 2014. The application raised the issue of pollution of rivers Sutlej and...

Will Interfere If Restrictions On Sabarimala Pilgrims Unreasonable, Says Kerala HC; State Police Chief Directed To File Affidavit

The High Court of Kerala has directed the State Police Chief to file an affidavit explaining the nature of police arrangements made in Sabarimala and the scope of restrictions imposed on pilgrims. The special bench for Devaswom matters comprising Justices P R Ramachandra Menon and N Anil Kumar also made it clear that Court will interfere if the restrictions are found to be harsh and...

National Herald: Court Rejects Vora's Plea To Restrain Subramanian Swamy From Tweeting About Case

A Court at Delhi on Monday dismissed senior Congress leader Motilal Vora's plea seeking to restrain complainant Subramanian Swamy from tweeting about the National Herald case, filed by the BJP MP against Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi and others.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal dismissed Vora's plea, also an accused in the case.In his application,...

Police Excess Cannot Be Permitted In Sabarimala, Observes Kerala HC

The High Court of Kerala observed that police excess cannot be permitted in Sabarimala in the guise of implementing the SC judgment on women entry. The special bench for consideration of Devaswom Matters orally remarked that police arrangements were causing hardships to genuine devotees.Justice P R Ramachandra Menon, who heads the bench, asked the State Attorney under what authority police...

This Over Enthusiasm And Over Zealousness May Cost Her Career Itself: Bombay HC Sets Aside State Excise Commissioner’s Order Overruling Mumbai Collector [Read Judgment]

In a sharp rebuke to Maharashtra State Excise Commissioner Dr Ashwini Joshi, the Bombay High Court has made several strong observations against her and cautioned her saying that she was not above the law.A division bench of Justices SC Dharamadhikari and BP Colabawalla passed a 30-page judgment earlier last month in a batch of petitions filed by licensed wine and liquor shop owners whose...

Delhi HC Interim Stay On Conferment Of DU’s Medal, Prof Savitri Sinha Padak In Tomorrow’s Convocation

The Delhi High Court has put an ad-interim stay on conferment of University Medal and also the Prof Savitri Sinha Smriti Swarna Padak, and the Maithili Sharan Gupta Puraskar, during the 95th annual convocation ceremony scheduled to be held tomorrow. A bench of Justice C Hari Shankar ordered that there would be stay on conferment of these honours on two students – one from Hindu college...

Probe ‘Motive’ Of Sexual Harassment Complaints Filed Against Public Servants Before Registering Cases Against Them, Says MP HC [Read Order]

‘It is the duty of the Investigating Officer to investigate thoroughly and reach to the motive for which the complaint has been filed against the public servant’While quashing a ‘sexual harassment’ complaint made against a public servant, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that harassment of the public servant on pretext of false complaint at the instance of or in hands of...

Sohrabuddin Was Killed In A Fake Encounter,His Wife Kausar Bi Was Raped And Later Killed By Police: Brother Deposes Before CBI Court

Sohrabuddin Shaikh's brother on Saturday that Tulsiram Prajapti had told him about Shaikh's alleged abduction by the Gujarat Police and subsequent death in a fake encounter in November 2005.Prajapati, Sohrabuddin's associate, was himself killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2006.Rubabuddin Shaikh, Sohrabuddin's brother, deposed before the special CBI court here.He stood by his statement to...

Mere Pleading That Husband Was Attempting Sodomy Sufficient To Grant Divorce To The Wife On The Ground Of Cruelty: Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]

‘It will amount to be a cruelty, the reason being that no wife will ever in defence plead such an act to determine cruelty.’The Uttaranchal High Court recently observed that mere pleading by the wife in the divorce petition that husband was making an attempt to have an unnatural sexual relationship (sodomy) is sufficient to grant divorce on the ground of ‘cruelty’.The wife had come...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court held that Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure cannot be invoked to seek transfer of claim petition pending before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal.Two public interest litigations challenging the Uttar Pradesh Government’s decision to rename Allahabad to Prayagraj met different fate. While the bench at Allahabad dismissed the plea asking...