Aircel-Maxis case: CBI Gets Sanction To Prosecute Former Union Minister P Chidambaram

The sanction required to prosecute former Union Home/Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis case has been obtained from the authorities concerned, the CBI told a court on Monday.The court, which further extended the protection from arrest to Chidambaram and his son Karti till December 18, also granted three weeks to the agency to get sanction against some other people who are...

Review Petition Is Maintainable Against An Order In A Contempt Case: Kerala HC Full Bench [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court has ruled that a review petition is maintainable against an order in a contempt case.In doing so, a full bench comprising Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Justice AM Shaffique and Justice AK Jayasankaran Nambiar overruled the division bench judgment in Antony v. P.S. Rana.The court had, in Antony v. PS Rana, ruled that the power of review cannot be exercised by the...

Gauhati HC Issues Notice On Plea For Extension Of Retirement Age For Ayurvedic Doctors To 65 Years [Read Order]

The Gauhati High Court has issued notice on a petition demanding an extension of the age of superannuation of Ayurvedic doctors in the state.The notice was issued by Justice N. Kotiswar Singh.The court has been approached by the Assam Ayurvedic Doctors Service Association, seeking an extension of age of superannuation of Ayurvedic doctors from 60 years to 65 years, as has been done by the...

Gauhati HC Issues Directions For Registration Of Muslim Marriages Only By Licenced Registrars [Read Judgment]

The Gauhati High Court recently issued a slew of directions in order to ensure that only those duly authorised by the government under the Assam Moslem Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935 issue marriage registration certificates for Muslims in the State.In doing so, Justice N. Kotiswar Singh emphasised on the importance of maintaining the sanctity of marriage certificates issued...

Image Of This Nation Has Taken Enough Beating, Ensure That There Is No Suppression Of Dissent, Discussion Or Debate: Bombay HC [Read Order]

“If democracy has be preserved and protected in this country and this part of the world, then, not only the Executive, but equally the citizens have to act accordingly.”“Freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution of India, coupled with the freedom of religion, both of which are subjected to reasonable restriction ensure that there is no suppression of...

Devaswom Commissioner of Travancore/Cochin Devaswom Board Will Always Be A Hindu, Declares Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

‘We feel fully justified in declaring that the post of Devaswom Commissioner, under the TCHRI Act, is a part of the Devaswom Department under it and axiomatically that, under the rigor of Section 29(1), such an officer will always have to be a person professing the Hindu religion. It is so declared.’The Kerala High Court has declared that Devaswom Commissioner, under the Travancore...

Law Intern Found Dead Days After Filing Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Lawyers

A law intern was recently found dead in Bangalore. Curiously, she had filed a sexual harassment complaint with Commercial Street police just days before she was found dead.The intern was from Andaman & Nicobar Islands and had traveled to Bengaluru in 2017 to intern with Jayanth M. Puttanshetti and Associates on Infantry Road.According to a TOI report, she was assigned to work with...

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...