Judge’s Housing: Bombay HC Directs Registry To Take Options From Judges As Per Seniority, Asks State To Formulate A Scheme [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Monday passed an 18-page judgment in a criminal public interest litigation filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar in 2017.Tirodkar had challenged the allotment of a plot of land in Andheri, Mumbai, given to the Surbhi Co-operative Housing Society formed by 39 judges of the high court. He sought quashing of the allotment also directions to the high court to file...

Incorrect Incorporation Of Criminal Law Amendment In Law Journal; Jammu & Kashmir HC Pulls Up Editor, State [Read Judgment]

‘The editor has, in the most inconsiderate, unconscious and imprudent manner published the said amendment in the Journal.’The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently pulled up a law publisher for incorporating misleading and incorrect provision regarding an amendment of Section 167 of Jammu and Kashmir Code of Criminal Procedure.In fact, the Criminal Laws Amendment Act of 2013 (Act XI of...

Is Hockey India Fearing Exposure Of Some Scandal? CIC Show Cause Notice To HI’s Ex-President Rajinder Gill [Read Order]

Stressing that sport of hockey cannot be used as base for commercial profit generating by Hockey India (HI) and Hockey India League (HIL), the Central Information Commission has issued show cause notice to Hockey India’s former president Rajinder Singh asking him why maximum penalty should not be imposed against him and HI’s CPIO and the first appellate authority for not disclosing details...

Delhi HC Issues Contempt Notice Against Gurumurthy For Tweets Against Justice Muralidhar

The Delhi High Court Monday issued contempt notice to the editor of a Chennai-based, Tamil news magazine for his tweets against Justice S Muralidhar.A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Yogesh Khanna initiated contempt proceedings and sought response of Swaminathan Gurumurthy, the editor of the weekly 'Thuglak' magazine, and listed the matter for further hearing on December 11.Gurumurthy is also...

Bal Niketan Sexual Abuse Case: P & H HC Upholds Conviction Of Former Supervisor, But Reduces His Sentence By 1 Year [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the conviction of former supervisor of Bal Niketan, Manish Arora, who had been accused of molesting inmates back in 2014.In doing so, Justice Anita Chaudhry ruled that the testimonies of two child witnesses in the case cannot be discarded just because other inmates did not come forward against the accused.“The plea that except PW1 and PW2 no...

Bombay HC Refuses To Defer Framing Of Charges Against Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit For The Second Time

The Bombay High Court on Monday yet again refused to defer framing of charges against Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, one of the main accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case that killed six and injured over a 100 people.A division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice AS Gadkari were hearing an application filed by Purohit, who had previously filed a similar application which was rejected by...

Kerala HC To Hear Plea Challenging Participation Of Judicial Officers In Direct Recruitment Of District Judges [Read Petition]

The Kerala High Court, on Thursday, admitted a petition challenging the participation of judicial officers of subordinate judiciary in direct recruitment for district judges.The matter was admitted by a bench comprising Justice PR Ramachandra Menon and Justice Devan Ramachandran.The petition has been filed by Kerala based lawyer, Ravikrishnan NR, who has applied for appointment to the post...

Delhi HC Directs CBI To Maintain Status Quo On Proceedings Against Rakesh Asthana

The Delhi High Court Monday ordered the CBI to maintain status quo till November 1 on proceedings against its Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who was sent on leave by the government.A bench of Justice Najmi Waziri questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not filing reply to pleas of Asthana and another official Devender Kumar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, seeking quashing...

Son Of A Deceased Person Has A Right To Perform Last Rites Of His Parents: Uttarakhand HC ‘Condemns’ Inhumane Denial Of Parole To A Murder Convict [Read Order]

“When a detainee seeks parole or custody parole to perform some rituals to be performed on his part towards his family, the concerned authority should immediately take appropriate decision for grant of parole/custody parole.”While considering a plea of a murder convict who could not perform last rites and rituals of his father as he was denied parole, the Uttarakhand High Court has...

Sabarimala Belongs To All, Not Just Hindus, Observes Kerala HC In Petition Seeking To Prevent Entry Of Non-Hindus.

The Court observed that Sabarimala welcomed devotees from all faiths and was a symbol of communal harmony.While considering a petition seeking to restrict entry of non-Hindus in Sabarimala temple, the High Court of Kerala orally observed that Sabarimala belonged to all and not just Hindus. The petition filed by T G Mohandas, Convenor of BJP State Intellectual Cell, contended that non-Hindus...

Sabarimala : HC Terms Women's Plea For Protection Premature; State Undertakes  To Give Protection To Genuine Devotees

It was undertaken by the State Attorney that the State will do everything possible to maintain law and order and to afford protection to 'genuine' devotees, whether men or women, to offer worship at the hill top shrineThe High Court of Kerala today termed the petition filed by four women for police protection to visit the Sabarimala shrine as "premature". The Court expressed that the...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court on Monday reiterated the Supreme Court’s orders and asked Special NIA Judge Vinod Padalkar, presiding over the trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case that killed six and injured over a 100 people, to expedite the trial and conduct it on a day-to-day basis.On Wednesday, the High Court set aside a Pune court order that had granted more time to the police...