Duty of Every Citizen To Protect Self-Respect & Honour Of Members Of SC/ST Community: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to grant bail to two accused arrested last year after a video showing two nine-year-old Dalit boys being beaten up and paraded naked for allegedly trying to pilfer a snack item went viral.In doing so, Justice AM Badar noted that the accused have been booked under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Protection...

Cannot Equate Judicial Office With Ordinary State Services: Karnataka HC Junks Plea For Recruitment Of Judges By Advertisements [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed a petition for doing away with the collegium system of appointments and recruiting to the judiciary through public advertisements/notifications.In doing so, Justice BV Nagarathna emphasised on the fact that the judicial office is a constitutional position and cannot be equated with ordinary state services in matters of appointment.“…the Office of...

Kerala HC Issues Notice To AMMA On WCC Plea Seeking Redressal Mechanism To Deal With Sexual Harassment

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), the state government and the Department of Women and Child Development on the petition moved by Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) demanding the establishment of a grievance redressal mechanism in the AMMA to deal with cases of sexual harassment.A bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy...

Kerala HC Stays BCI Letter Restraining AG CP Sudhakara Prasad From Chairing Trustee Committee Of The Kerala Advocates’ Welfare Fund

Kerala HC Stays BCI Letter Restraining AG CP Sudhakara Prasad From Chairing Trustee Committee of the Kerala Advocates’ Welfare FundThe Kerala High Court, on Wednesday, stayed a recent communication by the Bar Council of India (BCI) restraining Advocate General of the State of Kerala Mr. CP Sudhakara Prasad from acting as the Ex officio Chairman of the Trustee Committee of the...

Right Of Education Under RTE Act Is Not To Protect Teachers, But To Grant Education To Students: MP HC [Read Order]

“However, engagement of such large number of Guest Teachers cannot be a rule and the State Government will be well advised to fill the posts of teachers in the schools in a phased manner in the years to come.”While considering plea of ‘guest teachers’, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that right of education under the Right to Education Act is not to protect the teachers, but...

Patiala House Court To Hear MJ Akbar's Defamation Case Tomorrow

M J Akbar's criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani, who has accused him of sexual misconduct around 20 years ago, is scheduled to come up for hearing on Thursday in the Patiala House court here.Akbar on Wednesday tendered his resignation as Minister of State for External Affairs.His lawyer Sandeep Kapur of law firm Karanjawala & Co said that the private...

Capital Prisoners Entitled To Humane Death: Justice Sotomayor Terms ‘Three-Drug Cocktail’ Execution Method In Tennessee As ‘State-Sponsored Brutality’

“The longer we stand silent amid growing evidence of inhumanity in execution methods like Tennessee’s, the longer we extend our own complicity in state-sponsored brutality.”Justice Sonia Sotomayor, once again, dissented with SCOTUS that denied a stay of execution of a death row convict who had challenged the execution process of injecting lethal three-drug cocktail followed in...

Birth/Death Certificates Can Be Applied Under RTI Act; RTI Application Not To Be Rejected Only Because Alternative Procedure Is Available Under Another Statute: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

‘If it is held otherwise, it would negate and lead to derecognising the fundamental right to information as granted under the RTI Act, which is unacceptable.’Now one can apply for Birth and Death certificates and other documents through RTI.  The Punjab and Haryana High court recently allowed a plea of a man who had applied death certificate of his mother through RTI.Justice...

Bhima Koregaon: Pune Police's Evidence Against Activists Flimsy: Sudha Bhardwaj's Lawyer

The letters seized by the Pune police from the five activists and being dubbed as proofs of their Maoist links are "flimsy and uncorroborated" evidence, a Pune court was told Tuesday.Defence counsel Yug Chaudhary, who is representing activist Sudha Bharadwaj, told Additional Sessions Judge K D Vadane that the activists arrested by the police were "eminent" people.The court heard the bail pleas...

Junaid Khan Lynching Case: P&H HC Grants Bail To Main Accused [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted bail to Naresh Kumar, the main accused in the case concerning the brutal lynching of a 16-year-old boy, Junaid Khan, in June last year.Justice Daya Chaudhary granted him bail after noting that Naresh has been behind bars for more than a year and that the proceedings in the case have already been stayed by the Supreme Court.The court also weighed in...

Delhi HC Directs Varsity To Award Gold Medal To Law Graduate Who Obtained The Highest CPI, Though He Could Not Clear Two Exams In ‘First Attempt’ [Read Judgment]

‘There is nothing in the unamended provisions of Ordinance 5 that can be read to mean that a student, who could not appear in an examination on account of medical concerns, has to be treated as a student re-appearing in an examination.’Abhinav Pandey would get a gold medal for his remarkable academic performance in the five year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) course as the division bench of the Delhi...

To Cap Max Salary At Rs. 15,000 For Quantifying Pension Is Absolutely Unrealistic: Kerala HC Sets Aside Employee's Pension (Amendment) Scheme, 2014 [Read Judgment]

“It is common knowledge that, even a manual labourer is paid more than the said amounts as daily wages. Therefore, to limit the maximum salary at Rs.15,000/- for pension would deprive most of the employees of a decent pension in their old age.”The Kerala High Court has set aside Employee's Pension (Amendment) Scheme, 2014 that capped maximum pensionable salary to Rs.15, 000 per...