Minor Rape Victim Cries Foul Over JJB Holding Accused To Be Under 18 At Time of Crime, Delhi HC Orders Proper Inquiry [Read Order]

As a minor victim of rape cried foul over Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) holding the accused to be a juvenile without any substantial evidence, the Delhi High Court has directed the board to hold proper inquiry before returning a finding on the juvenility claim of the accused, which has already consumed almost two years time since the commission of the offence.Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva set...

Appellate And Original Side Rules Of Bombay HC Amended; Additional Powers Given To Judges To Bar Advocates From Appearance [Read Notification]

The Appellate side and Original side rules of the Bombay High Court were amended in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 34(1) of the Advocates Act, 1961. Amendments were made to Schedule VII of Chapter XXXII of the Bombay High Court Appellate Side Rules, 1960 and Appendix VI of the Bombay High Court Original Side Rules, 1980 framed under that section.These amendments have come into...

“The Temple Is Open Only For 24 Hours On November 5 And 6, We Have Fixed A Date, Don’t Rush”: CJI Gogoi On Sabarimala Review Petitions

As Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi nears the completion of his first month in office, his stern approach towards granting an urgent listing to matters upon being ‘mentioned’ continues.On his very first day as the Chief Justice of India, he had asserted that the morning ‘mentioning’ ritual be confined to cases of extreme emergency, including those of demolition, eviction and death.On...

Plea In Delhi HC To End Discriminatory Practices In All Religions [Read Petition]

Hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s much-debated Sabarimala judgment, a petition has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking an end to all practices discriminatory to women, and also the men, in all faiths and make the acts of discrimination a penal offence including the age-old isolation and ban on entering kitchen Hindu women face in their houses during menstruation.Sanjjiiv Kkumaar,...

Shashi Tharoor Issues Legal Notice Against Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad For Calling Him "Murder Accused" [Read Notice]

Alleging that the statements made by Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in twitter are defamatory, a legal notice has been issued to him by Dr.Shashi Tharoor, MP of Thiruvananthapuram.The controversy pertains to a tweet made by Prasad in the micro blogging site on October 28 in which Tharoor was termed as "accused in a murder case". The Law Minister also posted a voice clip of his...

More Than 122 Cr Aadhaar Users, Don’t have Tech To Match Finger Prints Without Aadhaar Number: UIDAI tells Bombay HC [Read Petition]

The Unique Identification Authority has told the Bombay High Court that they do not have the “technological architecture” to allow matching of finger prints without mentioning the Aadhaar number.Deputy Director, Mumbai, UIDAI Bhalchandra Vishnu Jichkar, gave the said instructions to BB Kulkarni, Senior Panel Standing Counsel for the Union of India in a criminal writ petition filed by...

CBI Does Not Oppose Bail Plea Of CBI DSP Devender Kumar; Court Reserves Orders

A Delhi court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the bail plea of CBI DSP Devender Kumar arrested in connection with bribery allegations involving the agency's Special Director Rakesh Asthana.Special CBI Judge Santosh Snehi Mann said he would pass order later during the day after both sides complete their arguments. During the hearing, the lawyer appearing for Kumar told the court that...

M J Akbar's Statement Recorded In Defamation Complaint Against Priya Ramani; Calls #MeToo allegations 'Scurrilous'

Former Union minister M J Akbar, who has filed a criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani, told a Delhi court on Wednesday that an "immediate damage" has been caused to him due to the "scurrilous", concocted and false allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him.Akbar appeared before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal and recorded his statement...

Delhi High Court (Original Side) Rules Amended To Introduce "Hot Tubbing", "Confidential Club" Etc. [Read Amendments]

The Delhi High Court has amended its Rules (Original Side) to bring in features such as ‘Hot-Tubbing’ and ‘Confidentiality Club’ besides various other amendments which will come into effect from November 1.Hot-Tubbing is a colloquial term for court process of calling expert witnesses to give evidence and to be examined concurrently.This has been incorporated by substituting Rule 6...

Divorce By Mutual Consent Is A Secular Concept; Six-Month Cooling-Off Period Can Be Waived For Christians As Well: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

“The dictum laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Amardeep Singh (supra) would be applicable in case of a petition filed under Section 10A of the Divorce Act, 1869, also.”Waiving ‘cooling-off’ time for divorce for a Christian couple, the High Court of Kerala observed that divorce by mutual consent is a secular concept and there can be no discrimination on the ground of...

SC Collegium Recommends Transfer Of Eight High Court Judges

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the transfer of eight judges to the High Courts of Hyderabad, Karnataka, Bombay, Punjab & Haryana, Orissa and Jharkhand.The collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Justice MB Lokur, Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice AK Sikri and Justice SA Bobde recommended the following transfers:Karnataka High Court judge, Justice Raghavendra...

Reassessment Order Under VAT Act Passed After GST Rollout Can’t Be Considered Void, Says K’taka HC [Read Order]

In this case, the reassessment order pertained to year 2012-13The Karnataka High Court has held that merely because a reassessment order is passed under the Value Added Tax law after coming into force of the GST regime, it would not make that reassessment order void in the eyes of law.“The taxable event under the Value Added Tax law is individual transaction of sale or purchase by the...