2008 Malegaon Blast: Spl NIA Court Charges Purohit, Pragya, Kulkarni And Others With Murder; Declines Purohit’s Plea

A Special NIA Court on Tuesday charged Sadhvi Pragya, Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit Sameer Kulkarni, Major (Retd.) Ramesh Upadhyay, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Ajay Rahilkar and Sudhakar Chaturvedi with murder, abetment and conspiracy for the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed six and injured 101 people.Judge Padalkar pronounced the order in the presence of all the accused and said:“Abhinav Bharat Sanstha...

SC Sets Aside Appointment of Air Marshal Rajvir Singh As DGMS (Army); Directs Appointment Of Lt. Gen. Manomoy Ganguly [Read Judgment]

‘The process undertaken by the respondents in taking decision to appoint Air Marshal Rajvir Singh as DGMS (Army) does not stand judicial scrutiny.’The Supreme Court, setting aside the appointment of Air Marshal Rajvir Singh as DGMS (Army), has directed the Central Government to appoint Lt. Gen. Manomoy Ganguly in that position.The bench comprising Justice AK Sikri and Justice Ashok...

Family Of Teenage Footballer Who Drowned In Australia Moves HC For Inquiry, Notice Issued [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) on a petition seeking inquiry into the death of Nitisha Negi, the teenage footballer from Delhi who drowned at Gelnelg beach in Adelaide, Australia, where she was on a tour as part of a 120-member Indian contingent participating in the Pacific School Games.The petition...

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...