Delhi HC, Through ‘Taxing Officer’, Imposes Costs of Rs. 87 lakh On Pure Play Sports In IP Infringement Suit By Skechers [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs. 87 lakh on Pure Play Sports for Infringing Skechers’ intellectual property by manufacturing and distributing rip-offs of Skechers’ Go-walk 3 series range of shoes.Notably, the costs were determined by Joint Registrar (Judicial) Raj Kumar Tripathi, who ordered, “The memo of cost prepared by the registry on the basis of material available and...

Moral Policing, Arbitrary & Non-Transparent Administrative Actions: HNLU Students Continue Protest

The Chhattisgarh High Court, on 27 August, in Dr. Avinash Samal v. State of Chhattisgarh, quashed the extension of tenure of Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. (Dr) Sukhpal Singh. However, despite the order, the path has been testing for the students, to say the least.Scores of students camped overnight on campus in the open from 10:30 pm the...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court on Monday refused to grant interim relief to private power companies from the circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) which gives borrowers 180 days’ time to clear their dues— a deadline that ended on Monday.Full Bench of the High Court on Monday directed the Principal Secretary, Law as well as the Principal Secretaries in the...

Bombay HC Sentences Lawyer To One-Week Simple Imprisonment For Flinging Notebook At Additional PP, Calling Magistrate A Fool [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently sentenced an advocate to a week’s simple imprisonment noting that it was an exceptional case involving an advocate who has been practicing for 18 years.A division bench of Justice TV Nalawade and Justice V Kankanwadi of the Aurangabad bench passed the judgment in a petition filed by sessions judge under the Contempt of Courts Act seeking action against...

Bombay HC Asks Maha Govt To Make All Its Websites Disabled-Friendly [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court recently directed the State Government to update all its websites to make them disabled-friendly and file a status report in November.The direction was issued by a Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Naresh H. Patil and Justice RG Ketkar on a petition filed by the NGO, Disability Rights Initiative.The petitioner has demanded a direction to all government organisations...

Conduct Of The Assessee Not At All Bonafide: ITAT Upholds Penalty Levied On ‘Young Indian’ [Read Order]

‘There was a deliberate defiance on the part of the assessee for non-submission of the same under the pretext that some of the details are available in the records of the Income Tax Department or some of the details are available in the Website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.’The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal on Thursday upheld penalty imposed on Young Indian Pvt. Ltd., observing...

NGT Directs Finalization Of Kasturirangan Report Within 6 Months, Without Reducing ESA Regions [Read Order]

The bench observed that the ecology of Western Ghats region is under serious stress.The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal(NGT) has directed the Central Ministry of Environment and Forests to finalize notification of Ecologically Sensitive Areas(ESA) of Western Ghats within a period of six months, without making any alteration in the draft ESA notification published on February...

Govt To Apprise Kerala HC Of Steps Taken For Solid Waste Management After Floods

The Government of Kerala has undertaken to apprise the High Court of Kerala of the steps taken for management of solid wastes and cleaning activities in the aftermath of recent floods.The Court was acting on a Public Interest Litigation filed by Cochin-based Jackson Mathew through Advocate Santhosh Mathew, highlighting the  inaction on the part of the municipal authorities in providing...

Restriction On Manufacture and Sale Of Oxytocin By Private Entities Stayed By Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has stayed for one month the Central Government order preventing manufacture and sale of drugs containing oxytocin by private companies. The impugned order permitted only a public sector company, Karnataka Antibiotics and Pharmaceutical Ltd(KAPL), to manufacture and sell oxytocin drugs.Oxytocin is an important hormone for living beings. Oxytocin based drugs are effective...

Want Bail? Contribute To Kerala Flood Relief Fund: Jharkhand HC To Bail Applicants

As God’s own country, Kerala struggles to get back up after being raved by floods, Justice Ananda Sen of the Jharkhand High Court recently directed several accused persons to deposit money in the Kerala Chief Minister’s flood relief fund as a condition for grant of bail.According to available orders, Justice Sen has allowed more than 20 such bail applications since 27 August, with the...

Kerala Flood Relief : HC Issues Directions To Ease Customs Clearance For Imported Goods [Read Order]

Acting on two public interest litigations, the High Court of Kerala has issued directions to ease the procedure for availing customs duty exemption for goods imported for flood relief.The petitioners highlighted practical difficulties to comply with the conditions prescribed in the notification issued by the Central Government on August 21 for availing exemption from the duty leviable on...

Reopening Of Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper Plant: NGT Appoints Former CJ Of Meghalaya HC To Head Panel To Take A Call [Read Order]

Earlier, the NGT had appointed Justice Vazifdar to head the panel, who subsequently communicated his inability to accept the appointment due to personal reasonsThe National Green Tribunal has substituted Justice SJ Vazifdar, former Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court, by Justice Tarun Agrawal, former Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court, to head the committee which will be...