Advocate Sudha Bhardwaj Not To Be Taken Out Of Her Home Till Magistrate Decides On Transit Remand : Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High court has directed to keep Activist Lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj at her house from where she was arrested at Badarpur border under the supervision of SHO PS Surajkund, Faridabad, Haryana for two days until August 30.This order was issued in a Habeas Corpus petition filed by Ankit Grewal as next friend of the Sudha Bhardwaj who was arrested today as the Pune police carried...

Disclose Info On Steps Taken To Reclaim Koh-i-Noor, Tipu Sultan’s Sword, etc.: CIC To PMO, Ministry of Culture [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) recently directed the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Ministry of Culture to intimate an RTI applicant about the efforts taken by it to reclaim ancient artifacts like the Koh-i-Noor diamond and Tipu Sultan’s sword, preferably within a month.Information Commissioner Prof. M. Sridhar Acharyulu also suggested that the Archaeological Survey of...

Delhi HC Stays Transfer Of Right Activist Gautam Navlakha From Delhi Till Tomorrow [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court today directed that rights activist Gautam Navlakha, arrested by Maharashtra police for alleged Maoist links, should not be taken away from the national capital till it hears the matter tomorrow morning.A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel said Navlakha will remain at his residence under police guard and be allowed to meet only his lawyers.The court also said...

Allahabad HC Refuses Interim Relief To Power Projects From RBI Circular On Revised Framework For Resolution Of Stressed Assets [Read Judgment]

The 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.The Bench comprising Chief Justice DB Bhosale and Justice Yashwant Varma ruled, "In the ultimate analysis, I have been unable to persuade myself to...

Jharkhand HC Drops Contempt Case Against MLA Subject To Payment Of 2.5 Lakhs To Kerala Flood Relief Fund [Read Order]

The Jharkhand High Court last week agreed to drop contempt proceedings initiated against Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) MLA Bhola Yadav for his comments on the fodder scam verdict, which had sentenced RJD president Lalu Prasad to 14 years in jail, with a fine of Rs. 60 lakh.The Bench comprising Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice Ratnaker Bhengra accepted his unconditional and unqualified...

Uttarakhand HC Bans Allotment Of River Lands, Directs State To Cancel All Such Allotments

Coming to the aid of rivers flowing through the state, the Uttarakhand High Court has restrained government agencies from allotting lands comprising the river bed or those covered under water.It held that if any land was allotted in the river bed, it was bound to impede the flow of the river and would lead to illegal mining activities in the river bed. The high court also observed that...

NGT Slaps 46.14 Lakh Fine On U’khand’s Ex-DGP For Felling 25 Trees [Read Judgment]

Uttarakhand’s former Director General of Police BS Sidhu’s desire to have a house in the forest has not gone down well with the National Green Tribunal which held him guilty of illegally purchasing land in the reserve forest area near Dehradun Mussoorie highway and asked him to cough up Rs 46.14 lakh for felling 25 saal trees.“…once any provision of law is violated, the offence...

Now CJI Can Grant Accreditation For SC Journalists Without Law Degree At His Discretion

The Supreme Court has amended the accreditation norms to confer discretion on the Chief Justice of India to waive the condition that a journalist should possess law degree for regular accreditation.The Chief Justice can exercise discretion to waive the condition of having law degree in appropriate cases, in case of working journalist/correspondent.The amendment made as per meeting of...

Chhattisgarh HC Quashes Extension Of Tenure Of Vice-Chancellor Of Hidayatullah National Law University [Read Judgment]

The Chhattisgarh High Court has quashed and set aside the order of extension of tenure of Vice-Chancellor of Hidayatullah University, Prof. (Dr) Sukhpal Singh.The division bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri and Justice Sanjay Aggarwal concluded that the Executive Council’s recommendation for extension of tenure was not sustainable as the council failed to apprise the Chancellor of the...

Disabled Man Says Estranged Wife May Harm Him, Delhi HC Asks Police To Give Protection, Counsel Wife To Not Take Law In Her Hands [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has directed the city police to provide due protection to a disabled man, a school teacher, who apprehended threat to his life from his estranged wife, who he claimed has been harassing their son too.Justice Najmi Waziri directed the Station House Officer of the area concerned to assess the threat faced by the petitioner and accord him due protection.That is not all.The...

Jharkhand HC Quashes Ban On Popular Front Of India (PFI) [Read Judgment]

The Jharkhand High Court on Monday quashed the State Government’s notification passed under section 16 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908 declaring the Popular Front of India (PFI) unlawful.Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay opined that the notification seemed to have been issued in “haste and in an imprudent manner being totally oblivious to the absence of congealed materials to declare...

State Seeks To Withdraw Counsel Not Included In Its Revised List Of AGPs From A 45-Yr-Old Suit, Bombay HC Refuses [Read Order]

Justice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court refused to allow the state government to discontinue an advocate’s services from a 45-year-old suit that he has been appearing in since 2016.Government Pleader Poornima Kantharia informed the court that Advocate Amar Mishra’s name was not included in the revised list of Additional Government Pleaders (AGP) notified by the state recently...