Society Seldom Survives If They Feel That Offenders And Sinners Are Beyond Redemption: Delhi HC Asks Jail Authorities To Consider Granting Furlough To 65-Yr-Old Man [Read Judgment]

Society seldom survives if they feel that offenders and sinners are beyond redemption, the Delhi High Court bench remarked while directing the authorities to consider granting furlough to a 65-year-old man furlough without being treated as a “habitual offender”.Sudhir Sharma is serving jail sentence after getting convicted in six ‘cheating’ cases. He submitted before the court that...

27 Names Pending With Centre, But Cannot Give Precise Time Frame For Filling Up Judicial Vacancies: Govt. Responds To Shashi Tharoor

The Union Ministry of Law and Justice on Wednesday told Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor that while 27 recommendations for judgeship, including names that were reiterated by the Supreme Court Collegium, are currently pending with it, it cannot give a “precise time frame” for filling up vacancies at the Supreme Court and the High Courts.The response came on an unstarred question by...

Lok Sabha Passes Representation of People(Amendment) Bill To Allow Proxy Voting By NRIs [ Read Bill]

Today, the Lok Sabha passed the Representation of People(Amendment Bill), which seeks to amend the provisions of Representation of People Act 1950 and Representation of People Act 1951.The Amendment Bill seeks to enable Non-Resident Indians to cast  votes through their proxies in the constituency.The 1950 Act deals with allocation of seats and delimitation of constituencies...

No Anticipatory Bail, Preliminary Inquiry: Parliament Passes Schedule Caste & The Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2018

Today the Rajya Sabha passed the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill 2018, which was cleared by the Lok Sabha on Monday.The Amendment Bill seeks to dilute the controversial verdict of the Supreme Court in Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan .By way of the Amendment, a new section 18A has been inserted in the Act of 1989, which does away with the...

Now Delhi Lawyer Moves Petition Against Ban On Cinegoers From Carrying Food, Water To Multiplex Theatres [Read Petition]

After being not allowed to carry her own water bottle and eatables inside a movie theatre and forced to purchase the exorbitantly priced water and food from inside a movie theatre, a young lawyer has moved the Delhi High Court seeking direction to all multiplexes to not bar cinegoers from carrying their own food articles and water.Ekta Singh, a lawyer practicing at the Delhi High Court, moved...

Justice Rajendra Menon Sworn In As Chief Justice of Delhi High Court

Justice Rajendra Menon was sworn in as the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court today. Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal administered oath to Justice Menon.Justice Rajendra Menon was the Chief Justice of Patna High Court. The SC Collegium had recommended his appointment as Delhi High Court Chief Justice on July 20.It may be recalled that the initial recommendation of the SC Collegium was for...

NGT Directs Formation Of STFs For Ghaggar River; Says Take Civil And Criminal Action Against Those Shielding Culprits [Read Order]

Calling for both civil and criminal action against Pollution Control Boards’ officials shielding the violators, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Chief Secretaries of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to constitute Special Task Force (STFs) to clean the Ghaggar River.The river originates in the Shivalik Hills in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh and...

Father-Son Face Off In Supreme Court

The five-judge constitution bench commenced hearing on the pleas seeking a ban on candidates from contesting elections against whom charges have been framed.The Court witnessed an interesting father-son face off in the Constitution Bench hearing of PIL seeking to bar charge-sheeted politicians from contesting elections.Opposing the PIL, Attorney General K.K Venugopal submitted that Court...

In “Indian Setting”, Mother Won’t File False Case Of Sexual Assault Involving Her Daughter: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently upheld the conviction of a man for sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl in Pune, observing that it is highly unlikely for a mother to file a false case of sexual assault involving her daughter in the “Indian setting”.The observations were made by Justice AM Badar, who was hearing an Appeal filed by one Rajendra Bhima Asudeo challenging his conviction...

Fundamental Right To Freedom Of Speech Not An Absolute License To Hurt Fellow Citizens’ Religious Sentiments: Kerala HC

‘Persons who take the risk of publication and dissemination of scurrilous and blasphemous messages are not entitled to get the discretion of the court exercised in their favour.’While rejecting anticipatory bail to a man who posted a comment on Facebook post, insulting members of Islamic community and the prophet, the Kerala High Court observed that the fundamental right to freedom of...

Tear Down This Wall: NGT Refuses To Review Its 2016 Order To Demolish NRL Wall Erected In Elephant Corridor Near Kaziranga Nat’l Park

The wall in question segregates the township from the rest of the forest area and has claimed lives of 12 elephants as they moved along this corridor for food. It encroaches upon the Deopahar Proposed Reserve Forest as well as the No-Development Zone.A controversial wall erected in the proposedin close proximity to the Kaziranga National Park, by public sector oil company Numaligarh...

The Extreme Punishment May Convey Message To These Predators That It Is Not A Soft State: MP HC Upholds Death Penalty To Youth Accused Of 4-Yr-Old’s Rape-Murder [Read Judgment]

‘This Court has the social responsibility to make the citizen of this country know that law cannot come to the rescue of such person on the basis of humanity.’Affirming the death sentence awarded to a youth accused of raping a four-year-old girl, the Madhya Pradesh High Court observed that it has the social responsibility to make the citizen of this country know that law cannot come to...