Defence Of Insanity Can Be Claimed By Female Suffering From Premenstrual Stress Syndrome: Rajasthan HC [Read Judgment]

‘Although the law has not much developed in India as to the Premenstrual Stress Syndrome being set up as the defense of insanity, yet the accused has a right to plead and probabilize such defence to show that she was suffering from ‘premenstrual stress syndrome’ when the crime was committed and because of her such condition, the offence that she committed was an involuntary act on her...

Homebuyer Who Subrogated All Rights In Favour Of Bank Cannot Be Treated As Financial Creditor Under IBC, Says NCLT Allahabad [Read Order]

The Allahabad bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held that a homebuyer who subrogated all his rights in favour of the bank at the time of taking loan cannot be treated as a financial creditor under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. A bench of Saroj Rajware and V P Singh said the petition filed by the homebuyer for initiating Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process is...

Amidst Judges Scrambling For Post-Retirement Jobs, Former Madras HC Judge A. Selvam Takes Up Farming

Even in the finicky world of viral content, it is not often that the video of a former judge ploughing a field on a tractor goes viral.However, two videos of former Madras High Court judge A. Selvam doing this exact bit has gone viral on social media for the last few days, for all the right reasons. In the videos, Justice Selvam is seen dressed in a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, with a towel...

Civil Court Can Grant Reliefs Like Maintenance, Right To Matrimonial Property, Return Of Meher To Muslim Women: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has recently held that a civil court can grant reliefs like maintenance, return of meher and right to matrimonial property in divorce proceedings under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939.Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi dismissed the second appeal filed by a 46-year-old businessman from Navi Mumbai. The appellant had raised a question of law—whether in a...

In Display Of Penitence, Parties To Criminal Complaint Case Offer To Undertake Social Work, Delhi HC Asks Them To Plant 300 Saplings Each [Read Order]

While there are hundreds of cases where parties to a criminal case arrive at a settlement and then knock at the court’s door for the quashing of FIR, in this one particular case before the Delhi High Court, the complainant and the accused offered to undertake some social work as an expression of their contrition for having assaulted each other and caused undue pain and injury.While...

No Sale Of Vet Products Sans Prescription, Regulate Poultry Biz To Ensure Birds Are Fit For Human Consumption: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court, in a series of directions passed over the past two months, has directed the state government to ensure that shop owners dealing in veterinary products do not sell these products without a prescription. Also, the court directed the state animal husbandry department to regulate the poultry business to ensure that no chemicals or growth hormones are added.A division bench...

Nirav Modi-PNB Bank Fraud: Firestar’s Ex-CFO Vipul Ambani Gets Bail

A Special CBI Court in Mumbai has granted bail to Vipul Ambani, ex-CFO of Firestar Diamonds run by Nirav Modi.Vipul Ambani was arrested by the CBI in February 2018 in connection with the Nirav Modi-Punjab National Bank fraud case worth over Rs.13,000 crore. Judge JC Jagdale allowed his bail application and directed his release from judicial custody on a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh.Senior...

Justice Hrishikesh Roy Appointed As Chief Justice Of Kerala High Court [Read Notification]

The Centre on Friday notified the appointment of Acting Chief Justice of Kerala High Court, Justice Hrishikesh Roy as the Chief Justice of the High Court.Justice Roy graduated in law from the Campus Law Centre, the University of Delhi in 1982, and was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Gauhati High Court in December 2004.For several years, he served as the Senior Government Advocate for...

Justice Aniruddha Bose Appointed As Chief Justice Of Jharkhand High Court [Read Notification]

The Centre on Friday appointed Calcutta High Court judge, Justice Aniruddha Bose as the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court.Justice Bose, the senior-most Puisne judge of Calcutta High Court, did his LL.B. from Surendranath College of Law, Calcutta, and enrolled with the Bar Council of West Bengal as an Advocate in October, 1985. He was elevated to the Bench as a permanent judge in...

SC Collegium Accepts Centre’s Rejection Of Proposals To Elevate 3 Advocates To Allahabad And Chhattisgarh HCs

Supreme Court collegium has refused to reiterate the candidature of three Advocates recommended to be elevated to two High Courts.The Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MB Lokur noted that the proposal to elevate Advocates Basharat Ali Khan & Mohd. Mansoor as Allahabad High Court judges was approved by the Supreme Court collegium...

SC Collegium Re-Recommends Advocate Harnaresh Singh Gill For HC Judgeship After Centre Returns Proposal Without Giving Any Reasons

In a resolution passed on August 1, the Supreme Court collegium noted that the proposal to elevate Advocate Harnaresh Singh Gill as a Punjab and Haryana High Court judge was rejected by the Centre without assignment any reasons.The Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MB Lokur then reiterated the recommendation, asserting that it must...

Collegium “Revives” Proposal To Elevate Advocate Amit Negi To Allahabad HC

The Supreme Court collegium has “revived” its earlier recommendation to elevate Advocate Amit Negi to Allahabad High Court.The Collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice MB Lokur noted that Advocate Negi was recommended by the High Court collegium way back in April 2016. The proposal was cleared by the Supreme Court collegium in April 2016...