Witness To Crime Can’t Challenge Judgment Of Acquittal And Seek Re-trial, Only Victim Of The Said Crime Can: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

In an important point of law that came up in a criminal writ petition filed by one Siraj Pathan, who was an eye witness to a murder, the Bombay High Court has dismissed the petition and held that an eye witness cannot circuitously impugn or appeal against a judgment of acquittal and seek a re-trial under Section 378 of the CrPC.Justice Mangesh Patil of the Aurangabad bench was hearing the...

Delhi HC Seeks Centre’s Response On PIL To Compile Biometric/Aadhaar Data To Enable Return Of Missing Persons [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to respond to a PIL advocating use of biometric/Aadhaar data for tracing missing children, elderlies and mentally challenged persons and reuniting them with their families.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to the Centre for November 13 on the PIL filed by advocate Amit Sahni.Sahni said he was...

PIL Alleges Amazon, Flipkart Hoodwink FDI Norms Through Proxy Sellers, Delhi HC Issues Notice

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart and also the Centre on a PIL alleging that they have been openly violating FDI norms for marketplace model of e-commerce and circumventing them by routing hot-selling products at much cheaper rates through proxy “Controlled Sellers” or “Name Lenders” and pushing out small sellers and...

Delhi HC Re-Unites Interfaith Couple; Comes Down Heavily On Police Authorities [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court last week came to the rescue of an inter-faith couple, directing that they be re-united immediately while rapping the Police authorities for their conduct in the case.The order was issued by a Bench comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel on a habeas corpus petition filed by one Sandeep Kumar.Kumar had submitted that he and Nisha tied the knot in...

Ph.D. Scholar Alleges Thesis Plagiarism By Prof-Guide Of M.Phil: CIC Orders Indian Statistical Institute To Share Marked Copies Of Thesis With Complainant [Read Order]

When a Professor-guide himself is accused of infringing copyright of a student-scholar, such a scholar has right to complain, right to know and Right to Information about the action on the complaint under RTI Act, the Central Information Commission has said while directing the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) to share marked copies of thesis to a Ph.D. scholar who claimed copyright...

SC/ST Community Certificate From Another State Cannot Be Used to Gain Medical Admission In Tamil Nadu: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court recently ruled that students who have secured a community certificate from another state cannot use the same to secure MBBS admission under reserved categories in Tamil Nadu.The order was issued by Justice S. Vaidyanathan on a petition filed by one S. Geetha, who had sought a direction to the Selection Committee to consider her candidature under the Scheduled Tribe...

Illegal Hoardings/Flex Boards Despite Advertisement Code In Force: Kerala HC Pulls Up Govt Bodies [Read Order]

The influence and power of individuals and entities who indulge in such illegal activities cannot occlude the vision of the Authorities who are enjoined to act for the larger interests of the society, says the courtThe High Court of Kerala, through Justice Devan Ramachandran, has issued a directive calling upon the Chief Secretary of the State and Secretary for Local Self Government...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court quashed the demotion of two professors of Lucknow’s Integral University while criticising its Vice-Chancellor for throwing the principles of natural justice to winds.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently refused to grant any relief to a final year law student from Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law with low attendance. A bench of Justice...

Activist & Advocate Ajit Nayak Hacked To Death In Uttara-Kannada

Renowned lawyer and activist Ajit Nayak was reportedly murdered on Friday night by unknown assailants in Dandeli, a small town in Uttara Kannada.According to a report by The News Minute, Mr. Nayak was attacked by several unknown men, who used sharp weapons to hack at him, when he was returning home from his office in JN Road at around 9:30 pm. While passers-byy rushed him to the hospital,...

Prescribing Medicine Sans Diagnosis Amounts To Culpable Negligence: Bombay HC, No Relief For Doctors Booked Under S.304 [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court recently made some sharp observations while hearing a case of medical negligence wherein a doctor couple, Deepa and Sanjeev Pawaskar were booked under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, after a woman died within a few days of being discharged from their hospital.The couple was apprehending arrest and so...

Star India, Sony’s Onerous RIO Agreement With Distributors Prima Facie Anti-Competitive, Says CCI; Asks DG To Investigate And Ascertain [Read Order]

Other broadcasters might also come in the loop during the probeThe Competition Commission of India (CCI) has held the conduct of Star India Pvt Ltd and Sony Pictures Network Pvt. Ltd. in allegedly using reference interconnect offer (RIO) agreement with highly onerous terms as a mechanism of refusal to deal to be prima facie an anti-competitive practice.While forming a prima facie opinion, the...

Calcutta HC Reduces Sentence Of Rape Accused As He Married The Victim [Read Judgment]

‘The fact that the prosecutrix and the appellant are married (to each other) and have settled in life with their children appears to be “adequate and special reason” for imposing lesser sentence.’In July 2015, the Supreme Court had pronounced a judgment in which it categorically observed that in a case of rape or attempt of rape, the conception of compromise under no circumstances...