No Discrimination If HIV Positive Sub-Inspector Is Denied Promotion For Not Satisfying Medical Fitness Criteria: Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]

The Uttarakhand High Court recently refused to come to the rescue of an HIV positive Assistant Sub Inspector in matters of promotion, noting that he did not satisfy the fitness criteria and hence, was not being discriminated against.The observation was made by Justice Alok Singh while hearing a petition filed by an Assistant Sub Inspector (General Duty) in Shashastra Seema Bal. While...

SC Modifies NGT Order; Only Buses and Coaches Plying At Airport Need To Be Converted To CNG [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Monday, modified the National Green Tribunal order that directed conversion of all vehicles plying at the IGI airport to CNG mode, by confining it to ‘buses and coaches’ only.NGT had passed several directives in many applications seeking various reliefs against noise pollution that is caused due to takeoffs and landing of aircraft at Indira Gandhi...

Advocate Files False Affidavit, Gets Slapped With 2 Lakh As Costs By Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]

The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday imposed Rs. 2 lakhs as costs on a litigant who made false averments in an affidavit filed by him in the Court.Taking a stern view of the incident, Justice Lok Pal Singh asserted that swearing to a false affidavit amounts to perjury, as an affidavit is evidence within the meaning of Section 191 (giving false evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. The...

Dissolution Deed Of Partnership Firm Which Merely Allocates Properties To Partners Does Not Confer Title In Immovable Property : Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

"The registration of a valid deed of conveyance of immovable property would be the medium through which the transfer of immovable property can be effected to the individual partners of the dissolved Firm"- observed the CourtThe High Court of Kerala has held that a dissolution deed, that merely allocates items of immovable properties to a partner proportionate to his share in the assets of...

RERA Applicable To Long Term ‘Lease Agreements’ In Which Substantial Investment Is Made By Lessee As Consideration: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The object of the RERA cannot be to exclude such persons, who have invested huge amount in the Real Estate Project, may be under the 'Agreement of Lease' and taken such apartment on the lease of '999 years', which transaction is, in reality, the transaction of sale.’The Bombay High Court has held that provisions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, would apply in case...

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...