Corporate Life Extinguished Without Being Heard: Madras HC Sets Aside RoC’s Order Disqualifying Pvt Firms’ Directors For Non-Filing Of Financial Statements [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has set aside the disqualification of directors of private companies for failure to file annual returns/ financial statement for three consecutive years saying the same the disqualification was disproportionate to the lapse as the default.Justice T Raja said the Registrar of Companies (RoC) cannot disqualify directors, over 35,000 in number, for the financial years...

Delhi HC Forms Committee Of Experts In Area Of Child Sexual Violence To Suggest Measures To Check Rapes And Reform Rape Convicts, Especially Young Persons [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has given its nod for constitution of a committee of seven expert members for suggesting preventive measures to control incidents of rape (especially of minor girls) based on scientific principles and data and to come out with reformative steps in the field of sentencing, especially for young persons convicted for the offence of rape.A bench headed by Acting Chief...

‘Mischievous’ Advocate Appears For Both Accused And Claimant In Motor Accident Case, Allahabad HC Issues Notice [Read Order]

Incidents of advocates indulging in unprofessional behaviour are many. However, not many would have heard of cases where an advocate appears for the accused in a motor accident case and then fights it out for the parents of the deceased before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal.This is exactly what happened in a case that was brought to the notice of the Allahabad High Court...

Asking Wife To Cook Properly Or Do Household Work Is Not Ill Treatment: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently dismissed a criminal appeal filed by the State of Maharashtra against a judgment of the Additional Sessions judge in Sangli acquitting one Vijay Shinde and his parents who were booked under Sections 498A (cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.Justice SV Kotwal upheld the acquittal of Vijay Shinde, his 71-year-old mother and his...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Bombay High CourtIn 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 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.The High Court recently quashed and set aside a...

Plea In High Court of Kerala For Arrest Of Bishop Franco Mulakkal In Nun's Rape Case

A writ petition has been filed in the High Court of Kerala seeking a directive to arrest Franco Mulakkal, Bishop of Jalandhar Diocese of Syro-Malabar Church, who stands accused for rape of a nun.The petitioner is George Joseph K, an executive committee member of Kerala Catholic Reformation Movement, a registered organization of the faithful working towards "reformation of practises which...

Kerala Church Sex Scandal : SC Dismisses Bail Application of Clergymen

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of Father Soni Abraham Varghese and Father Jaise K George in connection with the sex scandal case involving Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala. The bench of Justice A K Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan dismissed their petition stating that it was not a fit case for anticipatory bail.They are accused of committing...

NGT Forms Committee Headed By Former HC Judge To Monitor Implementation Of Its Ganga Rejuvenation Orders

Irked over the poor pace of cleaning and rejuvenation of Ganga River, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Monday, appointed a committee headed by a former Allahabad High Court judge to monitor the compliance of various directions given by it.While a former judge would be nominated by the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, the committee would also have an expert representative from...

New Acting CJ of Orissa HC Faces In-House Inquiry By SC Appointed Committee

Justice Indrajit Mahanty, who has been appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of Orissa High Court following the elevation of Chief Justice Vineet Saran to the Supreme Court, is facing in-house inquiry proceedings by a Committee constituted by the Supreme Court.Justice Mahanty,  senior most Judge of Orissa High Court, has been alleged to have obtained bank loans to run his hotel business after...

NGT Directs CPCB To Send Representative To ISCKON, Mathura; MoEF To Develop An Institutional Mechanism And Submit Periodic Reports [Read Orders]

The National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench at New Delhi last week directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to send a representative to the under construction 70 storey Chandrodaya Temple at ISCKON, Mathura within one month. The representative may give his report for the steps necessary of the purpose. It was further held that such report must be acted upon, subject to any...

Plea Filed In Rajasthan HC Challenging PC Act Amendment Mandating Prior Govt. Sanction For Probing Allegations Against Public Servants [Read Petition]

A petition has been filed before the Jaipur Bench of Rajasthan High Court challenging the recent amendment to the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, which makes it mandatory for investigating agencies to obtain prior approval from the Centre or the State Governments for even beginning a probe or investigating the offences under the Act.The petition has been filed by Jaipur based Advocate...

Acting CJs Appointed For Bombay, Uttarakhand ,Orissa & Madras High Courts

Acting Chief Justices have been appointed for the High Courts of Bombay, Uttarakhand, Orissa and Madras as per Notifications issued by the President of India.Justice Naresh Harischandra Patil, the senior-most puisne Judge of Bombay High Court has been appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, consequent to the appointment of Justice V.K Tahilramani as the Chief Justice of...