Medical College Bribery Case: Bhushan Writes Letter To CJI Seeking Other SC Judges’ Permission For FIR Against Justice Narayan Shukla

Prashant Bhushan has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra seeking permission, though of other judges of the Supreme Court, for registration of FIR to investigate the allegations of corruption against Justice Narayan Shukla, a sitting judge of Allahabad High Court, in connection with Prasad Medical College case.Bhushan’s letter dated August 6 is addressed to the CJI but...

Kerala HC Dismisses Plea Against Sacramental Confession Before Church [Read Judgment]

A division bench of the High Court of Kerala has dismissed a petition seeking to declare the practice of ‘Sacramental Confession’ to be unconstitutional.Through a public interest litigation, the petitioner, who professes Christianity, contended that by virtue of his religious practice, he had to undergo ‘Sacramental Confession’ before a priest. Such a practice, it was stated,...

SC Invites Application For Senior Advocate Designation Latest By Aug 21

Having notified the guidelines to regulate Senior Advocate designation, the Supreme Court has started inviting the applications from lawyers and retired high court judges and the last day for submitting an application has been fixed as 21st August 2018.Applications in the prescribed format i.e. Annexures- 'A' and 'J' addressed to Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, may be submitted in the...

If State Does Not Protect Tigers, We Might Be Forced To Ask The Army To Protect Them: Uttarakhand HC [Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court recently warned that it might request the Ministry of Defence to deploy the Eco-Task Force for protecting tigers if the State Government does not provide a categorical assurance for deployment of the Special Tiger Protection Force.During a recent hearing, the Bench comprising Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Lok Pal Singh was informed that while a...

Article 35A: CJI Refuses To Get Into Issues Of Shutdown And Lawyers Strike In Kashmir

While deferring hearing of a batch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of Article 35A to week commencing August 27, Chief Justice Dipak Misra -led bench refused to get into the issue of shutdown and lawyers strike in the Kashmir valley ahead of today's hearing.The article allows Jammu & Kasmir government to identify "permanent residents" of the state and provide them...

Delist Counterfeit Goods Sellers & Share Their Details: Delhi HC Directs Amazon [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has directed online shopping giant Amazon to delist sellers selling counterfeit products of lifestyle brand Beverly Hills Polo Club on its platform.Noting that the balance of convenience rested in the plaintiff’s favour, Justice Jayant Nath directed, “Plaintiff has made out a prima facie case. Balance of convenience is in favour of the plaintiff. The defendant...

Delhi HC Disapproves Practice Of Recording POCSO Victim Statements Through NGO/Counsellors; Statements To Be Recorded By Police/Magistrate Only [Read Judgment]

‘Counselling report/notes of the counsellor (as well as any person or expert recognized under the POCSO Act and Rules of 2012 and the JJ Act) are confidential in nature and the same cannot be made a part of the chargesheet’The Delhi High Court, disapproving the prevalent practice by the Delhi Police of getting the statement or version of a victim of sexual offence recorded through an NGO or...

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...