SC Slaps Cost Of Rs 75L On Litigant For Re-filing Delay Of Over 1,000 Days In An Arbitration Matter Before Madras HC [Read Order]

In an arbitration matter pending before the Madras High Court, the Supreme Court imposed a cost of Rs. 75 lakh on a litigant whose application for condonation of representation delay of more than thousand days was allowed by the division bench.R Krishnamurthy had preferred applications under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, to set aside an arbitration award, with...

Ryan Student’s Death By Drowning: Delhi Court Says Manager, Teacher, Others To Be Tried For Culpable Homicide Not Amounting To Murder [Read Order]

Over two and half years after a six-year-old student named Devansh drowned in a water tank in Ryan International School in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj, a Delhi court has held that case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder is made out against the accused—Francis Thomas, Ryan International Group’s northern India region head, principal Sandhya Sabu, teacher Meenakshi Kapoor,...

NCLT Bench Constituted At Kochi

A bench of National Company Law Tribunal has been constituted at Kochi, as per a central government notification. The notification issued by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in exercise of powers conferred under Section 419(1) of the Companies Act 2013, amended an earlier notification dated 01.06.2016, and set up Kochi bench for the State of Kerala and Union territory of...

Death for Child Rape : Lok Sabha Passes Criminal Law Amendment Bill [Read Bill]

On Monday, July 30, the Lok Sabha passed Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill making rape of girl below the age of twelve years an offence punishable with death. The Bill seeks to amend provisions of Indian Penal Code(IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure, Evidence Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). It replaced the Ordinance promulgated by the Central Government during April...

Absurd Rule On Keeping Drugs Without Medical Prescription Will Create Injustice To Social Fabric Of Punjab & Haryana: HC [Read Judgment]

HC says amendment be made to curb the easy supply of drugs under garb of sub Rule 2 of Rule 66 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances RulesCalling sub Rule 2 of Rule 66 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1985 “absurd” for letting a person possess 100 units of psychotropic substance at a time for medicinal use, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has...

Vashu Bhagnani’s Production House Moves SC, Seeks Stay On Aishwarya-Starrer ‘Fanney Khan’

Just three days before the release of much-awaited Bollywood film Fanney Khan starring Anil Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai, producer Vashu Bhagnani’s Pooja Entertainment and Films Ltd has moved the Supreme Court saying he has been cheated in respect of film’s distribution rights which were surreptitiously given to Super Cassettes (T- Series) and that the film’s release be stayed pending...

Bombay HC Quashes Order Sentencing Accused To 20 Yrs For Raping Minor Girl As Accused Was Juvenile At The Time Of Incident [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently quashed and set aside a judgment and order of a Special POCSO Judge convicting a man accused of raping a minor girl suffering from mental retardation. The court reasoned that the accused, who is 22 years old now, was a juvenile at the time of the incident.Justice AM Badar was hearing an appeal filed by the accused against his conviction under Sections 376(2)(g),...

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...