Industries Producing Absolute Alcohol To Remain Shut Until Licenses Are Procured, Directs NGT [Read Order]

Industries manufacturing absolute alcohol or ethanol without necessary licenses from the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) shall remain shut, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed.Maintaining its earlier order of August 30, 2017, the tribunal has held that PESO has to ensure that no industry producing absolute alcohol or ethanol operates without such...

Police Can’t Drag Accused Out Of Court Hall, Thereby Disrupting Court Proceedings: Madras HC Pulls Up Cop [Read Order]

‘May be, as contended by the contemnor respondents, the accused Don Santhosh was wanted in several criminal cases including murder cases. The police personnel, however, cannot drag any accused out of the Court hall, disrupting Court proceeding.’The Madras High Court recently imposed fine on a police officer for dragging an accused who had surrendered before the Magistrate’s Court from...

Advocate Alleges CM Devendra Fadnavis Suppressed Facts In Nomination Papers, Sessions Court Issues Notice To CM

A Sessions court in Nagpur has issued notice to Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis in a revision application filed by advocate Satish Uke who has alleged that Fadnavis suppressed certain facts about pending criminal cases against him while filing his nomination papers for the 2009 Assembly elections.Satish Uke had earlier filed a criminal application before the Additional...

Movie Goers Can Carry Food & Water Inside Multiplexes/Cinema Theatres: Jammu & Kashmir HC [Read Judgment]

‘Such kind of acts on the part of Multiplex/Cinema Hall owners are against the right to choice of food, including the right not to eat junk food and right to good health, which comes under the purview of Article 21 of the Constitution of India guaranteeing protection of life and personal liberty of every citizen.’There is happy news for movie goers in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.The...

Advocate Seeks Quashing Of Law Distinguishing B/w Candidates In Poll Expenses, Delhi HC Issues Notice To Centre, ECI

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission of India on a PIL pleading that Section 77 of the Representation of People Act, 1951, be struck down as it distinguishes arbitrarily between a person contesting from a political party and an Independent when it comes to expenditure on campaigning.The court has sought responses on the PIL filed by advocate Amit...

Tripura HC Tells Govt To Destroy Cannabis Crop In 6 Months, Prevent Further Cultivation [Read Judgment]

‘No leniency should be shown to those who are found to be involved in the illicit trade of narcotic drugs and phychotropic substances, as it may completely ruin the life of a large body of persons.’Taking note of the gravity and precarious situation of illegal drug trafficking in the state, the Tripura High Court has directed the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police in the state...

Seldom It Occurs: Patna HC Recalls Its Judgment In Criminal Appeal

‘Section 482 of the CrPC prescribes and properly identifies the power of the High Court under its inherent jurisdiction and further having been boundless limit.’Can a high court, dealing with criminal appellate jurisdiction, recall a judgment after it is pronounced? Does Section 482 CrPC empower it to do so when Section 362 puts an embargo to call, recall or review any judgment or...

Transfer Of College Not A Matter Of Right, Students Can’t Be Foisting Their Choice On Authorities: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has refused relief to a medical student who filed a petition seeking writ of mandamus to the State of Maharashtra allowing the petitioner to be transferred to a medical college of his choice in Mumbai and not the one he had already been allotted in Mumbai.A division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari and Bharati Dangre was hearing the writ petition and held that...

Poorest Of Poor Cannot Go To Private Hospitals: Uttarakhand HC Issues Directions For Improving Functioning Of Government Medial College & Associate Hospitals [Read Judgment]

The Uttarakhand High Court recently issued a slew of directions for improving the functioning of Government Medical College, Haldwani and its associate hospitals.The bench comprising Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Lok Pal Singh asserted, “Every citizen has a fundamental right to health. The State has the obligation to provide best medical services to its citizens. The poorest of poor...

Delhi HC Grants Interim Protection To Chidambaram In INX Media Money Laundering Case

Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram was on Wednesday granted interim protection by the Delhi High Court from arrest in the INX media money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. Justice A K Pathak granted Chidambaram protection from arrest till August 1. He has asked the Congress leader to cooperate with the probe and not to leave the country without...

Proposed RTI Amendments Weaken The Act: Read Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu's Letter To CICs

After months of protests led by several RTI activists against the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2018, a voice of dissent has now risen from within the Central Information Commission against the proposed changes to the Right to Information Act, 2005.With Chief Information Commissioner R.K. Mathur on leave, Information Commissioner Prof. Mr. Sridhar Acharyulu has written to...

Though Adult Son Cannot Claim Maintenance, Parents Have To Maintain Their Adult Child Till He Gets Employed: Uttarakhand HC [Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court recently increased the amount of maintenance awarded to a woman, noting that she had to take care of her major son as well since he was unemployed.Justice Lok Pal Sigh observed, "Though an adult son cannot claim maintenance from his parents as a matter of right, but in the Indian culture we cannot forget the fact that the parents have to maintain their adult child...