They Can’t Be Permitted To Be Left Unattended In The Twilight Of Their Lives: Uttarakhand HC Issues Directives For Senior Citizens’ Welfare [Read Order]

The State Government should establish/set-up the old age homes at its own level instead of relying upon NGOs or Societies, the Bench observed.The Uttarakhand High Court has issued a slew of direction for welfare and protection of rights of senior citizens in the state.A bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Lok Pal Singh issued the following directives while disposing of a PIL filed by...

Gujarat HC Rejects State's Appeal Against 3 Lakh Compensation Payment To 15 YO Rape Victim [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday rejected the State's revision application against a lower Court order directing payment of Rs. 3 lakh as compensation to a 15-year-old rape survivor from Gir Somnath district.The minor girl was reportedly raped in 2015. The perpetrator was convicted in March 2017 by a Special Court, which sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment under the Protection of...

Rising Kashmir Editor Shujaat Bukhari Shot Dead In Srinagar, The Same Day That MEA Slammed UN Report On Kashmir

The same day that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) rejected a UN Human Rights Council report on Kashmir, veteran journalist and Editor of the Rising Kashmir daily Mr. Shujaat Bukhari was shot down by suspected militants outside his office in the Press Enclave area of Residency Road in Srinagar.According to Free Press Kashmir, Mr. Bukhari received multiple bullets in the head and...

Delhi HC Tells AIIMS To Compensate Medico Aspirant Who Couldn’t Take MBBS Entrance Exam As Aadhaar QR Code Failed [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has directed AIIMS, country’s premier health institution, to compensate an aspiring medical student, who was not allowed to sit in this year’s MBBS entrance examination just because the QR Code in his Aadhar Card could not be scanned at the examination centre in Karnataka. Justice Pratibha M Singh asked AIIMS to pay Rs 50,000 to Abhimanyu Bishnoi who had moved...

Appeal Against Conviction Or Acquittal By Special Court Under TNPID Act Will Lie Only To HC, Irrespective Of Quantum Of Sentence: Madras HC [Read Order]

A Special Court constituted under the TNPID Act is not a Court of Magistrate. The Presiding Officer of the Special Court can only be a person of the cadre of a District and Sessions Judge, the bench said.Clarifying that the Special Court constituted under the Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors (in financial establishments) Act, 1997 is not a Magistrate’s court, the Madras...

Kerala HC Gives Name To 5-Yr-old Boy; Dismisses Estranged Father’s Plea To Insert His Surname [Read Judgment]

I am of the view that a simple name, without a family name appended to it, should be assigned to the child for the present, leaving it open to the child to seek a modification of his name in future and after attaining the age of majority, should he so desire, the Judge observed.The Kerala High Court has come to the rescue of yet another ‘nameless’ child.Recently, a division bench headed...

Malayalam Cine Actor Dileep Approaches Kerala HC Seeking CBI Probe Into Actress’ Sexual Assault Case

With the trial set to commence in the crime relating to abduction and assault of an actress, Malayalam cine actor Dileep, who stands arrayed as 8th accused in the crime as a conspirator, has filed a petition in the High Court of Kerala seeking an investigation by the CBI. The crime, which took place on 18.02.2017 when a gang of assailants got into the vehicle of the victim and subjected her...

State Can’t Avoid Liability To Compensate For Death Of Manual Scavengers On Work By Citing Its ‘Inability’ To Stop Manual Scavenging: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has observed that the state is under a bounden duty to prohibit manual scavenging and it cannot avoid its liability to compensate manual scavengers who lose their lives in course of manual scavenging, by reason of the inability of the State to stop manual scavenging.This observation was made by the bench headed by Chief Justice Indira Banerjee while disposing a PIL...

Kerala High Court Showers Praise On Health Workers For Effectively Containing Nipah Virus Outbreak

The Kerala High Court lauded the efforts of the State Health Department in effectively containing the Nipah Virus outbreak. The Court also appreciated the Central Government for rendering necessary assistance in the matter.The Division Bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice C.T Ravi Kumar was dealing with a public interest litigation filed by two law students seeking directions...

Domestic Violence Not Same As Group-Based Persecution: US Attorney General Refuses Asylum To Salvadoran Rape Victim [Read Order]

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday refused asylum to a woman from El Salvador who had been "physically, emotionally and sexually" by her ex-husband."Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum. While I do not decide that violence inflicted by non-governmental actors may never serve...

Courts Can Step In And Remove Errant Executor In Absence Of A Named Legatee: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that in the absence of a named legatee, courts can step in and remove an errant executor in order to protect the interests of one Bipin Gupta’s will.Justice GS Patel removed the 82-year-old Vasant Narayan Sardal as an executor of Gupta’s will and directed him to deposit all the funds belonging to Bipin Gupta’s estate before the Prothonotary of the...

Kerala: Sub-Judge Stages Unique Sit-In To Resolve Garbage Issue In Public Market

It is said that judges can act only through their judgments. However, the Sub-Judge of Ernakulam recently chose to take direct action to resolve a long-standing waste management issue in Ernakulam Public Market.Judge AM Basheer, who also happens to be the secretary to District Legal Services Authority, performed a unique sit-in protest in Ernakulam Public Market on Tuesday. The protest was...