Delhi HC Grants Parole To Ajay Chautala To Appear In PG Diploma Exam [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted parole to former MP and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Ajay Singh Chautala, who is in Tihar jail serving 10-year jail term in the Junior Basic Teachers (JBT) recruitment scam, to enable him to appear in a PG Diploma exam in Sirsa, Haryana.Justice Vinod Goel directed that Chautala be released on parole today itself to be able to appear in the...

Forgetting Something Is Not Memory Loss, Nor Alzheimer’s - Otherwise Bulk Of This Court’s Bar & Bench Would Be Said To Suffer From Alzheimer’s : Justice GS Patel

“ Alzheimer’s is not word to be bandied about like this. It is a clinical condition with a pathology. All memory loss is not indicative of Alzheimer’s. Forgetting something is not a memory loss, nor Alzheimer’s — otherwise the bulk of this Court’s bar and bench would be said to suffer from Alzheimer’s”, observed Bombay High Court Judge Justice Gautam Patel while rebuking...

Now Costs Imposed By Court Can Help Save Environment As Madras HC Orders Creation of ‘Environment Fund’ [Read Order]

In a landmark judgment, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has ordered the creation of an ‘ Environment Fund ’ which can be considered for payment of costs being imposed in various matters and the amount so collected will then be used for plantation, cleaning of water bodies etc.Justice D Krishnakumar so ordered while disposing of a matter where the parties had arrived at a...

Self-Serving Statements Claiming To Be ‘Social Workers’ Not Sufficient To Invoke PIL Jurisdiction: Madhya Pradesh HC [Read Order]

‘A practice in the cases before this Court is to make a statement that the petitioners are social workers and they are spending the money including the lawyer’s fee from their own pocket. That by itself does not satisfy the test of a locus standi to file public interest litigation.’The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that, to invoke public interest writ jurisdiction, simple...

Complete Autistic Child's Passport Procedure & Interview At His Home: Bombay HC To Authorities [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court recently permitted a US national to adopt a 12-year-old autistic boy and directed the passport office to complete the travel document formalities at his residence, noting that he may have difficulty in travelling and waiting for the same at the Passport Office.The Court was hearing a foreign adoption petition filed by a 59 year old American national, Debbie Jean Childs,...

DV Act- An Order Vacating Ex-parte Residence Order Can Be Enforced Against 'Aggrieved Person': Kerala HC [Read Order]

The magistrate passing the ex parte residence orders under section 19 of the Domestic Violence Act is equally competent under section 23 (1) of the Act to enforce its order vacating the ex parte order and necessary directions can be issued to the jurisdictional SHO to enforce its order.The Kerala High Court, in Ansari v Shiji, has held that when ex parte residence order is vacated, the...

Attachment Before Judgment: Kerala HC Clarifies That Order On Claim Petition Is Appealable As Decree [Read Order]

The High Court of Kerala has clarified that an order adjudicating a claim over a property under attachment before judgment is appealable as if it was a decree. The clarification was made by a division bench comprising Justice V Chitambaresh and Justice Narayana Pisharadi, answering a reference whether such an order could be challenged in an original petition under Article 227 of...

Co-Operative Society Is Not An ‘Industry’ Within The Meaning Of Industrial Disputes Act: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that a co-operative housing society cannot be said to be an ‘industry’ within the meaning of Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act.Justice SC Gupte was hearing a writ petition filed by Arihant Siddhi Co-op Housing Society challenging an award passed by the Labour Court, Mumbai, wherein the Society’s erstwhile watchman was reinstated with full back...

It Is A Human Right Of Person Accused Of Sexual Harassment To Get Info To Defend Himself, Says CIC; Penalises “Penny-wise” CPIO [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has held that it is the human right of a person accused of sexual harassment in his capacity as a citizen and accused under the RTI Act and under the principles of criminal justice, to get all the related information to defend himself in a penal proceedings while imposing a penalty of Rs 25,000 on a Public Information Officer for denying the information...

Office Of Public Prosecutor Can’t File Private ‘Defamation’ Complaints When Alleged Statements Don’t Have Direct Bearing On Public Functions: Madras HC [Read Order]

‘The Public Prosecutor cannot institute a private complaint taking cudgels on behalf of the person defamed.’Quashing criminal proceedings against a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) member who allegedly made defamatory statements against former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the late J Jayalalithaa, the Madras High Court observed that for the statements which do not in any way pertain to...

CIC Comes to Rescue of PM Modi’s ‘Chaachi’ Who Seeks Revision Of Rent For Govt Dispensary Running On Her Building [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has pulled up the Labour Ministry for behaving as a cantankerous tenant to a 90-year-old landlady who claims to be the aunt of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and had been requesting revision of rent for a Beedi Workers Welfare Fund (BWWF) dispensary being run on her premises in Vadnagar in Gujarat's Mehsana district.“How can state behave like...

Reunite Migrant Families Within 30 days: US District Court Stays Trump’s Family Separation Policy [Read Order]

Judge Dana M. Sabraw of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on Tuesday granted an injunction on the lawsuit filed by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against family separation of migrants. The Judge further directed the authorities to reunite families with their minor children under the age of five within 14 days, and with those over the age of...