Not For The Court To Ban Organisations: Madras HC Rejects Plea To Ban Popular Front Of India [Read Order]

The Madras High Court recently dismissed a Public Interesting Litigation seeking ban on Popular Front of India observing that it cannot decide which organisations should be banned and which organisations might continue.Petitioner K Gopinath had sent representations to Centre and State Government seeking ban of Popular Front of India, which according to the petitioner, is an extremist and...

EC Has No Power To Recover Costs For Conducting Elections From Candidates Responsible For Cancellation Of Elections: Madras HC [Read Order]

May be the Election Commission with its wide powers to ensure free and fair elections might make a recommendation for suitable enactment and/or amendment of law, the bench said.The Madras High Court recently observed that Election Commission has no power to recover costs of preparations for conducting elections from contesting candidates responsible for the cancellation of elections.A...

Here Is Karnataka HC's New Procedure For Getting Designated As A Senior Advocate [Read Notification]

The Karnataka High Court on 8 June notified The High Court of Karnataka (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2018 in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in October last year on Senior Advocate Indira Jaising's petition.The new Rules allow lawyers who appear in courts subordinate to the Karnataka High Court to apply for the designation as well. Further, they...

U’khand HC Directs Govt To Use Drones, CCTVs To Check Poaching, Mining In Corbett, Rajaji National Parks [Read Judgment]

Court slaps Rs. 5L cost on illegal occupant of govt accommodation in Tiger Reserve for coming to court in garb of PIL As poaching, illegal mining and unauthorized occupants in the Tiger Reserve Area in Uttarakhand continue to take toll on wildlife with eight tigers dying in the state this year, the Uttarakhand High Court has directed the state to deploy drones and CCTV cameras in order to...

Defence Of An Accused Cannot Become The Subject Matter Of Another Criminal Complaint Against The Prosecution: T&AP High Court [Read Order]

‘The object of the petitioner filing a criminal complaint appears to be to first put to test the evidence so far collected by the Police Officers, before they can be used in the criminal complaints against him. The decision in Lalita Kumari did not license such a practice.’The High Court at Hyderabad for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, while dismissing a lawyer’s plea...

Chhattisgarh HC Gets 4 Additional Judges [Read Notification]

Through a notification issued on Friday, the Central Government has notified appointment of four Additional Judges to the Chhattisgarh High Court. The four Judges are: Justice Parth Prateem Sahu Justice Gautam Chourdiya Justice Vimla Singh Kapoor Justice Rajani DubeyRead the Notification...

Delhi HC Dismisses Petition To Conduct DU LLB Entrance Exam In Hindi [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently dismissed a Petition seeking a direction to the Delhi University (DU) to conduct the entrance exam for its LLB course in Hindi.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar was hearing a Petition filed by one Mr. Ayush Tiwari.The Court took note of a decision rendered by a Single Judge of the Court in 2014 relying on the...

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...