Wife Entitled To Know Husband’s Salary, Says Madhya Pradesh HC Upholding CIC Order [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, while upholding an order of Central Information Commission (CIC), has observed that a wife is entitled to know what remuneration her husband is getting.In this case, the wife had filed a petition seeking maintenance from her husband in which she alleged that, as a very high officer in the Telecommunication Department (BSNL), her husband is drawing salary more...

Parties Summoned By CCI DG Have Right To Be Accompanied By Advocates But Can’t Consult Them While DG Collects Evidence: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The DG shall ensure that the counsel does not sit in front of the witness; but is some distance away and the witness should be not able to confer, or consult her or him, the bench said.Though upholding the right of parties summoned by the Director-General (DG) for investigation under the Competition Act to be accompanied by advocates, the Delhi High Court has directed the DG to ensure that...

MP HC Directs State To Compensate ‘Victims Of Malicious Implication’ For Making Them Spend More Than A Decade In Jail [Read Judgment]

It is unfortunate, that there is no provision under the Law to compensate the victim of false/malicious implication, after his acquittal in the Trial or in an appeal, the bench observed.While acquitting two persons, who spent more than a decade in jail, during the pendency of trial and appeal proceedings, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the state to pay compensation of Rs. 3 lakh...

Not Mandatory To Call Two ‘Respectable’ Persons For A Raid Under Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act: Rajasthan HC [Read Order]

It is to be determined by the courts whether it was efficacious for the officers to call two persons from the locality or due to urgency or emergency, the said provision could not be complied with, the court said.Mere violation of Section 15(2) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act will not vitiate the search proceedings, the Rajasthan High Court has held.Section 15(2) of the Act...

CBI Probe Can Be Ordered Even If There Is No Inter-State Or International Ramifications: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

The decision for C.B.I. investigation has to be taken depending on the attending facts and circumstances and also to eliminate the element of any bias or influence, the bench said.The Allahabad High Court, while allowing a plea of the wife of a slain police officer to transfer the investigation into his death to the Central Bureau of Investigation, observed that the CBI can be...

Delhi HC ACJ Puts Riders On Pulling Down Of Orders/Judgments From Distt Court Website

The Delhi High Court Acting Chief Justice has issued instructions to all subordinate judicial officers against pulling down or deleting orders/judgments once uploaded on the website of Delhi District Courts.Sources in the court said any order or judgment once uploaded on the website cannot be pulled down or deleted now without a judicial order being passed by the judicial...

Place Proposed Amendments To RTI Act In Public Domain For Scrutiny: National Campaign For Peoples' Right To Information To PM Modi

The National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing anguish and concern regarding "regressive" amendments being proposed to the Right to Information Act, 2005.Relying on media reports, the letter states that even though a bill to amend the Act has been drafted, it has not been made public yet. This, it asserts,...

PIL For Lowering Legal Age Of Drinking In Delhi In Consonance With Other Laws; Delhi HC Issues Notice

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Delhi government on a Public Interest Litigation seeking lowering of the legal age of drinking in Delhi from the present 25 years to bring it at par with other states where the legal age of drinking is anywhere from 18 to 21 years.The PIL moved by advocate Kush Kalra prays for “quashing of section 23 of Delhi Excise Act, 2009...

Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection Of Children) Model Rules, 2016 Can Be Applied Irrespective Of Date Of Incident: Rajasthan HC [Read Judgment]

The Rajasthan High Court recently held that Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection Of Children) Model Rules, 2016 can be utilized to determine the age of a child irrespective of the date of occurrence of the offence."...the Model Rules of 2016 which have come into force from 21.9.2016 shall be applicable while determining the age of juvenile irrespective of the date of occurrence of...

Anti-Sterlite Protests: Delhi HC Asks Lawyer Seeking Independent Probe Into “Unlawful Killings” To Approach NHRC

The Delhi High Court on Friday left it on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to decide the representation of a lawyer seeking an independent probe into the killing of people in police firing during a protest against Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper unit in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.Justice Rajiv Shakdher noted that since the NHRC is already seized of the matter and has already sought a...

Nipah Virus Outbreak: Law Students’ Plea In Kerala HC To Remove Misleading Videos From FB, YouTube [Read Petition]

A  Public Interest Litigation has been filed by two law students in the High Court of Kerala seeking the removal and blocking of videos from Facebook and YouTube, which are allegedly spreading misinformation about Nipah virus.   Kozhikode district of Kerala is in a state of medical emergency with the detection of Nipah virus last week. The infection caused by this virus has reportedly...

Karnataka HC Convicts Man For Contempt For Filing Criminal Complaint Against SC Judges Who Passed Cauvery Verdict [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday convicted a man for contempt for filing criminal complaint against former CJI and two judges of the Supreme Court alleging that they passed an ‘illegal’ order in Cauvery issue.Apparently ‘aggrieved’ by the Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery issue, MD Rajanna, a resident of Mandya district, filed a complaint before a local magistrate court.The first...