SC Lawyers Seek Extra-Ordinary Meeting Of SCBA To Protest Against Exclusion Of Justice KM Joseph

An extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has been sought for to pass a resolution against the Centre’s exclusion of Justice KM Joseph from elevation to the Supreme Court, ignoring the recommendations of the SC collegium.The proposed resolution expressed deep anguish at the non-inclusion of Justice KM Joseph and condemned the “selective approach of the...

Govt Can’t Reduce Payscale Of Employee Upon Downgrading Of Co-Operative Society Classification: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

“It is open for the Government fix the pay and allowances. But it cannot reduce such pay and allowances merely referring to the financial position of the society”. The Kerala High Court has held that the government cannot reduce the pay scale of an employee upon re-classification of co-operative society resulting in its downgrading. The court was dealing with a batch of writ petitions...

Erroneous Decision That Didn’t Give Effect To Statutory Prohibition Will Not Operate As Res Judicata: SC [Read Judgment]

The public policy contained in other statutory prohibitions, which need not necessarily go to jurisdiction of a court, must equally be given effect to, as otherwise special principles of law are fastened upon parties when special considerations relating to public policy mandate that this cannot be done, the court said.In Canara Bank vs NG Subbaraya Setty, the Supreme Court has observed that...

Mere Abduction Of Woman Doesn’t Attract Offence Under Section 366 IPC: SC [Read Judgment]

It must further be proved that the accused abducted the woman with the intent that she may be compelled, or knowing it to be likely that she will be compelled to marry any person or in order that she may be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse or knowing it to be likely that she will be forced or seduced to illicit intercourse, the Court said.The Supreme Court has reiterated that...

India Against Corruption Campaign: Delhi Court Discharges Arvind Kejriwal And 9 Others For Demonstrations Outside PM's House [Read Order]

A Delhi Court on Wednesday discharged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and nine others from allegations of unlawful assembly and other offences during their protests in 2012. The others discharged in the case are Banwari Lal Sharma, Dalbir Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Mohan Singh, Balbir Singh, Jagmohan Gupta, Azad Kasana, Harish Singh Rawat and Anand Singh Bisht.The case concerns a demonstration...

10 Get Life Term For Lynching Man In Jharkhand

A Trial Court in Tenughat has sentenced 10 persons to life imprisonment in a case of mob lynching in Bokaro district of Jharkhand in 2017.A mob had accused victim Samsuddin Ansari of being a child lifter and had beaten him up brutally in Narra village under Chandrapura Thermal Power Station police station on April 4.  The victim had died during the course of treatment at Rajendra Institute...

Submission Of Nomination Papers Through WhatsApp? Yes, Calcutta HC Asks State EC To Accept It In WB Panchayat Polls [Read Order]

In an unprecedented move, the Calcutta High Court has asked the State Election Commission to treat as valid the nomination papers of nine candidates from Bhangore who had sent the same to the Block Development Officer via WhatsApp.Justice Subrata Talukdar, before passing the order, took note of the document dated 23rd April, 2018, from the Commissioner addressed to the District Magistrate...

Disclosure Of ‘Operation Blue Star’ Records Not Prudent At A Time When The Nation Is Rife With Instances Of Invariable Intolerance Amongst Communities: CIC [Read Order]

The subject matter of the information sought pertains to an Operation of Indian Army which purportedly led to such communal paraphernalia that later assumed cataclysmic proportions, stretching beyond the time period of its being, the CIC observedThe Central Information Commission recently upheld rejection of RTI plea seeking information all files and records pertaining to operation...

RTI Query Seeking Date Of Deposit Of Rs. 15L In Citizens’ Accounts, Not ‘Information’, PMO Tells CIC [Read Order]

When will Rs. 15 Lakhs be deposited in the account of each citizen as promised by PM Narendra Modi, was one of the query by Mohan Kumar Sharma in an RTI application preferred before Prime Minister’s Office.He also sought to know how print media houses came to know before the announcement of PM Narendra Modi about demonetization. Queries with regard to educational qualification, previous...

A Day Before SC Website Was Hacked, Delhi HC Lauded Authorities For Being "Extremely Vigilant" With Court Website Functioning [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently opined that the authorities were being "extremely vigilant" when it came to addressing the issues with lower court websites while disposing of a petition pointing out several inadequacies of these sites.Interestingly, the observations were made by a Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar a day before the Supreme Court...

Concerned Over Rise In Child Abuse And Violence, Delhi HC ACJ Gita Mittal Endeavors To Make School Students Aware Of Law And Legal System

Concerned over increasing number of cases of sexual violence and child sexual abuse, Delhi High Court Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal has now taken it upon herself to spread awareness among school students in the age group of 14 to 18 years about the forms of sexual violence, remedial measures available and enable them to understand the functioning of police stations, hospitals, courts and...

Litigant Has To Suffer For Incorrect Advice By His Lawyer, No Leniency Can Be Shown To Him: Madhya Pradesh HC [Read Judgment]

A litigant cannot plead that since, his lawyer had not given correct legal advice to him, therefore, he should not suffer, the Court said. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that a litigant cannot plead that since his lawyer had not given correct legal advice to him, he should not be made to suffer with adverse orders.Before the high court, in an appeal proceeding against a trial...