Yogi Adityanath Govt Puts In Place New Team Of AORs For Cases In SC, Doubles The Strength

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has appointed 22 new Advocates-on-Record for representing it in various cases before the Supreme Court which is double the strength in place till now.Earlier, there were 11 advocates representing the State of Uttar Pradesh in the Supreme Court.The charge of the earlier team of AORs has been brought to an end with immediate effect.In a...

Kerala HC Rejects ‘Estranged’ Husbands’ Plea To Issue ‘Scientific Guidelines’ To Family Courts In Child-Custody Matters [Read Judgment]

Exercise of such a discretionary power by a court cannot be curtailed by issuing any guidelines, as is sought by the petitioners, the bench said.The High Court of Kerala recently rejected a plea of ‘estranged’ husbands to lay down scientific guidelines to family courts for an objective assessment of the welfare of the child, while deciding child-custody petitions.Ten husbands who are...

Advocate-On-Record Exam To Be Held From June 12 To 15 [Read Notification]

The Supreme Court of India has announced that its next examination for Advocates-on-Record [AoR Examination] will be held on June 12, 13, 14 and 15.The exam will be held on the Supreme Court premises.All advocates who will be completing one year's continuous training on or before April 30, 2018, are eligible to appear for this examination.The last date for the acceptance of the application...

Compelling Subordinate To Do ‘Unbearable’ Extra Work Would Not Amount To Abetment Of Suicide: MP HC [Read Judgment]

If higher officer compels his subordinate to do extra work, which is unbearable, then he has other several options and it cannot be said that he had no other option except to commit suicide, the court said.While discharging the principal and headmaster of a school accused of abetment of suicide of a peon belonging to Scheduled Caste community, the Madhya Pradesh High Court observed that if...

POCSO Special Courts Shall Also Ensure Identity Of Victim-Child Isn’t Disclosed During Probe: Sikkim HC [Read Judgment]

One would find on perusal of the Charge-sheet that the name of the victim, her address, and detail of school has been revealed therein flagrantly by the Investigating Agency throwing caution and the mandate of the Statute to the winds, the judge observed.While dismissing an appeal in a POCSO case, the Sikkim High Court has observed that the special court is also vested with the responsibility...

1998 Black Buck Poaching Case: Salman Khan Gets Bail After Spending Two Nights In Jail

After spending two nights in Central jail after being sentenced to five-year imprisonment in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Saturday granted bail by a Sessions court in Jodhpur.District and Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi granted bail to the 52-year-old actor on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and two sureties of Rs 25, 000 each.Salman has been directed...

Consent Divorce Decree Appealable If Consent Is Disputed And In The Absence Of Inquiry By Court: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court has held that Divorce decree by consent is also appealable if the consent is disputed and is alleged to be not free & bonafide in the absence of inquiry by court.In this case, the wife had approached the high court contending that the consent decree was obtained by fraud by getting her signatures on the petition by coercion.Referring to provisions and judgment...

As Health Ministry Let's Off IAS Officer In Multi Crore Scam At AIIMS With Mere Caution, CPIL Moves Delhi High Court Against Illegal Closer Of Cases [Read Application]

CPIL says PM, and not Health Ministry, is competent to close case against IAS officer on Central DeputationWith the Union Health Ministry closing cases against former AIIMS director MC Mishra and letting off IAS officer and former AIIMS deputy director Vineet Chawdhary in over Rs 6,000-crore corruption with mere caution, NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation has moved an application in...

21 Retail Petroleum Dealers Challenge Demand Of Personal Financial Details By Public Sector Oil Companies; Kerala HC Issues Notice [Read Petition & Order]

The Kerala High Court, on Friday, issued notice on a Petition filed by twenty-one Petroleum Outlet Dealers challenging the demand of "personal financial details" by public sector oil companies- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Hindustan Petroleum Limited.Justice Shaji P. Chaly also prohibited the Respondent Companies from initiating any coercive...

Terrorism Trials: Justice A.M.Thipsay Questions Confessions Which Are Not Trustworthy

Former Judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice Abhay M. Thipsay, on Friday questioned the reliance on confessions of the accused by the courts in terrorism cases, while delivering the Fourth Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.  Speaking on “Terrorism Trials: Reflections on Fundamental Rights and Judicial Independence”, Justice Thipsay recalled his...

Multiplexes Can’t Compel Moviegoers To Buy Food Items At Exorbitant Prices, Says Bombay HC; State To Frame Policy [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has said cinemagoers cannot be prohibited from carrying their own food articles and water bottles to multiplexes as private vendors are allowed to sell food inside at exorbitant prices.A bench of Justice SS Kemkar and MS Karnik said either there should be complete prohibition on food or if vendors are allowed to sell, then viewers should also be allowed to carry their...

Delhi Court Grants Ex-Parte Injunction On Release Of Ravi Jadhav’s Film Nude After Author Claims Substantial Adaptation [Read Order]

After being dropped from the IFFI, 2017 list, director Ravi Jadhav’s Marathi film Nude had once again landed in some trouble with a Delhi court putting an ex-parte restraint on its release or publication in any manner after a Hindi writer moved court claiming that the film is a substantial adaptation of a short story penned by her in year 2007.Additional District Judge Murari Prasad...