CBSE Paper Leak: Why Restrict Maths Retest Only To Delhi-NCR, Ask Two Class X Students In Petition Before SC [Read Petition]

Two Class X students, who took the “leaked” Math examination on March 28, have now moved the Supreme Court challenging the CBSE’s decision to conduct Maths re-test only on the basis of initial inquiries and to restrict the same to Delhi-NCR and Haryana.Petitioners Anasuya Thomas and Gayatri Thomas, aged 15, are students of an East-Delhi school and have, in their petition, also...

File Info On Release Of Minor Victims Of Crime Housed In Shelter Homes After Attaining Majority: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the State to provide information on minor victims of any crime who were lodged in Women Protection Homes across the State and have since attained the age of majority.The Bench comprising Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh further demanded to be informed about any policy in place for release of such victims from...

Delhi HC Issues Guidelines On Bail To Undertrials By Lower Courts [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has laid down guidelines on grant of bail to undertrials, on a Petition alleging that several under-trial prisoners are languishing in jail despite bail orders having been passed in their favour.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar issued the order on a Petition filed by Advocate Ajay Verma, who has attributed the non-release...

Can Irregularities In Church Land Deal Result In Criminal Proceedings Against Bishop: Kerala HC To Decide After SC Declines Interference

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala will be having anxious days after the Holy Week, as the Kerala High Court division bench is set to consider on April 3 the legality of registration of FIR against the Cardinal and two other priests for alleged irregularities in a land deal. It was on March 6 that a single judge of the high court ordered the registration of FIR against Mar...

Allahabad HC Directs UPPSC To Re-Evaluate PCS Prelims Answer Sheets [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) to re-evaluate answer-sheets of the PCS preliminary examination that was held in September last year.The Bench comprising Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Saral Srivastava, however, did not find it necessary to direct a re-examination.The Court was hearing a batch of eleven Petitions alleging...

Default Companies : Condonation of Delay Scheme Extended Till 30th April

The Condonation of Delay Scheme 2018 has been extended by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, up to 30th April.The circular issued by the Ministry, reads as follows: “In continuation to the Ministry's General Circular No. 16/2017, dated 29/12/2017 on the subject cited above, this Ministry has, on consideration of requests received from various stakeholders, has decided to extend the...

Central Information Commission Issues Notice To Its Own CPIO For Failure To Furnish Information [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) last week issued notice to its own CPIO for his failure to provide information on a Right to Information application.The interim order was passed by Information Commissioner Divya Prakash Sinha on a complaint filed by Mr. R.K. Jain who had sought copies of the dak inward/ outward register, communications received from High Courts and the Supreme Court...

Deadline For Mandatory Aadhaar Enrolment To Avail Of ‘Subsidies, Benefits and Services’ Extended To June 30

The Centre on Wednesday extended the March 31 deadline for mandatory Aadhaar enrolment for entitlement to ‘Subsidies, Benefits and Services’ under Section 7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Deliveries of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act of 2016, to June 30.The Ministry of Electronics and IT, in its latest Office Memorandum on the subject, has stipulated that the...

IBBI Invites Comments On Draft IBBI Regulations, 2018

The IBBI has invited comments from the public, including the stakeholders, on the draft Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Mechanism for Issuing Regulations), Regulations, 2018.Section 240 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 empowers the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) to make regulations subject to the conditions that the regulations: carry out the provisions...

CAT’s Relief To IFS Officer Devyani Khobragade: Penalty Over, To Be Considered For Promotion [Read Order]

In a major relief to IFS officer Devyani Khobragade who once hit the headlines when she was arrested by US agencies for underpaying her domestic help and then subjected to a strip-search, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the Ministry of External Affairs to treat her punishment of lowering of grade having come to an end in 2016 and also promote her to the grade of...

Dying Declaration Can’t Be Rejected Merely Because It Wasn’t Read Over To Declarant: Bombay HC (FB) [Read Judgment]

A full bench of the Bombay High Court has held that a dying declaration cannot be rejected merely because it was not read over to the declarant.The three-judge bench of Justice RK Deshpande, Justice SB Shukre and Justice MG Giratkar of the Nagpur bench held the same after a division bench of the high court had framed a question for reference to a larger bench, the question was: “Whether a...

Karnataka HC Drops Inquiry Against District Judge After Justice Chelameswar's Intervention

The Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari has reportedly dropped an inquiry initiated against a senior District and Sessions Court Judge, after Justice J. Chelameswar wrote a scathing letter to Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra last week, challenging the propriety of the inquiry which was initiated at the behest of the Centre.According to a report by The Print,...