Nobody Will Trust Upon The Judicial System, If Appointments Are Denied Casually: Rajasthan HC Quashes Order That Disqualified Job Appointment Of SC Aspirant [Read Judgment]

It is beyond imagination that employer will treat the offence under Section 323 and 324 IPC at par with the other heinous offence, the bench observed.The Rajasthan High Court has directed to appoint Akashdeep Morya to the post of Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate quashing the order disqualifying him for the post citing four criminal cases registered against him in the past, though he...

Delhi Court Allows Service Of Summons Through WhatsApp, SMS, E-Mail In Domestic Violence Case [Read Order]

A Delhi court has allowed a woman complainant  to serve the summons in a Domestic Violence Case to her estranged husband who is in Australia through WhatsApp, text message and e-mail considering the time consumed in ordinary service and the fact that two attempts to serve summons on him in the past had failed.Metropolitan Magistrate (Mahila Court) Surbhi Sharma Vats allowed the...

INX Media Case: Karti Chidambaram Granted Bail By Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media case registered against him by the CBI while holding that there was no possibility of him fleeing from justice as he has roots in the society, his parents are senior lawyers and he has a family to take care of while also noting that the CBI had not recovered any incriminating material from his possession during...

National Herald Case: Delhi HC Directs Young Indian To Deposit Rs. 10 Crore [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has directed Young Indian Pvt. Ltd., in which Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi are major stakeholders, to deposit Rs. 10 crore out of the total of Rs. 249.15 crore income tax demand from it.The Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice A.K. Chawla allowed the company to deposit half the amount with the I-T department before March...

Petition Filed In Uttarakhand HC Challenging Minimum Eligibility Criteria For CLAT, 2018 For LLM; Notice Issued

The Uttarakhand High Court, on Wednesday, issued a notice to the Vice-Chancellor of National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi on a Petition challenging the minimum eligibility criteria laid down in order to appear for Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), 2018 for LLM.The notice was issued by Justice Sudhanshu Dulia, on a petition filed by two law graduates Mr Deepak Rawat and Mr....

Interpretation Of Will: Subsequent Clause Taking Away A Bequest Invalid If There Is Absolute Bequest By Previous Clause: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

A clause in a Will absolutely bequeathed property to a person. However, a subsequent clause in the very same Will stated that he will be divested of the property if he died without children and that the property so bequeathed to him will revert to another person.  How to give effect to these clauses of a Will?A Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala was confronted with this intricate...

BJP MLAs Plea For Removal Of Disqualified AAP Minister: Delhi HC Seeks Response From Centre, Assembly Speaker, Gahlot

The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought to know the stand of the Centre, the Delhi Assembly Speaker and also AAP legislator Kailash Gahlot on a petition moved by the three BJP MLAs praying that Gahlot be removed from the post of transport minister and restrained from attending the ongoing Assembly session owing to his disqualification for holding ‘office of profit’.Gahlot is AAP MLA...

Bombay HC Allows Habeas Corpus Petition Filed By Wrongfully Detained Man’s Wife, Orders His Release [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered the release of an illegally detained man and allowed the petition filed by his wife.A division bench of Justice SC Dharmadhikari and Justice PD Naik was hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by the detainee’s wife.Advocate Rizwan Merchant appeared for the petitioner and argued that the police did not comply with Section 41 A of the CrPC...

IRDAI Directs Insurance Companies To Stop Excluding Genetic Disorders In New Health Insurance Policies; Cites Delhi HC Judgment [Read Notification]

The Insurance Regulatory and Developing Authority of India (IRDAI) has directed all insurance companies to remove "Genetic Disorders" from the list of exclusions in new health insurance policies issued by them.In a notification issued on 19 March, the IRDAI has also asserted that no claim in respect of any existing health insurance policy shall be rejected based on exclusions related to...

Punjab & Haryana HC Allows HIV Positive Woman To Terminate 18-Week Pregnancy [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Wednesday, permitted an HIV positive woman to terminate her 18-week-long pregnancy.Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain noted that the Petitioner had already been deserted by her husband due to her mental condition. He then ordered her to appear before the Principal of Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital, Patiala on 22 March, directing the latter...

1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Delhi HC Receives Letter With CD Claiming To Be Confession Of Accused, Issues Notice To Sajjan Kumar

The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it has received a letter petition containing a CD which is claimed to be a confession by an accused person in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots cases.A special bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra informed the parties concerned that it has received a letter containing a CD and issued notice to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar asking him...

Payment Of Gratuity Act Amended To Remove Ceiling Of Rs. 10 L [Read The Bill]

With the Rajya Sabha passing the Payment of Gratuity(Amendment) Bill, the amendments to Payment of Gratuity Act have materialized into legislative form. The Amendment Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha last week on March 15.The amendment has taken away the ceiling limit of Rs.10 lakh for the maximum amount of gratuity payable. This upper cap prescribed by Section 4(3) has been removed....