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....

‘The Country Is Mounting With Self-Proclaimed Godmen’: Madras HC Restrains ‘Godman’ Nithyananda From Entering Madurai Adheenam Mutt [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has restrained controversial godman Nithyananda from entering Madurai Adheenam Mutt on a plea by one of the devotee of the Mutt.M Jagathalapradapan, the follower and worshipper of 292nd Madathipathi of the mutt, had approached the high court seeking action against Nithyananda who is trying to trespass into the Adheenam Mutt, attempting to swindle the funds of the mutt and...

First Lawsuit Against Facebook & Cambridge Analytica

A class-action complaint has been filed by Lauren Price, a resident of Maryland, before the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California seeking unspecified damages for Facebook’s failure to protect data of its users and the exploitation of the data by Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 US election campaign. The complaint alleges violation of California unfair competition law.It is only...

Cabinet Okays Moving Amendments to Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for moving official amendments to the ‘Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016’.The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 proposes to regulate surrogacy in India by establishing National Surrogacy Board at the Central level and State Surrogacy Boards and Appropriate Authorities in the States and Union...

Messages For Linking Aadhaar With Mobile Numbers Should Not Contain Last Date In View Of SC Order: Department Of Telecommunications

The Ministry of Communications, Department of Telecommunications has directed all licensees to make sure that no communications, voice messages and SMSs sent by them to their mobile subscribers for re-verification of mobile connections through Aadhaar based KYC process should contain the last date for such re-verification.In a notification issued on Wednesday, it extended the time limit of...

11 Cow Vigilantes Get Life Term In Alimuddin Lynching Case

A fast track court on Wednesday sentenced 11 cow vigilantes to life imprisonment in a case related to mob lynching of Alimuddin for carrying of cow meat in Ramgarh district.The convicted persons are Deepak Mishra, Chhotu Verma, Santosh Singh, Nityanand Mahto, Vicky Sao, Sikandar Ram, Kapil Thakur, Rohit Thakur, Raju Kumar, Vikram Prasad and Uttam Ram. They were convicted under section 147,...

NALSAR, NLUD, RGNUL, NLUO Among 60 Higher Education Institutions Granted Autonomy by UGC

In a historic decision, the University Grants Commission has granted autonomy to 60 higher educational institutions which have maintained high academic standards. This was announced by Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar at a media briefing in New Delhi on Tuesday.Javadekar said the government is striving to introduce a liberalized regime in the education sector and...