SC Issues Notice To UP Police On Ex-Minister Gayatri Prajapati's Plea For Regular Bail In Rape Case

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice AK Sikri has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh police on a petition filed by Ex- minister Gayatri Prajapati seeking regular bail in a rape case.Prajapati, who was a minister during Akhilesh Yadav has challenged the Allahabad High Court’s December 14, 2017 order denying him the regular bail.Prajapati’s counsel termed the case “false” and told...

SC Lawyer Moves NCPCR Against B’wood Singer Papon Kissing ‘Voice of India Kids’ Contestant ‘Inappropriately’ On Facebook Live

She raises concern over safety of minor girls participating in TV showsA Supreme Court advocate has filed a complaint with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) against Bollywood singer Angarag Mahanta, known by his stage name Papon, for allegedly kissing a minor girl inappropriately and sexually abusing her demanding action under the POCSO Act.Papon is a jury member...

Allahabad HC Dismisses Petition For Independent Probe Into Yogi Adityanath's Role In Gorakhpur Riots; Upholds Refusal Of Sanction By State

The Allahabad High Court, on Thursday, upheld the State's refusal of sanction for prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in relation to the 2007 Gorakhpur riots.A Bench comprising Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Akhilesh Chandra Sharma, consequently, refused the plea for an independent investigation into the alleged role played by him as well.Factual matrixThe Court...

Drug Abuse In Children: Delhi HC Exhorts Police To Enforce Sec. 77 JJ Act By Treating Thinners, Whiteners, Correctors As Intoxicating Liquids [Read Order]

Disturbed at the growing menace of drug abuse among children, the Delhi High Court has directed the police to enforce Section 77 of the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act, 2015 which provides for punishment to anyone giving intoxicating liquor/ drugs to children by treating thinners, whiteners, correction fluids, vulcanising solutions/ sulochans as “intoxicating liquor”.A bench of Justice Vipin...

Sohrabuddin Case: CBI Under UPA Fabricated The Fake Encounter Case, Sr Adv Mahesh Jethmalani To Bombay HC

A day after the Bombay High Court reiterated that the Central Bureau of Investigation is failing to assist the court while hearing revision applications challenging the discharge of certain accused in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani submitted that the entire case was fabricated by a politically motivated the CBI in 2005.Jethmalani...

Delhi HC Upholds Sajjan Kumar’s Anticipatory Bail, Dismisses SIT’s Plea

In a setback to Special Investigation Team probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the anticipatory bail granted to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar by a trial court in two of the cases registered against the killing of three persons in the riots.Justice Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea of SIT for cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to Kumar on...

Karti Chidambaram Seeks SC To Restrain ED From Summoning Him Under PMLA

Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P Chidambaram, has moved an application in Supreme Court seeking a restraint order against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) from summoning him under the PMLA for alleged irregularities in FIPB clearance given to INX Media Ltd.A writ petition for quashing of FIR, registered by the CBI in connection with INX Media case, is pending before the...

Worried About Reckless Circulation Of Posts On Social Media: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently expressed deep anguish over the manner in which posts were being circulated on social media without any "sense of responsibility" and authenticity of its source.The Court was hearing Petitions filed by twenty three students who had alleged that they were shown to have passed Group I/II of CA Final Examination by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India...

File Notings By Junior Officers To Superiors Is Not Third Party Information Under RTI Act: Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court recently ruled that file notings made by junior officers to their seniors are not exempt from disclosure under Section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005.Justice Vibhu Bakhru was hearing a Petition filed by Mr Paras Nath Singh who had challenged an order passed by the Central Information Commission (CIC), wherein his request for information on the file notings...

IIPM- Caravan Defamation Row: Delhi HC Lifts Gag Order On Magazine, Says Evidence Shows Article Based On Truth, Research [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has vacated the injunction order passed against Caravan magazine in the Rs 50 crore defamation suit filed by IIPM (Indian Institute of Planning and Management) founder and dean Arindam Chaudhari while upholding the magazine’s defence of truthfulness.Justice Manmohan vacated the April 12, 2011 order of interim injunction passed by civil judge, Cachar, Silchar, Assam,...

Special Marriage Act- No Need To Dispatch Notice Of Intending Marriage At Couples' Residence: Rajasthan HC [Read Order]

A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has directed all marriage officers in the state not to despatch notices to the residence of the applicants who seek solemnization of their marriage under the Special Marriages Act, 1954.Kuldeep Singh Meena had approached the high court the legality of the procedure followed by the marriage officers to paste a notice of the intending marriage between...

Are Offences Under PMLA Cognizable Or Non-Cognizable? Delhi HC Bench Refers Issue, Related Queries To Larger Bench [Read Judgment]

Are the offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cognizable or non cognizable? Do the provisions of Chapter XII CrPC (information to the police and their powers to investigate) apply to PMLA insofar as the offences under the PMLA are concerned and if so, to what extent?A division bench of the Delhi High Court has referred these questions and some others to the Chief Justice...