17 Additional Judges Of Madhya Pradesh HC Made Permanent; 3 Additional Judges Appointed At Calcutta HC [Read Notification]

Through a notification issued on Wednesday, the Central Government has made permanent seventeen Additional Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court. The seventeen Judges are: Atul Sreedharan Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari Vivek Rusia Anand Pathak Jagdish Prasad Gupta Anurag Kumar Shrivastava Housla Prasad Singh Ashok Kumar Joshi Vivek Agarwal Nandita Dubey Rajeev Kumar Dubey Anjuli Palo Virender...

SC Collegium Recommends 5 Additional Judges For Permanent Judgeship At 2 High Courts [Read Recommendations]

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended appointment of four Additional Judges of Allahabad High Court as permanent Judges.In a meeting held on Tuesday, the collegium comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Ranjan Gogoi recommended the following four Judges for permanent Judgeship: Justice Ashok Kumar, Justice Vivek Chaudhary, Justice Saumitra...

Allahabad HC Upholds CBI Investigation Against UPPSC Regarding Exams & Their Results [Read Order]

Neither the Constitution nor the laws preclude the State Government from holding CBI enquiry/investigation into the complaints of serious nature against the UPPSC as a whole.The Allahabad High Court has upheld the CBI enquiry ordered by the Central Government into serious allegations against the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) in respect of examinations and their...

President Accepts Resignation Of ASG Sanjay Jain, Maninder Acharya To Replace Jain

President of India has accepted the resignation of Additional Solicitor General of India for the Delhi High Court Senior Advocate Sanjay Jain.Sanjay Jain had submitted his resignation citing personal reasons in January this year, but he was asked to continue till a replacement was made.He was appointed as ASG in the year 2014.Recently the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)  has...

NCDRC Gives One Last Chance To Amrapali Grp To Defend Itself In Complaint Case By Over 700 Buyers

With over thousands of home buyers crying foul over its dud projects, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission on Wednesday gave one last opportunity to Amrapali Group to appear before it on March 9 for hearing in the complaint case filed by over 700 homebuyers who had invested their hard-earned money in Amrapali Centurian Park Project in Greater Noida West.The commission also...

Kerala HC Makes New Rules For Designation Of Senior Advocates [Read Rules]

The High Court of Kerala has made new rules for the designation of senior advocates titled, ‘High Court of Kerala (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules 2018, which is expected to be published in Kerala Gazette on this March 15. The new rules are made in the light of the guidelines and norms laid down by the Supreme Court regarding designation of senior advocates in its judgement in...

SC Stays Execution Of Death Sentence Of Man Convicted Of Rape & Murder Of 6-Yr-Old Girl

The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has stayed execution of the death sentence of a man convicted for rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl.Chotkau was convicted by the trial court for rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court had affirmed the conviction and confirmed the death sentence awarded to him.While confirming...

NEET-2018: Gujarat HC Refuses To Grant Relief To Students Without Aadhaar [Read Order]

NEET 2018-A Special Leave Petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging this order and the Bench headed by Chief Justice is likely to hear the matter today.The Gujarat High Court, on 27 February, refused to grant interim relief on a Petition demanding exemption for students from submitting Aadhaar number while appearing for Joint Entrance Examination (Main Unit), 2018 (JEE)...

Delay In Case Disposal Can’t Be Solely Attributed To Advocate: Karnataka HC [Read Order]

The Indian Judiciary is overburdened with number of cases and it is a well-known fact that there is a huge delay in disposal of the cases for the reasons countless, the bench said.The Karnataka High Court, while dismissing a plea of some advocates seeking removal of a government-appointed advocate, observed that the disposal of the case or delay therein cannot be solely attributed to any...

Delhi HC Upholds 2,950 Crore Arbitration Award Plus Interest To Reliance Infrastructure's Subsidiary From Delhi Metro

The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, upheld the Rs. 2,950 crore arbitration award along with interest to Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL), a subsidiary of Reliance Infrastructure Limited (RInfra) against Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited.The order was passed by Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva who was hearing two Petitions on the subject. One had been filed under Section 34 of...

Daughters, Not Brothers Of The Deceased, Will Inherit Self-Acquired Property As Per Makkathayam Law: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

A division bench of Kerala High Court has set aside the judgment of a single bench which had held that brothers of the deceased will inherit self-acquired property in preference of daughters of the deceased in Makkathayam law. The division bench held that daughters have the right to succeed to the estate, in exclusion of the brothers.The dispute is with respect to apportionment of compensation...

Leveling Baseless Allegations Of Illicit Relationship On Spouse Amounts To Cruelty: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently upheld the decision of a Family Judge who had granted divorce to a husband accepting leveling of baseless allegations of illicit relationships as amounting to cruelty."We find that leveling of false allegations of illicit relations of such nature and magnitude causes mental pain, agony and suffering to the husband. Such allegations causes profound and...