Ban On Legislators Practising As Advocates: BCI Calls General Council Meet On Sunday To Consider Sub-Committee Report

The Bar Council of India has called its General Council Meet on Sunday to decide the issue of ban on Members of Parliament and the Members of Legislative Assemblies from practicing as advocates.BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told LiveLaw that a meeting of General Council Meet has been called on Sunday.It is to be noted that the three-member committee of RG Shah, BC Thakur and DP...

Petition Filed In Delhi HC Against Debarment Of DU's LLM Students From Practicing Or Working; Notice Issued [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, issued notice on a Petition challenging an Ordinance passed in June, 2015 under the Delhi University Act, 1992 prohibiting LLM students from practicing or undertaking employment while enrolled in the course.The Bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Chander Shekhar, however, refused to pass any interim order and fixed the next date of hearing as...

Examination Of Child Witness- Preliminary Finding Of Incompetency Of Child Witness Can Be Varied By Court At Later Stage: Kerala HC [Read Order]

In an elaborate judgment dealing with the manner of testing the competency of a child witness, the High Court of Kerala has held that the preliminary finding made by the court regarding the incompetency of the child witness can be varied at a later stage.The issue arose out of a murder trial in which a man was accused of killing his wife in their house in a fit of anger. The child of the...

Bombay HC Grants Relief To Man Declared Unfit For Constable Post As He Has Tattoo [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently granted relief to a man declared unfit for the post of constable/driver in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) as he had a tattoo.The bench of Justice RM Borde and Justice RG Ketkar directed the CISF to consider the applicant’s claim for employment as he had been found fit otherwise. It was only during the medical examination that the examiner found...

Chhattisgarh HC Modifies ‘Aadhaar For Bail’ Order: Aadhaar Not Mandatory Anymore [Read Order]

The Chhattisgarh High Court has modified its order that made Aadhaar card of the accused as well as surety mandatory before obtaining bail. Now the surety can submit any document of identification like voter ID, PAN, passport also.Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, in the order on Thursday, said he was convinced with the submission made by the majority of the advocates who made their submissions...

Senior Citizen Accused Of Rape Offers To Undergo NARCO Test To Prove Innocence, Gets Protection From Arrest

In a rather unusual move of defense, a senior citizen accused of allegedly raping his employee for eight long years has offered to undergo NARCO analysis and lie-detector test to prove his innocence.A Delhi court granted interim protection from arrest to 65-year-old factory owner after he informed the Presiding Officer that he was willing to undergo NARCO/ lie-detector test and therefore,...

Ahlmad Arrested Over Keeping Judge's Car Waiting Behind His Car For Parking: Staff At Rohini Court Goes On Strike

In yet another face-off between a judge and the court staff, majority of court staff at the Rohini District courts went on strike on Thursday soon after an ahlmad was arrested following a small exchange of words with a judge this morning over car parking.The staff was released at about 1:30 pm after being in arrest for three and half hours.District and Sessions Judge (headquarters) Talwant...

Delhi HC Upholds Rs 3500-Cr Arbitral Award Against Singh Brothers Of Ranbaxy For Fraud Played On Daiichi [Read Judgment]

In a huge setback to former promoters of Ranbaxy -- Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh -- and major win for Japanese Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited, the Delhi High Court has upheld the international arbitral award of Rs 3,500 crore against the Singh brothers.Justice Jayant Nath held the award to be enforceable after hearing a petition filed by Daiichi seeking enforcement...

Courts Of Law Are Established For Common Man, Bar Assn Can’t Question Establishment Of A New Court: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]

The members of the Bar have to give way to the larger public interest that is the interest of litigant, the court said.The Chhattisgarh High Court recently dismissed a plea of the bar association against setting up of a camp court, observing that reduction of professional prospects of the members of the Bar Association cannot be the ground to challenge the establishment of a new court.The...

No Intervention With The Right Of Privacy Of An Indian Citizen Can Be Permitted So Mechanically: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

Since 2011, there is not material against the petitioner to keep him under surveillance, the bench observed.No intervention with the right of privacy of an Indian citizen can be permitted so mechanically, Allahabad High Court has observed while ordering the police to discontinue surveillance of a man, who was kept under surveillance since 2011.Bablu Shah, since 2011, was kept under...

Calcutta HC Junks PIL Against Conferring D. Litt To Mamata Banerjee [Read Judgment]

No parameters or criteria available before the Court by applying which the prudence of such decision can be assessed or evaluated, the Bench said.The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation filed against Calcutta University (CU) decision to confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature to Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee.The PIL filed by...

Examine New Rs. 50 And Rs. 200 Notes For Difficulties Faced By Visually Impaired: Delhi HC To Centre & RBI

The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to examine the difficulties being faced by visually impaired people in identifying the new currency notes of Rs. 200 and Rs. 50 denominations."This issue is something which needs to be resolved among yourselves. You (government, RBI and the petitioner here),sit together and sort it out," the...