Undertrials Languishing In Jail Despite Bail: District & Sessions Court Judges Fail To Conduct "Risk Assessment" Despite Delhi HC Orders [Read Orders]

The Delhi High Court recently rapped District and Sessions Judges for their non-compliance with its earlier order whereby it had directed them to conduct a "risk assessment" of cases where undertrials have been unable to secure release from jail despite grant of bail.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar noted that despite its earlier order, it...

Pattor Land Scam: Lashing Out At Jacob Thomas IPS, Kerala HC Quashes Vigilance Cases Against Ex-CM, Ex-Chief Secy [Read Judgment]

“Preconceptions and misconceptions, predilections and predeterminations of a police officer shall not be the basis for registration of a case, especially, for an offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act.”The High Court of Kerala has quashed the FIR registered against former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and former Chief Secretary Bharat Bhushan in which they were alleged to...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe full bench of Allahabad High Court, in M/s N.C.M.L. Industries Ltd. through Director and another Vs. Debts Recovery Tribunal, Lucknow and others, held that taking “symbolic possession” or issuance of possession notice, meeting with any resistance, cannot be treated as “measure”/s taken under Section 13(4) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial...

Delhi HC Refuses To Quash I-T Re-Assessment Notice Issued To Robert Vadra's Firm [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has refused to set aside the re-assessment notice issued by the Income Tax Department to Sky Light Hospitality, in which Robert Vadra is a partner, in connection with the DLF- Sky Light Hospitality land deal.Sky Light had challenged the notice contending that it was now a limited liability partnership (LLP) and that the impugned notice was, in fact, issued to M/s Sky...

MP High Court Issues Directions For Bar Council Elections, Asks To Follow ‘One Bar One Vote’ Rule [Read Order]

 The Madhya Pradesh High Court has announced that the upcoming High Court Bar Association elections will be governed by the ‘One Bar One Vote’ principle and the voter list will also be prepared in line with the said rule. A bench of Justices P K Jaiswal and Virender Singh directed that “…in the spirit of the directions issued by Hon'ble Supreme Court in S.C. Bar Association &...

CBEC Decides Not To Challenge Orders/Judgment In 63 Cases To Reduce Litigation [Read Circular]

The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has issued circular (1063/2/2018-CX dated 16.02.2018) in relation to indirect taxes on the subject ‘Orders of Supreme Court, High Courts and CESTAT accepted by the Department and on which no review petitions, SLPs have been filed’.The Department has decided not to file any review petitions and SLPs against such orders to reduce litigations...

Man Plays Outright Fraud On Lok Adalat, Guj HC Issues Non-Bailable Warrant [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against a man who had secured release from judicial custody in a case of dishonour of cheque after playing fraud on the Lok Adalat which had set him free on the premise of a settlement he had arrived at with the complainant promising to pay back the entire amount within a year.Terming it a case of “outright fraud”, Justice J B...

Kerala High Court Prescribes Dress Code For Interns [Read Notice]

Through a notice issued by the Registrar General dated 14/02/2018, the High Court of Kerala has called for a prescribed dress code to be worn by interns doing internship in the High Court, and Subordinate Courts across Kerala.The notice reads thus : “It is hereby informed that all Law Students undergoing internship in the High Court and Subordinate Courts shall follow the dress code...

Maoist Leader Azad’s Encounter Death: Sessions Court Allows Widow’s Pleas To Relook Into CBI’s Clean Chit To Accused Cops [Read Order]

Paving the way for a re-look into the alleged fake encounter killings of CPI (Maoist) spokesperson Cherukuri Raj Kumar alias Azad and freelance journalist Hemchandra Pandey in Adilabad forests of Andhra Pradesh in 2010, a Sessions court in Adilabad has allowed revision petitions moved by widows of the two deceased challenging the clean chit given by the CBI to the accused policemen on the...

SC Allows HP Govt. To Carry Out Monitored Silviculture Felling Of Trees [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, allowed the Himachal Pradesh Government to carry out "silviculture felling" of trees and directed that the activity be closely monitored in order to ensure that it is, in fact, helping regeneration of forests."Felling of trees in India has been banned for more than two decades. We are of the view that on an experimental basis we may permit silviculture felling...

SC Transfers Plea Seeking CBI Probe Into ‘Gangrape’ Of 14-yr-old Scheduled Caste Girl By ‘Men In Uniform’ To Orissa HC

A Supreme Court bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice UU Lalit has transferred a petition seeking CBI probe into the alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old Scheduled Caste girl by “men in uniform” and subsequently her suicide to death last month in Koraput district, to Orissa High Court saying four petitions on similar issue were pending there.The bench passed the order after the...

Uttarakhand HC Slams State For Making Freedom Fighter Run From Pillar To Post For Three Decades [Read Order]

No action was taken since 1981 till 2014, i.e. or last 33 years by them, the court observed.The Uttarakhand High Court has come down heavily on the state government for making a freedom fighter run from one office to another for the fulfilment of his legitimate claim of the grant of freedom fighter pension.Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma imposed a cost of Rs.3,50,000 to be paid to the widow for...