Setting Aside Allahabad HC’s Acquittal, SC Convicts Man Charged For Kidnap & Murder Of Two Boys [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has set aside a judgment of the Allahabad High Court that had acquitted a man of all charges in a kidnap and murder case.The trial court had convicted and sentenced Mahipal to death for kidnap and murder of two boys. The main evidence against the accused was the recovery of a SIM card from his room and that the dead bodies of the children were recovered from...

Calcutta Lawyers Announce 5-Day Cease Work To Protest Against Judicial Vacancies

The frustration of various stakeholders over judicial vacancies has reached the city of Calcutta now, with the Calcutta High Court Bar Association, on Friday, announcing a five-day long cease work starting Monday.In an urgent General Body meeting held on Friday, the members decided to abstain from work till Friday next week, "as a mark of protest against the authority for not taking...

Expressing Concern On Use Of Money, Muscle, Communal, Political, Liquor Power Ahead Of Bar Council Elections, Madras HC Sets Directions For All, Including IT Dept [Read Order]

Observing that the ensuing elections to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry is more glorified for use of money power, communal power, political power, muscle power and liquor power, the Madras High Court has set out directions for the Bar Council of India, the police and the Income Tax Department to ensure fake lawyers or those indulging in corruption to win elections can be weeded...

Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary: Only 27.6% Women Judges In Lower Courts Across India, Finds Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy [Read Report]

Though a lot is said about judicial vacancies, docket explosion and delays when it comes to Indian judiciary, the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has scooped out another thought-provoking issue in its report which shows that the lower judiciary across India has a mere 27.6 per cent female judges.In its report titled Tilting The Scale: Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary, it shows how of the...

Anuradha Paudwal’s Daughter-In-Law Agrees To Withdraw DV Case Filed Against Her; To Dissolve Marriage Amicably

In a respite to Bollywood’s well-known playback singer Anuradha Paudwal, who was entangled in her son’s divorce battle for past few years, her daughter-in-law Ambreen Akhoon and her son Aditya have arrived at a settlement and have decided to withdraw all proceedings against each other and their respective family members.Filing the consent terms before a Supreme Court bench of Justice...

Challenge Against Rule For Allotment Of Chamber To Heir Of Lawyer On The Event Of His Death: SC Issues Notice

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A. K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan on Friday issued notice on the writ petition filed by Advocate on Record (AOR) Vishnu Shankar Jain challenging the constitutionality of Rule 7B of the Supreme Court Lawyers Chambers (Allotment and Occupancy) Rules.It is the petitioner’s case that the Rule, which provides that upon the death of an advocate having a chamber in...

Despite Delhi HC’s Worry About “Disaster Waiting To Happen”, Civic Bodies Fail To Come Up With Action Plan On Making Structures Safe In Quake-Prone Delhi [Read Order]

Only 25% structures in Delhi are made with sanctioned plan.Even as over two years have passed after the Delhi High Court expressed its concern about 75 percent of Delhi being unauthorised and only 10-15 percent complying with regulations specific for seismic zone, the civic bodies have failed to place before it an action plan to make the city compliant with the National Building Code-2005.A...

Appalled To See Jharkhand CM Distributing Letters Of Appointment To Judicial Officers: PIL In Jharkhand HC

A PIL has been filed before the Jharkhand High Court contending that Jharkhand Chief Minister Mr Raghubar Das, owing to the criminal cases filed against him, should not have handed over letters of appointment to judicial officers during a function organized by the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority (JHALSA).In his Petition, Mr. Diwan Indranil Sinha says that he was "appalled" to see...

Discharge Orders In Sohrabuddin Case Need To Be Examined By HC: Former Bombay HC Judge Abhay M. Thipsay

Former Judge of Bombay High Court, Justice Abhay M. Thipsay, who heard four bail applications of accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case, has now asserted that the orders of discharge passed in the case need to be re-examined.He had granted bail to DG Vanzara, an accused in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati,...

Justice Chitambaresh Quotes Song From Rajnikant's Movie 'Mannan' While Allowing Habeas Corpus Plea By Mother

In a judgment, passed on 7 February, Justice Chitambaresh of the Kerala High Court began the verdict quoting the lyrics of a song from Rajnikant's super-hit movie, Mannan, while allowing a habeas corpus plea by a mother for custody of her child. The Judge wrote:"“Amma endrazhaikatha uyir illaiye Ammavai vanangatha uyir illaiye” (There is no life form which does not call for its mother...

Madras HC Puts Interim Stay On BCI’s Resolution Deferring New Eligibility Rules For Contesting State Bar Council Polls

The Madras High Court has put an interim stay on the resolution adopted by the Bar Council of India vide which it had deferred the new eligibility conditions, including minimum 10-year practice, brought in by the Special Committee of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry for lawyers to contest in the ensuing elections to Bar Council.A bench of Justice CT Selvam and Justice N...

No Application Can Be Filed Against Taking ‘Symbolic Possession’ Before DRT: Allahabad HC (FB) [Read Judgment]

The 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, has 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 Assets and...