Delhi HC Provides Some Relief To SSB Jawan Forced To Sustain In Under Rs 5K A Month [Read Order]

Coming to the aid of a Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan left to fend for himself and his family in under Rs 5,000 every month, the Delhi High Court has called for rules allowing 80 per cent of the salary to be deducted from his salary towards defaulted instalments of a medical loan.A bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Rekha Palli directed SS Deswal, Additional DG, SSB to file an...

Passengers Should Be Compensated If Denied Seat Due To Overbooking: DGCA Tells Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has, in unequivocal terms, submitted before the Delhi High Court that passengers who are denied boarding due to over-booking need to be paid immediate compensation and provided with necessary arrangements for their travel by the concerned airlines.The submission was made on a Petition filed by Mr. Pallav Mongia, who had been denied boarding by...

Delhi Court Refuses RK Pachauri’s Plea For Gag Order On Media, Orders Disclaimer Of Pendency [Read Order]

Observing that “the media by its reporting should throw more 'light rather than generate heat”, a Delhi court on Monday refused to put a gag order on the media from reporting on the issue of allegation of sexual harassment against former TERI chief RK Pachauri but added that any reportage should consider his views or that of his representatives and denote that the matter...

Justice GS Patel Initiates Contempt Action Against Litigants, Lawyers Who Committed Fraud On Bombay HC [Read Order]

There is some something very rotten in the state of our commercial litigation. It is exemplified by this case. If ever there was an example of a commercial fraud and a fraud on the court, this is it. This is how Justice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court described the case at hand wherein a litigant named Jitenderpal Singh Chadha, his father-in-law Prithipal Chadha and a lawyer Chadha...

MBA Student Accused Of Rape Offers To Teach Poor Children To Show Bonafide Intention Towards Society, Gets Anticipatory Bail [Read Order]

A 26-year-old MBA student accused of raping a girl he had befriended on Facebook and causing her miscarriage, has been granted anticipatory bail by a Delhi court after he offered to do community service by teaching underprivileged children to “show his bonafide towards the society”.Additional sessions judge Jitendra Kumar Mishra granted bail to the accused while directing him to do...

SC Dismisses Commodore PK Banerjee’s Appeal Against Adverse Remarks In ACR Which Affected His Promotion [Read Judgment]

While rejecting an appeal filed by Commodore PK Banerjee, who led India’s first anti-piracy operation as the captain of INS Tabar in 2008, against an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal, the Supreme Court has held that the Chief of the Naval Staff, in his capacity of Senior Reviewing Officer/Next Senior Reviewing Officer(SRO/NSRO), is competent to undertake review of confidential report...

Can’t Be ‘Either Their Way Or The Runway’: Delhi HC Rejects IndiGo’s ‘Claim Of Monopoly’ To T-1, Grants Last Chance To Suggest Sectors To Be Shifted To T-2 [Read Judgment]

Holding public interest above business interest, the Delhi High Court has dismissed IndiGo’s prayer against part shifting of its flight operations to and fro Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport but granted it one last opportunity to suggest other sectors which it would want to shift to T-2 to reduce passenger volume at...

Petition Against Advance Ruling Under GST Sans Judicial Member: Gujarat HC Issues Notice To Centre, GST Council, State [Read Petition]

The Gujarat High Court has agreed to hear a petition praying that provisions concerning the Authority of Advance Ruling (AAR) and the Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling (AAAR) under the Central Goods and Services Tax be declared ultra vires for being coram non judice as it has no judicial member on it.Admitting the petition for hearing, the high court has issued notice to the Centre, the...

Sohrabuddin Case: Not Getting Assistance Needed From CBI , Says Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has again questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation’s sincerity in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi.Justice Revati Mohite Dere is hearing the CBI’s challenge to the discharge of certain police officers in the said case. Apart from the CBI, deceased Sohrabuddin’s brother Rubabuddin has also challenged...

No One Can Be Denied Essential Services/Benefits Just Because He/She Doesn’t Have An Aadhaar, Says UIDAI

In a press release issued on Saturday, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has made it clear that no essential service or benefit shall be denied to a genuine beneficiary for the want of Aadhaar whether it is medical help, hospitalisation, school admission or ration through PDS.This clarification through a press release comes when the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court...

Orissa HC Bar Association To Abstain From Work Till 19 Feb To Protest Against Shortage Of Judges

After several Bangalore lawyers went on a hunger strike to protest against the ever-growing judicial vacancies at the Karnataka High Court, it is the Orissa High Court Bar Association that has now decided to abstain from court work till 19 February, in order to express its "anxiety" regarding non-appointment of Judges.Orissa High Court Bar Association President, Srikant Nayak was quoted as...

26 Year Old Law Student Beaten To Death In Allahabad

A 26 year old law student reportedly succumbed to injuries on Sunday morning, two days after he was brutally beaten up by a group of youths following an argument outside a restaurant in Allahabad.Second year LLB student of Allahabad Degree College, Dileep Saroj had reportedly gone to a restaurant for a meal along with two of his friends on Friday, when an altercation broke out with a few...