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...

Kamala Das’ Biopic ‘Aami’ Promotes Love Jihad, Claims Petition In Kerala HC [Read Petition]

A writ petition has been filed in the High Court of Kerala against the film Aami, which is reported to be based on the life of renowned author and poetess Madhavikutty, well known as Kamala Das. The petition has been filed by KP Ramachandran, a lawyer practising at the high court. The petition alleges that the film has been made by distorting the life of Madhavikutty.Madhavikutty, who used...

Insisting Husband To Live Separate From His Aged And Ailing Mother Is Cruelty: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Judgment]

Insisting upon the husband to live separate from his aged mother suffering from cardiac problem is by itself a cruelty, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held.A bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Arvind Singh Chandel made this observation while disposing of a matrimonial appeal against the trial court denying divorce sought by the husband.The bench referred to apex court decision...

Delhi HC Bench Convenes 30 Min Before Usual Time To Hear Urgent Petition

For years now, the Delhi High Court has been convening at 10:30 am daily, but on Wednesday one of its divisions convened at 10 am to hear an urgent matter pertaining to the construction of a road in Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir.A bench of Justice GS Sistani and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal convened at 10 am on Wednesday to hear an urgent petition filed by Abdul Rashid Butt.Butt...

SC Remands Back Pleas on LOC against Karti, Others To Madras HC [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today directed the Madras  High Court to decide within two months petitions pertaining to validity of look out circulars (LOC) against Karti Chidambaram, son of former union minister P Chidambaram, and others in a corruption case.A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra had stayed the High Court's order of August 10 last year keeping at abeyance the LOCs...

Kerala HC Dismisses Senior Advocate’s Plea Challenging Exclusion From Bar Council Electoral Roll [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court has dismissed plea of a senior advocate challenging his exclusion from the final electoral roll of Bar Council of Kerala.A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Antony Dominic and Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu dismissed a writ appeal preferred by senior advocate VK Beeran Sahib against the dismissal of his writ petition by the single bench.The sole contention...