More Women Lawyers Should Engage With DLASs To Help Women Prisoners: Standing Committee On Women Empowerment

The Standing Committee on Empowerment of Women has suggested that more women lawyers should engage with the District Legal Aid Societies (DLASs) to facilitate access for justice to women prisoners.In its report titled ‘Women in Detention and Access to Justice’, the Committee, chaired by Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty, also suggests that an impact assessment of the Model Prison Manual, 2003 and...

Maternity Leave Is Part Of Service Period, Must For A Woman To Be Real Mother: Madras HC [Read Order]

Almost a fortnight after the Kerala High Court upheld a woman’s fundamental right to dignity as a mother, the Madras High Court has now said it is the fundamental right of a lady to give birth to a child and nurture him and maternity leave period should be deemed to be the service period.Justice N Kirubakaran has held that any rule or law which holds that maternity leave has to be excluded...

NGT Issues Bailable Warrant Against DMRC Chief [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has issued bailable warrant against the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in a matter pertaining to rain water harvesting along the metro train tracks and in areas under its control.A bench headed by UD Salvi ordered that bailable warrants be issued after none of the senior officials from DMRC appeared before it to apprise it about the possibility...

Kamala Mills Fire: Petition In Bombay HC Seeks CBI Probe, Arrest Of Owners Of Building Where Fire Broke Out Under S.304 IPC [Read Petition]

Gaurav Sud, an 18-year-old from Mumbai studying in the United Kingdom, has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI probe into the Kamala Mills fire tragedy that took place on December 29 in South Mumbai’s Lower Parel leading to the death of 14 people.The petitioner has also sought the owners of the said building where the fire broke out to be booked under Section 304...

NGT Quashes Centre’s Notification Diluting Provisions Of Environmental Clearance For Construction Activities [Read Judgment]

The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has quashed notification dated 09.12.2016 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, whereby substantive provisions of EIA Notification, 2006, that require prior Environmental Clearance (EC) for building and construction activities were diluted. As per EIA notification dated 14.09.2006, building and construction...

Deserted Husband Accuses Wife Of Running Fake Marriage Racket; Delhi Court Directs Police To Verify

It could well be a story out of a crime thriller or Bollywood film where a woman enters into several marriages only to exploit her ‘husbands’ and extort money.Balvinder Singh, a truck driver residing in Siraspur village in outer Delhi, has been doing the rounds of Rohini district courts with his minor son in arms trying to blow the lid off the bogus marriage racket his estranged wife Shalu...

Denial Of Information For Lack Of Aadhaar Is A Serious Breach Of RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission has recently held that denial of information for lack of Aadhaar card will be a serious breach of right, which was guaranteed by the RTI Act and also amounts to harassment of the applicant.FACTSWith the government-owned Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) claiming that it does keep record of lakhs of rupees it spends on gifts and...

Categorise Undertrial Cases As ‘Priority Sector Litigation’: J&K HC [Read Order]

The fate of an accused can’t be kept hanging like that of a “Trishunka” on the absolute discretion of the trial judge, the court said.The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has reiterated the need to categorize cases relating to undertrial prisoners as a priority sector litigation.Justice MK Hanjura made this observation while rejecting bail plea of an accused who is in custody for the past...

Justice Manmohan Singh Gets Additional Charge Of IPAB [Read Notification]

Justice Manmohan Singh, retired judge of the Delhi High Court, has been given the additional charge of  Chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).Since the retirement of Chairman Justice K M Basha in May 2016, the Chairman post was remaining vacant. Sanjeev Kumar Chaswal served as interim chair in the meanwhile. The IPAB handles appeals against orders and decisions...

Madras HC Suspends Guidelines For Weeding Out Fake Lawyers; Will Examine Need For Recall After December Break

The Madras High Court has suspended the guidelines which it had framed last month with the aim of weeding out fraudulent lawyers.The order has been suspended by Justice S. Vaidyanathan till 22 January, when the proposal to recall the order will also be examined. The suspension order, issued on the last working day before the Court closed for the break, directed:"As members of various...

Circular Issued On Guidelines To Avoid Misuse Of Judge Car Parking Stickers [Read Circular]

There have been cases where stickers of ‘press’, ‘army’, ‘police’ and ‘judges’ have been misused by criminal elements on vehicles used in crimes.While in many cases, such stickers are bogus, there are times when original stickers are used on vehicles not used personally by the person to whom the sticker has been issued.To avoid any misuse and to streamline the issuance...

Condonation Of Delay Scheme For Defaulting Companies’ Directors: Delhi HC Orders To Give Wide Publicity [Read Order]

 In one such case titled Shikha Pahuja vs Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Anr, Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi High Court had ordered that wide publicity be given to the COD scheme.The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has issued its ‘Condonation of Delay Scheme, 2018’ after a large number of directors who were disqualified on account of default by a company in filing annual return...