Rajasthan HC Grants Parole To Terror Convict For Attending Son’s Wedding [Read Order]

The Rajasthan High Court has granted a week’s parole to one Fazlur Rehman Sufi, who was convicted under the TADA Act, 1987; Explosives Act 1884; Arms Act, 1908; Indian Railways Act; and Prevention of Damages to Public Property Act for his involvement in the serial train blasts in 1993.Fazlur was sentenced to life imprisonment along with 14 others in the case by the trial court in Ajmer....

Member Of Panchayat Can’t Claim Immunity From Disqualification While Insisting To Encroach Upon Govt Land: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that no member of a village panchayat can insist upon encroaching on government land and have immunity from disqualification under the Maharashtra Village Panchayat Act, 1958.Justice MS Sonak set aside an order of the Additional Commissioner, Pune Division, and allowed the writ petition.Case BackgroundThe writ petition was filed by one Satish Deshmukh who...

U'khand HC Declares National Parks Plastic-Free, Orders Tracing Of Missing Bodies; Recommends Insurance Cover For Pilgrims [Read Order]

Four years after the Kedarnath tragedy, the Uttarakhand High Court has declared all national parks, including tiger reserve, elephant reserve, Jim Corbett and Rajaji National Park, plastic free zones while banning dumping  of garbage around rivers and its tributaries and recommending the state government to provide insurance cover to all pilgrims visiting the Char Dhams at a...

Life Term For Suhaib Ilyasi Of ‘India’s Most Wanted’ Fame For Wife’s Murder

A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life term to Suhaib Ilyasi, who was held guilty last week of murdering his wife 17 years ago, besides imposing a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the former TV producer who once shot to fame with his show ‘India’s Most Wanted’.Additional sessions judge S K Malhotra has sentenced Suhaib to life imprisonment.He was also directed to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to...

Wife Working Against Husband’s Wishes Is Not ‘Cruelty’: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a wife working against the wishes of husband or his family is not a ‘cruelty’ to grant divorce to husband.The family court had granted divorce to husband on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. One of the grounds urged by the husband for seeking divorce was that wife is in employment against his wishes.A bench of Justice Shabihul Hasnain and...

Weeding Out Fake Lawyers: Madras HC Issues Circular; No Court/ Tribunal To Accept Vakalat Without Advocate’s Complete Details [Read Circular]

The Madras High Court has issued a circular directing heads of all sections of the Registry to not accept any vakalatnama sans the enrolment ID, mobile phone number and complete residential address of the counsel as well as the advocate who has attested the vakalat.The circular issued by the Registrar General of the high court said, "All the heads of the sections of this registry, both in...

Reformative Ideas Are Totally Ineffective Nowadays: MP HC Upholds Death Sentence In Triple Murder Case [Read Judgment]

The accused may not be a hardened criminal, but he committed brutal murder of three persons by cutting their neck and causing several fatal injuries together in a preplanned manner, who were unarmed and sleeping, the court observed.The Madhya Pradesh High Court confirmed death sentence awarded to a man convicted of murdering his two brothers and a nephew by observing that reformative ideas...

55.6% Cab/Taxi Drivers In Delhi-NCR Indulge In Drunken Driving: Survey

A survey report released ahead of the Christmas and New year celebrations, during which heavy partying is witnessed across Delhi and National Capital Region has said that at least 55.6% of cab drivers drink and drive.The study was conducted between September 10 and December 10 among 10,000 cab drivers by NGO Community Against Drunken Driving (CADD) which has been working in close...

Rajasthan HC Issues Notice On A PIL Challenging Ban Of Condom Ads During Daytime

A division Bench of Rajasthan High Court comprising Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Dinesh Chandra Somani, has issued notice to Centre on a petition challenging the advisory issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting banning television ads for condoms during prime time hours.The Petition has been filed by an NGO, Global Alliance for Human Rights, which has been...

Don't Treat Legal Profession As A Business; Exclude It From GST: All District Court Bar Associations Of Delhi To Arun Jaitley

In a representation to Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley, the Coordination Committee of the All District Court Bar Associations of Delhi has demanded that the legal profession be excluded from the purview of the Goods and Service Tax (GST).The letter contends that inclusion of the legal profession under the definition of "business" "has upset the settled proposition of noble profession and...

Police’s Assault Against Lady lawyer: Delhi HC Orders Inquiry

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) observed a flash strike on Tuesday post-lunch in protest against the police high-handedness Delhi High Court on Tuesday ordered an inquiry in to the incident relating to the assault on a 60yr old lady lawyer by Police.The case pertains to 60-year-old advocate Deepa Arya who has been accused in certain cases of threats, stalking etc filed against...

Solar Scam-Relief For Oomman Chandy: Kerala HC Restrains Publication, Discussion On Saritha Nair’s Letter For 2 Months [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court has restrained the publication and media discussion on the contents of the letter dated 19.07.2013 allegedly written by Saritha S Nair, which has been referred by the Justice Sivarajan Commission’s report.  The report of the Justice Sivarajan Commission, which was tabled in the Kerala Legislative Assembly in November 2017, had found that the former Chief Minister...