Former Advocate General For Tamil Nadu & Senior Advocate Habibullah Badsha Passes Away

Former Advocate General for the State of Tamil Nadu, Senior Advocate Habibullah Badsha passed away on Wednesday.Mr. Badsha acquired a Masters in Islamic History and Bachelors Degree in Law from Madras University. He never looked back since, and was felicitated in 2008 for completing 50 years of legal service that was a balance of professional excellence and selfless social...

Indian Banks Association Declared A Public Authority Under RTI Act By Full Bench of CIC [Read Orders]

A full Bench of the Central Information Commission has declared the Indian Banks Association (IBA) a public authority accountable under the Right to Information Act, 2005.Two separate opinions were delivered by Information Commissioners Ms. Manjula Prasher and Prof. M. Sridhar Acharyulu to support the conclusion.The Commission was hearing two separate RTI applications, one filed by Mr. R.K....

Bombay HC Refuses Bail To Man Accused Of Raping Minor Daughter [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court recently refused to grant bail to a man accused of sexually abusing and raping his 16-year-old daughter.Justice AM Badar rejected the bail application filed by accused Devendra Singh.Singh was accused under Sections 354­A, 376(2),(f) and (i), 506,509 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 6,10 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences...

Minor Delay In Publishing Attendance Can’t Benefit Students Barred Due To Abysmal Attendance: Delhi HC [Read Order]

Minor delay by college in publishing list of students with short attendance can be of no significance in case of students barred from appearing in the fourth semester examination owing to their short attendance, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday.A division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sunil Gaur dismissed the review petition filed by seven students of Deen Dayal...

Bombay HC Dismisses Petition Filed By Man Claiming To Have Participated In Quit India Movement [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by a man claiming to have participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942 recognised by the State of Maharashtra as a ‘freedom fighter’ seeking government pension.The bench of Justice SC Dharmadhikari and Justice Bharati Dangre decided not to intervene in the order by the Central Government rejecting the petitioner’s...

To Achieve Speedy Disposal Of PILs, Bombay HC Distributes Different Categories Amongst Division Benches [Read Order[

In an unusual move, the Bombay High Court has decided to distribute different categories of public interest litigations amongst different division benches. While sitting lists were usually modified before or after every court vacation, this time PILs are categorized on specific issues and distributed to different benches.The notice dated November 16 states: It is noticed that in this High...

Kerala HC Directs To Exhibit The Film 'S DURGA’ In IFFI [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court has directed the organizers of International Film Festival of India to include and exhibit the film ‘ S Durga’, directed by Sanal Kumar Sashidharan in the Indian Panorama section of the Festival. Justice K. Vinod Chandran, the learned Single Judge who considered the matter, overruled the objections raised by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and held that...

Muslim Father Can Act As Legal Guardian Of Minor Daughter To Alienate Immovable Property: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

Referring to tenets of Muhammedan law, the Kerala High Court has ruled that Muslim father can act as the legal guardian of his minor daughter so as to alienate immovable property. The ruling was given by dismissing the appeal suit of a Muslim daughter who had sought for partition of property, ignoring the alienation effected by her father in capacity of her legal guardian.The subject-property...

Time Has Come To Sub-Categorise Communities Enjoying Reservation: Vice President, M.Venkaiah Naidu

The Vice-President, M.Venkaiah Naidu, during a book release function on Friday, said time has come to sub-categorise communities enjoying reservation benefits. Asking whether the backward communities are getting benefits proportionate to their population, Naidu claimed that people belonging to these communities are now saying they are being ignored.  If reservation is justified because...

Amity Law School Lands In Legal Soup Over Blanket Detention Of Students ‘Short Of Attendance’

Amity Law School, Delhi, affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, has once again found itself at the pivot of controversy, this time in students’ challenge to its opaque attendance policy.One would recall how earlier on August 10 last year, Sushant Rohilla committed suicide for being debarred from appearing in the sixth semester examinations for want of attendance....

Uttarakhand HC Suggests Enactment Of Freedom Of Religion Act To Curb "Sham Conversions" For Marriage [Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court, on Monday, suggested that the Freedom of Religion Act be enacted by the State legislature, in order to put an end to sham conversions for the sole purpose of marriage."...it needs to be mentioned that the Court has come across number of cases where the inter-religion marriages are being organized. However, in few instances, the conversion from one religion to...

Politics Have Become Criminals’ Paradise: Orissa HC [Read Order]

Criminals and politics, which should have been poles apart from each other, are now on the two sides of the same coin, the court said.Politics have become criminals' paradise, remarked Justice SK Sahoo of Orissa High Court recently while dismissing a bail application filed by a politician.The petitioner in the case, a politician, was accused of murdering his political opponent.There is no...