Law Commission Refutes News Reports Claiming LCI Chairman Doesn't Consider Uniform Civil Code Possible [Read Press Release]

In a press statement issued on Thursday, the Law Commission of India (LCI) has refuted news reports which quote its Chairman Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan as saying that the "UCC is not possible and not even an option". Recently, News18 had quoted Mr. Chauhan as saying, "UCC is not possible. We will try to recommend religion-wise amendments in family laws. It would be the piecemeal way to...

Bombay HC Quashes FIR Against B’desh Citizen Booked Under Arms Act As He Was Not In Conscious Possession [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a citizen of Bangladesh booked under sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act.After hearing the writ petition filed by the accused, MA Latif Shahrear Zahedee, the bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi held that the accused was not in conscious possession of the live cartridges that were recovered from his luggage at...

Cut-Off Marks Can't Be Lowered For Reserved Category Merely To Fill Vacant Seats: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

Can cut-off marks be lowered to fill the quota of seats reserved for Special category candidates in the absence of required number of candidates qualifying the written examination? The Allahabad High Court has answered the question in the negative.Justice Siddharth held that the cut-off marks cannot be lowered to merely fill the seats reserved for the special category and once a candidate...

Exemption From Tax To Encourage Industrialization Cannot Be Equated With Refund Of Tax: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Refusing to allow refund of tax which was paid despite there being an exemption sanctioned for the payee, the Delhi High Court, on Thursday, observed that such exemption to encourage industrialization cannot be equated with refund of tax.The Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice S.P. Garg explained, "Exemption from tax to encourage industrialization cannot be equated with...

Teesta Setalvad Withdraws Her Appeal In SC Challenging The Investigation Into The Complaint Filed By Her Former Employee [Read Order]

Social activist, Teesta Seetalvad’s Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) withdrew its six-year old SLP from the Supreme Court  on Wednesday, December 6, to challenge orders passed by a trial court in Gujarat in December 2010 without hearing her, in connection with a complaint by her former employee, Rais Khan Pathan.The CJP’s special leave petition, filed against the Gujarat High...

Delhi HC Refuses To Accept Abductor's "Settlement" With Abducted Government School Teacher [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Thursday, refused to accept a "settlement" entered between the abductor and the abductee, noting that the offences in the FIR were non-compoundable.The Court was hearing an application filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the accused Mr. Wajid Khan, seeking anticipatory bail in an FIR filed against him under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing...

Humanity Comes First, Then Religion : Meghalaya HC [Read Judgment]

It is really very sad that even after one's death, we are fighting over our faith, caste and religionNo person can practice religion or become spiritual, until and unless he or she becomes a good human being because humanity comes first, then religion.Members of indigenous faith in the state of Meghalaya will soon get a place for cremating their dead, thanks to intervention of the...

SC Sets Aside Allahabad HC Direction To IGP To Hold Particular Camp Sitting [Read Order]

It is not the courts' function to issue such directions, the bench observed.The Supreme Court has set aside an Allahabad High Court that issued a slew of directions to Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) in the state, including holding of camp sitting on particular dates at particular police stations.It is not the courts' function to issue such directions, a bench of Justice Arun...

Jishnu Pranoy Case: SC Entrusts Probe To CBI [Read Order]

In some of the areas, the high court has exceeded its jurisdiction and passed some observations which are going to touch the merits of the case pending before the trial court, the bench observed.The Supreme Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe into the mysterious death of engineering student Jishnu Pranoy of Kerala.BackgroundJishnu, a first-year engineering student...

Doctors Approach SC For Declaring Practice Of PG Admission On ‘Permitted Seats’ As Unconstitutional

A group of doctors have petitioned the Supreme Court under Article 32 of the Constitution seeking to declare the classification of admission on ‘Recognized Seat’ and ‘MCI Permitted Seat’ in PG admissions as manifestly arbitrary and to declare the practice of admission on such a permitted seat as unconstitutional for being violative of Articles 14, 19(1)(g) and 21 of the Constitution...

NGT Holds Sri Sri’s Art Of Living Guilty Of Damaging Yamuna, Floodplains; Told To Cough Up Restoration Cost [Read Order]

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living International Center was on Thursday held responsible by the National Green Tribunal for causing damage and environmental degradation of the flood plain of river Yamuna near the DND Flyway by holding the World Culture Festival Celebration in March 2016, which saw a footfall of 35 lakh, and it will now be responsible for restoration...

Bombay HC Declares Acquisition Of Land As Lapsed After State Failed To Pay Any Compensation In 42 Years [Read Judgment]

In a judgment that reflects lapses on part of the state and its impact on everyday lives of its citizens, the Bombay High Court has declared the acquisition of a piece of land in Sangli that took place 42 years ago for the purpose of building Walekhindi Irrigation Dam, as lapsed.What is surprising is that the said piece of land is already submerged under dam water and so the question...