13-Year-Old Rape Victim Seeks Permission From Bombay HC To Terminate Pregnancy

A 13-year-old girl rape survivor has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking permission to terminate her pregnancy.The matter came up with the bench of Justice SS Kemkar and Justice GS Kulkarni who directed the medical board comprising of experts at KEM hospital to examine her condition and submit a report on whether the termination would be safe.According to the petition filed by...

Delhi Soccer Association Declared As A Public Authority Under The RTI Act [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) is a public authority under the Right to Information Act."The Commission has no hesitation to declare unequivocally, that being under the control of Government of India, AIFF and with grant of monopoly, that is totally established over the sport of Football within territory of NCR of Delhi, the Delhi...

J&K HC Orders Release Of Detained ‘Notorious Stone Pelter’ [Read Order]

To classify the detenu as a ‘ notorious stone pelter ’ cannot be sufficient to invoke the statutory powers of preventive detention.Ordering release of a man detained for being a ‘notorious stone pelter’, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court observed that prevention detention laws cannot be made a substitute for the ordinary law and absolve the investigating authorities of their...

CJI Misra’s 148-Word Long Sentence In Padmavati Order

In a 2015 judgment, Justice Misra had written a 192-word sentence.Chief Justice Dipak Misra has done it again.The judge known to quote extempore from Shakespeare peppering his orders/judgments with words from ancient texts/literature and famous for his word play has written a 148 word long sentence in an order he pronounced three days ago.In a 2015 judgment, Justice Misra had written a...

Exclusive: CJI As Master Of The Roster Strikes Again As A 32-year Old Partition Suit Referred To Mediation By Court No.2 Is Shifted To Court No.8

The Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, has exercised his prerogative as the Master of the Roster, by deleting a matter heard at Court No.2 on October 30 and shifting it to Court No.8 on Friday.Justices J.Chelameswar and S.Abdul Nazeer, on October 30, heard a partition matter, Shiv Dutt Salwan and Ramesh Dutt Salwan (since deceased) through LR & Others. Senior counsel, Gopal...

Former Law Secretary Snehlata Shrivastava Becomes First Woman Secretary General Of Lok Sabha

Former Law Secretary, Ms. Snehlata Shrivastava has become the first woman ever to be appointed as the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha.Ms. Shrivastava is a retired IAS Officer from the 1982-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre and will succeed incumbent Anoop Mishra, who will relinquish the post on 30 November. She will hold office until 30 November, 2018.Besides having been appointed as...

Human Rights Commission Can’t Direct Payment Of Compensation: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]

Human Rights Commission is only empowered to make a recommendation. It has no adjudicatory jurisdiction, the court said.The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the State Human Rights Commission is only a recommendatory body and it has no power and jurisdiction to direct payment of compensation.The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board was directed by the State Human Rights Commission to...

Formulate A Concrete Health Policy; Improve Housing Facilities For Doctors, Etc.: Allahabad HC Issues Slew Of Suggestions [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court, on Wednesday, ruled that an application for voluntary retirement cannot be rejected solely on the ground of there being a scarcity of doctors in the State.The Bench comprising Justice Devendra Kumar Arora and Justice Rajnish Kumar also issued a slew of directions to improve the healthcare facilities in the State, observing, "We hope and trust that the State...

Stop All Sand Mining/Quarrying Activities Within 6 Months: Madras HC To TN Govt [Read Order]

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Tamil Nadu Government to stop all sand quarrying and mining activities within six months and prohibited it from opening any sand quarries in the future.Justice R. Mahadevan issued the order "in larger interest, for the welfare of the people of the State, to protect the environment, river beds, river bodies and the field...

MP HC Commutes Death Penalty Imposed On Man Convicted For Rape, Murder Of Minor Niece [Read Judgment]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, has commuted death penalty imposed on a man convicted for rape and murder of a minor girl, who was his niece.Vinay was convicted by the Trial Court for rape and murder of his niece who was only thirteen-year-old at that time. The prosecution case was that, after committing rape, the accused and his juvenile friends, killed her by hitting her head with a...

SC Directs Schools To Spread Awareness About The Dangers In ‘Blue Whale Game’ [Read Order]

Children must grow up with an awareness that such a thing exists and they shall scrupulously avoid it, the bench said.Disposing of a plea seeking ban of Blue Whale game, the Supreme Court has directed all the states and Union Territories to spread awareness in the schools run by them so as to make aware the children about the danger such games propagate by bringing people into a trap.A...

SC Raps Centre For Relying On Private Books Instead Of Official Publications [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has criticized the practice adopted by the Union of India in relying private books for ‘the purpose of defeating the rights of citizens’.Kamal Kishore and others had applied to the post of Constable GD in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for being considered for appointment to the posts reserved for OBCs. They were denied appointment on the ground that the castes to...