Madras HC Shuns Goondas Taking Avatar Of Advocates, Blames BCI For Mediocrity In Legal Profession [Read Orders]

The Madras High Court has made some serious observations against people in “black and white” dress acting as hooligans while holding the Bar Council of India for institutionalizing mediocrity in the profession by randomly granting approval to law colleges and creating disproportion in demand and supply of lawyers in the society. Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras High Court made...

High Courts Weekly Round- Up

Allahabad high courtThe Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the 2008 Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. A bench of Justice BK Narayana and AK Mishra granted the Talwar couple benefit of doubt while pointing out various loopholes in the probe conducted in the double murder which has seen numerous conspiracy theories from the start when Aarushi Talwar was...

Expert Panel Suggests Amendments To Curb Online Hate Speech [Read Recommendations]

An expert panel constituted to study the 267th Law Commission of India report on hate speech has suggested amendments to the IPC, CrPC and IT Act for curbing online hate speech. The committee was chaired by Dr TK Viswanathan, former Law Secretary, and present Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha. The committee has proposed the addition of sections 153C and 505A to IPC. The expert panel noted...

PIL For Tech Member In Ahmedabad NCLT: Guj HC Asks Petitioner To Make Representation Before NCLT President [Read Petition & Order]

The Gujarat High Court has directed the petitioner, a taxation and commercial law advisor, who sought direction to the Centre to appoint a technical member on the Ahmedabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal, to make a representation before the NCLT president.A bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice Vipul M Pancholi was hearing a PIL filed by Nipun Praveen Sanghvi, a...

Loudspeakers At Religious Places Vs Right To Privacy: Delhi HC Issues Notice To Centre [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Union of India on a public interest litigation for removal of loudspeakers from all religious structures on the ground that their use is an encroachment on a person’s “right to be left alone and spatial control” and thus violates the newly recognised fundamental right to privacy.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal issued...

No Application Of Mind In Changes To Manodhairya Scheme Providing Compensation To Victims: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court observed on Thursday that there was no application of mind in the changes brought about by the state government to Manodhairya Scheme in August this year.The said scheme provides compensation for victims of sexual assault and acid attack.Under the new changes, the amount of compensation to the victims of sexual assault and acid attacks was increased from Rs 3 lakh to Rs...

Bombay HC Dismisses Plea By Minor Rape Victim’s Father Seeking Medical Termination Of 27-Week-Old Foetus [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a rape victim’s father seeking medical termination of a 27-week-old foetus after a panel of 8 doctors from KEM Hospital in Mumbai recommended that the victim should be directed to continue with the pregnancy.In 2017, an FIR was registered against the accused for the offence punishable under Section 376 of IPC and under sections 4, 8 and...

Delhi Judicial Service Assn Condemns Lawyers’ Strike, Says Judges Suffer In Silence [Read Resolution]

The Delhi Judicial Services Association (DJSA) has condemned the lawyers’ strike in all six district courts of Delhi on Friday over alleged misbehaviour of judicial officers, saying the same is an attempt to overawe and browbeat the judges.“The baseless allegations of misconduct and corruption are condemnable. We unanimously resolve that judges remain and easy target for those who wish...

HC Restricts Bursting Of Firecrackers To 3 Hrs In Punjab, Haryana, C’garh On Diwali Day [Read Order]

This Diwali, the people of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will get to burst firecrackers only for three hours with the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday restricting the same within 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm on October 19, with total ban on any such indulgence before or after Diwali.A bench of Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice Amit Rawal directed: “The bursting of firecrackers within...

No Politics In Educational Institutions: Kerala HC [Read Order]

A Division Bench of Kerala High Court on Friday observed that Educational Institutions are meant for imparting education and not politics.In an interim order, the bench of Chief Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh and Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan also held that political activities like Dharna, hunger strikes and other practices like Sathyagrah have no place in a constitutional democracy, much less...

Bombay HC Strikes Down MoEF Notification That Transferred All Cases From Goa At NGT Western Zone To New Delhi

In a highly significant judgment, the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has struck down a notification of the Ministry of Environment and Forests dated August 10, 2017, wherein all matters relating to the State of Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, before the National Green Tribunal, Western Zone in Pune, were transferred to the principal bench in New Delhi.In a 47-page judgment passed...

Delhi HC Sets Aside JNU's Disciplinary Action Against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban, 12 Others [Read Judgment]

The Court has set aside Appellate Order dated August 22, 2016,and the matter is remanded back to the Appellate Authority to pass a reasoned order as expeditiously as possible preferably within six weeks thereafter,The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside the disciplinary action taken by the Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) against 15 of its students, including former JNUSU president...