Once A Superior Court Grants Bail, Red Corner Notice Issued Later Can’t Be Used To Rearrest For The Same Crime: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has quashed and set aside an order of a metropolitan magistrate rejecting the bail application of a man arrested from the Mumbai international airport pursuant to a red corner notice issued against him, terming it illegal.Justice AM Badar heard the criminal writ petition filed by Navinchandra Gangadhar Hegde, who was accused of offences under sections 419 (cheating...

Ryan Int’l Murder Case: P&H HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Ryan Group CEO, His Parents [Read Order]

The Ryan Group CEO and his parents on Thursday were granted interim protection from arrest by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in connection with the murder of 7-year old Pradhyuman Thakur.Ryan Pinto, Augustine Pinto and Grace Pinto were granted interim relief till October 7.The Pintos were represented by senior advocates RS Cheema and Randeep Rai along with Sandeep Kapur, advocate &...

Delhi HC Puts On Hold Appointment/ Promotion Of Guest Teachers Till Oct 11 [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has put a stop on the appointment and promotion of guest teachers till October 11 at a time when the Delhi government is getting ready to table a Bill for regularization of guest teachers in the Assembly on October 4.Justice AK Chawla directed the government to maintain a status quo after the government counsel expressed ignorance on whether the Bill would cover those...

Don't Make Witnesses, Especially Doctors, Wait: Judge Tells Subordinates [Read Circular]

Great thinker Bentham had once said: "Witnesses are the eyes and ears of justice."Last year, the Delhi High Court had said witnesses should be treated with due respect and not put to inconvenience and that making them wait for hours in courts is not judicious.However, as on date, any person familiar with the business of trial court would know how time-consuming the affair recording of...

47 Tihar Inmates Allege Human Rights Violation, Delhi HC Orders ‘Fair’ Probe [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has ordered ‘fair’ probe into the allegations of 47 prisoners that their human rights were violated by the jail authorities who tortured them and beat them up mercilessly and did not care to provide any medical treatment while also barring access to their families to meet them.A bench of Justice GS Sistani and Justice Chander Shekhar has ordered the...

Kerala HC Quashes Appointment Of Five State Information Commissioners [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court has quashed the appointment of five State Information Commissioners (SICs), holding that the entire decision-making process from beginning to the end stood vitiated.The candidates for appointment as SICs were shortlisted by the statutory committee comprising the Chief Minister and another Cabinet Minister of the previous government. The then leader of Opposition had...

Delhi Court Grants Bail To Retd. Orissa HC Judge I.M. Quddusi In Medical College Bribery Case

A Delhi Court has reportedly granted bail to former Judge of Orissa High Court, Justice I.M. Quddusi in a corruption case.Mr. Quddusi was granted bail by Special Judge Manoj Jain on a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh and a surety of a like amount. Another accused, Mr. Bhawna Pandey has also been granted interim bail for one week. The Bail pleas of Mr. B.P. Yadav and Mr. Palash Yadav, who manage...

Local Body Tax Leviable On SIM Cards & Recharge Coupons, Not On E-Recharge: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

In a partial relief to telecom giant Bharti Airtel, the Bombay High Court has held that local body tax (LBT) cannot be levied on e-recharge, but the court also held that the same can be levied on SIM cards and recharge coupons once those enter within the municipal limits of any part of the state.A bench of Justice AS Oka and Vibha Kankanwadi had earlier heard a petition filed by Bharti Airtel...

AAP’s Raghav Chadha Rightly Summoned, Says HC; Trial Court To Decide If Retweet Can Make One Liable For Defamation [Read Order]

Observing that a retweet brings the contents of original tweet into immediate attention of the followers of the user who retweets, the Delhi High Court has dismissed the petition of AAP spokesperson Raghav Chadha challenging the summons issued to him in a defamation case filed by Union Minister Arun Jaitley while leaving it to the trial court to decide if retweeting would attract liability...

Bombay HC Quashes FIR Against Ceramic Artist Vineet Kacker Accused Of Hurting Religious Sentiments [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has quashed the FIR filed against award winning ceramic artist Vineet Kacker, who was accused of hurting religious sentiments during one of his exhibitions.Mr. Kacker had organized a show titled ‘(R)evolution, A Solo Exhibition of New Ceramic’ at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya in September, 2008. The exhibition comprised of three ceramic and cast...

As Honeypreet Goes Forum Shopping To Evade Arrest, Delhi HC Refuses Anticipatory Bail [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Honeypreet alias Priyanka, the adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.Honeypreet has been evading arrest and while the probe agencies have been looking for her all this while, she moved Delhi High Court seeking protection from arrest.She is wanted in a case of sedition for inciting...

Child Rights Body Uses Privacy Clause To Refuse Info, CIC Says Nothing Private Except Children’s Names [Read Order]

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has come under severe criticism from the Central  Information Commission (CIC) for maintaining secrecy about the number of complaints received by it, cases where accused have been found guilty and the relief granted, as sought to be known through an RTI application filed by one Ajit Kumar Singh.Central Information Commissioner...