All Thanks To The ‘Benevolent’ Justice Vazifdar, Justice Saron Takes Charge As Acting Chief Justice Of Punjab And Haryana High Court [Read Notification]

Senior-most Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Surinder Singh Saron took charge of the Court as the Acting Chief Justice from Monday.A notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice stated that Justice Saron would perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court from 21 August to 29 August.The appointment was made, after Chief Justice...

MP HC Serves Notices On Plea For Probe Into Domicile Of Candidates Admitted To Medical, Dental Courses [Read Petition]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday served notices on a petition seeking direction to trace and cancel admission of candidates who belonged to other states allegedly deceitfully secured admission on the seats of state quota by furnishing wrong information of their domicile.The issue pertains to the admissions of MBBS and BDS courses through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - NEET UG...

In A First, Delhi HC Orders DU To Conduct MPhil Exam For Visually Impaired Who Missed Train [Read Judgment]

In a first, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Delhi University to conduct within ten days an entrance examination for the visually challenged youth who missed taking the M Phil Sanskrit entrance test as he could not board the only railway coach reserved for disabled persons.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar had taken up the matter suo motu after...

Ideology Has Taken The Place Of Idealism These Days: Gopal Subramanium

Ideology has taken the place of idealism these days: Thus senior advocate and former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanium began his lecture on ‘Public Interest Litigation’ at the High Court of Kerala recently.The lecture was part of the Lecture Series held by the court on the occasion of its diamond jubilee celebrations.Contextualising the talk in the backdrop of rising trends...

Delhi HC Tells Centre To Allow Brothers Pursue Higher Studies In US Without J-1 Visa [Read Order]

Clearing the roadblock for two brothers who aspired to pursue higher education from a foreign university but for visa tussle, the Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to process their application for disbursement of scholarship without insisting on them obtaining a J-1 visa, which provides for a mandatory two-year home country stay on completion of the course.Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked...

Bombay HC Denies Relief To Law Student Who Sought Transfer To Aided Institution From Unaided One [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has denied relief to one Utsav Sodha, a law student who cleared his first-year examinations from Pravin Gandhi College (unaided) and sought admission to Government Law College (aided) in the second year.Once the petitioner law student applied for the said transfer to GLC, his application was forwarded to the Directorate of Higher Education. Since the same was pending,...

MP HC Allows Plea Against Life Term By Condoning 277-Day Delay [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has allowed an application filed by a person for condonation of delay in filing appeal against the life imprisonment awarded to him in a murder case.The court found there is a delay of 277 days in filing the appeal.While hearing an application, a division bench comprising Justice SK Gangele and Justice Rajeev Kumar Dubey said: “The Trial Court awarded sentence...

Court Can’t Be Mute Spectator To Job Sharks, Says Bombay HC; Denies Anticipatory Bail Plea

Taking a tough stance on ‘sharks’ who prey on helpless unemployed youth, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to one Ramesh Bapurao Rangari, who has been accused of defrauding a boy by taking money from him in promise of a job.Justice VM Deshpande was hearing an anticipatory bail application filed by Rangari.Applicant’s lawyer AR Wagh...

High Courts Weekly Round- Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court recently reiterated the law laid down a full Bench of the Court, wherein it was held that the benefit of reservation cannot be provided in promotions, if there are less than five sanctioned posts available.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently held that the New Pension Scheme brought in by the state government, through a Government...

FCAT Okays Documentary On Arvind Kejriwal Without NOC From Political Figures Or Cuts Sought By CBFC [Read Order]

The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) has given a go-ahead to the release of a documentary film on the political debut of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party with UA certification, while setting aside the order of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) calling for NOC from political personalities depicted in the film.The makers of film Yeh...

Despite Collection Of Crores Of Rupees As Taxes, Public Isn't Getting Good Roads And Is Suffering: Gujarat HC [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court recently expressed dismay at the state of roads in the city of Ahmedabad, and granted Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation four weeks' time to come up with a vigilance inquiry report on contracts and work orders over the damage sustained by city roads."It appears that though crores of rupees are spent by the Corporation out of the public money (the tax recovered from...

A Major Girl May Opt For A Criminal, Convict, A Person Of Different Religion/Caste To Marry, Court Can't Resist Her Choice: Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court on 24th July 2017 held that when a major girl exercises her fundamental rights under Article 21 of the Constitution by choosing her partner, the court cannot resist such expression of opinion.“Becoming a major gives them the authority to exercise all their rights as a citizen and once they attain the age of marriage, they can choose their partner. The choice may not be...