Fixing Time Limit For Using Treadmill Decline In Service, Gagging Complainants Against Consumer Protection Act: Delhi State Commission Comes Down on Int'l Health Club

The Delhi State Consumer Commission has held a global health club operator deficient in service, as it fixed timing for using treadmill to accommodate more members to make more profit and, thereafter, gagging two of its members (complainants) for raising the issue of quality by cancelling their membership.NP Kaushik, judicial member of Delhi State Commission, held health club operator...

SC Directs Centre And Karnataka To Clarify Doubts Over Forest-Environment Clearance For Kalsa-Bhandura Project in Western Ghats

The Supreme Court’s Green Bench of Justices Madan B.Lokur and Deepak Gupta, today directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the State of Karnataka to file affidavits, within one week, as to whether the State has filed an application for forest and environment clearance in relation to the Kalsa-Bhandura project in Western Ghats, and if so, the stage...

“Rules Of Game Cannot Be Changed After Game Is Over”: Delhi HC Reiterates [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently reiterated the settled position of law that selection criteria cannot be changed after the admission process is over.“The rules of the game cannot be changed after the game is over. The competent authority, if the statutory rules do not restrain, is fully competent to prescribe minimum qualifying marks for written examination as well as for interview, but...

Overlap Of Jurisdiction: Delhi HC Stays Order Of Committee Of Privileges Seeking PWD Pr. Secy’s Appearance

Considering the question of overlap of jurisdiction, the Delhi High Court has stayed a notice issued by the Committee of Privileges of Delhi Assembly to PWD Principal Secretary Ashwani Kumar over a report of misrepresentation of facts pertaining to de-silting of drains in the city before a panel (Committee of Petitions) formed on the orders of the high court.A bench of Acting Chief Justice...

NGT Notice To UP Govt On Party Halls, Wedding Farmhouses On Green Belt

The National Green Tribunal has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and the Ghaziabad District Magistrate on the alleged operation of wedding farmhouses/ banquet halls in Ghaziabad in the green belt area using depleting underground water and without any consent under the Air and the Water Act, thereby, causing various forms of pollution.The tribunal issued notice on a petition moved...

Delhi HC Comes To The Rescue Of 75-Year-Old DU Professor; Saves Him From Hardships Of A Re-Enquiry [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently came to the rescue of a 75-year-old Delhi University (DU) Professor, who had challenged an order passed by DU’s Executive Council in March, 2002 whereby he was disengaged from the services of the University after sexual harassment charges had emerged against him.While holding that the enquiry against Prof. S.P. Narang had violated principles of natural...

IDIA Continues Its Crusade; Unleashes New Public Interest Initiative

IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education) has been a pioneer in the struggle for elimination of inequities in education. Since its inception, IDIA has not just reached out to several marginalized and under-represented groups, helping them dream a dream that was until now the privilege of only a handful, it has also helped several such dreamers to achieve...

Bombay HC Upholds Rejection Of Caste Claim Of Student Identified As OBC In TN, But Not In M’rashtra [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by a 20-year-old engineering student whose admission was rejected by the Directorate of Technical Education for failing to comply with the OBC category.A bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Riyaz Chagla dismissed the petition holding that caste of ‘Nadar’, listed as OBC in Tamil Nadu, cannot be treated as OBC in...

New CIC Bench To Hear Complaints Against Political Parties For Not Complying RTI, Prof. Sridhar Not In the Bench

Chief Information Commissioner RK Mathur has reconstituted a larger bench to hear complaints against six national political parties – BJP, Congress, BSP, NCP, CPI, CPM – for not complying with the CIC order which brought them under the purview of the RTI Act. Surprisingly Prof. Sridhar Acharyulu, who headed the earlier bench is not included in the new BenchThe new bench comprises RK...

Delhi HC Grants Interim Relief To NDTV Against Coercive Action Of I-T Dept [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has granted interim relief to NDTV, which has been served Income Tax notice of Rs. 428 crore and has been asked to pay up the amount “immediately now”, observed that no coercive action should be taken against the media house.“The requirement that it (tax) should be paid ‘immediately now’, the petitioner would be subjected to hardship and prejudice if such an...

Mumbai Traffic Police Apprises HC Of Steps Taken To Curb Corruption & Ensure Transparency [Read Affidavit]

In a PIL filed by retired police constable Sunil Toke alleging rampant corruption in the police department and seeking prosecution of such officers, the Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Amitesh Kumar has filed an affidavit laying down several steps that have already been taken to curb the corruption in the Traffic police department and ensure transparency.This affidavit was filed before...

Kolkata Hit-And-Run Case: HC Raps Trial Court For Discharging Ex-MLA [Read Judgment]

The Calcutta High Court last week ordered trial of former RJD MLA Mohd. Sohrab for allegedly shielding his son Sambia who has been accused of killing an IAF corporal in a hit-and-run case last year during the Republic Day parade rehearsal.Justice Joymalya Bagchi also directed framing of charges under Section 212 (harboring an offender) of the Indian Penal Code against Sambia’s friends,...