Machil Fake Encounter: AFT Gives Bail to 5-ex Army Men On Life Term,Says Victims Were Dressed Like Terrorist In Pathan Suit [Read Order]

The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has granted bail to five of the six Army personnel sentenced to life imprisonment in the Machil fake encounter case of 2010.The tribunal held that it could not be ruled out that the victims, three Kashmiri civilians, were terrorists since they were at a forward formation at Line of Control wearing pathan suits as worn by terrorists.A bench of Justice VK Shali...

MPHC Dismisses Plea Challenging SBI’s Tender To Engage Caretaker Services For ATMs In MP And CG [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the tender floated by the State Bank of India for the caretaker services for the ATM sites in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.The tender was released on 17.1.2017.The argument of the petitioners was the caretaker services are in fact, assignment of job of security guards while as per the present tender conditions, the charges...

Major Takeaways From Mumbai’s ‘International Conference On Women Trafficking’ & The Road Ahead

The two-day international conference on women trafficking held in Mumbai by the Maharashtra State Commission for Women (MSCW) in partnership with the International Justice Mission, India (IJM) concluded on Friday.There were many distinguished speakers at the event, including Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, State Minister for Women & Child Development Vijaya Rahatkar, who is also the...

Delhi HC Tells Police To Assess Level Of Threats To Timarpur MLA [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Delhi Police to assess the level of threat to Pankaj Pushkar, MLA from Timarpur, who moved the high court seeking protection after he received abusive messages and threat to his life and that of his family.Justice Vinod Goel directed the police to analyse the threats received by Pushkar who sought protection for his family and himself, and also for...

Chhattisgarh HC Asks TRAI, BSNL To Put Issue Of Hiking Min Internet Speed Before DoT [Read Petition]

The Chhattisgarh High Court has directed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to place before the Centre (Department of Telecom) the issue of implementation of National Telecom Policy (NTP-2012), which envisages increasing the minimum speed of broadband in India, so that requisite steps can be taken to revive internet speed.A bench of Chief Justice...

MP HC Dismisses Cong Leader KK Mishra’s Revision Plea In Defamation Case [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a revision petition filed by Congress leader KK Mishra challenging the charges framed against him in a defamation case.The defamation case is pending against him in the lower court at Bhopal.The complaint pertained to the Congress leader’s accusations against Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his family members of allegedly involved in...

Kerala HC Closes Contempt Case Against Journo Who Alleged Corruption, Nepotism In Judicial Appointments [Read Judgment]

He offered to publish in a regional newspaper having wide circulation in Kochi, a corrective-cum-apologyThe Kerala High Court has closed a criminal contempt proceeding against a man who, in his newspaper article, alleged corruption and nepotism in judicial appointments.Jaleel TA, owned a weekly newspaper named My Kochi, and he published an article in December 2016, alleging that the collegium...

CBFC Invites The Ire Of Kerala HC Again For Refusing To Review The Movie ‘Ka Body Scapes’

Live Law earlier reported that the Kerala High Court had deprecated the refusal of CBFC Board to review the controversial movie ‘Ka Body Scapes’ for certification. The Division Bench comprising  Chief Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh and Justice Raja Vijaya Raghavan had specifically directed the CBFC Board itself to review the movie. However, in violation of the Court’s directions,...

An Assessee Cannot Be Made To Suffer Two Levies of Sales Tax And Service Tax: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

The assessment orders passed under TN VAT Act against M/s SHV Energy Pvt.Ltd. were quashed by the Madras High Court observing that the petitioner cannot be made to suffer two levies of sales tax and service tax. SHV Energy Private Ltd. provides services of terminalling and storage of LPG at Tuticorin Port. The said company pays service tax for its services under the head ‘storage...

Applicant-Jurno Has No Right To Build Pressure For Adverts By Filing RTI Pleas: CIC

While disposing of a case where the RTI applicant, the editor of a magazine, was denied a copy of complaints instituted under the Ministry of Minority Affairs against employees of  Dargah committee, Dargah Khwaja Sahib, Ajmer, the CIC has remarked that a journalist does not have the right to demand advertisements for his magazine by building pressure through RTI applications.The CPIO...

CIC Asks NCW To Pay Token Compensation Of Rs. 50K To Ex-Employee Who Complained Of Sexual Harassment [Read Order]

Appalled at the National Commission for Women (NCW) for denying human rights to their ex-contractual research assistant who was allegedly sexually harassed by its Deputy Secretary, the Central Information Commission has directed NCW to pay Rs. 50,000 compensation to the woman in 15 days, while also slapping Rs. 25,000 cost on the accused and the ex-CPIO for denying her the information...

Proceedings Under Section 138 NI Act Have Nothing To Do With Insolvency Application Under The Code: NCLT

The Kolkata Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal recently ruled that disclosure of the fact of initiation of proceedings under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act in not necessary while filing an Application for Insolvency under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016."It is to be made clear that the proceedings under section 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act is a...