2nd Year Law Student Arrested For Impersonating Justice Kurian Joseph

In a particularly bizarre incident, a 2nd year law student has reportedly been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi Police for impersonating Supreme Court Judge, Justice Kurian Joseph, and seeking a favour from UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s office.The accused, Tausif-ul-Haque, had telephoned Mr. R.N. Pandey, Principal Secretary (Law), UP, asking him to appoint his college lecturer...

Delhi HC Upholds Order Restraining DPS World Foundation Using Brand Name ‘DPS’ [Read Judgment]

It is open to the foundation to adopt trade name/mark, including the words 'Delhi' 'Public' 'School', it said. A division bench of Delhi High Court has upheld a single bench order restraining the DPS World Foundation from using the registered mark/name “DPS” or any other mark identical or deceptively similar to the registered mark of the plaintiff Delhi Public School.However, the court...

Marriage Not A Ground To Deny Compassionate Appointment To Employee’s Daughter: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

The Madurai bench of Madras High Court, in Joint Registrar/ Managing Director, Virudhunagar District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd vs P Asothai, has held that denying employment to the daughter of the deceased on the ground of marriage is violation of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution.A bench comprising Justice R Subbian and Justice J Nisha Banu was considering a writ petition...

Condition For Filing Securatisation Application: Delhi HC Stays DRAT Order

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court headed by Justice Gita Mittal on Monday stayed the order of the Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal in Vikram Bakshi v Housing Development Finance Corporation, wherein the DRAT had held that a Securitization Application under Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 could not be filed in the DRT unless physical possession of the property was handed over to...

Delhi HC Denies Bail To Anand Chauhan In PMLA Case Involving HP CM Virbhadra Singh [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, in Anand Chauhan vs Directorate of Enforcement, has held that as the applicant is accused of a scheduled offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), the court is bound by conditions relating to bail u/s  45 of the PMLA.Justice Vipin Sanghi was considering a bail application filed by LIC agent Anand Chauhan, co-accused in a money laundering...

Summer Timings Notified For Rajasthan High Court & Its Subordinate Courts

The Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur has notified new court timings for summer season. The new timings will be effective from 10th April 2017 to 2nd July 2017.The timings for summer season for Rajasthan High Court, its subordinate courts and their offices are mentioned belowRAJASTHAN HIGH COURTCOURT TIMINGS:- MORNING 8 AM TO 1 PM AND INTERVAL FROM 10.30AM TO 11.00 AMOFFICE TIMINGS:- MORNING 7.30...

Kerala HC Rejects Plea To Retain Authorised Wholesale Distributors In PDS [Read Judgment]

The scheme of the National Food Security Act, 2013, is minimal involvement of private persons, the bench observed.The Kerala High Court has rejected the plea of the Kerala Ration Wholesale Distributors Federation to retain authorised wholesale distributors (AWD) and not to shut them out totally, observing that the scheme of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and the Targeted...

Monsanto Vs Nuziveedu: Delhi HC DB Stays Restoration Of Contract

A Division Bench of Delhi High Court on Monday stayed the restoration of contract between Monsanto Inc and Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd, as per the single judge’s order on the former's patented Bt cotton technology.Monsanto has filed an appeal against a single judge ruling against it by a single judge bench.A division bench headed by Justice S. Ravindra Bhat granted the parties time to file...

Bombay HC Commutes Life Sentence Of Man Who ‘Wanted To Inflict Burns, Not Kill’ His Wife [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has commuted the life sentence of a man who poured kerosene on his wife, burnt her and later extinguished the fire with water, as he had not “anticipated that the act done by him would have such a proportion that his wife might die”.A bench of Justice VK Tahilramani and Justice MS Karnik was hearing an appeal filed by Hanumant Chavan, who was convicted by the...

SC Lawyer Jyotika Kalra Appointed As Member Of NHRC

Supreme Court Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist Jyotika Kalra has been appointed as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India by the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee.In 1990 Jyotika took up Advocacy as a profession.  In 2009 she became an Advocate-on-Record with Supreme Court of India.She represented Union of India, State of Maharashtra and National Commission...

Prisoners Have A Fundamental Right to Trade, and Profession, rules Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

An imprisoned developer wanted to sell property to the willing buyers by executing a registered sale deed. Several prayers were made before the jail authority regarding the same but it did not yield any result. The prisoner’s wife then approached the Calcutta High Court.On hearing the matter, Justice Joymalya Bagchi maintained - “Right to carry on trade and profession including right...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court has again dismissed a public interest litigation that raised objection to the name ‘Anti-Romeo Squad’, observing that it cannot indulge in argumentative interpretation of a name the government has chosen so as to hold as to whether a name is good or bad.The Lucknow bench of the High Court held that food, food habits and vending thereof...