BMC Polls: Bombay HC Tells Civic Bodies To Ensure Permission Details Are Displayed On Hoardings [Read Order]

Ahead of the Brihanmumbai municipal elections to be held on Tuesday, a division bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai of the Bombay High Court on Thursday passed some directions that would have a significant impact on the display of illegal hoardings by political parties during the civic polls.Previously, the bench, in a 97-page judgment, had laid down certain procedures to...

2008 Malegaon Blast Case: NIA Opposes Colonel Prasad Purohit’s Bail In The Bombay HC

Today the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) counsel Sandesh Patil argued against the appeal filed by Lt. Colonel Prasad Purohit in the Bombay high Court following the rejection of Purohit’s bail application by the Special NIA Court in September last year.The division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Dr.Shalini Phansalkar Joshi gave a patient hearing to Purohit’s counsel...

Loot Of Ocean Wealth By Foreign Vessels: Kerala HC Asks RBI, Coast Guard, Centre, States To Reply To PIL [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday asked Reserve Bank of India, Coast Guard, Centre and state governments to respond to a petition alleging looting of India’s ocean wealth by foreign vessels violating law.A division bench of high court comprising Justice Thottathil Radhakrishnan and Justice Devan Ramachandran was hearing a public interest litigation by Salim seeking directions to...

Rape Case Can’t Be Quashed On The Ground That Accused Married Victim: Karnataka HC [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has recently held that it has no power under Section 482 of CrPC for quashing of criminal proceedings for serious offence like rape, on the ground of settlement between an offender and a victim.Justice John Michael Cunha was hearing a joint petition filed by the accused and victim seeking quashing of proceedings pending before the Special Court under Section 366A and...

Law Ministry Writes To High Court Chiefs Seeking Implementation Of E-Courts Project [Read Letter]

Union Minister of State for Law and Justice PP Chaudhary has written to Chief justices of all High Courts urging them to establish a mechanism in order to send feedback on the e-Courts system on a regular basis, in order to improve the system further.Chaudhary has sought to know the challenges faced by judges and judicial officers in using the current e-Courts system so that necessary changes...

Gujarat HC Slams State Police For favouring Ex-BJP MP Solanki, Transfers Probe To CID [Read Judgment]

“I take notice of the fact that the writ applicant belongs to the minority community. The incident, like the case at hand, could have easily triggered communal tension to spread across the state”, said Justice Pardiwala.The Gujarat High Court has made some stark observations while hearing a writ petition seeking an FIR to be registered against former BJP MP from Junagadh, Dinu...

Minutes Of Bar Council Meetings Can’t Be Put In Public Domain: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has held that the minutes of full house meetings of the Bar Council cannot be disclosed and put in public domain or on the council’s website.Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, while allowing an appeal filed by Delhi Bar Council against an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC), held that the CIC clearly fell in error in issuing the direction of putting all...

Advocate Files PIL Against Bombay HC’s Ban On Mobile Phones Inside Courtrooms

Advocate Vinay Gangwal has filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court against the decision of the Court to prohibit use of mobile phones and any other recording devices inside courtrooms.Although the Chief Justice was not sitting today, Gangwal confirmed to Livelaw that the matter will be mentioned before her bench tomorrow.The February 13 notice that exempts lawyers, states- “The defaulters...

Dishonest And Corruption Should Not Affect Honest Citizens, Says City Court, Orders Inquiry Into Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation [Read Judgment]

Reflecting that there was evidence of "gross abuse and misuse" by "concerned officials" of the Delhi Industrial Development Corporation (DSIDC), a city court has said it would be in "the interest of justice that an inquiry....against such erring and "high-handed" officials. The court granted the Head/ Chairman of DSIDC three months to complete investigations.The court has further said that...

Senior Advocate MN Krishnamani Passes Away

Senior Advocate and former president of Supreme Court Bar Association MN Krishnamani passed away.He breathed his last at Banglore today this morning."Mr. MN Krishnamani, Senior Advocate was not only excellent in his personal pursuit but had lot of credence in the spiritual field. He was a devoted Sai Baba follower and had also authored several spiritual books.My Executive Committee and...

NPPA Fixes Ceiling Price For Coronary Stents [Read Notification]

In a significant move towards affordable healthcare, the government has slashed the prices of coronary stents by 80 per cent.The ceiling price of bare metal stents has been fixed at Rs. 7,260 and that of drug eluting stents (DES), including metallic DES and bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS)/ biodegradable stents at Rs. 29,600.The much-awaited notification issued by the...

Nursery Admissions: Delhi HC Stays Neighbourhood Criteria [Read Judgment]

In a major relief to parents seeking nursery admissions for their child in the state of Delhi, Justice Manmohan of the Delhi High Court has granted a stay on the notification issued by the Delhi Government wherein it was stated that nursery admissions would preferentially be given to students who reside in the same neighbourhood as their school.These two notifications were issued on December...