Kishore Dutta To Be West Bengal’s New Advocate General

Senior advocate Kishore Dutta will be the new advocate-general of West Bengal.The appointment comes after his predecessor barrister Jayanta Mitra stepped down on Tuesday before completion of his tenure, citing ‘differences with the government’.Dutta, 49, is the second advocate after Balai Ray to be appointed to the office; all other earlier occupants were barristers.Having represented...

UN Report Recommends Deferring NHRC Accreditation Till Year End [Read Report]

In a major blow to the international standing of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recommended that its re-accreditation application be deferred till November 2017, which implies that until then, the commission would be barred from representing India in the UN’s Human Rights Council and the UN...

Kerala HC Quashes Complaint Registered Against Farmer Who Protested Against ‘Delay’ In Grant Of Electric Connection [Read Judgment]

His entry into the public office to enquire about the status of his electric connection cannot be said to be criminal trespass, the Court said.The Kerala High Court has quashed a complaint lodged against a farmer who protested by lying himself down on the floor of the office room of Assistant Agricultural Director, for not processing his application seeking an electric connection for his...

Madras HC Designates 16 Lawyers As Senior Advocates

Madras High Court has on Friday designated 16 lawyers as Senior Advocates. There are two women lawyers in the listHere is the full list: Thilakavathi K Kumarasamy Haja Nazirudeen Murugamanickam D Ravi Kumar Paul Ravindran Manishankar T.S Murthi Ayyadurai Ramakrishnan Virarahavan Sankaranarayanan Omprakash R Raman Subbiah Meenakshi Sundaram KrishnaveniAs per Section 16 of the Advocates Act...

Judicial Review In Europe: Insights From Germany: Talk By Prof (Dr) M.P. Singh At NALSAR [VIDEO]

NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism hosted Professor MP Singh, who is best known as the revising author of V.N. Shukla's textbook on Constitutional Law. He has worked extensively on German Administrative Law. The talk was held on the 3rd of February, 2017 at the R.N. Jhunjhunwala Conference Hall at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.AAProfessor Singh laid the history wide open, and...

Delhi HC Allows BSF Trooper In Viral Video To Meet Wife In Samba

BSF constable Tej Bahadur Yadav’s video highlighting the substandard food provided to the force in their camp had gone viral in social media on January 9. His family was not able to contact him from February 7. Apprehending illegal confinement of husband, his wife Sharmila Devi knocked the Delhi High Court door against the government.Putting an end to all speculations, the court on...

Accused Can’t Be Subjected To Voice Spectrography Test: Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court has recently held that though voice spectrography test is not violative of Article 20(3) of the Constitution of India, it is not permissible to subject an accused to it, in the absence of any specific provision empowering the police officer or the court in law.Justice JB Padiwala considered the following questions in the case:(1) Whether calling upon the accused to lend...

Shops Can’t Charge Extra VAT On Items Sold On Discount: NCDRC [Read Order]

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission recently ruled that shops cannot charge extra VAT on items sold on discounted price, observing that the MRP on the product includes all taxes, and hence it was not open for the trader to impose VAT again on the discounted price.The question to be considered by the Commission was whether the Petitioners had indulged in unfair trade practice...

MP HC Frames Charges Against Contemnor Over False Allegations Against Chief Justice And Judges [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has sought reply from a contemnor for accusing the chief justice and other judges without any oral or documentary evidence.The contemnor in a written reply to the criminal contempt against him alleged they (the high court judges) are conspiring against him with a view to prevent the delivery of certified copies/documents in the “planned and strategic...

Budget Session Adjourned Till Mar. 9

Both the Houses were adjourned on Thursday, for recess of 27 days, to reassemble on March 9, to enable department-related standing committees to examine the demands for grants relating to various ministries/departments. As the first part of the Budget Session comes to rest, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananthkumar said in terms of utilisation of time, the productivity of the...

Bombay HC Restrains MMRDA And BMC From Cutting Trees For Metro Project, Suggests Independent Committee To Oversee Removal Of Trees [Read Order]

The division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice GS Kulkarni restrained the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority(MMRDA) and BMC(Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) from cutting trees for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz metro line project, also known as Line 3.The approximate number of trees proposed to be cut down for this metro Line 3 is 5000. The bench is hearing a couple...

Allahabad HC Permits 20 Overage Students To Take CLAT [Read Order]

The High Court of Allahabad on Thursday permitted around 70 aspirants older than 20 years to apply for the Common Law Admission Test, in derogation of the BCI Rules setting an upper age limit for taking the test.As reported by LegallyIndia, the order came on a Petition filed by Advocate Sushmita Mukherjee in November last year. The Bench, comprising Justice Dilip Babasaheb...