Kerala HC Disposes PIL For E-Payment Facility For Payment Of Registration Fee, After Positive Response From Govt. [Read Judgment]

In response to a public interest litigation filed before the Kerala High Court, the Registration Department of Kerala Government has said presently registration fee is being collected both by cash and demand draft.Veena Raveendran had filed a Public Interest Litigation through Advocate Santhosh Mathew seeking a direction to the department to permit the payment of registration fee...

Age Limit For Studying Law: Bombay HC To Wait For Report By BCI Constituted Committee Reviewing Rule 28 [Read BCI Affidavit]

The petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Bar Council of India’s circular reviving the age limit rule, came up for hearing today before the bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice GS Kulkarni of the Bombay High Court.BCI’s counsel Amit Sale submitted that the sub-committee appointed by the Legal Education Committee of BCI will be furnishing a report...

Simply Putting Sindoor And Mangalsutra Does Not Validate A Marriage Under The Hindu Marriage Act Holds Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held that simply performing two rites, that of Sindoor and Mangalsutra, does not make a marriage valid.The division bench of Justices BP Dharmadhikari and Swapna Joshi passed the judgement dated January 31, 2017 after hearing an appeal filed against an order of the Family Court, Nagpur allowing the petition filed by the 36 year old respondent...

Aircel- Maxis Case: CBI Court Discharges Dayanidhi Maran And Brother [Read Order]

A Special CBI Court on Thursday discharged Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother and Managing Director of Sun Group Kalanithi Maran and others in the Aircel-Maxis deal cases lodged by CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).“In view of the above discussion I am satisfied that the entire case is based on the misreading of the official files, contradictory statements of...

Officer’s ACR Is Part Of His ‘Service Record’: SC [Read Judgment]

Delay in preparing ACR not a ground to ignore it for purpose of promotion, the bench saidThe Supreme Court, in P Sivanandi vs Rajeev Kumar, has held that the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of an officer forms a part of his ‘service record’.A bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Prafulla C Pant also held that the ACR could not be ignored for the purposes of his promotion...

In A First An Indian Court Upholds The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ [Read Order]

In the Internet age access to information is quick and procuring personal information or antecedents of an individual is much easier. Acknowledging this fact and the sensitive nature of case in hand, the Karnataka High Court in a landmark judgment recently has accepted, applied and approved the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in Indian context.The “right to be forgotten” or “the right to...

Can't Interfere In Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Scheme: MP HC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana is the ‘non-statutory scheme’ thus any change of the road route plan for construction of road under the scheme need no indulgence.The issue of change in road route plan was challenged in a PIL where the original plan was to construct road under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana connecting four villages Dhob,...

Purpose Of S.8(3) Of Representation Of People Act To Keep Away Convicts From Contesting Elections: Bombay HC [Read Order]

A single bench of the Bombay High Court has held that the object of the legislature in enacting Section 8(3) of the Representation of People Act was to keep away convicts from contesting elections.Justice AM Badar rejected an application seeking a stay on the conviction of the applicant under S. 307(Attempt to murder) of the IPC by the sessions court in Pune. The stay was sought so that...

Himachal High Court Judge Resigned [Read Notification]

Himachal Pradesh High Court Judge Justice Piar Singh Rana tendered his resignation from the office with effect from 2nd January, 2017.He was sworn in as an Additional Judge of Himachal Pradesh High Court on 5th May 2014.Read the notification here.This article has been made possible because of financial support from Independent and Public-Spirited Media...

Anna Hazare Files Police Complaint On Rs.25,000-Cr Co-op Sugar Factory Scam In Maharashtra

Social activist Anna Hazare has filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police highlighting alleged irregularities in the state’s cooperative sugar factories. He has alleged that senior officials were involved in a scam regarding illegal erection, loan-sanction, and sale of cooperative sugar factories in Maharashtra worth Rs.25,000 crore.Anna Hazare had earlier filed a criminal public...

Trial Court Acquits Pragya Thakur In Sunil Joshi Murder Case

The First Additional Sessions Court in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, on Wednesday  acquitted Pragya Singh Thakur along with seven others in a murder case of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) parcharak Sunil Joshi for lack of evidence.The 49-page order is in Hindi, in which judge Rajeev M Apte said [translated]:“For reasons not known to the court, the Industrial Area Police of Madhya Pradesh...

Madras HC Issues Notice To Justice Radhakrishnan, 3 Others Over PETA Award [Read Affidavit]

A Supreme Court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose had banned Tamil Nadu’s centuries-old jallikattu in 2014.A two-judge bench of the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) has issued notice to former Supreme Court judge Justice Radhakrishnan and three others in a writ petition seeking a direction to him for return of the PETA ‘Man of the Year’ Award.The bench...