Bombay HC Reserves Order On Sadhvi Pragya’s Appeal Against Bail Rejection

The Bombay High Court on Monday reserved its order while hearing an appeal filed by Pragya Singh Thakur, main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.Thakur’s appeal is against the rejection of her bail application by the Special NIA Court last year.A bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi had reserved their order last week in Colonel Prasad Purohit’s appeal...

Big Relief To Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth As ITAT Holds ‘Propagation Of Yoga’ As Medical Relief [Read Order]

The Delhi bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has granted exemption status under Sections 11 and 12 of the Income Tax Act to Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth and held that propagation of yoga qualifies as medical relief.Challenging the order of the Commissioner, the assessee had contended before the bench that the authority erred in holding that Yogpeeth’s activities in...

Rajasthan HC Allows Sentences In 32 Cheque Cases To Run Concurrently [Read Order]

In a recent Case, Rajasthan High Court has invoked the power under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure to grant relief to a petitioner, who faced 35 years of jail cumulatively on account of conviction sustained in 32 different cheque cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.Justice Vijay Bishnoi granted relief to Rajendar, who approached the high court for the...

Sexual Harassment At Workplaces: Internal Complaints Committee Must Give Definite Conclusion: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has recently held that the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, must give a definite conclusion regarding the guilt of the person involved in the incident.Justice Valmiki Mehta was hearing a petition filed by Ashok Kumar Singh against the report of...

Bombay HC Expunges Remarks In Controversial Bail Order [Read Order]

Justice Sadhna Jadhav of the Bombay High Court has expunged her remarks and observations which were made while granting bail to a man accused of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter.The reasoning given for the bail order was- “She has admitted that she used to do all dirty things. It appears that she was inherently abnormal and had sexual instincts right from her childhood, in...

Disclose Godse’s Statement Before Court In Gandhi Assassination Trial: CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission on Thursday directed that the statement of Nathuram Godse, along with other relevant records related to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, be “proactively disclosed” on the website of the National Archives.“The Right to Information is intrinsic in this fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression as held by Supreme Court in several...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court quashed proceedings initiated post notice under Section 13(4) of The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 as the said notice was issued without duly informing the debtor about the auction of property and subsequent sale. Bombay High CourtGranting interim relief to authorised fair...

Consent Of Drunk Woman For Sex Invalid: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has held that when rape is defined under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, the term “without her consent” has a wider meaning and covers a broader area of her wish to have sexual intercourse.It observed: “In the case of rape, intoxication cannot be an excuse. If a girl is intoxicated, it means mentally she is not capable to give a free and conscious consent. In...

Statutory Provisions Can't Be Overlooked On The Ground Of Delay: MP HC

The Madhya Pradesh High Court declined to pass order overlooking the statutory provisions merely because the matter is pending for more than fourteen years.The court turned down the objection of social worker P G Najpandey against the prayer of district administration seeking six months more time to regularize the dairy farms.The social worker pointed the petition is pending for more than...

Rape And Murder Of Minor Daughter: MP HC Commutes Death Sentence To Life Imprisonment [Read Judgment]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has commuted a death sentence to life imprisonment of a man convicted in rape and murder of his minor daughter for his case do not fall in rarest or rare category.According to the court mitigating facts and circumstances in the case show the man sentenced to gallows is not a hardcore criminal or threat /menace to the society or antisocial element and have no...

MP High Court Dismisses Plea For CLAT Retest [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed a petition filed by a student who had appeared for the Common Law Admission Test(CLAT) 2015 as she sought the examination to be conducted again. Court said the petition was “merit-less”.The division bench of Justice Ravi Shankar Jha and Justice Ashok Kumar Joshi was hearing a writ petition filed by a law aspirant who contended that she was given...

George Gadbois, Scholar Of The Indian Judiciary Passes Away

George H. Gadbois Jr., the preeminent scholar of India’s judiciary and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, passed away last night at his home in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 80.Born near Boston, George left home at 17 to serve the U.S. army in Taiwan. As a returning GI, he studied political science at Duke where he focused on Asia, India in particular....