Madras HC Rejects PIL Against Housing Scheme For Grade-I IAS Officers [Read Judgment]

The Madras High Court, in P Pugalenthi vs The State of Tamil Nadu and another, has quashed a PIL filed by Pugalenthi, an advocate by profession, against a scheme “Own Your Housing Scheme” floated by the Tamil Nadu Government, vide which a special benefit was made available to Grade-I IAS officers of owning a house at an affordable cost.Pugalenthi had earlier argued that the scheme makes...

Bombay HC Rejects Chaggan Bhujbal's Habeas Corpus Petition [Read Judgment]

A division bench of the Bombay High Court rejected former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Chaggan Bhujbal’s petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus against his arrest. Bhujbal was arrested on March 14 this year by the Enforcement Directorate after he was booked under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.A PIL was filed by the Aam Admi Party in...

Tata Group V. Mistry: Minority Investors Cite Fiduciary Rules Under Companies Act, Challenge Nusli Wadia's Removal

Three minority shareholders in Tata Chemicals, Tata Motors and Tata Steel have filed a suit at the Bombay High Court challenging the removal of Nusli Wadia as an Independent Director by Tata Sons. Today, the single bench of Justice SJ Kathawalla directed the plaintiffs to provide a copy of the plaint to the Centre.The plaintiffs who are non-promoter shareholders in these three companies...

State Cannot Direct Minority Institutions To Absorb Teachers: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held that minority institutions cannot be directed by the state government to absorb surplus employees from other institutions. Concurrence is mandatory for such an absorption to take place.Divison bench of Justices Vasanti Nayak and Swapna Joshi were hearing a writ petition filed by a minority institution challenging orders from Education Officer,...

Prosecutors Not Paid Even A Single Penny For Past 11 Months: Delhi HC Slams Govt [Read Order]

How can the State expect the requisite assistance to be rendered by the counsel to courts if they have not been paid for over almost 11 months now, asked the bench. The Delhi High Court has slammed the government for not paying salary to assistant public prosecutors.A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice PS Teji was hearing a petition relating to the welfare of families...

Unfortunate That Writ Jurisdiction Is Treated As Panacea For All Ills: Karnataka HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court, in V Dhamodaran and others vs. Bruhat Bangalore Mahangar Palike and others, has dismissed writ petitions filed by V Dhamodaran, K Srinivasa Reddy and SM Shivkumara against the alleged illegal construction of builders, including public bodies such as Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BMMP), Assistant Director of Town Planning, Deputy Commissioner of BMMP, etc.One of...

Bombay HC Rejects Demonetisation Argument, Allows IDBI Bank Employees To Protest

Bombay High Court has directed IDBI Bank to allow its own employees to protest peacefully within the premises of the bank at the World Trade Centre in Cuffe Parade. The bank had filed a suit seeking interim reliefs against the protesting bank employees who are seeking a revision in salary. They contend that their salaries have not been revised for the past four years.Appearing for the...

Allahabad HC Tells State Govt To Frame Policy On Grant-In-Aid To Unaided Institutions [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court, in Thakur Ramnath Singh Prathamik Pathshala And Another Vs. State Of U.P. And 3 Others, has directed the state government of UP to frame a policy in relation to grant-in-aid to unaided institutions in the light of the Constitutional mandate and Article 21-A.In this case, the writ petition was filed for a direction upon the state government of UP to take the...

Wrong Answer Key Can’t Be Held Sacrosanct & Beyond Judicial Review: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court has recently held that the very object of conducting the test would stand defeated, in case a wrong answer key is held to be sacrosanct and beyond judicial review.A division bench comprising Justice Dilip Gupta and Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta was hearing a batch of petitions questioning the result of the Combined State/Upper Subordinate Services (General...

Bombay HC Reminds Bar Members Of Their Duty As Law’s Custodians [Read Judgment]

Justice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court has urged Bar members to be mindful of their duty as officials of the court as “judges need the Bar and look to it for a dispassionate guidance through the law’s thickets”.Justice Patel made these observations while pronouncing a judgment on an application filed in a suit regarding a property dispute between family members.While Sanjay Jain...

Tata Industries’ EGM Votes Out Cyrus Mistry As Company Director

Sacked as the chairman of Tata Sons earlier this year, Cyrus Mistry has now been removed from the post of director of Tata Industries.The decision was taken through a vote taken at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) called for the purpose. Six Tata Group companies called EGMs to remove him as the director.Tata Sons interim chairman Ratan Tata had last week in a letter to the...

TN Govt To Sanction 1,344 Addl Judicial Posts

The Tamil Nadu government has agreed to approve 1,344 additional posts for state judicial staff. The Madras High Court was informed that a file on additional posts was sent for approval to the competent authority and assured that the necessary sanctions would be obtained within the calendar year. The court has listed the matter for further hearing on January 6, 2017.In an affidavit filed...