Civil Court Can’t Decide On Challenge To Orders Passed By CISF Disciplinary Authority: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court in Union of India vs. Braham Pal Singh, has held that a civil court would have no jurisdiction to try and decide a challenge to the orders passed by the disciplinary/statutory authorities under Sections 8 and 9 of the CISF Act.Allowing the second appeal preferred by Union of India, the high court dismissed a suit filed by one Braham Pal Singh, challenging the orders passed...

Bombay HC Frowns At State's Delay In Setting Up Police Complaint Authority

While hearing a criminal writ petition today, the Bombay High Court came down heavily on the Maharashtra government for delaying the constitution of a State Police Complaint Authority committee, which was supposed to become functional by October 15.The petition filed by Bommer Limbadri Vithal seeks constitution of such an authority in accordance with the amended statutory provisions 22P and...

Granting Bail In Cases With Multiple Victims Weakens People’s Faith In Criminal Justice System: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Rejecting the bail plea of Sunil Dahiya, managing director of real estate firm Vigneshwara Group of Companies, the Delhi High Court has held that grant of bail in cases of cheating and criminal breach of trust affecting a large number of people would have an adverse impact on the trust that people repose in the criminal justice system.Holding the nature and gravity of the accusations in...

Death Row Convict Umesh Moves Karnataka HC Seeking Commutation

Infamous serial rapist Umesh Reddy has approached the Karnataka High Court seeking directions for commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment citing ‘compelling and supervening circumstances’. The petition will be heard by the division bench comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamala Mukherjee and Justice Budihal RB on Tuesday.The accused contended that the death sentence has been...

Bombay HC Acquits Man Of Bride Burning Charges Due To Variations In Dying Declarations [Read Judgment]

In view of the appreciation of dying declarations of the deceased Anita and the inferences drawn therefrom, we are not inclined to subscribe to the inferences drawn by the trial judge.The Bombay High Court (at Aurangabad) has quashed criminal proceedings against accused husband in Ashok Sable v. State of Maharashtra, convicted for having burnt his wife.The coram comprising Justice SS Shinde...

Murder Of Two Minor Daughters: Bombay Hc Acquits Death Row Convict Mahendra Parve [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has acquitted Mahendra Prave, sentenced to death by the trial court for killing his two minor daughters by throwing them in a well. The court held that insufficient evidence and botched investigations have failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt and he was, thus, exonerated of the offence.The 36-year-old resident of Buldhana district, Mahendra Parve, was...

Karnataka HC Tells Govt. To Give Job To Terror Attack Victim [Read Judgment]

She should get a feeling that the State and the society has recognised her as a victim of terrorism and cared for her, instead of leaving her to resign to her fate, the court observed.The 2013 bomb blasts in Bangalore shattered her dreams to stand on her own feet, and her fervent pleas before the government to provide a job on compassionate grounds fell on deaf ears. But finally, the...

Custodial Deaths: Bombay HC Fiat To Magistrates On Immediate Independent Inquiry

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Registrar General of the high court to issue a circular to all magistrates in the State to conduct an independent inquiry as soon as they get to know of a custodial death.A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice AA Sayed gave these directions while hearing a PIL filed by the India Centre for Human Rights, seeking implementation of...

After Bhupendra Vira’s Murder, Call For RTI Activists’ Protection Grows Louder

With the murder of Bhupendra Vira, the focus on attacks against RTI activists is back and rightly so. More and more such attacks have been happening since the Right to Information Act came into force and became a tool in the hands of the common man to expose any wrongdoing by public servants and people in powerful positions.When Satish Shetty, an RTI activist from Pune, was murdered in 2010...

SC To Decide Maintainability Of Appeals Against 2007 Cauvery Tribunal Ruling [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear if the appeals filed through special leave against the 2007 Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are maintainable.The centre and union territory Puducherry have opposed the court’s jurisdiction to hear cases concerning interstate water disputes, while Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in a rare unison on the Cauvery issue agree that...

Can Builders Be Arrested For Failing To Hand Over Flats? NCDRC Says Yes [Read Order]

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has upheld an order of the state commission, which had ordered the arrest of officials of a real estate for failing to hand over flats or make refunds on time.In the instant case, in spite of the proclamation published against the director and general manager of the company under Section 82 CrPC, they did not appear before the...

Bombay HC Slams Govt For Not Procuring Noise Meters

The Bombay High Court on Monday slammed the state government for not procuring noise decibel meters ahead of the festival season. It was hearing a contempt petition against KP Bakshi, Additional chief Secretary (Home).This is not the first time that the state government has failed to comply with court orders. A contempt notice was issued against Bakshi, who was present in the court, after...