Complainant Can’t Be Compelled To Approach Police First, When Complaint Is Against Police Officer: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

The high court has declined to quash the preliminary inquiry ordered by Vigilance Court against former Kerala Vigilance Director Shankar Reddy in bar bribery case. The Kerala High Court has recently held that where allegations are leveled against a senior superior police officer, the complainant, who is an ordinary citizen, being a member of the public cannot be compelled to file the...

Just Because One Is poor, State Cannot Let Him Die: Kerala HC Orders Govt To Provide Therapy Worth 50 Lakh To Patient [Read Judgment]

Upholding the spirit of Article 21 of the Constitution and the duties of a welfare state towards its citizenry, the Kerala High Court in a recent judgment ruled that a welfare State cannot permit anybody to die for the reason that he/she has no means to afford his treatment expenses.Justice PB Suresh Kumar directed the state, which had shirked off earlier citing resource crunch, to...

Bombay HC Asks State To Consult Experts In Solving The Case Regarding Osho’s "Fake Will" [Read Petition]

The division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice PD Naik today directed the state to consult experts for furthering the investigation into an FIR filed at the Koregaon Park Police Station in connection with forging of the will of spiritual guru Osho.The bench was hearing a criminal writ petition filed by Yogesh Thakkar, a managing trustee in the Osho Friend’s Foundation. This...

Allahabad HC Acquits Man After 24 Years Of Conviction In Dowry Death Case [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow bench) in Rama Shanker and Ors v State of UP, has allowed Ram Shanker’s appeal, who was sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by the sessions court as it found him guilty of offences under section 304-B, 498-A of IPC.The judgment delivered by Justice Ranjana Pandya acquitted him of the charges of causing death of his wife on grounds of...

Safe Diwali: Bombay HC Asks Maharashtra MCs To Inspect Licences Issued To Sell Fire Crackers [Read Order]

A few days before Diwali celebrations begin all over the country, the Bombay High Court has directed all municipal corporations in Maharashtra to inspect/re-verify licences that have been issued for selling firecrackers in every ward.A division bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Swapna Joshi was hearing a PIL that highlights the accidents that take place due to negligence shown in...

Madras HC Suggests Temporary Employee’s Widow’s Compassionate Appointment [Read Judgment]

In a bid to commiserate with an aggrieved widow of a temporary municipality worker, who expired before regularization of his service, the Madras High Court has directed the authorities to consider her appeal for compassionate appointment to a temporary post as early as possible.The deceased’s wife had filed the writ petition seeking terminal benefits on the contention that he lost the chance...

Arbitration Conference: All That Happened

Organised by the NITI Aayog, law ministry, Department for Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), National Legal Services Authority, and International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, the global conference on “National Initiative Towards Strengthening Arbitration and Enforcement in India” began on October 21 at New Delhi.The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, inaugurated...

Delhi HC Dissolves Marriage As Couple Raises False Allegations Against Each Other [Read Judgment]

“The two have exaggerated every minute aspect which occurred in day-to-day life and were finding fault with each other. Both, by their conduct, aggravated the worsening situation. Senseless mental torture continued all through when the two cohabited for four months. Tolerance, adjustments and respect to each other are totally absent. The marriage is a total wreck.” The Delhi High Court...

Bombay HC Refuses To Entertain PIL Seeking Directions For Swap Kidney Transplants

The division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice M S Sonak refused to entertain a PIL filed by an NGO, Narmada Kidney Foundation. This PIL sought directions to the state for implementation of the scheme framed under Section 9(3-A) of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 for Swap Transplants. It also sought further directions to the State Government to...

Two Years On, Still No Trace Of Aurangabad Arms Haul Accused

The Bombay High Court today heard a petition filed by one Qamar Nasreen Abdul Karim. The petitioner is the mother of Shaikh Abdul Naeem Shaikh, an accused in the Aurangabad Arms Haul Case. Naeem was being brought over to Mumbai from West Bengal to be produced before a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court here.In the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case, a total of...

Consider Appointing Retired HC Judge As Chairman Of The Taj Trapezium Zone Authority: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court has advised the Centre to consider the appointment of a retired high court judge as chairman of the Taj Trapezium Zone Authority (TTZA). At present, the authority is headed by the divisional commissioner of Agra zone.A Firozabad-based glass manufacturing company, M/s Kaushik Glass Works, had filed a petition seeking orders directing the government to appoint a...

Delhi HC Quashes FIR In Amicably-Settled Matrimonial Dispute [Read Judgment]

In the light of the aforesaid, this court is of the view that notwithstanding the fact the offence under Section 498A IPC Act is non-compoundable offence, there should be no impediment in quashing the FIR under this section, if the court is otherwise satisfied that the facts and circumstances of the case so warrant.The Delhi High Court in Girish Pandey & Ors v. State & Anr, has quashed...