PIL In SC Seeks Probe On Chhattisgarh’s VIP Chopper Deal [Read Petition]

A fresh PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court by NGO Swaraj Abhiyan and Ajit Anand Degwekar, a social activist from Chhattisgarh, against the Union of India, State of Chhattisgarh and Directorate of Aviation, Chhattisgarh. It alleges the Chhattisgarh Government of issuing a pre-decided tender inviting bid for the purchase of specific model of a specific brand of helicopter for VIP...

Claim Of Juvenility Can Be Raised Even After Case Disposal: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court in Sher Singh @ Sheru vs. State of UP dealt with the issue of claim of juvenility raised by the accused when proceedings were underway.The Bench comprising Justice VK Shukla, Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bharat Bhushan decided that the right of an accused to raise the issue of juvenility cannot be denied by dismissing the writ petition as infructuous and, in case...

Appeal Against Acquittals To Be Disposed Of On Merits By Passing A Reasoned Order, SC Tells Allahabad HC [Read Order]

High Court has not even stated facts and nature of evidence so as to make out that the conclusion of the trial court was not perverse, the Bench observed.Disposing of an appeal against a ‘cryptic’ order passed by a high court in a government appeal against the acquittal of an accused by a trial court in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court has observed that while examining an appeal filed...

Gujarat HC Upholds Admission To 105 MBBS Seats Through GUJCET [Read Judgment]

Gujarat High Court on Thursday upheld the decision of the State Government to allow admission to 105 Management Quota seats in 7 GMERS (Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society) Colleges through GUJCET (Gujarat Common Entrance Test).The Bench comprising Chief Justice R. Subhash Reddy and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi was hearing petitions challenging the merging of management quota seats...

Statutory Contradictions On Criminality Of Consensual Teen Sex: Madras HC Refers Issue Of Constitutional Validity Of POCSO Act To DB

Recently, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, in Marimuthu v. The Inspector of Police, dismissed a writ petition of a person who sought for a direction to his minor daughter’s abortion. Apart from addressing several important issues related to the rights of pregnant women and rights of minor children to voluntarily indulge in sexual relations, Justice Vimala has referred the issue...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court quashed disciplinary proceedings against a senior advocate initiated by the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council on a complaint accusing him of grabbing land. The Bench comprising Justice V.K. Shukla and Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi observed that such disputes relating to property should be decided by the competent civil court and not by the Bar...

Trust, Mutual Respect, Understanding And Commitment Sustain Marriages: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The concept of cruelty differs from person to person depending upon his upbringing, level of sensitivity, educational, family and cultural background, financial position, social status, customs, traditions, religious beliefs, human values and their value system. There can never be any straitjacket formula or fixed parameters for determining mental cruelty in matrimonial matters, it said.The...

HP HC Initiates Contempt Against A ‘Party In Person’ Who Used Contemptuous Language In His Contempt Petition [Read Judgment]

He cannot use language, either in pleadings or during arguments which is either intemperate or unparliamentarily, the Court said.A ‘party in person’ who filed a ‘contempt petition’ before the High Court of Himachal Pradesh ended up facing contempt proceedings against himself, as the Court found that he has used ‘derogatory and contemptuous’ language against a Lower court Judge in...

WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Gets A Stamp Of Approval From The Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

A Delhi High Court Bench headed by Chief Justice G. Rohini has allowed WhatsApp to go ahead with the new privacy policy and to share data with Facebook under it's new privacy policy.Additionally, the court directed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to look into the issue if messaging services like WhatsApp can be brought under existing laws.But the Bunch has directed that, if the users...

Delhi HC Dismisses Deccan Chronicle’s Plea On Bank Account Freeze Without Prior Notice [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court in Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. vs. Reserve Bank of India & Anr. held that the CBI is empowered to invoke the provisions of Section 102 CrPC for freezing the account of the petitioner without issuing an prior notice to it either before or simultaneously with the action of attaching its bank account.Deccan Chronicle had filed the writ petition against the...

Gamers Seek Impleadment In PIL Against Pokémon Go [Read Application]

Amidst a barrage of criticism and legal suits hovering over Pokémon Go’s fate in India, a group of game enthusiasts have decided to fight back. They have filed an application for impleadment as party respondents in a PIL filed in the Gujarat High Court seeking ban on Pokémon Go for its alleged violation of religious sentiments.The matter is slated for hearing on 5th October along with...

Maharashtra Exempts Law Aspirants From Age Limit This Year, But BCI Sticks To Its Stand

The aspirants, however, cannot be assured as the Bar Council had earlier this week said the state could admit students irrespective of the age restriction but they will not be allowed to practice as lawyers. The Maharashtra Government has decided to exempt this year’s law aspirants from age restrictions and go ahead with admissions as per the all-India Common Law Admission Test...