National Commission For Scheduled Castes Can’t Entertain Complaints Unrelated To Reservation: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Commission is not a parallel forum for adjudicating any dispute between two litigants, the Court observed.The Delhi High Court in State Bank Of India vs. National Commission for Scheduled Castes and others, has held that the National Commission for Scheduled Castes cannot entertain a complaint against disciplinary action taken by an employer against an employee belong to the Scheduled...

Unsigned Document In Form Of Notice Not Valid Under Section 138(B) Of NI Act: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Sign any notice before it is sent! Can a typed document in the form of a notice bearing neither signature nor any initial of an advocate or the complainant be called a notice in compliance with clause (b) of Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act? The Bombay High Court has held that it is not.Justice A.I.S. Cheema made this observation was considering an appeal preferred by...

HC Has Power To Transfer Matrimonial Proceedings To Different Court: Tripura HC [Read Order]

The Tripura High Court in Dipika Sharma vs. Sudip Sharma, has held that the high court, by exercising its power under Section 24 of the Code of Civil Procedure, can transfer a matrimonial proceeding from family court to district court (in a district where there is no family court) and from district court to family court or from district court to other district court. The court also held that...

Creating Nuisance At Wife’s Workplace, Under Influence Of Liquor, Amounts To Cruelty: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Judgment]

Assaulting wife and her parents and creating nuisance at her workplace, under the influence of liquor, amounts to cruelty, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held.In the instant case, a trial court had granted divorce to a woman who had approached it seeking divorce on the ground of cruelty on account of assault by her husband in a state of intoxication. The husband preferred an appeal before...

Bombay HC Tells M’rashtra Pvt Unaided Medical Colleges To Follow State Domicile Rules [Read Judgment]

Private unaided medical colleges in Maharashtra will now have to adhere to state domicile rules and reserve 85 per cent seats for local students. The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to interfere with the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) and gave a go ahead for the admission process as per the rules brought about in August this year.As per the regulation, now only 15 per cent...

Delhi HC Rejects Pakistani Nationals’ Petition for Liver Tissue Transplant [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Delhi on Friday dismissed a petition filed by two Pakistani nationals seeking to engage in a liver tissue transplant. The petition, filed by the donor and the recipient, was rejected on the ground that the parties had failed to rule out the possibility of a commercial transaction between them.“The petitioner has not been able to establish any link or connection or...

Punjab Govt Told To Pay Rs 30k Fine, Arrears With Interest To Terror Victim’s Wife [Read Order]

The petitioner’s husband had suffered injuries at the hands of terrorists during a terror attack on 5th March, 1998, and he succumbed to his injuries caused by the terrorists on 6th March, 1990. The Punjab & Haryana High Court in Surjit Kaur v. State of Punjab and others has identified the petitioner as a victim of terror and directed the Punjab government to give relief to her....

Delhi HC Dismisses Election Petition Against AAP MLA Raghuvinder Shokeen [Read Judgment]

BJP MLA Manoj Kumar Shokeen had filed the petition for setting aside the Raghuvinder’s election as an MLA from the Nangloi Jat constituency, against whom he lost by 37,024 votes in the Assembly poll.  The Delhi High Court in Manoj Kumar Shokeen vs. Raghuvinder Shokeen, dismissed an election petition filed by BJP MLA Manoj Kumar Shokeen.Justice Valmiki J. Mehta dismissed the petition...

1997 Amendment To Indian Contract Act Operates Prospectively: SC [Read Judgment]

Section 28, being substantive law, operates prospectively as retrospectively is not clearly made out by its language, the Bench observed.The Supreme Court in UNION OF INDIA & ANR. Vs. M/S INDUSIND BANK LTD., has held that the 1997 amendment to the Indian Contract Act, which made certain agreements covered by Section 28(b) of the Act void, operates prospectively.The Bench comprising Justice...

Bombay HC Declines To Stay BMC Resolution To Introduce Surya Namaskar, Yoga In Civic Schools [Read Petition]

The Bombay High Court has declined to give a relief of interim stay in a PIL filed by petitioner  Masood Ansari, wherein petitioner raised objections to the resolution of the Shiv Sena-BJP controlled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)/MMC (Mumbai Municipal Corporation) whereby in its proposal No. 826, it plans to implement ‘surya namaskar’ (sun salutation) and yoga as mandatory in...

Bar Council Of Karnataka Dismisses 5 Lawyers, Suspends Eight

The five dismissed lawyers are A.K. Ramasamy, Dharmaraj, Arumugam, Nedunchezhyan and Sankaranarayanan. The first two are the office-bearers of the Madurai Bar Association.The 13 lawyers were castigated for organising agitations and participating in rallies and processions against a Madras High Court order mandating wearing of helmets while riding two-wheeled vehicles. They were also accused...

If Divorce Decree Goes Unchallenged, The Second Marriage Is Legal: Patna HC [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court in Rajesh Kumar vs. Pushpa Rani, considered the sustainability of a decree for judicial separation. The Bench comprising Chief Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Justice Nilu Agrawal dealt with the effect on a person, who having received a decree of judicial separation and later a divorce decree, proceeds to remarry and father children.In this case, the petitioner husband...