Case filed against 5 Judges for allegedly abetting suicide of fellow Judge

Maharashtra Police has reportedly filed a criminal case against five Judges, for allegedly abetting the suicide of a fellow Judge.Anup Jawalkar, Civil Judge Senior Division and Addition Chief Judicial Magistrate at Darwha in Yawatmal had allegedly committed suicide on March 6, on the railway tracks at Manjarkhed at Chandur Railway. A suicide note later recovered from his residence named...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtLucknow bench of Allahabad High Court declines plea to disqualify a Minister, who lost the Governor’s pleasure Calcutta High CourtCalcutta High Court ruled that the Minority Commission does not have any original jurisdiction to declare the status of any educational institution as being a minority institution or otherwise.Delhi High CourtDelhi High Court observed...

Death of a passenger due to falling down while trying to enter into a train, compensable under Section 124A of Railways Act; Patna HC

Patna High Court has held that death of a passenger due to falling down while trying to enter into train, is compensable under Section 124A of Railways Act.Justice Aditya Kumar Trivedi in Juweda Khatoon vs Union of India, referring to an Apex Court Judgment, said that Railways Act being a beneficial piece of legislation should receive a liberal and wider interpretation and not a narrow...

Panama Papers Leaks: PIL filed in Bombay HC demanding CBI probe

A PIL has been filed at the Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court, demanding constitution of an independent investigating body, and a criminal investigation by CBI into the Panama Papers leaks. As an interim measure, it has demanded that all the documents pertaining to the 500 persons be called from the custody of Indian Express to the Court in a sealed envelope.The Panama leaks, being termed...

Delhi HC appoints Justice Mukul Mudgal to oversee IPL matches at Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium

The High Court of Delhi on Thursday appointed Justice (Retd.) Mukul Mudgal in supervisory capacity, to oversee the affairs of the Indian Premier League matches at the Ferozeshah Kotla in New Delhi.The Bench, comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Vibhu Bakhru also ordered that former Indian cricketer Mr. Sunil Valson would be the “single point of contact” between Justice Mudgal...

Delhi HC stays 193,908 abandonment orders issued by Trademarks Registry [Read Order]

The High Court of Delhi on Tuesday reportedly stayed 193,908 orders issued by the Comptroller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks, between 28th March to 31st March, 2016. Justice Manmohan was hearing several Writ Petitions challenging such abandonment orders as being passed arbitrarily and in haste. The matter is now scheduled to be heard on May 12, 2016.“Keeping in view the...

Sex offenders are not required to update registration once they relocate to a foreign country: US Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

Overruling the Tenth Circuit, the US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA) does not require an individual to update his registration in Kansas once he departed the State.The Court was hearing a petition filed by Mr. Nichols who was a registered sex offender, convicted of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual...

Appointment of Additional Judges in different High Courts

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President of India has appointed following new additional judges in various High Courts;Additional judges of the Gujarat High Court - (i) Ashutosh Jayantilal Shastri, (ii) Biren Aniruddh Vaishnav, (iii) Alpesh Yeshvant Kogje, (vi) Arvindsingh Ishwarsingh Supehia, and (v) Bipinkumar...

Delhi HC asks state to grant admission to children of HIV affected couple in school [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has directed the State Government to grant admission to two minor children of a HIV affected couple in any Senior Secondary School in the vicinity of Aaya Nagar, New Delhi.The writ petition was filed seeking a direction to the Financier to take back the vehicle of the 1st petitioner (father) in full and final settlement as well as a direction to the state to provide financial...

Minority Commission does not have the original jurisdiction to declare minority status of an educational institution; Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

Calcutta High Court speaking through Justice Debangsu Basak in the matter of Milli Al Ameen College (for girls) & another v State of West Bengal & others and a batch of connected writ petitions has ruled that the Minority Commission does not have any original jurisdiction to declare the status of any educational institution as being a minority institution or otherwise.The above...

All decided cases in Punjab and Haryana HC digitized; e-Filing and e-Diary software prepared

All decided cases have reportedly been digitized for safekeeping for posterity, by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as informed by the Chairman of Computer Committee Justice Rajesh Bindal while speaking at a regional discussion regarding the e-courts project at the Chandigarh Judicial Academy.The discussion was presided over by Justice Madan B Lokur, of the Supreme Court and...

MP Lower Court Lawyers exempted from wearing Black Robe for Three Months

Madhya Pradesh State Bar Council has reportedly decided to exempt Lower Court Lawyers from wearing black Coats during this summer. State Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh (SBCMP) Secretary Mukesh Mishra  said that "In a bid to provide relief to more than 60,000 advocates from sultry heat we have exempted them from wearing black coats from April 15 to July 15," reports PTI In December 2015 ,the...