Foreign Citizens living in India entitled to benefits conferred under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act : Punjab and Haryana HC

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that foreign citizens living in India are also entitled to benefits conferred under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. Justice H.S. Siddhu made this observation in Hamina Kang vs. District Magistrate.Challenging an order issued under the Act, the petitioner had contended that an application can be filed only by a...

Petition over Bhagat Singh’s innocence referred to larger Bench by division bench of Lahore HC

A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a larger bench to hear petition seeking to prove the innocence of Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh was convicted under the offences of hatching conspiracies, awarded and hanged on March 23, 1931, along with Sukhdev and Rajguru.The bench, comprising Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan, referred the petition to...

Delhi HC stays Govt. circular that scrapped Management quota for Nursery Admissions [Read Order]

Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed the State Government’s circular that had scrapped many criteria for nursery admissions, including management quota. The Court observed that the same was prima facie issued without any authority of law. The case will now be heard on April 18.“However, any alleged malpractice in utilization of the management quota like sale of seats being actionable...

Sishir Dutta appointed as Advocate General of AP, Anil Srivastav as Additional Advocate General

Terminating services of Advocate General Ranji Thomas, Governor J.P. Rajkhowa has appointed Sishir Dutta, a senior Advocate of the Gauhati High Court as the new Advocate General of Arunachal Pradesh.The Governor also appointed Anil Srivastav as the Additional Advocate General-cum-Standing Counsel for Arunachal Pradesh before the Supreme Court. Mr. Srivastav will represent for the State...

Delhi HC quashes the requirement of contiguous states for the registration of a Multi-state Co-operative Society [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has quashed the requirement that multi-state cooperative societies would be registered initially with only two contiguous states/UTs as their area of operation.Division Bench comprising of Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and Deepa Sharma were hearing a petition preferred by the Evergreen Multi-State Cooperative Society Limited, whose application were rejected for the above...

Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy appointed as Chief Justice of Gujarat HC

Shri Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy, Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the State of Telangana and the State of Andhra Pradesh has been appointed Chief Justice of the Gujarat high Court with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.Other Appointments and TransfersShri Justice Vivek Kumar Birla, Shri Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi, Shri Justice Ashwani...

Lawyer moved Kerala HC for Contempt against an Anonymous blog site for defaming High Court Judges

A Lawyer practicing in High Court of Kerala moved Contempt Proceedings against an anonymous blog site which allegedly contains defaming comments against the sitting Judges of the High Court of Kerala. In the latest post, the blog site published ranking of High Court Judge and made defamatory comments against certain sitting judges, which seems to be highly defamatory and affecting...

Kerala HC initiate Contempt Proceedings against Kerala Minister for Cultural Affairs KC Joseph

A Division bench of the Kerala High Court  on Tuesday had decided to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Minister for Culture and Rural affairs, State of Kerala, Mr K.C Joseph  for  his alleged  derogatory remarks  against Justice Alexander Thomas, after the latter had criticised the inefficiency of the Advocate General’s office in conducting of the cases before the...

A Law to regulate Hartal coming soon in Kerala? [Read the Draft Bill]

The Kerala Regulation of Hartal Bill Draft has been published in Kerala Legislative Assembly web portal. Comments and Suggestions from the members of Public are also invited which may be submitted to Secretary, Select Committee, The Kerala Regulation of Hartal Bill , Niyamasabha Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram, before  5th February, 2015. A questionnaire is (in Malayalam) also seen...

A person who enjoyed the benefit of an interim order, is liable to compensate the other party, when the main case is decided against him : Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Madras High Court has observed that a person who enjoyed the benefit of an interim order, is liable to compensate the other party, when the main case is decided against him. Division Bench comprising of Justices V.Ramasubramanian and N.Kirubakaran made this observation in S.Ramesh vs. M/s.Cethar Ltd.The writ petition seeking police protection, filed by Management of a company was allowed, by...

Women who obtain baby through surrogacy entitled to maternity leave: Bombay HC [Read Order]

In a welcome move, Bombay High Court recently directed maternity leave to be granted to a woman who had attained motherhood through surrogacy.The Bench, comprising Justice Anoop V. Mohta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni observed, “Having considered even Rule 551 (C) and (E) of Child Adoption Leave and Rules, we find that a case is made out for grant of interim relief in terms of prayer...

The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill Draft released by Ministry of Social Justice [Read the Bill]

A draft of Transgender’s Right Bill to provide for the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive national policy for ensuring overall development of the Transgender Persons and for their welfare to be undertaken by the State is ready and released by ministry through its Website recently.Transgender and Transgender IdentityThe Bill defines Transgender as a “a person, whose gender...