Interim orders not causing prejudice to the party are not appealable: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday, held that interim orders under Section 23 of the Domestic Violence Act which causes no prejudice to the party are not appealable. Justice Pankaj Naqvi, dismissed the Revision petition filed by a husband, observing that ‘This order has not decided any issue so as to cause any prejudice, on the contrary, it has only deferred its consideration till the...

SCBA president Dushyant Dave asks AoRs to be very careful while drafting SLPs

In a letter written by Dushyant A. Dave chiefly addressing the AORs, president of Supreme Court Bar Association, he tried revealing what had happened in the Court of Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Hon’ble Mr. Justice P.C. Pant. He  was briefed by an Advocate On Record to mention an SLP for listing since Registry was finding it difficult to list it for the reason that previous...

Misleading News; Delhi HC asks reply from Newspaper Publisher

A Delhi High Court Bench comprising Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva has reportedly demanded a reply from the publisher of a newspaper, which had allegedly featured a misleading headline on a report in the R.K. Pachauri sexual harassment case. The media house has been directed to file a response before December 8.On May 23, Newspaper had reported that the ICC's findings...

Take immediate steps for release of over 152 women under-trials in Tihar Jail: Delhi HC directs State Legal Services Authority

A Delhi High Court Bench comprising Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath has reportedly urged the Delhi State Legal Services Authority to take steps for immediate release of over 152 woman under-trials languishing in Tihar Jail for more than six months.It directed panel lawyers of DSLSA to prepare appropriate applications for bail for all the 105 under-trial prisoners and file the...

If no eligible candidates from reserved category, fill up vacancy on basis of merit: Tripura HC [Read the Judgment]

The Tripura High Court has held that if the seats for any particular reserved category are not filled up due to non-availability of sufficient number of eligible candidates in that particular category, it should not be filled up by applying the exchange method and offering those seats to the other reserved category, but instead by treating the seats to be unreserved seats and then filled up...

Nothing wrong in asking BJP to remove their flags from their Head Quarters on Election day : Karnataka HC [Read the Judgment]

Karnataka High Court has held that there is no illegality on the part of Election commission requiring the Bharathiya Janata Party to remove the party flags from their State Head Quarters, which is near to polling booth, for two days in connection with BBMP polls. Justice Raghavendra S Chauhan held that requiring a political party to remove their flags near polling booth cannot be interpreted...

2 Government Employees Acquitted in Bribery Case after 29 years [Read the Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently set aside 1994 conviction order by lower court wherein two Maharashtra government employees were charged with taking bribe of up to Rs. 1100. Justice Sadhana Jadhav acquitted Ravindra Joshi and Narayan Mane on the ground that the prosecution "miserably" failed to prove its case against them.The Sessions court had convicted them under the Prevention of...

Odisha Judicial Service (OJS) 2015 Prelims to be held on Sept. 6th

A day after it withdrew its review petition in the High Court, the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) announced it would conduct the preliminary examinations of Odisha Judicial Service (OJS)-2015 on September 6thas per the orders of the Court.The Commission yesterday withdrew its review petition against the High Court verdict to conduct OJS examination afresh owing to question paper...

A small State like Goa does not need a separate High Court: Bombay HC Chief Justice Mohit Shah

Speaking to the media after inaugurating the Moot Court hall of the Govind Ramnath Kare College of Law, Margao, Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah reportedly said that Goa does not need an independent High Court.He said that an independent High Court for a small State like Goa, which handles less than 5,000 cases, would only lead to a disadvantage, because it would lose the benefit...

SC Judges Library, the Second Largest Library in Asia, now available online, can be used by Supreme Court Lawyers

A presentation of the digitisation and web based facility and rich legal resources, of the Judges Library was given to the Members of the Executive Committee by Dr. R.K. Srivastava, Additional Registrar (Library), Supreme Court of India and his colleagues, on the instructions of Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India, yesterday i.e. 20th August, 2015The rich data available has been...

Defamation; Lawyer demands Rs.50 Lakh Compensation from Kerala Advocate General

A Lawyer of Kerala High Court sends a legal notice to Advocate General KP Dandapani alleging that he has been defamed by the AG when he moved a resolution in support of Justice Alexander Thomas. Advocate J S Ajith Kumar, has demanded a compensation of Rs 50 Lakh.In addition to that, the lawyer demands that the "unfounded and malicious and defamatory" allegations should be immediately...

Summons to Mulayam Singh for rape remarks

Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav,, has been summoned by  a local court on 16th September, 2015 in relation to his recent remarks on rape . Civil Judge (Junior Division) of Kulpahad Tehsil Ankit Goel took su motu cognizance of Yadav's statement on rape on August 18 in Lucknow.  He had said while one man commits rape, four are named to "settle scores" and that rape by...