Delhi High Court Bar Association resolves to delay elections to December

The Delhi High Court Bar Association passed a resolution on Monday, delaying the elections to the DHCBA executive by half a year.A General Body Meeting was called on Friday by Association President, Rajiv Khosla. However, many prominent members reportedly chose to skip the meeting. To add to it, the President and the Association Secretary Abhijit Bal were having a war of text messaged with...

Delhi School children from Economically Weaker Sections and Disadvantaged groups move Delhi HC demanding free summer uniforms, books

Nine students of the Bal Bharti School, Rohini, Delhi have approached the Delhi High Court, complaining about their school for its failure to provide free summer uniform and books to them.These children, hailing from poor and disadvantaged sections, have asked the Court to direct their school to provide free books, two sets of summer uniforms and writing materials to them and continue...

Large Number of Family Matters and Labour Issues Settled in Lok Adalats held Across the Country

The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) held Lok Adalats across the country mostly on Labour and Family matters wherein about 2,40,000 cases were settled saturday out of the courts. The total value of settlement reached in these Lok Adalats is over Rs. 40 crores. Of the cases settled, about 9625 are pending matters and 2,26,017 are pre-litigation matters.In addition over 44,000 other...

SC appoints committee to manage the Supreme Court Bar Members’ Housing Society [Read the Order]

In the aftermath of former SC judge Deepak Verma’s resignation as the administrator of bar members' housing society, a bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur appointed a six-member committee.  The committee to be headed by Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Dushyant Dave to manage the affairs of the society for the allotment of 684 flats to lawyers. The proceedings went on...

Posts of CIC and three Information Commissioners vacant for a year, Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply

A Delhi High Court bench comprising of Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw has rapped the Centre for vacancy in the posts of the Chief Information Commissioner and three information commissioners. These posts have been vacant for nearly a year.The Court is hearing a PIL filed by RTI activists R.K. Jain, Lokesh K. Batra and Subhash Chandra Agrawal, through lawyers Prashant Bhushan and...

National Green Tribunal bans diesel vehicles over 10 years old from plying in Delhi; construction activities violating 2010 Urban Township and Area Development Guidelines be immediately stopped

A five Judge bench of the National Green Tribunal has banned all diesel vehicles over 10 years old from plying on Delhi roads. The order came on an application by petitioner Vardhaman Kaushik, who had cited the rising pollution level in the city.The Bench, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, directed that all the vehicles entering Delhi will be checked for pollution, weight and age from...

Uber Cab Rape Case: SC to Decide Whether an Accused has the Right to Recall Witnesses for Re-examination

The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday said that it will determine the law regarding the right of an accused to recall witnesses for re-examination in a criminal case trial. On behalf of a division bench of the SC, Justice J S Kehar said that, "We are going to lay down the law that whether witnesses can be recalled at the behest of an accused".The SC was hearing appeals filed against an Order of...

Beef Ban Row: Maharashtra CM Clarifies that the State will not Ban Slaughter of Other Animals

On April 6th, while hearing petitions challenging the provisions, especially section 5D of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act, 2015, a division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice A R Joshi asked for the State Government’s explanation as to why the State only banned the slaughter of cows, bulls and bullocks and not goats or other animals. In response, the Advocate...

Law Commission of India Submits its Report on Leprosy Laws; Proposes Legislation to Eliminate Discrimination against Persons affected by Leprosy

The Law Commission of India has submitted its Report No. 256 on “Eliminating Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy” to the Union Minister of Law and Justice today. The report also provides a model draft law to eliminate discrimination faced by Persons affected by Leprosy.In 2014, India had the largest number of new Leprosy cases globally (58%). From 2005 till 2014,...

Amendments to “The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval to amendments to the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013 pending in the Rajya Sabha, and approved amendments proposed in the Bill. The recommendations of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Urban Development and suggestions of various stakeholders (consumer organizations,...

Coal scam: SC dismisses petition to summon Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik; imposes cost of 1 lakh on petitioner

A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice C. Nagappan, while dismissing the petition to summon Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as an accused in a coal block allocation scam case, slapped a cost of Rs. 1 lakh on the petitioner, Delhi- based advocate N.K. Sahoo.Adv. Sahoo had filed a plea against the order of the Special CBI Court dated March 11, wherein the...

Doctors should explain purpose and need of two finger test to rape victim/relatives, before conducting such test only for medical purposes and not to establish the conduct of victim: CIC

Central Information Commission Prof. Sridhar Acharyulu has directed the PIO, Family and Welfare Department to make an advisory available to doctors/physicians entrusted with the medical examination of survivors of sexual assault, NGOs and prepare a note in simple English explaining medial terms in simple language to remove the misunderstandings about these tests among the media, legal experts...