Competition Appellate Tribunal gets its Chairperson Justice G S Singhvi

Competition Appellate Tribunal, empowered to hear appeals from the Competition Commission of India has finally got its new Chairman. Justice G S Singhvi, who retired from the Supreme Court in December 2013, is the new Chairman of the Tribunal as per its website.The office of the Chairperson was vacant as Justice V S Sirpurkar, the previous Chairperson had retired in August. However,...

'Domestic Relationship' must for maintenance of action under Domestic Violence Act: Bombay High Court

The High Court of Bombay has held that "domestic relationship" is necessary for maintainability of action under the Domestic Violence Act. The case came to Court as, after her application under the Prevention of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (D.V Act) was held not maintainable because she was not in any domestic relationship by the Court of Sessions at Greater Bombay, Sejal Dharmesh...

Promotion to the post of Principal Commissioner of Income Tax restrained

The High Court of Delhi in an order yesterday asked the Central Government to stop the promotion of the Indian Revenue Service officers of the rank of Commissioner of Income Tax on promotion to a newly-created post of Principal Commissioner of Income Tax on a plea alleging that the process adopted to appoint a person to that office was illegal.A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin...

Archaic Laws to be repealed: Government

In line with the statement made by the Prime Minister regarding taking off archaic and useless laws off the statute book, the Union Law Minister has now said, “While a bill is pending in Parliament to repeal 32 amendment Acts and four principal Acts, we plan to bring another bill to repeal 287 similar Acts,”It has also been reported that the ministry is working day and night to repeal...

CIC Admonishes the Abuser of RTI

Holding that securing privacy rights of the citizens as per Right to Information Act was the duty of PIOs, Appellate Authorities and Information Commissioners, the Central Information Commissioner Professor M Sridhar Acharyulu (Madabhushi Sridhar)  admonished (on 25th Sept) an abuser of RTI who tried to intrude into privacy of girl students of a school in Delhi. The CIC ordered prominent...

FSO cannot force BPL card holders to sign no complaint letters: CIC

Disposing a second appeal by ration card holder, Usha Devi, the CIC objected to procurement of letters from ration card holders stating that they had no complaints against the ration shops. The Commissioner Prof Madabhushi Sridhar, (M. Sridhar Acharyulu) said on 24.9.2014: as per National Food Security Act 2013, Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2001 and the Public Distribution...

DU Law Faculty Dean writes to BCI, requests for continuing registration

After the Bar Council of India re-recognized the DU's law course, taught at its three centres, namely Campus Law Centre, Law Centre­1 and Law Centre­2, the Delhi University Law Faculty Dean Professor Ashwani Kumar Bansal wrote a letter to the Bar Council of India on September 25.The Dean expressed shock about the drastic step that has been taken by Bar Council of India. The letter in its...

Supreme Court directs UGC to Physically verify deemed universities

"Inspection means physical verification and that is our perception. If any defect is found, you (UGC) must tell them and give reasonable time to rectify,” with these words, the Supreme Court directed to conduct physical verification of deemed universities which were blacklisted by Tandom Committee.Tandon Committee had found 44 deemed universities to be unfit to be accorded the status of...

Is the government even alive to the situation? Delhi High Court asks the Centre on non-payment of taxes by Facebook

Hearing the petition filed by KN Govindacharya in relation to non-payment of taxes by foreign internet companies, especially Facebook and Google in India, the Delhi High Court today asked the Union government about the same.The Court was dealing with the issue of non-payment of service tax by such entities. The government had submitted an affidavit signed by Commissioner of Service Tax...

If An Innocent Person Is Sent To Jail AndUndergoes The Sentence,The Scars Left By The Miscarriage Of Justice Cannot Be Erased By Any Subsequent Act Of Expiation Says Supreme Court; Cautions Against Wrongful Convictions [Read Judgment]

Holding the conviction of a man convicted for setting his sister in law on fire, resulting in her death as invalid, the Supreme Court yesterday highlighted the plight of an innocent person.The case came up before the Supreme Court when a Trial Court in Haryana convicted the husband and brother in law for the murder of the wife. The division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court too...

Supreme Court comes down on State governments for cases relating to missing children

The Supreme Court today came down heavily on state governments for their lack of action in cases of missing children. The Court reportedly said, "If the missing child is of an aristocratic person or when it comes to people with money, thousands of policemen are there and you trace the child in three days. But if the child of a poor man goes missing, police don't even register...

Madras High Court withdraws its Directive to State Reasons for getting Information under RTI; Admits it failed to notice S.6(2) RTI Act

Madras High Court Division Bench comprising of Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice K. Ravichandra babu has withdrawn its directive in Public Information Officer Vs. Central Information Commission and Others that RTI Applicants must give reasons for seeking information under Right to Information Act 2005. The original Judgment was delivered on 17.9.2014 [first reported by LiveLaw]....