Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Order, 2014 issued in compliance with Delhi HC order

An executive order called the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Order, 2014 has been released in compliance with the order passed by the High Court of Delhi in December, 2010 and December, 2013 in the case of Bachpan Bachao Andolan v. Union of India and others. In the case, the Court had directed the Govt. of Delhi to issue executive directions for the regulation of Private...

Jayalalithaa’s Bail Plea listed for today in Karnataka High Court

Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa’s bail plea has been listed for hearing in Karnataka High Court today. The former Chief Minister has approached the High Court after she was convicted in a disproportionate assets case by a Special Court in Bangalore. Read the LiveLaw story here.Jayalalithaa had approached the High Court seeking immediate bail and also suspension of...

CIC directs action against RTI applicant for suppression of record

The CIC came across a peculiar 'second appeal' of contradictory claims of 'missing file' and 'misuse of RTI" by the applicant, who misled not only the District Institute of Education & Training, NCT Delhi but also the Central Information Commission. The Central Information Commissioner M Sridhar Acharyulu on 30th September 2014, recommended departmental enquiry and action against, Mr...

Bombay HC asks CBI if bribery case is made out in Godzari project

In a matter relating to the Godzari Irrigation Project the Bombay High Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to inform it within a time period of two weeks whether an offence of corruption could be made out in an Income Tax Department report prepared after a search and seizure operation by the Income Tax Department on officials of the Godzari Irrigation project.The division bench...

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...