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]....

CBI arrests Odisha’s former Attorney General in chit-fund scam

Odisha’s former Advocate General, Ashok Mohanty has been arrested by CBI for his alleged involvement in misappropriating funds of Artha Tatwa Group of companies in a case which is an offshoot of Saradha chit fund scam.Mohanty was arrested by a team of CBI sleuths from his residence in Cuttack, after several rounds of questioning by the special investigating unit formed by the CBI. He...

CBI brings Perjury allegations against Prashant Bhushan

Amidst raging controversy over CBI director’s visitor’s logbook, the CBI on Saturday approached the apex Court, alleging that noted lawyers Prashant Bhushan and Kamini Jaiswal and their NGO, Centre for Public Litigation, have been contradicting their own stand before the Court, and “making deliberate and false statements on oath and before the Supreme Court”. An application for...

Charges Framed against Arvind Kejriwal and 3 others in Defemation case by Amit Sibal

The Metropolitan Magistrate, Sunil Kumar Sharma put former Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal and three other senior AAP leaders, on trial as they pleaded non-guilty to the charges of defamation, under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, pressed against them.This was in regards to the suit filed by Amit Sibal against Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, notable senior lawyer, Manish...

An unsuccessful sterilization procedure does not necessarily imply that the attending doctors were negligent; Delhi High Court [Read the Judgment]

"An unsuccessful sterilisation procedure does not necessarily imply that the attending doctors were negligent,", pronounced the Delhi High Court. The judgment, authored by Justice Vibhu Bakhru thus effectively says that doctors are not liable for the success of the sterilisation procedure.The case arose when a woman moved to court after she had a third child, which she alleged was only due...

Delhi HC dismisses woman officer's petition against Justice H.L. Dattu [Read the Order]

The Delhi High Court refused to interfere with the appointment of Justice H.L. Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India, on a petition by an advocate and former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).A Delhi High Court Bench comprising of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog yesterday, dismissed a petition against Justice Dattu, stating that any attempt to directly confront...

'Is Dying declaration not applicable to Hindus?', High Court of Kerala rejected the Contention legally and theologically [Read the Judgment]

The Kerala High Court refused to accept the contention that dying declaration in the eyes of law is not applicable to Hindus, as there exist no belief in Hindu religion that they will meet their Maker after death.Hearing a case where in the trial court had convicted the accused for pouring kerosene on his wife and setting her on fire, causing her death mainly relying on her Dying Declaration....