Akshardham Terror Attack: Remaining 2 acquitted by POTA Court

After the acquittal of six accused in the Akshardham terror attack by a Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice V. Gopala Gowda, earlier in May, Judge Geeta Gopi of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) Court in Ahmedabad on Friday declared the remaining two accused as not guilty.With the hearing concluded on May 23, Majid Patel alias Umarji and Shaukatullah Ghori...

Summons issued to Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani in Defamation case

The Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Dheeraj Mittal issued summons on Friday, against Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani in a criminal defamation case filed against by Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam. He had alleged that when Gujarat Assembly Elections were declared in December 2012, Irani had made defamatory remarks against him on a television debate.Irani too had...

365 Working Days- Lawyers Oppose the Idea

The Chief Justice of India has set the machinery in motion, to ascertain the views of the entire legal fraternity so as to put his revolutionary idea of “365 days a year” into motion. Earlier in May, he had suggested that the justice delivery system should function round-the-year, with minimum adjournments during the hearings.CJI R.M. Lodha, in a letter to the Chief Justices of the...

Ban Cock fights, Madras HC

The Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu state government to put a ban on cock fighting and all other kinds of entertainments pertaining to harm the birds or animals of the state. The judgement came in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s verdict to prohibit jallikattu (bull taming).A petition filed by one S. Kanan on April 4th plead the holding of cock fighting in the  Arulmigu...

CLAT Results by the End of the Week

Arriving as a breather for the 33, 491 students who appeared for the Common Law Admission Test 2014, a clarification has come in from Surajit Mukhopadhyay, registrar, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, who says that, the process will be completed by the end of the week. The TOI Report also quotes Bimal Patel, director, GNLU, who restated the process undertaken by...

Delhi High Court dismisses plea of DU law entrance in Hindi [Read the Judgment]

The High Court of Delhi has dismissed a plea of the writ petition filed by Shailendra Mani Tripathi in opposition to the University of Delhi and Dean of Faculty of Law, Delhi University. The petition sought a direction to the Delhi University to conduct the entrance examination for its LL.B. course in Hindi.Counsel for the petitioner, Ratnesh Kumar Shukla contended that the basis for seeking...

Woman Judge is Raped and attempted to kill at her official residence in U.P

A week ago, the entire nation was stunned when two minor sisters were gang-raped and murdered before their bodies were hung from a tree in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh.In another degrading incident, a woman judge was reportedly rescued in an unconscious state from her official residence, yesterday. She was allegedly raped in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh and an attempt was made to murder her....

Birth of Telangana- Scheme of Bifurcation of the Courts

With the birth of the 29th state of the Union, the bifurcation of the judiciary is imminent. According to a TOI report in April, the full court of the AP High Court had decided to constitute a committee with judges to suggest ways to complete the process of dividing the subordinate judiciary for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by the Appointed Day of June 2.Part IV of the Andhra...

Clarification- CLAT 2014 Results

Amidst allegations of discrepancies in the results, with complaints pouring in from throughout the country, a clarification has been given on the CLAT website, elucidating upon the predicament. The clarification says that the barcode sticker attached on the front page of the COMR answer sheet and the candidate sticker affixed on the back page, in few cases, was mismatching. This disparity...

Suspended Judge Arrested for involvement in the Court Clerk Recruitment Scam

Suspended district and sessions judge, Ajay Kumar Sharda was arrested in Ajmer last week, for his alleged involvement in the scam over recruitment of lower division clerks in courts. The arrest was made by the Anti Corruption Bureau in Rajasthan.On April 23 last year, the ACB arrested an advocate of nearby Kekeri town, Hemraj Kanawat, court clerk Rajesh Sharma, Nasirabad court's nazir...

Bombay High Court- Channels Restrained from broadcasting Salman Khan's Hit and Run case [Read the Order]

Justice S.C. Gupte of the Bombay High Court, passed an order on 30th May, restraining television channels from broadcasting any programme based on the controversy surrounding the hit and run allegations against actor Salman Khan. They have also been restrained from publishing any such content on the internet. He has filed a suit against them, as well as moved a notice of motion, seeking...

Former Central Information Commissioner in a letter to the CJI, "delay will collapse the entire machinery of Rule of Law"

In a letter to Chief Justice of India, R.M. Lodha, former Central Information Commissioner, Mr. Shailesh Gandhi has revealed his deep concern for the huge pendency of cases in Courts throughout the country and also suggested measures which might be useful in formulating an amiable solution to the problem. His letter terms this delay as collapsing of the entire machinery of rule of law.Mr....