Force-Feeding my Shiv Sena MPs: PIL filed in Delhi High Court demanding disqualification and probe

A Public Interest Litigation has reportedly been filed by Maulana Ansar Raza, head of the NGO, Garib Nawaz Foundation through lawyer N.K.. Jha, in the Delhi High Court, seeking a direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Chairman of Rajya Sabha to disqualify 11 Shiv Sena lawmakers for allegedly force-feeding a Ramadan-observing employee of IRCTC at ‘Maharashtra Sadan’.The petition...

Bombay High Court refuses to ban media from airing and publishing Katju’s allegations

A division bench of the Bombay High court in Nagpur comprising of Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice S.B. Shukre yesterday, refused to entertain a writ petition filed by Nagpur- based lawyer Uday Dastane, who claimed that by airing Katju’s allegations, the news channels were bringing disrespect and bad name to the judiciary. He had hence demanded that the Court should interfere and ban the...

Anil Ambani serves Legal Notice to Prashant Bhushan's Junior and Google for Blog post

Anil Ambani has served a legal notice on Google and Advocate Pranav Sachdeva, a junior colleague of Prashant Bushan through a Law Firm. This is in response to a blog post on Ambani entitled "Black money of Anil Ambani (Prashant Bhushan's Complaint SIT)", allegedly posted by Sachdeva on Google's blogging platform. It is learned that no legal notice is served on Mr Bhushan who claims to have...

Contempt Charges dropped against VHP Leader by CB for allegedly making defamatory statement in 1994 on Ayodhya controversy

The Supreme Court in a recent judgment dropped contempt charges against VHP leader Giriraj Kishore  who died after judgment on the issue was reserved, for allegedly making defamatory statement in 1994 on Ayodhya controversy. In the significant case Rajeev Dhawan v. Gulshan Kumar Mahajan & Ors, the Court also dropped contempt proceedings against editor and reporter of a daily Khabardar...

Income Tax Prosecution Rate up by 127%

The Income Tax Department has gotten tough on tax evaders by increasing the prosecutions launched. The Department witnessed a whopping 127 per cent increase in prosecutions in 2013-14, compared to the previous year. The number of prosecutions launched during FY14 was 641.In a meeting with the top brass of the Income Tax Criminal Investigation Wing, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely was informed...

SpicyIP listed in Managing IP’s list of “Top 50 Shaping the Future of IP”

SpicyIP, India’s premier blog on intellectual property (IP) and innovation law and policy has made it to the list of Managing IP’s annual selection of the top 50 who are shaping the future of intellectual property.Delighted with the achievement, founder of SpicyIP, Mr. Shamnad Basheer told Live Law, "We've come a long way since 2005, when I'd kickstarted this out of sheer boredom and was...

French blogger fined €2,500 for writing an adverse review against a restaurant

A French blogger Caroline Doudet has been fined €1,500 (£1,180) for writing a negative blog which was being featured highly on Google searches. In addition to the €1,500 fine she had to pay €1,000 (£790) in court costs, bringing her total bill for writing a blog post to €2,500 (£2,000). The blog was about a restaurant, Il Giardino in Cap-Ferret, south-west France.The blog stemmed...

Kerala HC directs Government to formulate scheme for children of jailed parents

A Kerala High Court Division Bench comprising of Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice P. B. Suresh Kumar has directed the State Government to devise a special scheme for rehabilitation and protection of children whose parents are in jail, in conformation with child protective services in developed countries.The Bench urged Director General of prosecution T. Asaf Ali to...

Higher Judiciary not Public servants, Constitutional functionaries: Registrar General, Madras High Court

The Registrar General of Madras High Court, in a counter affidavit, reportedly stated that the Judges, especially those of the higher judiciary are Constitutional functionaries, instead of government servants and hence, no direction can be issued to them.The Registrar General asserted that the Chief Justice or Acting Chief Justice had the exclusive prerogative power to constitute any bench...

NHRC directs compensation of 50,000 each to girls arrested for Facebook Post; 4 weeks time to Maharashtra Government

Through a Press Release, the National Human Rights Commission has reminded the Maharashtra Government to pay Rs.50 thousand each to the two girls, who, it had held, were illegally detained by the police following a Facebook post after the death of Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray.Having received no response to its notice and reminders to show cause why monetary relief should not be paid to...

Punjab and Haryana High Court gets Virtual Private Network for hassle free judgments

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has obtained a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN), providing a fresh solution to save the time and energy spent in referring the bulky case files, essential for judges to pen down their judgments. The Network has been made available by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) on a special request by the court. The judges will be given individual IDs and...

Punjab & Haryana High Court to start work early; Kerala lawyers refuses to follow suit.CJI says increasing working hours possible

The Punjab & Haryana High Court recently came up with a circular regarding change in the Court timings with effect from 16th July 2014. As per the revised timings, all subordinate Courts in the State of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh will now sit from 9.30 a.m to 4.30 p.m and the office timings in the aforementioned Courts would be from 9.30 a.m to 5.00 p.m.A similar move was...