CIC Rejects Contention,“Grievance is not information under RTI”

In an appeal before the Central Information Commission, the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Delhi contended that the RTI application is a grievance and that it will not fall under the expression ‘information’. The Commission however, rejected the contention.Shri Vinod Kumar Bansal sought information regarding action taken on a...

Dehradun Fake Encounter Case- 17 Policemen awarded life imprisonment

17 Uttarakhand police officers were awarded with life imprisonment for conviction in the fake encounter of Ranbir Singh, 22 year old MBA graduate in a jungle near Dehradun, in 2009. The prosecution was successful in proving that the crime site was doctored. On 3 July, 2009, Ranbir was gunned down by Dehradun Police on accusations that he was a part of an extortion racket in Doon valley. The...

Dress Code for Advocate's Clerk in Supreme Court

All clerks of Advocate-on-Record, Senior Advocate or Junior Advocate, who enter the Supreme Court to assist their advocate, must be present in uniform. The declaration was made by the Executive Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association in its meeting which took place on the 10th of May 2014.Furthermore, the resolution also said, the clerks must be coached by their lawyers not to occupy...

No Prior Agreement needed with Foreign Country to examine a Witness by Video Conferencing: Kerala High Court

The High Court of Kerala in a significant judgment has ruled that even though there are no arrangements between the Government of India and the Government of a foreign country under S.285(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) it would not be a bar for examining a witness by video conferencing. In the judgment Nabeesathu Sudheer @ Mondi Sudheer v. State of Kerala, the division bench also...

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...