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....

Setback for NATCO, Breather for Israeli Pharma Giant Teva, as Division Bench sets aside Single Bench Judgment [Read the Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has set aside the decision of a learned single Judge in the case Teva Pharmaceutical Industries vs.NATCO Pharma Limited and has allowed for Tevato take up relief of permanent injunction restraining the defendant , NATCO Pharmafrom manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, exporting or registering a multiple sclerosis drug. The single judge had rejected the case citing...

Legal Recourse over False Affidavits- Smriti Irani Can be Prosecuted

Human Resources Development Minister, Smriti Irani’s education row continues to create a clamor with two contradicting affidavits coming to the fore. In the affidavit filed by her in 2004, it was claimed that she completed her graduation via correspondence from the Delhi University in 1996 but in the 2014 affidavit to the Election Commission, she claimed to have completed first year of...

Faking News made the Gadkari Lawyer Confused

A spoof news about the Aam Aadmi Party led counsels of Nitin Gagkari to contend on the basis of it in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday. They advocated upon a news story which claimed that one of the AAP leaders said the magistrate who sent Kejriwal to jail needed to be taught law all over again.The BJP leader's counsel stated the news to assert that such statements were contemptuous. But...

SC directs the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide security to a female lawyer

The Supreme Court directed the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide security to a female lawyer, Ambika Das who was allegedly manhandled by policemen and others inside Lajpat Nagar police station.Further the vacation benchconsisting of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice A.K. Sikri has also asked the Joint Commissioner of Police to file an affidavit after considering all aspects of the...

Petition to Increase Retirement money of Lawyers- Delhi High Court issues Notice to the Government

In an appeal to the Delhi High Court to review and increase the sum payable to a lawyer after retirement, a response has been sought from the Ministry of Law and Justice, Delhi Government and Advocates’ Welfare Fund Trustee.The increment has reportedly been sought by petitioner –lawyer O.P. Faizi, asserting that "the amount payable to the advocate members of the fund under the Central Act...

Mukul Rohatgi appointed as 14th Attorney General of India

In tune with earlier speculations, Senior Supreme Court Advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed as the new Attorney General of India. According to an NDTV report, he said that, "My priority would be to streamline the litigation process, to cut down litigation between government departments and PSUs... New government will co-operate in this aspect as this government wants to change...

William S Pinckney, Amway India Chairman and CEO is arrested and remanded in judicial custody in connection with a criminal case registered against the direct-selling company

Amway India Chairman and Chief Executive William S Pinckney was arrested and remanded in judicial custody by Andhra Pradesh Police in connection with a criminal case registered against the direct-selling company. The Kurnool district court today sent him in 14-day judicial custody.The action against him was taken on the basis of a complaint filed by advocate, Jagannath Reddy, in December...

Pendency of Proceedings under Domestic Violence Act, not a ground to deny Appointment; Delhi HC [Read the Judgment]

A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has set aside a single bench Judgment regarding the cancellation of the appointment order of a woman who has a Domestic Violence Case pending against her. The High Court in its significant judgment in Nidhi Kaushik v.s Union of India , ruled that Domestic Violence Cases under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act are civil in nature and has also...