Delhi High Court orders Compensation to Nitish Katara’s Family

The Delhi High Court yesterday ordered compensation in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case. A special bench, comprising justices Gita Mittal and J R Midha said that three convicts, including UP politician D P Yadav’s son Vikas, will have to pay compensation to the family of Katara who was murdered in 2002.The Bench provided three weeks extra time to Delhi State Legal Services Authority...

Half-baked PILs cannot be entertained; Delhi HC [Read the Judgment]

Delhi High Court on Tuesday, while dismissing a PIL on the ground that it cannot entertain half-baked petition, observed that a Person who brings a PIL is required to satisfy the Court as to the illegality in the actions of the State affecting the public interest.The PIL was filed by an NGO 'Center for Human Rights' which sought for a direction to the Centre to define its policy on...

Arvind Kejriwal released from Judicial Custody after furnishing Bail Bond

Arvind Kejriwal has released from Judicial Custody after furnishing a Bail Bond before a Metropolitan Magistrate in Delhi Court today.The Court accepted the Bail Bond of Kejriwal filed by his advocate in connection with Nitin Gadkari criminal defamation case and ordered to release him from Tihar jail.Kejriwal was remanded to the Judicial Custody by Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha by...

Ravi Shankar Prasad, assumes office as Minister of Law and Justice, Communications and Information Technology

Ravi Shankar Prasad has assumed the charge of the Ministry of Law & Justice, Communications and Information Technology in Narendra Modi led Cabinet on Tuesday. He is the fifteenth person who holds the office of Ministry of Law & Justice.Prasad, who is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, has held the position of Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice during...

Petition, regarding last-minute withdrawal of Arjuna Award, converted into PIL by the Delhi High Court

A petition by the NGO Navalokam Samskarika Kendram of Kottayam, Kerala has been converted into a Public Interest Litigation by the Delhi High Court and referred to a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice G Rohini. The plea before Justice Manmohan was against Government’s pronouncement that esteemed Arjuna Award wouldn’t be conferred on triple jump athlete Renjith Maheshwary in the year...

Delhi High Court Cautioned woman to come clean on Gang-rape and Kidnapping charges

A Division Bench comprising of Justice P.K. Bhasin and Justice J.R. Midha of the Delhi High Court have warned a woman to make a clean breast of the accusation levied by her that she was kidnapped and gang-raped by five men, whom she owed some money.The court reportedly  asked the accused, who claimed vulnerability, to appear on the next date of the hearing. She pleaded that on account of...

Delhi High Court drops Ammunition Charges against New York City Cop

The Delhi High Court on Saturday quashed the FIR and dropped weapons charge against 49 year old Manuel R. Manny Encarnacion, a New York City cop, accused of possessing bullets when he arrived in India in March earlier this year. He was arrested on March 11 after he arrived on a Lufthansa Airlines flight from New York.Justice Sunil Garg reportedly quashed the FIR on the grounds that the cope...

Madras High Court upholds Constitutionality of SARFAESI Act and validity RBI Circulars [Read the Judgment]

A division bench of the Madras High Court, comprising of Justice N. Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice M.M. Sundresh dismissed several writ petitions through a common order on May 8, upholding the Constitutional validity of Section 2(1) (o) of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI) and the guidelines issued by the...

High Courts Round-Up [ 23-05-14]

The Bombay High Court (HC) dropped the murder charge against a man sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his minor daughter, 18 years ago. The HC decided that the man be released after observing that he had assaulted the girl in a fit of rage and had already served over 14 years in jail.The Bombay High Court has set aside an order of Maharashtra government’s Caste Scrutiny Committee...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

SC seeks Centre’s response in declaring election result for the entire constituency as whole and not ward-wise. A bench led by Justice Dipak Misra demanded a response from the Centre and posted the matter for July 7.The Supreme Court appointed Justice J N Patel as interim chairman of Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, Mumbai. The bench comprising of Justice A. K. Patnaik, Justice...

Delhi Police Rapped for not responding in the Shanti Bhushan CD Case

The Delhi city police was rapped on Friday by the Delhi High Court for not filing a response on its appeal against a direction by the Central Information Commission. CIC had ordered the city police to bring out in the open the forensic reports of a CD which contained a conversation among senior lawyer Shanti Bhushan and politicians Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav.Justice Manmohan...

Courts do not ban books; Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court has observed that courts do not ban books, and it is the Government to do it,  in a petition seeking a ban of the book “Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion and Pure Madness” about a spiritual leader Mata Amritananda Mayi.Petitioner C Muralidharan, a devotee of Mata Amritananda Mayi, has sought a ban on the book “Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion and Pure...