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Apex Court sets a Special Bench for Criminal Appeals
More than 71, 000 cases await an efficacious judicial disposal. The graph of judicial backlog, save the period right after emergency, has been an ever increasing one. There are more than 65,000 cases pending before the apex court alone.There have been various attempts to create special benches to ensure speedy disposal of cases. Last year witnessed the creation of special Supreme Court...
Supreme Court to cut down on holidays for reducing pendency
There are more than 65,000 cases in arrear this year. The Delhi High Court had calculated that 464 years would be required to clear the arrears with the present strength of the judges in the high court! In Allahabad High Court, more than eight-and-a-half lakhs of cases are pending which include criminal appeals of the year 1980-82 and criminal revisions of the year 1990-95.In its 221st...
Pushpa Kapila Hingorani, India’s pioneer of PILs, passes away
Pushpa Kapila Hingorani, the lady behind many movements;one of the first legal luminaries of India;a pioneer in the use of public interest litigation on behalf of women’s movements; an indefatigable and militant advocate for women’s rights, took her last breath today morning.Pushpa Kapila attended the University College Cardiff in 1947 to study English, Economics and History before...
Bombay HC allows hotels to remain open till 5 am for New Year's party
Today Bombay High Court has extended the deadline for New Year's Eve parties and has allowed all establishments - hotels and restaurants- to remain open till 5 am. The Indian Hotels and Restaurant Association (AHAR) knocked the Bombay High Court to move against the city police's 1.30 AM deadline for eateries and restaurants on New Year's eve. Even after stiff opposition, Mumbai Police declined...
Hindu married to non-Hindu can't get divorce under Hindu Marriage Act: Bombay High Court
The tenets of the Bombay High Court ruled a Hindu married to a non-Hindu in accordance with Hindu rituals cannot seek divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act.The family court dismissed the claim of Niranjani Roshan Rao, who filed a petition for the nullity of marriage and alternatively claimed divorce on basis of cruelty by her husband Roshan Pinto. On the 24th of December, the High court of...
Breaking; NUJS Administration tried to suppress the sexual harassment case; Victim
The Victim in the NUJS sexual harassment case (PA to the Vice-Chancellor) wrote to Chief Justice of India [Chancellor of NUJS] that the National University of Juridical Sciences Administration tried to suppress the entire matter, India Today reports.Siddhartha Guha, assistant registrar at the National University of Juridical Sciences has been arrested by Bidhannagar South police, six...
NUJS Assistant Registrar Arrested on allegation of sexual harassment
Siddhartha Guha, assistant registrar at the National University of Juridical Sciences has been arrested by Bidhannagar South police, six months after a colleague accused him of harassing her sexually and threatening her.The High Court and the Sessions Court had earlier denied anticipatory bail to Siddhartha Guha. One of the staff at the Vice-Chancellor’s office has alleged that Guha...
NUJS has decided to disassociate itself from Ganguly till he is exonerated of all charges
Pursuant to the demand made by the faculties of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences [NUJS] the Vice-Chancellor P Iswara Bhat has assured them that the University has dissociated itself from Justice (retd) A.K. Ganguly, who was a honorary Professor at NUJS“… the University has already dissociated from him (Justice Ganguly) . He will be distanced from the NUJS in...
Constitutional status for proposed Judicial Appointments panel
The government finally decided to grant constitutional status to the proposed Commission for the appointment and transfer of judges to higher judiciary and to safeguard that its composition cannot be modified by an ordinary legislation.Earlier it was demanded that the constitution and function of the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission should be safeguarded in the Constitution of...
Take Immediate Action against Justice Ganguly; NUJS Faculties
Twelve Professors of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences [NUJS] today issued a statement demanding an immediate action against Justice Ganguly, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a former student of the University, while she was doing her internship with him. Justice Ganguly is still continuing as as an honorary professor in the NUJSThe full text of the statement...
I was intensely dejected by Supreme Court’s Verdict over Section 377: Justice A.P Shah
Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice and Law Commission of India Chairman Justice Ajit Prakash Shah expressing his views over the Supreme Court’s Judgment on Section 377 said the verdict was disappointing. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil’s Advocate in CNN-IBN justice shah said,” It is very difficult to say, but given the subject matter of the appeal I thought that our views...
Breaking; I authorized Ms Indira Jaising, to make my statement public; Victim’s reply to Justice Ganguly’s Letter to CJI
In reply to Justice Ganguly’s 8 pages letter to the Chief Justice of India, the victim in the sexual harassment case, issued the following detailed statement in the NUJS Blog.Statement of Stella James on 23rd December 2013It has been widely reported in the news today that former Justice A.K. Ganguly has written a letter to the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India. Several questions have...