Bombay High Court Starts Uploading Select Judgements In Marathi

The Bombay High Court has started uploading select judgements in a separate section on its website in Marathi.The judgements are published with the disclaimer that they are meant only as study material for reference. For all other practical purposes, for citations and execution of orders judgements published in English should be used. The judgements can be found under the heading of...

Madras High Court Directs HR&CE Department Not To Acquire Any More Elephants, Asks State To Take Call On Rehabilitation Of Captives

Lamenting on the conditions in which the elephants are usually kept captive in Temples and even by private individuals, the Madras High Court recently directed the State to take a call regarding the rehabilitation of elephants. Justice GR Swaminathan directed the Secretary of the Environment and Forest Department to coordinate with the Secretary of the Hindu Religious...

Advocate Moves Kerala High Court Alleging That Sitting Judge Limits Number Of Cases Listed Daily

An advocate enrolled in the Bar Council of Kerala has moved the Kerala High Court alleging that a sitting judge has limited the number of cases listed before the bench to only 20 matters a day, when other judges have 100 matters or more listed before them everyday. Advocate Yeshwanth Shenoy has filed a writ petition stating that ‘The Chief Justice, being the Master of Roster, alone has...

Karnataka High Court Refuses To De-Freeze Fintech Inditrade's Bank Accounts Amid ED's Probe Into Alleged Chinese Links

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed by M/s Inditrade Fincorp Ltd, challenging the order passed by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) freezing its bank account under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The freezing order is passed on allegations that the petitioner disbursed small loans to small borrowers, through payment gateways while having an agreement...

Madras High Court Monthly Digest - February 2023 [Citations 38 To 67]

Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 38 To 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 66 NOMINAL INDEX P Markandan v. The Commissioner HR&CE Department, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 38 KC v. UK and others, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 39 KC v. UK, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 40 M/s. Amirta International Institute of Hotel Management v. The Principal Commissioner of CGST & Central Excise, 2023 LiveLaw (Mad) 41 S v. V,...

Measures Being Taken To Introduce Age-Appropriate Sexual Awareness Curriculum In Schools, State Informs Kerala High Court

The Director of General Education has informed Kerala High Court that steps are being taken to commence classes related to sexual awareness in schools from the upcoming academic year, and measures are being taken to make it a part of the curriculum as soon as possible. The DGE is the Chairman of the committee of experts formed by the State Government on the specific directions of the court...

Delhi High Court Makes Available Judgments Translated To Hindi Language On Official Website

The Delhi High Court has published the Hindi version of some of the judgments passed this year for the understanding of litigants. In a first, a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad has made available seven judgments in Hindi language from January 01 to February 28, 2023.The translation has been done through AI tool “Supreme Court Vidhik...

Karnataka High Court Orders Trial Court To Pass Fresh Verdict in Murder Case, Says Court Can't Ignore Cross-Examination While Considering Evidence

The Karnataka High Court has said trial courts dealing with criminal matters have to appreciate evidence as a whole and cannot ignore the cross-examination. A division bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice Rajesh Rai K allowed the appeals filed by a murder convict Kattemane Ganesha and the victim in the same case. While Ganesha had challenged the order convicting him in the murder...

Offer Namaz And Plant Two Trees: Malegaon Court Directs Muslim Man In Road Accident Brawl Case

Earlier this week, a Magistrate in Malegaon, Maharashtra ordered a Muslim man to offer five times namaaz for 21 days and plant two trees in a road-accident brawl case for voluntarily causing hurt (Section 323 IPC). Magistrate Tejwant Singh Sandhu passed the order on February 27 and observed that Section 3 of the Probation of Offenders Act could be applied in the present case. The Act...

Petitioners Dub Renaming Of Osmanabad & Aurangabad As "Saffronization Of Country”; Bombay High Court Declines Status Quo

The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to order a status-quo on the Maharashtra government’s February 24 notification renaming Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv, respectively.The bench of Acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Sandeep Marne instead decided to hear on March 27, 2023 all the PILs against Union Home Ministry's letter...

791 Police Officials From Assam, 120 From Mizoram And 75 From Arunachal Identified For Separate Investigation Wings: States Tell Gauhati High Court

Responding to the suo moto PIL registered by the Gauhati High Court for implementing Police reforms, the Assam Government on Tuesday submitted that a total of 791 Police officials have been identified and earmarked for the purpose of being placed exclusively on the duty of investigation.Similarly, the governments in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have identified 120 and 75 Police...

Umesh Pal Murder| Prime Accused Not A Member Of Association, Media Spreading Misleading News: Allahabad HC Bar Association

The Allahabad High Court Bar Association has issued a clarification that the prime accused in the Umesh Pal Murder Case, Sadakat Khan, who has been arrested by UP Police on conspiracy charges, is not a member of the association, as is being claimed by the media.Expressing its displeasure over the misleading news being spread in various newspapers and social media that Khan, who is involved in...