[S.29 Karnataka Excise Act] Partnership Firm's Bar License Can Be Cancelled Over Unpaid Fees Following Change In Partners: High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said the Excise authority is entitled to exercise powers under section 29 of the Karnataka Excise Act and cancel the license issued to a partnership firm running a Bar and Restaurant, if the transfer is not intimated to the concerned authority or fees is unpaid on change of partners in the firm.A single judge bench of Justice Suraj Govindaraj dismissed a...

Corrections Can Be Made In Passports Of Such Applicants Who Were Minor When Passport With Incorrect DoB Was Issued: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court on Tuesday directed the Regional Passport Office to consider the application of a girl for issuance of fresh passport and correct her date of birth on the basis of the Matriculation certificate issued by CBSE, who was minor at the time of recording of date of birth during the issuance of previous passport.While allowing the writ petition, the single judge bench of...

S.319 CrPC | Karnataka High Court Grants Relief To Man Arraigned As Additional Accused Despite Clean Chit By Police

The Karnataka High Court has quashed an order of the sessions court allowing an application made by the prosecution under section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code, permitting it to arraign a person as accused whom the police had earlier given clean chit in investigation.A single judge bench of Justice V Srishananda allowed the petition filed by Sachin against arraigning him as accused No.2...

UP Police Detains Young Couple In Midnight Operation Without Informing Delhi Police, High Court Seeks CCTV Footage To Identify Officials

Taking a strong note of an incident of Uttar Pradesh Police detaining and taking away a young couple from their residence in the national capital to Ghaziabad last week, the Delhi High Court said it will examine how the cops allegedly carried-out the “operations” without intimating the Delhi Police. Justice Anup J. Bhambhani directed a Sub Inspector of Delhi Police to collect the CCTV...

Seeking 'Strict Action' Against Bajrang Muni Over His Alleged Call For Genocide Of Muslims, CJP Files Letter Plea In Allahabad HC

A letter plea has been filed before the Allahabad High Court praying it to take suo moto cognizance of an alleged video featuring Mahant Bajrang Muni making calls for genocide against the Muslim community and instigating the Hindus to kill Muslims.The letter petition has been filed by 'Citizens for Justice and Peace' (CJP) seeking necessary directions to the State of Uttar Pradesh to take...

Channel Pricing Not Perverse, Cable Operators Themselves Agreed That 2020 Regulations Are Unworkable: TRAI Tells Kerala High Court

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) told the Kerala High Court on Wednesday that the proposition of the cable operators to impose the price limit of Rs. 12 on all channels irrespective of whether it was part of a bouquet or not was a drastic measure, which the regulator had decided not to implement for good reason. "Their proposal was rejected for good reason. These reasons have...

PIL Against Illegal Poultry Slaughter: Gujarat High Court To Hear Surat Meat Shop Owners Alleging Closure Despite Valid Licenses

Several meat shop owners from Gujarat have approached the High Court alleging that their shops were closed by the local municipal authority- Surat Municipal Corporation, without any notice and despite their holding valid licenses.A division bench of Chief Justice Sonia Gokani and Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt has allowed their impleadment in a PIL filed in 2021 seeking ban on illegal slaughter...

Abraded Lesions On Hand After Tattoo Removal Does Not Make Candidate Unfit For CAPF Unless It Has Potential To Interfere With Working: JKL High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday observed that mere abraded lesions on the hand and forearm, which does not have any potentiality to interfere with the working of a Constable, cannot be made a ground to declare a candidate unfit for service in CAPF.The observations were made by Justice Sanjeev Kumar while hearing a plea in terms of which the petitioner had called...

'Petitioner's Resources Should Be Probed': Allahabad HC Dismisses Plea Against Closure Report In Hate Speech Case Against Yogi Adityanath

The Allahabad High Court today dismissed a plea filed by one Parvez Parwaz challenging a Trial Court's order rejecting his protest plea against closure report in the alleged 2007 hate speech case against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.The bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh observed that the Petitioner (Parwaz) is a busy body who has been fighting the case since 2007 and that...

Can't Presume Class XII Student Is Minor, Highly Preposterous: Delhi High Court Questions Police Over Addition Of POCSO Charge In Rape Case

The Delhi High Court has slammed the police for invoking Section 6 of POCSO Act against an accused in a case of alleged rape, purportedly on the basis of an assumption that since the victim was a class XII student, she must be a minor.During the hearing of a petition seeking quashing of the rape case on the basis of a compromise between parties, Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar asked the...

Magistrate's Order For FIR Can't Be Set Aside For Absence Of 'Reasons Of Prima Facie Satisfaction' If Complaint Contains Material Particulars: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has recently held that an order of Magistrate directing to register FIR cannot be quashed merely in the absence of recoding reasons on how the Magistrate was satisfied about the prima facie case. Justice RN Manjula held that only when a mechanical order is passed on a bald complaint, the same can be set aside for not listing out the reasons. Though it is...

'Furnish Fresh Bail Bonds; Pay ₹2 Lakh Costs': P&H High Court Grants Interim Relief To Deepak Chaurasia After NBW Issued In POCSO Case

The Punjab And Haryana High Court on Tuesday granted interim relief to Zee News Anchor Deepak Chaurasia in the POCSO Case while ordering him to appear before the trial court on March 3 to furnish fresh bail bonds.The court passed this order on Chaurasia's plea seeking quashing of the Feb 4 order of the Gurugram POCSO Court declining his application seeking permanent exemption from...