Kerala High Court Initiates Suo Motu Contempt Case Against KM Shajahan Over YouTube Video Against HC Judges

A suo motu contempt case has been initiated against K.M. Shajahan, the then private secretary of the former Chief Minister of Kerala V.S. Achuthanandan, for the serious allegations levelled by him against High Court judges in a YouTube video. The Registry has been directed to serve a copy of the contempt case on the Advocate General, as stipulated under Rule 8A of the Rules under the Contempt...

Haryana Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Deepak Chaurasiya In POCSO Case For Non-Appearance Due To An 'Interview With UP CM'

Another arrest warrant has been issued against Journalist-News Anchor Deepak Chaurasiya in a 2013 case for allegedly airing 'morphed, edited & obscene' videos of a 10-year-old girl and her family and linking the same to a sexual assault case. The Additional Sessions Judge, Gurugram Shashi Chauhan issued a Non-Bailable Warrant against him after he failed to appear before the Court...

Satyam Scam: SAT Sets Aside SEBI Order Barring Ramalinga Raju & Others From Dealing In Securities Market For 14 Yrs, Seeks Fresh Order In 4 Months

The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has set aside an order of market’s regulator SEBI barring erstwhile promoters of Satyam - Ramalinga Raju, Rama Raju, and others – from dealing in the securities market for 14 years and ordering disgorgement of Rs. 813 crores. SAT has remanded the matter back to SEBI and directed the Whole Time member who passed the order on November 2, 2018...

Removing Minor Victim's Pant After She Herself Refuses To, Amounts To Attempt To Commit Rape: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has recently held that removing a minor victim's pants after she refused to do so herself amounts to an attempt to commit the offence of rape. The Court was adjudicating upon an appeal passed against a trial court order convicting the appellant under Section 376 (punishment for the offence of rape) read with Section 511 (punishment for attempting to commit...

Sunanda Pushkar Death Case: Shashi Tharoor Opposes Delhi Police’s Plea To Condone Delay In Moving High Court Against His Discharge

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has opposed a plea moved by Delhi Police seeking to condone delay in moving the Delhi High Court in filing appeal against trial court's decision to discharge him in the Sunanda Pushkar death case.Tharoor has submitted that police’s application seeking condonation of delay lacks details of the decision taken by Directorate of Prosecution in preferring the...

Gauhati High Court Grants Relief To Assam Resident Whose Deceased Mother Was Declared 'Foreigner' By Ex-Parte Opinion Of Foreigner's Tribunal

The Gauhati High Court on Monday came to the rescue of an Assam resident aggrieved by an ex-parte opinion of the Foreigner's Tribunal, declaring his dead mother a 'foreigner'. The petitioner, Tarapada Namadas, contended that because of such opinion, his legal rights otherwise as a citizen of India are being questioned by some of the authorities. However, finding the opinion to be...

Chain Of Evidence Not Conclusive, Conviction Prima Facie Erroneous: Gujarat HC Suspends Life Sentence Of Former MP's Nephew In RTI Activist Murder Case

The Gujarat High Court on Monday suspended the life sentence imposed by a CBI Court on Pratap @ Shiva Solanki, nephew of former BJP MP Dinu Solanki, in connection with RTI activist Amit Jethva murder case of 2010.The court also released Shiva on conditional bail, pending disposal of criminal appeal before the High Court.RTI Activist Amit Jethva who tried to expose illegal mining activities in...

Twitter Can't Espouse Freedom Of Speech Of Its Users In Absence Of Enabling Statute: Centre Defends Blocking Orders In Karnataka High Court

The Central government on Tuesday opposed the petition filed by Twitter challenging the blocking orders passed by the Government of India. Additional Solicitor General R. Sankaranarayanan appearing for the government questioned the maintainability of the petition filed by the Foreign company. He said,“The petitioner being a foreign company cannot avail any remedy of...

Virginity Test Is Sexist, Can’t Be Performed On Female Accused In The Name Of Finding Truth: Delhi High Court

Calling it a form of “inhuman treatment”, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that conducting virginity test on a female detainee or accused under investigation is unconstitutional and in violation of her right to dignity enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma held that virginity test is “sexist” and violates human right to dignity of...

To Err Is Human: Karnataka HC Grants Relief To SC Category Candidate Who Wrongly Submitted KPSC Job Application Under ST Category

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Karnataka Public Service Commision to rectify the error made by a job applicant who had wrongly filled the application form under the Scheduled Tribe category instead of Scheduled Caste to which he belongs and regulate the provisional/final select list in accordance with his merit. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna while allowing...

AIBE-XVII- BCI Constitutes Fact Finding Committee To Look Into The Allegations Of Misleading And Cheating Some Candidates

The Bar Council of India (BCI) constituted a Fact Finding Committee to unravel the truth relating to the newspaper reports in Gujarat regional newspapers published on 6th February, regarding the involvement of Advocate Jignesh Joshi and others in misleading and cheating some candidates who appeared for the AIBE-XVII at Rajkot on 5th February 2023. The General Council of the Bar Council of...

2019 Jamia Violence: Delhi Police Moves High Court Against Discharge Of Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha & Others

The Delhi Police has moved Delhi High Court challenging the discharge of Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha and eight others in 2019 Jamia violence case.The police has challenged an order passed by city’s Saket Courts discharging the accused persons after it observed that the police was unable to apprehend “actual perpetrators” and “surely managed to rope them...