Decide On Real Estate Proposals For Environment Clearance In Accordance With DCPR-2034: Bombay High Court To SEIAA

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to re-start deciding proposals pending before it for environmental clearance on a petition by NAREDCO, a self-regulatory real estate body. The court of ACJ SV Gangapurwala and Sandeep Marne ordered that all project proposals should be considered in accordance with...

S. 308 IPC| Intention Or Knowledge & Circumstances Under Which Act Committed Is Material, Not Injuries: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that for the purposes of constituting an offence under Section 308 of the Indian Penal Code, what is the material is intention or knowledge and the circumstances in which the act has been done, and not the injuries.The bench of Justice Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi observed thus while upholding an order of the Sessions Judge, Varanasi rejecting the plea...

Unnao Rape Case: Delhi High Court Reduces Period Of Interim Bail Granted To Ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar

The Delhi High Court on Friday reduced the period of interim bail granted to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Unnao rape case. He has been granted the interim bail to allow him attend his daughter’s wedding.A division bench of Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Poonam A. Bamba modified its earlier order dated January 16 by which...

Allahabad HC Quashes UP Govt’s Order Initiating Inquiry Against A Professor After Keeping Her Resignation Pending For 7 Months

"Any working woman, more particularly, a mother is required to be accommodated as far as possible" : Allahabad High Court

Provide ‘Roadmap’ For Implementing Scheme For Engaging Para-Legal Volunteers In Police Stations: Delhi High Court To DSLSA

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) to provide a roadmap for implementing its scheme for engaging paralegal volunteers (PLVs) in 50 police stations to help and assist in cases concerning missing children and offences against children.A division bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that the roadmap must...

Madras High Court Allows Brother To Be Appointed As Legal Guardian Of Woman With Mental Disability

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Tuesday while permitting the brother of a schizophrenic patient to be appointed as her legal guardian, observed that “person suffering from multiple disability” in Section 2 (j) of the National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 must be understood to mean “a person...

Withdrawal Application U/S 12a Can’t Be Entertained After Approval Of Resolution Plan By COC: NCLAT Delhi

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”), Principal Bench, comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan (Chairperson) and Mr. Barun Mitra (Technical Member), while adjudicating an appeal filed in Hem Singh Bharana v M/s Pawan Doot Estate Pvt. Ltd. & Ors., has held that once the Committee of Creditors approve a resolution plan, no withdrawal application under Section 12A...

Can't Cure Defect Of Non-Filing Of An Affidavit Supporting Election Plea At Filing Stage By Filing A Subsequent Affidavit: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the defect of non-filing an affidavit in support of an election petition at the stage of filing of an election petition cannot be cured by way of filing the subsequent affidavit. The bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery observed thus while confirming an order of an election tribunal that rejected an election petition filed under Section...

Law & Order A State Subject, NIA Can't Proceed Prior To Registration Of Crime By State Police: Habeas Corpus Plea In Rajasthan HC, Notice Issued

The Rajasthan High Court at the Jaipur bench has recently issued notice to NIA in a Habeas Corpus petition which challenged the FIR registered by the agency on the ground that it has no statutory power to "register" any criminal incident involving the schedule offences within a State.The plea states that Centre has no power to pass any order under section 6(3) of NIA Act as law and order is...

Delhi High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Censor Board For Non-Film Songs Released On Internet

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation which had sought setting up of a regulatory authority or censor board to review and censor the non-film songs and their contents including their lyrics and videos, before their release on internet. The petition had sought immediate ban on all non-film songs with "obscene/vulgar" content. A division bench of Chief Justice...

Award Debtor Failed To Take Recourse To S. 26 of Arbitration Act; Cannot Challenge Award Claiming Expert Was Not Examined: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has ruled that if an award debtor has failed to take recourse to the provisions of Section 26 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (A&C Act), it cannot seek to set aside the award on the ground that the expert, whose report was relied upon by the arbitrator, was not examined by the opposite party. The bench of Justice Manish Pitale was dealing with...

Sexual Abuse: High Court Directs Delhi Govt To Set Up ‘One Stop Centres’ For Women And Children In Every District

Dealing with a plea seeking action against media houses for revealing identity of victim and accused persons of Hyderabad rape case, the Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to set up “one stop centres” in every district in compliance of a Supreme Court decision of 2018. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad referred to...