'Depressed' CCL Dies By Suicide In JJ Home| 'Incident Unsettled Us To The Core': Calcutta HC Seeks Accountability Of Authorities

The Calcutta High Court on Friday took note of an incident wherein a child in conflict with law (CCL), whose bail plea was pending before the High Court in connection with an NDPS Act, died by suicide saying that the incident unsettled it to the core. Observing that CCL can't be reduced to a mere static, the bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya and Justice Siddhartha Roy Chowdhury made...

Implicated To Settle Personal Score: Bombay High Court Quashes FIR Under Section 498A IPC Against Judicial Officer

The Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a judicial officer accused of subjecting her brother’s wife to physical and mental cruelty.A division bench of Justice Anuja Prabhudessai and Justice R. M. Joshi of Aurangabad said that this case of Section 498A IPC is being used to settle personal score.“...the First Information Report in question is a classic example wherein the...

Kerala Service Rules | No Claim To Pension When An Employee Is Appointed For A Limited Period, Say Against Leave Vacancy: High Court

The Kerala High Court recently observed that according to Rule 4 and Rule 14E(a) of Kerala Service Rules no claim to pension is admissible when an employee is appointed for a limited period and that the period of regular full time service of a pensioner in an aided school alone shall be reckoned as qualifying service for pension. Division Bench consisting of Justice P. B. Suresh Kumar and...

Post Against Sharad Pawar: Marathi Actor Ketaki Chital Moves Application In Bombay HC To Make NCP Supremo Party To Her Quashing Plea

Marathi film actor Ketaki Chitale has filed an application in Bombay High Court to make Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar a party-respondent to her plea seeking quashing of 22 FIRs registered against her for a Facebook post. Chitale was arrested on May 14, after she shared the post allegedly written by one advocate Nitin Bhave that refers to an "80-year-old man...

Bombay High Court Questions Multiple FIRs Against NCP’s Anand Paranjape For Slogans And Comments Against CM Eknath Shinde

The Maharashtra government on Friday undertook not to arrest Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former MP from the Kalyan Constituency - Anand Paranjape - in the 11 FIRs registered against him after he allegedly raised slogans and posted comments against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. A division bench comprising Justices Revati Mohita Dere and Prithviraj Chavan questioned...

Centre Extends Appointment Of Justice Abhay Ahuja As Additional Judge Of Bombay High Court For Another Year

The Central Government on Friday extended the tenure of Justice Abhay Ahuja as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court by one year from March 4, 2023.“In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Abhay Ahuja, Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court, to be an Additional Judge of the Bombay...

100 Cr Defamation Suit | 'People Responsible For Saving Four Million Lives Being Branded As Mass Murderers': Serum Institute To Bombay High Court

Four million lives have been saved using vaccines, Covishield manufacturer Serum Institute of India told the Bombay High Court on Friday while responding to allegations that the vaccine is harmful. The submission was made before a bench of Justice Riyaz Chagla during the hearing a Rs. 100 crore defamation suit filed by SII and its CEO Adar Poonawala against a social media influencer...

Delhi High Court Directs CARA To Issue NOC To NRI Couple For 2011 Adoption

Directing CARA to issue an NOC within 30 days to an NRI couple for adoption of a child, the Delhi High Court in a ruling said the application being prior to the coming into force of Adoption Regulations, 2022, the "adoption would not be strictly required to be dealt with in the procedure prescribed in the said Regulations." "The Court finds that in the present case the adoption dates back to...

ISRO Espionage Case A Conspiracy To Derail Cryogenic Technology, Custodial Interrogation Required : CBI Tells Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court on Friday was told by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) SV Raju appearing for the Central Bureau of Investigation that the entire conspiracy in ISRO espionage was to derail the development of Cryogenic Technology. ASG submitted before the court that the matter is of serious nature involving national security and foreign powers may be involved in the conspiracy to foist...

Patna High Court Judge Recuses From Hearing Plea Challenging Bihar Judicial Services Exam 2020 Select List

Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of the Patna High Court has recused himself from hearing a Writ Petition seeking to quash the select list (issued in October 2022) and the main examination results (released in February 2021) of the 31st Bihar Judicial Services Examination 2020 declared by the Bihar Public Service Commission.Justice Ahshanuddin Amanullah recused on account of the fact that he was...

No Ipso Facto Absolvement Of Guarantor’s Liability Upon Approval Of Resolution Plan: Allahabad High Court

The High Court of Allahabad Bench comprising of Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Vipin Chandra Dixit, while adjudicating a petition filed in Narendra Singh Panwar v Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited & Ors., has held that approval of a resolution plan under Section 31 of the IBC, does not ipso facto absolve the surety/guarantor of the Corporate Debtor of his or...

Ramcharitmanas Remark| Lawyer Files Complaint In Bihar Court Against State Minister For ‘Hurting Sentiments' Of Hindus

A lawyer in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district has filed a private complaint in the local Court against Bihar Education Minister Chandrashekhar over his alleged statement that Ramcharitmanas, an epic Hindu religious book, "spreads hatred in the society". The Complaint has been filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur by a lawyer named Sudhir Kumar Ojha. In his plea, he has...