Brothel Customer Can Be Prosecuted U/S 7 Of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that a 'customer' in a brothel can be proceeded against criminally under Section 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 if the conditions specified in the provision are satisfied.Section 7 of the Act makes prostitution in certain specific areas punishable and the Court in this instant case observed that the words 'person with whom...

S.125 CrPC | Not Obligatory For Claimant To Implead 'All Eligible Persons' Having Sufficient Means In Proceedings For Maintenance: Uttarakhand HC

The Uttarakhand High Court has clarified that it is not mandatory for a person claiming maintenance under Section 125 Cr.P.C. to implead all the persons responsible for maintaining him/her, having sufficient means, as respondents. It is up to the claimant from whom he/she needs maintenance and is free to implead any one or all the persons. While dismissing a revision petition...

Daughter Has To Show She Is Unable To Maintain Herself Or Hasn't Attained Majority To Seek Maintenance U/S 125 CrPC: Chhattisgarh HC

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that as per Section 125 CrPC, to get maintenance, a daughter has to make out a case that she is unable to maintain herself or has not attained the majority.With this, the bench of Justice Deepak Kumar Tiwari recently allowed a revision plea filed by a man challenging a Family Court's order directing him to pay Rs. 5K as interim maintenance per month to...

Married Woman Can't Be Lured To Give Consent For Sex On False Promise Of Marriage: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has held that a married woman, who enters into a consensual sexual relationship with a man other than her husband, cannot later on prosecute him for rape on the false pretext of marriage. In other words, the Court was of the view that a married woman cannot be lured to give consent for sex on the false promise of marriage, as such promise is illegal. While...

If Society Is Progressing, Why Can't Laws Also Progress? Bombay High Court Pulls Up Govt For Not Complying With SC Ruling On Transgender Rights

The Bombay High Court on Thursday pulled up the state government for being in a "slumber" and not making provisions for transgender persons in recruitment in the police department."For seven years your government has not done anything despite there being an order of the Supreme Court. Why do we have to do it? You do not perform your functions and citizens are forced to come to court," the...

'No Delay Is Too Long For Court To Correct Its Own Wrong': JKL High Court On Inadvertent Proceedings & Judgment Against A Dead Man

While setting aside a series of orders and judgments inadvertently passed against a dead man, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court observed that it is empowered to correct its mistakes, no matter the delay."No delay is too long/late for the Court to do course correction for its own wrong/mistake/error so as to undo the effects and restore the justice...Court only enhances its...

['Fake' Tweet On PM Modi] Saket Gokhale Granted Bail By Gujarat Court, Arrested Again In A Fresh Case

A court in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district yesterday granted bail to Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Saket Gokhale in connection with an FIR against him for allegedly endorsing a fake news report on Twitter pertaining to Prime Minister Modi's visit to the Morbi last month at the site of the bridge collapse which killed 135 persons. However, he was arrested soon thereafter in a fresh FIR...

Insurer Has Third Party Liability If Cancellation Of Policy Over Dishonour Of Premium Cheque Is Not Intimated To Insured Before Accident: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has said that an insurance company is liable to pay compensation to a third party, even if the cheque issued towards premium by the insured was dishonoured, if such fact was not intimated to the policy holder before the occurrence of the motor accident. A single judge bench of Justice HP Sandesh while allowing the appeal preferred filed by a claimant against...

No Blanket Bar On Judicial Review Of Decisions Made By Election Authority: JKL High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently ruled that there is no blanket bar to the judicial review of decisions made by an Election Authority but it is only those decisions which have the effect of retarding, interrupting, protracting or stalling the completion of the election process that can be challenged in the writ jurisdiction. A bench comprising Justice Sanjay...

"Political Activists Have A Right To Protest Against Administration": Allahabad HC Quashes Case Against UP Minister

"In a democracy based on adult franchise, the political activist and other public-spirited persons would have right of protest against the Administration by staging Dharana etc. against perceived discrimination/atrocities, inaction, omission or commission of the State Authorities," the Allahabad High Court observed as it quashed a 2013 criminal case filed against the sitting minister in...

'Strong Suspicion': Delhi Court Frames Corruption Charges Against Swati Maliwal, 3 Others Over 'Illegal Appointments' In DCW

A Delhi Court on Thursday framed corruption charges against Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Swati Maliwal and three others in a case alleging that they abused their official position and obtained pecuniary advantages by illegally appointing various acquaintances, including Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers, in the women rights body between August 6, 2015 to August 1, 2016....

High Court Orders Probe Into Conduct Of J&K Service Selection Board After It Appoints 'Blacklisted' Agency For Conducting Exams

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Thursday quashed the ongoing recruitment process for Junior Engineer-civil (Jal Shakti Department) and Sub Inspector (Home Department) and directed the UT Government to constitute a high level Committee headed by not less than a retired High Court Judge to enquire into the conduct of Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection...