Kerala High Court Extends Stay On Transfer Of Sessions Judge Who Passed 'Provocative Dress' Order

Adjourning the matter to a later date, the Kerala High Court Monday extended its stay on the transfer of Principle District and Sessions Judge, Kozhikode, S. Krishna Kumar - who had passed the controversial 'Provocative Dress' order in Civic Chandran's case, to the post of Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Kollam.The Division Bench consisting of Justice A K Jayashankaran Nambiar and...

Allahabad High Court Sentences Mukhtar Ansari To 5-Year Jail Under Gangsters Act In A 23-Year-Old Case

The Allahabad High Court last week sentenced former UP MLA Mukhtar Ansari to 5 years in jail in connection with a 23-year-old case under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986.With this, the bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh set aside a 2020 order passed by the MP-MLA court acquitting Ansari of charges under the Gangsters Act in a case that was...

Cases 'Old and Stale', No Live Link Between Offences and Externment Order: Chhattisgarh High Court Quashes Restraining Order

Setting aside an order of externment passed by a District Magistrate in Chattisgarh, the High Court in a recent order said the cases which were taken into consideration by the authority for its decision were old and stale and there was no live link between the offences and such administrative action. The division bench of Justice Arup Kumar Goswami & Justice Deepak Kumar Tiwari said:"It...

"Not A Perfect World", Can't Enforce State's Statutory Duties Not Having Corresponding Enforceable Legal Right: Gauhati HC

The Gauhati High Court has made it clear that it cannot exercise powers under writ jurisdiction to enforce legal statutory duties of the State, which do not have any corresponding enforceable legal right qua the citizens.Justice Michael Zothankhuma remarked that if the scope of writ jurisdiction under Article 226 is expanded to such an extent, the Courts will be flooded and become...

PMLA Case: Delhi High Court Seeks ED's Response On Satyendar Jain's Plea Against Transfer Of Proceedings

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice on Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain's plea challenging the transfer of proceedings against him in a money laundering case from a Special Court to another judge, last week. Justice Yogesh Khanna also ordered the probe agency to file a short response to the plea, while posting the matter for final disposal on September 28."Issue notice. Let a...

NEET 2022: Rajasthan High Court Seeks NTA's Response In Plea Seeking Re-Evaluation

Justice Ashok Kumar Gaur of Rajasthan High Court has sought reply from the National Testing Agency (NTA) in a plea seeking direction to re-evaluate and re-calculate marks of a candidate in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2022.The petitioner alleged that he has scored only 395 marks out of a total of 720 marks, which is contrary to the manual calculation done by him,...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round Up : September 19 To September 25, 2022

Nominal Index [Citations 366 - 374]MUDIT SAXENA v UNION OF INDIA. 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 366B.V. BYRE GOWDA v. STATE OF KARNATAKA. 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 367R D RAMADAS v THE STATE OF KARNATAKA. 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 368SRI VASAVI EDUCATION SOCIETY v KARNATAKA STATE COMMISSION FOR THE SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES & ANR. 2022 LiveLaw (Kar) 369PRAMOD H. MUTALIK v. DISTRICT COMMISSIONER...

CET 2022: Karnataka High Court Directs State To Consider Normalisation Of Marks For Repeater Candidates

The Karnataka High Court on Friday accepted the revised method formulated by the state government for assigning CET rankings to repeater-students, for admission to undergraduate courses in Engineering and Technology for the academic year 2022-23. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty said,"During the course of hearing, a consensus...

Madras High Court Weekly Round-Up: September 19 To September 25, 2022

A weekly round-up of important cases from Madras High Court. Citations: 2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 406 To 2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 414 NOMINAL INDEX Sasikala v. The Revenue Divisional Officer and others, 2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 406 Nethrodaya v. The State of Tamil Nadu and others, 2022 LiveLaw (Mad) 407 M/s.D.K.Enterprises Versus The Assistant /Deputy Commissioner (ST), 2022 LiveLaw...

Consent Decree Must Not Be Used For Avoiding Registration Of Sale Deeds, Paying Stamp Duty: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently cautioned the civil courts that while exercising their jurisdiction utmost care should be taken to ensure that a consent decree is not sought to achieve sinister purposes like avoiding registration of sale deeds or paying stamp duty."A collusive decree cannot be used as a cloak for the sale deed. There could be numerous occasions where...

Payment Of Gratuity Act Is A Beneficial Legislation For Employees And Overrides Other Enactments: Andhra Pradesh High Court

In a recent ruling, the Andhra Pradesh High Court reiterated that Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 has to be interpreted in favour of workman and it overrides all other statutory legislations. The court relied on Apex Court decision in Beed District Central Coop. Bank Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra (2006) in which it was held "the Payment of Gratuity Act is a beneficial statute. When two...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round Up : September 19 To September 25, 2022

Nominal Index [Citations 334 – 351]Western Coalfields Limited v. Tahsildar, Kamptee and Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 334Mother Teresa Balakashram v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 335Swapnil Prakash Parab v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 336Hany Babu v. National Investigation Agency and Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 337Kaalka Real Estate Pvt. Ltd. and Anr....