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Delhi High Court Asks DGCA To Periodically Review Guidelines Concerning Wearing Of Face Masks In Flights
The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to periodically review its guidelines concerning wearing of face masks in flights, while also adhering to the guidelines issued by the Government of India on COVID-19 protocols.A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad disposed of an application filed...
Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea To Stop Jailed Legislators From Voting In Presidential Election 2022
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking deletion of names of the Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) who are languishing in jail due to some pending cases or those decided against them so that they do not participate in the voting process for the Presidential Election 2022, scheduled for today.While dismissing the plea, Justice...
Anticipatory Bail Plea Maintainable If Proclamation U/S 82 & 83 CrPC Is Issued Against Accused After Filing Of Plea: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has observed that the initiation of the process of proclamation or attachment proceedings under sec. 82 or 83 of Cr.PC after the filing of an anticipatory bail plea by an accused does not bar the consideration of such a bail application.With this, the Bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan granted anticipatory bail to one Manish Yadav, who is an Army personnel serving...
Karnataka High Court Denies Bail To Youth Accused Of Sharing Military Base Photos With Pakistan ISI
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed the bail petition filed by a 24-year-old, accused of sharing photographs of important places like Naval Base Army area with Pakistan ISI. A single judge bench of Justice K Natrajan while dismissing the plea filed by Jeetendar Singh said,"The possibility of Pakistan may target India by using missiles over those places are not ruled out....
Actor Assault Case: Kerala High Court Directs Crime Branch To Wind Up Further Investigation By 22nd July
The Kerala High Court on Monday disposed of the plea filed by the prosecution seeking 3 more weeks' time to conclude further investigation in the 2017 Actor Assault Case.Justice Kauser Edappagath denied this request of the Crime Branch, but considering the submission made by the Director General of Prosecution, granted time till 22.07.2022 to submit the Final Report. Initially, the Court...
Bombay High Court To Hear Actor Suniel Shetty's Plea For Quashing Criminal Trespass Complaint By International Cuisines Restaurant Next Month
Actor Suniel Shetty has approached the Bombay High Court to quash a case of mischief, and wrongful restraint against him in a 2013 dispute regarding his father's property in Girgaon, Mumbai.The complainant, "International Cuisines" claimed that they were Shetty's father's tenants and illegally thrown out of the premises by Suniel Shetty and five others on May 30, 2013.The cash counter was...
MSc Nursing Admissions | AIIMS Can't Prescribe Eligibility Criteria That Nullifies Recognition Granted By Indian Nursing Council: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that there is no rational basis behind the classification created by AIIMS among candidates aspiring for admission into its M.Sc. (Nursing) course, merely on the basis of the mode of learning their graduate course. It noted that the degrees of candidates who have undertaken B.Sc. (Post Basic) through distance mode are recognized by UGC as well as...
'Domestic Incident Report' (DIR) Not Mandatory For Adjudicating Matters U/S 12 Of Domestic Violence Act 2005: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has recently observed that a Magistrate can take cognizance of the complaint or application filed by the aggrieved person and issue notice to the respondent under Section 12 of the D.V. Act even in the absence of a Domestic Incident Report (DIR).The bench of Justice Rajeev Singh referred to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Prabha Tyagi vs Kamlesh...
Centre Introduces Family Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022 In Lok Sabha
Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday introduced the Family Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in the Lok Sabha, to overcome the issue of lack of jurisdiction of Family Courts in the States of Himachal Pradesh and Nagaland.Though the Government of Nagaland established two Family Courts in September 2008 and the Government of Himachal Pradesh established three Family Courts in February 2019, the same...
Registry Not To Accept Hard Copies Of Illegible Documents: Kerala High Court Warns Of Disciplinary Action
The Kerala High Court last week cautioned its Registry of disciplinary action if it cleared any document or file that was illegible or if the words are not printed in sufficiently large font. Justice Amit Rawal held so while considering a petition where the font used in a document was as small as '8'. The Judge found that the document was illegible and that the Registry should not have...
Orissa High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 11 To July 17, 2022
Nominal Index: 1. State of Odisha & Ors. v. Radhakanta Tripathy & Anr., 2022 LiveLaw (Ori) 109 2. Gobardhan Gadaba @ Gadava v. State of Odisha, 2022 LiveLaw (Ori) 110 3. Naba Krishna Mahapatra v. State of Odisha & Ors., 2022 LiveLaw (Ori) 111 4. Kishore Bira v. State of Odisha, 2022 LiveLaw (Ori) 112 5. M/s. Patel Brothers & Co., Sambalpur v. State of...
Temporary Employees Also Protected Under Article 311 Of Constitution, Cannot Be Terminated Without Conducting Proper Enquiry: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court today ruled that a temporary employee also stands protected under the provisions of Article 311 of the Constitution of India and cannot be terminated without conducting proper enquiry. Since no enquiry was held against the petitioner in this case, nor he was given an opportunity of being heard, hence a bench comprising Justice Mohan Lal held...