PMLA | 180 Days Period Of Provisional Attachment Not Extended By SC Orders Extending Limitation During Covid-19: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that the Supreme Court's suo moto orders extending the period of limitation during the Covid-19 pandemic do not apply and will not extend the 180 days period prescribed for provisional attachment of property under Section 5 of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002.A single judge bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya was hearing the plea moved by...

NGT Steps In On Concretization Of Storm Water Drain, Buffer Zone In Ghaziabad

In a major intervention ahead of monsoon, the National Green Tribunal has constituted a joint committee, comprising of NCR Planning Board, Central Pollution Control Board, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, District Magistrate and Nagar Nigam to furnish a factual and action taken report on the lining, covering and concretization of storm water drains in Navyug Market, Ghaziabad, within...

IBC | Operational Creditor's Failure To File Its Claim Before Approval Of Resolution Plan Extinguishes Such Claim: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court recently upheld the argument made by an insolvent company having undergone Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, that failure of an Operational Creditor to file its claim with the Resolution Professional during the insolvency resolution process or to challenge the Resolution plan before NCLT/NCLAT, extinguishes its...

Additional Commercial Courts Will Be Functional Within Six Months, Efforts Underway To Make Infrastructure Available: Delhi High Court Told

The Delhi High Court has been told by its administrative side that additional commercial courts will be functional within six months in the national capital and that efforts were being made to ensure that requisite infrastructure is made available for the same.Taking the statement on record, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad...

Mere Fact That Both Prior & Subsequent User Are Registered Trademark Proprietors Irrelevant For Examining Who Generated Goodwill First: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that the mere fact that both the prior user and the subsequent user are registered proprietors is irrelevant for the purposes of examining who generated the goodwill first in the market and whether the latter user is causing misrepresentation in the course of trade and damaging the goodwill of the former user.Justice Navin Chawla added that the action...

Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Election Of AAP MLA Ajay Dutt In 2020 Assembly Polls

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Ajay Dutt in the 2020 Assembly elections, thereby seeking fresh elections from the said constituency.Dutt had successfully contested the Assembly Elections of Delhi (Vidhan Sabha) 2020 from the Assembly Constituency – 48, Ambedkar Nagar (SC), held on February 8, 2020 as a candidate belonging to the...

Workmen Compensation Act | Loss Of Earning Capacity Upon Amputation Can't Be Equated To Percentage Of Physical Disability: Andhra Pradesh High Court

Compensation under the Act becomes payable from date of accident, Court held.

Rajasthan HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Advocate's Clerk Who Forwarded Provocative WhatsApp Message After Udaipur Killing

The Rajasthan High Court has granted protection from arrest to an Advocate's clerk, who forwarded a WhatsApp message stating that "in Udaipur religious war has started, bravo finish the pigs".The petitioner has sought for quashing of FIR registered on information of respondent-Nadim Kadir for offences punishable under Sections 295A and 153A of the IPC. He further sought protection of his life...

Delhi High Court Gives Nod For Establishing Mohalla Clinic In Public Park, Directs Maintenance Of Remainder Part As Green Area

The Delhi High Court has recently given its nod for establishment of Mohalla Clinic in a public park situated in city's Kalkaji area, observing that the project would be beneficial to the residents of the locality. Further adding that the project must be implemented as per the proposed plan in public interest, Justice Yashwant Varma directed the authorities (Delhi Government and PWD) to...

Uttarakhand HC Permits Animal Slaughtering On Bakar-Eid In Muslim-Majority Town In Haridwar District [Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday stayed the operation of the state government's order to allow the slaughtering of animals in Mangalore, a Muslim majority town loacated at a distance of about 45 kilometers from Haridwar, on the occasion of Bakar-Eid which falls on 10th July, 2022.The court noted that the purpose of issuance of order appears to be to assuage the feeling of Hindu...

Person Belonging To Another Religion Can't Be Prevented From Entering Temple If He Has Faith In That Hindu Deity : Madras High Court

"It is common knowledge that the devotional songs of Dr.K.J.Yesudas, a Christian by birth, rendered on various Hindu Gods are played without any demur in temples"

Using Name Of A State For Non-Commercial Establishments Prohibited: Kerala High Court Overrules Single Bench Order

The Kerala High Court recently held that a private organisation cannot use the name of a State in its title, irrespective of the profit or purpose for which it is constituted, even if it is a non-commercial organisation going by the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 and the corresponding Rules. A Division Bench of Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P....