Round Ups
High Courts Weekly Roundup
Week Commencing From August 10, 2020 To August 16, 2020 Bombay High Court 1) 'One Fine Day When The Relationship Turned Sour, She Filed A Complaint'; Bombay HC Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Rape [Ataullah Fakruddin Ansari v. The State of Maharashtra] The bench of Justice Bharati Dangre granted bail to a man accused of rape by a 24-year-old woman who befriended him on...
Supreme Court Weekly Round Up
1. SC Holds Prashant Bhushan Guilty Of Contempt For Tweets Against Judiciary; Will Hear Him On Sentence [In Re: Prashant Bhushan & Anr.]The Supreme Court on Friday held Advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt of court in the suo moto contempt case taken against him over two of his tweets about the Chief Justice of India and the Supreme Court. Justice B R Gavai, reading out the...
High Courts Weekly Roundup
Week Commencing From August 3, 2020 To August 9, 2020 Allahabad High Court 1) Social Distancing Seems To Be An 'Empty Shibboleth'; Treatment System At Government Hospitals Has 'Collapsed': Allahabad HC Raps UP Govt [In-Re Inhuman Condition At Quarantine Centres And For Providing Better Treatment To Corona Positive Respondent] A Division bench comprised of Justices Siddhartha...
High Courts Weekly Roundup
Week Commencing From July 27, 2020 To August 2, 2020 Allahabad High Court 1) Allahabad HC Directs Petitioners To Approach Registrar General For Use Of A4 Sheets With Double-Sided Printing In Court Filings [Saumitra Anand & Ors. v. Registrar General, HC & Ors.] Observing that the matter required "serious consideration in administrative side," the division bench comprised...
Supreme Court Monthly Digest: May 2020
1. 'Common Parlance', 'Popular Meaning', 'Marketability' Tests Applicable Only If Tariff Entry Classifiable In More Than One Head: SC Order dated May 1, 2020 The division bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose dismissed the Delhi Central Excise Commissioner's appeals against the 2008 decision of the CESTAT holding that "car matting" would be chargeable to duty at 8%...
High Courts Weekly Roundup
Week Commencing From July 20 to July 26, 2020 Allahabad High Court 1) "We Expect Organizers & UP Govt. Would Ensure Social/Physical Distancing Protocol": Allahabad HC Dismisses PIL Against 'Bhoomi Poojan' Of Ram Mandir [Saket Gokhale v. Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirthe Kshetra & Anr.] "We expect the organizers and the Government of Uttar Pradesh would ensure all the...





