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High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe High Court of Allahabad on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri last year.Bombay High CourtA division bench of the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government to provide details about those persons who are given police protection by the state without being charged for it....
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Female Child Is Entitled To Enjoy Equal Right Of A Male ChildSupreme Court on Tuesday in Voluntary Health Association Vs State of Punjab, issued additional directions to curb female foeticide by effective implementation of the ‘The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994’. TN Govt’s 5% Relaxation To Reserved Category TET...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the management of Dr MC Saxena Medical College to compensate the 150 students wrongly admitted to the current academic year of the med school. The court has ordered that Rs 25 lakh, including college fee and compensations, be paid to each student within two months.In an important pronouncement, the full bench of the High Court...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court issued a contempt notice to 13 lawyers of Agra district after taking cognisance of an illegal strike and an allegation of misbehaviour with several judges upon a reference by Smt. Saroj Yadav, district judge, Agra.Andhra Pradesh High CourtUpholding a trial court order allowing witness examination on Skype for recording evidence in a divorce...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Enactment Of An Amendment With Retrospective Effect Not An Encroachment Upon Judicial PowersThe Supreme Court in Cheviti Venkanna Yadav vs. State of Telangana and Ors, upheld the constitutional validity of sub-section (3) of Section 5 of the Andhra Pradesh (Agricultural Produce and Livestock) Markets (Amendment) Act, 2015.Delay In Recording Witnesses’ Statements Can Be Fatal For...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court recently observed that the ‘character’ of a rape victim was still not an ‘absolutely irrelevant’ circumstance in a rape trial.Much to the cheer of Delhi-Noida commuters, the High Court scrapped the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway toll on Wednesday and ruled that the concessionaire, Noida Toll Bridge Company, shall not impose any user...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court on Monday slammed the state government for not procuring noise decibel meters ahead of the festival season. It was hearing a contempt petition against KP Bakshi, Additional chief Secretary (Home).The High Court ordered an interim stay on a notice issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) dated April 28, 2016, that directed demolition of...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
SC Reminds HCs of ‘Doctrine Of Restraint’ In Complex Fiscal EvaluationThe Supreme Court with ‘immense pain’ asked the high courts to keep in mind the established doctrine of restraint, while issuing writ of mandamus in tender/bidding matters. The court also observed that a writ court cannot sit in appeal over the financial consultant’s assessment. Finish Probe into Scribe Murder...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court in Rajendra vs. State Of Maharashtra, held that the cognisance of offences punishable under Chapter IV of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, cannot be taken on the basis of the charge sheet filed by the police under section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Calcutta High Court“Do not pit one community against another”, the Calcutta...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court observed that construction of illegal shrines on pathways and streets is in no way integral part of any religion, so as to be protected under Article 25 of the Constitution.Ahead of the festive season, the Bombay High court issued pointed directives for efficient implementation of the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000, and guidelines...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Ex-Policeman Accused Of Killing Wife The Supreme Court acquitted an ex-police constable, who was convicted by the trial court and high court under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and resultantly sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and also to pay fine of ₹10,000 for killing his wife.SC Refuses To Review Death Penalty Of Ex-Cop Umesh In Rape-Murder CaseThe Supreme Court Bench...
Supreme Court Monthly Digest of Cases (September 2016)
Contempt of CourtsIn Gyani Chand vs. State of A.P, three-judge Bench comprising Justice Anil R. Dave, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice L. Nageswara Rao also observed that it would not be fair on the part of a court to give a direction to do something which is impossible and if a person has been asked to do something which is impossible and if he fails to do so, he cannot be held guilty...