Delhi HC Orders JNU To Maintain Status Quo On Sealing Of Sexual Harassment Panel’s Office [Read Order &Petition]

The Delhi High Court, on Thursday, directed the Jawaharlal Nehru University to maintain status quo on the sealing of the office of its Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH).The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar also issued notice to the JNU and the University Grant Commission, seeking their response on the Petition filed...

PIL In SC Demanding Common Electoral Rolls, Sunday Elections And Voter Registration At Post Offices [Read Petition]

A PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court demanding a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take appropriate steps to use Common Electoral Rolls for Parliament, State Assembly and Local Body Elections.The Petition, filed by Delhi based Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, emphasizes on the lack of a uniform law or procedure for State Election Commission to...

Order Relaxing Ban on Crackers: Petitioners Allege Suppression Of Facts By CPCB, SC To Hear Their Plea On Friday

In a startling disclosure, the petitioners in the cracker-pollution case, filed by infants Arjun Gopal and others, have alleged that the Central Pollution Control Board suppressed the relevant information to the Supreme Court, which led to its relaxation of its previous ban on crackers, on September 12.The CPCB, it has now been disclosed, has taken a stand nearly 20 years ago that Sulphur...

CBI Raids In Sitting Judge’s Residence: Orissa HC Bar Moves HC Seeking Judicial Inquiry [Read Petition]

Orissa High Court Bar Association has filed a writ petition seeking judicial inquiry in to the alleged CBI raids occurred in the night of 19/20.09.2017 at the official residence of sitting High Court Judge, Justice C.R. Dash.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case against former Orissa High Court Judge I.M. Quddusi and others in a corruption case. The FIR has been...

On Plea By Minor Rape Victim’s Mother, SC Allows Medical Termination Of 24-Week Foetus [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a writ petition, filed by the mother of a 13-year-old rape victim, seeking medical termination of the daughter’s 24-week-old foetus.Earlier on September 15, a bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice Amitava Roy and Justice AM Khanwilkar had directed the constitution of a medical board at New Delhi AIIMS comprising doctors suggested...

Reporting Defamatory Statements By Third Parties: Salman Khurshid Suggests Channels To Show Disclaimers

During the hearing of the defamation suit by Shashi Tharoor against Arnab Goswami of Republic TV by Justice Manmohan of Delhi High Court, Tharoor’s senior counsel, Salman Khurshid proposed that while reporting defamatory statements of third parties, the television channels must show disclaimers that “these are not the views of the channel”.Rs.2 crore defamation suit was in connection...

SC Warns BCCI Against Scuttling New Constitution [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today took serious note of the open defiance of BCCI bosses regarding drafting a new constitution for the board in accordance with its earlier judgment.A special bench headed by chief justice Dipak Misra told BCCI President C K Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Aniruddh Chaudhry who had been summoned to the court that their non-cooperation had led to...

CBI Arrests Former Orissa HC Judge I.M. Quddusi And Four Others In Medical College Bribery Case

After registering an FIR against former Judge of Orissa High Court, Justice I.M. Quddusi and others in a corruption case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now arrested him and other four accused in the case.The other accused arrested are B P Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Educational Trust which runs a medical college in Lucknow, Biswanath Agrawala, a middleman, and...

SC Upholds Ban On Mate Mahadevi’s Book, Even While It Agreed She Has A Right To Interpret Her Religion

While balancing the right to express one’s views in religious matters, and the State’s so-called duty to restrict them, in order to prevent violent protests against it, the Supreme Court tilted in favour of the latter.   The Court was hearing the Kannada author and mystic scholar,  Mate Mahadevi’s appeal against the Karnataka High Court’s judgment, delivered in 2003, upholding...

107 Homebuyers Move SC Against Insolvency Petition Against Amrapali [Read Petition]

As many as 107 home buyers moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) that admitted insolvency petition against Amrapali's Silicon City project in Noida and demanded protection on equal footing as other stakeholders in the project.Represented by advocate ML Lahoty, the petitioners sought "enforcement of their fundamental rights,...

CBI Registers FIR Against Former Orissa HC Judge, HC Bar Alleges CBI Mistakenly Raided Sitting Judge’s Residence And Condemns CBI Action

Update-1CBI denied the reports of raiding the sitting Judge of Orissa High Court, ANI reports.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against former Orissa High Court Judge I.M. Quddusi in a corruption case. The FIR has been filed under Section 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.As per the FIR, Mr. Quddusi...

PIL In SC Seeks Painless End for Death Convicts; Suggests Shooting, Injection Or Electrocution Instead Of Hanging [Read Petition]

Holding that “dying with dignity is part of right of life”, a first-of-its-kind PIL has been filed in Supreme Court for abolishing the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging which involves “prolonged pain and suffering” and to replace it with intravenous lethal injection, shooting, electrocution or gas chamber in which death is just a matter of minutes.Though such...