“If this is not unconstitutional then what else can be” – Allahabad HC on Delaying retiral Benefits [Read Judgment]

Allahabad HC has held that Delaying retiral benefits to Govt. Employees is unconstitutional.It is like a person starving today is assured food to be provide after a month or two by which time he may die of hunger or the foodstuff itself may rot. If this is not unconstitutional then what else can be, the Court observed.The Allahabad High Court, in a scathing criticism to the Government laxity...

Italian Marines Case: SC permits Sergeant Major Salvatore Girone to fly home, imposes fresh conditions [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday relaxed the bail conditions of Sergeant Major Salvatore Girone, one of the two Italian Marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012.A vacation bench comprising Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud permitted Girone to go to his country till the International Arbitral Tribunal decides the jurisdictional issue...

Reports of the Lt. Governor of Delhi to the Centre can be made available under RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission on Wednesday ruled that reports of the Lt. Governor of Delhi to the President or the Centre can be made available under the Right to Information Act.“Information sought has to be shared, because a) the immunity under Article 163(3) will not apply to Lt G., b) such immunity is from probing but not from disclosure, c) request for information is not probe...

Punjab & Haryana HC asks ‘cow slaughterers’ to pay Rs.9000 to a Gaushala in lieu of imprisonment [Read Order]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, has modified the sentence awarded to persons convicted of cow slaughter, to period already undergone in custody, subject to payment of Rs. 9000 to a Gaushala. Justice Hari pal Verma passed this orders in a revision petition filed by five persons accused of Cow slaughtering.Mohd. Aslam, Mohd. Akhlak, Gulzar, Mohd. Arshad, Mohd. Gulfan and Mohd. Istakar...

Appointments of 170 High Court Judges are under Process: Law Minister

Union Law & Justice Minister Shri D.V. Sadanada Gowda today addressed the media here in New Delhi and gave an account of the achievements/initiatives of ministry his ministry in last two years. Following is the detail of his narrations: Initiatives towards Ease of Doing Business  To ensure speedy and fair disposal of commercial disputes, a new Act namely, the Commercial Courts,...

CIC to hear 17 petitions demanding direction to stop all direct/indirect Govt. funding to political parties

The Central Information Commission is set to hear on June 20, a number of clubbed petitions of seventeen petitioners against six national political-parties, demanding that the Central and State Governments immediately stop all direct and indirect government-funding to political-parties as an interim measure.The petitions allege that the political parties have been defying the...

Complaints against subordinate judiciary should be entertained only if accompanied by duly sworn affidavit and verifiable material: Delhi HC [Read Circular]

The Registrar General of Delhi High Court has issued a Circular in view of the concern expressed by Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur regarding the large number of complaints being received against members of the sub-ordinate Judiciary.The Circular lays down guidelines for the sake of uniformity in procedure while dealing with such complaints. It directs that the complaints making...

SC dismisses plea for 100 % water cut to Maharashtra liquor firms

“These are all policy decisions and the court's interference will be like taking over governance”The Supreme Court today refused to direct the Maharashtra government to completely cut the water supply to the distilleries and breweries in the state and divert drinking water to drought-hit regions.A vacation bench of Justices P C Pant and D Y Chandrachud also pulled up the petitioner, who...

President signs ordinance to postpone NEET by a year [Read Ordinance]

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday signed the ordinance to defer implementation of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for State Governments and their affiliated institutions by a year, so that students are provided with enough time to prepare. Meanwhile, it has come to the knowledge of LiveLaw that Salkalp Charitable Society is preparing to challenge the ordinance before...

Bombay HC slams Aurangabad Bench Registry for allowing impleadment of Judges in Review Petitions [Read Judgment]

Strongly deprecating the attempt of the petitioners to implead Judges, a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court recently observed that while seeking review of the orders, a litigant cannot implead the Judges and the Bench sitting collectively or individually as party respondents.“The review petition, as is ordinarily well settled, has to be heard by the same Judge for the review goes to...

Italian Marines Case: SC agrees to hear Bail Petition of Sergeant Major Salvatore Girone

The Supreme Court on Monday reportedly agreed to hear the Bail Petition of Sergeant Major Salvatore Girone, one of the two Italian Marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012. The Apex Court is scheduled to hear the case on May 26, the Italian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.A vacation bench comprising Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice...

Gujarat HC allows a family to undergo Narco Analysis to prove innocence [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court has allowed a plea by 5 members of a family to undergo Narco Analysis test to prove their innocence.Justice G.B. Shah, though agreed with the trial Court view that lie detector test or Narco analysis test is always to be in the aid of investigation and cannot be accepted as an evidence of a particular fact, but added that the particular fact or any fact comes after the...