Rajasthan Assembly passes amendment to Right to Education Act; revokes no detention policy till class 8 [Read the Bill]

Rajasthan Assembly has passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2015, aimed at improving the standards of education by removing the provision of not failing students till Class 8 and instead evaluating them on the basis of their performance.The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill states that the no detention policy up to class 8th...

Security Cheques per se would not get out of the ambit of Section 138 of the NI Act; Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court in Wilson Mathew v. State dated 15.9.2015 has held that Security cheques per se would not get out of the ambit of Section 138 of the NI Act.Justice Ashutosh Kumar who wrote the Judgment relied on Suresh Chand Goyal vs. Amit Singhal (Crl.A. 601/2015 decided on 14.05.2015) in which it is held as follows;There is no magic in the word "security cheque", such that, the...

“Meat ban cannot be forced down the throat of any one” says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with an order staying the ban announced by the Maharashtra government on sale of meat in Mumbai holding that the Bombay High Court gave extensive reasoning while staying the ban order.A bench of Justices T S Thakur and Kurian Joseph said it will not interfere with the order as the matter was yet to be finally heard by the High Court.The order...

Breaking; Sexual Harassment against Lady Lawyers at Supreme Court; SC issues Notice to it's Vishakha Panel on Petition by Women Lawyer’s Association [Updated with Petition]

Supreme Court has issued notice to its Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Redressal Committee (GSICC) the 10-member  panel constituted on November 26, 2013 as per the Vishaka guidelines to deal with complaints of sexual harassment on its premises, on a petition filed by women lawyers alleging that incidents of molestation inside the court premises were on the rise.Supreme Court...

Exclusive; One of the Rapist married the Victim; P&H High Court quashed Rape Case against all 5 Accused based on the Compromise between parties [Read the Judgment]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court yesterday quashed the FIR under Sections 376/506/120B of Indian Penal Code, against accused persons on the ground that the matter has been compromised.  The single Bench had also taken in to account of the fact that one of the Accused had married the victim.The Accused persons had approached the High Court to quash the proceedings with a copy of the...

UP Khap Horror: SC asks police to ensure Dalit sisters are not raped; Directs release of their brother from jail

The two dalit girls allegedly ordered to be raped by a ‘Khap’ panchayat  of Bhagpat in Western UP after their brother eloped with a higher caste Jat girl got a massive relief from the Supreme Court today.The Supreme Court not only asked the top police officials in the area and in Delhi to ensure that no harm is caused to them by providing them tight security, but also ordered release...

SC begins hearing sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea for probing role of BJP, RSS leaders in post-Godhra riots

The Supreme Court today began hearing the pleas of dismissed Gujarat Cadre IPS officer and known Modi-baiter Sanjiv Bhatt seeking SIT probe into allegation of misuse of state machinery during 2002 post-Godhra riots and the alleged roles of top BJP and RSS functionaries and some senior bureaucrats.Appearing for Bhatt, senior advocate and former ASG Indira Jaising requested a bench headed...

Breaking; Union Cabinet approves the promulgation of Negotiable Instrument (Amendment) Ordinance 2015

Union Cabinet Today has approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 which redefined the Jurisdiction Clause in the Negotiable Instrument Act.A judicial limbo has covered courts of the nation as the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, which was promulgated by the President of India on June 15 2015 at the instance of the Central Government,...

Gujarat HC quashes FIR against lawyers who restrained another lawyer from attending Court during Strike [Read Order]

Gujarat High Court on Monday quashed an FIR against certain lawyers who had restrained another lawyer from attending Court proceedings in view of the boycott resolution passed by the Bar Association. The FIR was filed with Anand Police Station, upon an order passed by a local Court. Justice J.B. Pardiwala quashed the FIR in view of the settlement reached between the two parties.On the date of...

An offence does not depend upon the gender of an accused; SC declined to quash Criminal Proceedings against former DMK MP Vasanthi Stanley [Read the Judgment]

A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India Today set aside the Madras High Court Judgment which quashed multiple Criminal Proceedings against former DMK Rajya Sabha MP Vasanthi Stanley.The allegation against Mrs. Vasanthi was that she along with her husband took loans from various Banks submitting forged documents. The Chennai police took FIR No. 579/06 on a Complaint from HDFC Bank....

Coal Scam: SC deletes Manmohan Singh’s Appeals from the list of business of September 21

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reportedly ordered deletion from its list of business of September 21, the appeals filed by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others in the matter pertaining to the coal black allocation scam.A notice was issued yesterday, listing the case for hearing before the Chief Justice’s court as the first case. The Bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and...

SC seeks AG's assistance in plea for CBI probe into "wealth amassment" by Justice K G Balakrishnan’s kin

Allegations that his relatives held disproportionate assets came back to haunt former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today, four months after he retired as NHRC chief and a full five years after he superannuated as Chief Justice of India.Taking up the case after a gap of one and a half years, an apex court bench sought Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s assistance to hear a...