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'Incomplete & Defective Gang Charts In UP Resulting In Easy Bail For Accused, Giving Ample Room For Miscarriage Of Justice': Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has taken serious note of "half backed" gang-charts being filed under the UP Gangster Act 1986, that ultimately helps alleged gangsters in "easily obtaining bail", thereby threatening the order of the civil society. A Single Bench of Justice Rahul Chaturvedi observed that in the age of internet, where information of entire world is on one's finger tips,...
States Obligated To Provide Accurate Info On Deaths Occured During COVID But Bihar Govt. Reluctant To Do So: Patna High Court Issues Directions
The Patna High Court on Friday observed that the Government of Bihar is most reluctant to put in the public domain the number of deaths that occurred in Bihar during the last one year, i.e. during the time of Pandemic Covid-19. "In our considered view, the resistance is uncalled for, for such action is neither protected by any law nor in consonance with good governance's...
West Bengal Post-Poll Violence - 'No Concrete Steps Taken By State': Calcutta HC Asks NHRC To Examine Complaints
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to constitute a committee that will examine complaints filed by persons who were displaced during the post-poll violence in West Bengal.Upon noticing that the State Government has not even responded to some of the complaints filed by the displaced persons, the High Court remarked, "In a case like where...
Jaipal Bhullar Encounter - 'Serious Allegations Against Punjab Police' : Supreme Court Asks P&H HC To Hear Father's Plea For Second Postmortem
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside an order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court which had dismissed the petition filed by the father of alleged gangster Jaipal Bhullar, who was allegedly killed in a fake police encounter by Punjab police at Kolkata, seeking directions to the State of Punjab to get a second postmortem examination conducted on his son's dead body. A vacation...
1152 Students Move SC For Cancellation Of CBSE CLASS XII Compartment Exam, Adoption Of SC Accepted Formula For Evaluation Of Class X And XII Students
1152 Class X and Class XII students across the Country have approached the Supreme Court for cancellation of CBSE CLASS XII Compartment/Private/Repeaters examination The Petitioners have also prayed for a direction to the CBSE Board to arrive at a formula for performance evaluation of the Class XII private / compartment / repeaters students in line with the assessment formula adopted by CBSE...
'CBI FIR Simply Copy-Pastes Param Bir's Petition; This Is Overreaching Court Order': Maharashtra Govt Argues In Bombay High Court
The Maharashtra Government on Monday concluded its arguments in their petition before the Bombay High Court challenging certain portions of the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) FIR against former state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and unknown others. The two unnumbered paragraphs pertain to dismissed Assistant Police Inspector - Sachin Waze's reinstatement, and alleged...
Mamata Banerjee Objects To Justice Kausik Chanda Hearing Her Election Petition; Says She Has Objected To His Confirmation As HC Judge
West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court Rajesh Bindal urging him to reassign her Election Petition to another judge (other than Justice Kausik Chanda) to avoid prejudice against herself.The Letter has been written by AOR Sanjay Basu in connection with her Election Petition challenging Suvendu Adhikari's election...
'You Have To Give First Priority To Supreme Court': Justice MR Shah Objects To Adjournment Taken To Appear Before High Court
Supreme Court judge Justice MR Shah on Friday took strong objection to Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra appearing before the Calcutta High Court, after a letter was circulated on his behalf before the Apex Court seeking adjournment saying that he was in a 'personal difficulty'."We, at least I, take strong objection. You appear before High Court or Trial Court after getting adjournment...
Justice Indira Banerjee Of Supreme Court Recuses From Hearing Plea On West Bengal Post-Poll Violence
Justice Indira Banerjee of the Supreme Court on Friday recused from hearing a petition seeking CBI/SIT probe into the killings of two BJP workers during the post-poll violence which happened in West Bengal.A division Bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice MR Shah was hearing a writ petition filed by Biswajit Sarkar, brother of deceased BJP member Avijit Sarkar who was allegedly killed...
'HC Judgment Waters Down UAPA, Dilutes It, Reads It Down & Says That Otherwise It Would Not Pass Muster Of Parliament': SG Tushar Mehta Tells SC -Courtroom Exchange
In the challenge to the grant of bail by the Delhi High Court to 3 anti-CAA student activists Asif Iqbal Tanha, Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta vehemently prayed for a stay of the impugned judgment except the operative part granting bail, urging that it has the effect of watering down and reading down the UAPA."The High Court says that the intent and purpose...
Narada Case : Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Of West Bengal Govt, Law Minister On June 22; Urges Calcutta High Court To Defer Hearing
The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till Tuesday(June 22) the hearing on the appeals filed by the State of West Bengal and the State Law Minister, Moloy Ghatak, against a 9th June order of the Calcutta High Court wherein it had refused to take on record the Affidavits filed by them in the CBI's transfer plea in the Narada Scam case.While adjourning the hearing at the request of CBI, ...
