Delhi Court Directs Preservation Under Seal Of Entire Video Footage Of Search By Delhi Police At Advocate Mehmood Pracha's Office

A Delhi Court on Sunday directed the the entire video footage of the search carried out two days ago by the Delhi Police at the office of Advocate Mehmood Pracha to be preserved with the seal of the court.The order of Duty MM Udbhav Kumar Jain, Patiala House Court came on an application moved by advocate Mehmood Pracha seeking preservation of copies of the video footage of the raids conducted...

CLAT 2021 To Be Held On May 9 In Offline Mode

The Common Law Admission Test 2021 (CLAT 2021) will be held on May 9, in offline mode, announces a notification issued by the Consortium of National Law Universities.On account of the prevailing COVID situation, the notification, however, adds that the offline conduct of the exam will be "subject to revision in case of necessity".Online applications for the exam will be available from January...

Supreme Court Orders In Matters Related To COVID-19

The Supreme Court of India has passed many judgments and orders in the matters related to COVID-19, in the year 2020. In this write-up, the important pronouncements are briefly discussed. In Re: Contagion of COVID-19 Virus in Prisons, Suo Moto Writ Petition (C) No.1/2020 (Dated 23/03/2020). CONSTITUTION OF HIGH-POWERED COMMITTEE IN EACH STATE/UNION TERRITORY FOR RELEASE OF PRISONERS ON PAROLE OR INTERIM BAIL. A Bench comprising the Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices L. Nageswara Rao...

Office Raid Against Advocates Mehmood Pracha and Javed Ali:BCD Writes To Home Ministry For Immediate Action

The Bar Council of Delhi has written to the Union Home Ministry seeking immediate action in the wake of the cases against advocates Javed Ali and Mehmood Pracha and the search at their offices a few days ago.The lawyer body has sought to bring to the notice of the Ministry two important aspects of the matter in the eyes of the law – firstly, sections 126 to 129 of the Indian Evidence Act,...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Franklin Templeton: SEBI Appoints Observer On The Basis Of Supreme Court's December 9 Order [Chennai Financial Markets & Accountability V. The Securities Exchange Board of India & Ors.]Securities & Exchange Board of India has appointed an Observer regarding e-voting of unit holders of six schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. This comes in light of an order passed by top court...

Supreme Court Issues Show-Cause Notice To Appellant-Convict For Misleading It To Get Favourable Order

The Supreme Court last week issued show-cause notice to a convict for misleading it by producing a wrong copy of a trial court's verdict to get a favourable order which had allowed him to walk free on payment of a fine only in a graft case. The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose, while issuing the notice to appellant S. Shankar, asked him why it should not recall the order...

Franklin Templeton: SEBI Appoints Observer On The Basis Of Supreme Court's December 9 Order

Securities & Exchange Board of India has appointed an Observer regarding e-voting of unit holders of six schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund.This comes in light of an order passed by top court of December 9, 2020 whereby the top court had also directed that the result of the e-voting would not be announced and would be produced before the Hon'ble Supreme Court in a sealed cover...

"No Limits To Atrocities Of UP Police":BCI Condemns Police Assault On Etah Advocate-Requests CJI & CJ of Allahabad HC To Take Action Against Guilty

Taking a very serious notice of the incident which took place at Etah, Uttar Pradesh a few days back, the Bar Council Of India has issued a Press Release resolving to request Chief Justice of India & Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court to take "immediate steps to find out the guilty police personnel and issue a direction to Uttar Pradesh Government to immediately put them...

Charging Additional Costs For Carry Bags At Payment Counter Without Prominent Prior Notice Is An Unfair Trade Practice: NCDRC

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed Big Bazaar to discontinue its unfair trade practice of arbitrarily imposing additional cost of carry bags on the consumer at the time of making payment.Dismissing the revision petition filed by it, the Commission observed that a consumer has the right to know that there will be an additional cost for carry bags and also...

"Media Shall Be Made Accountable For Hate Speech, Fake News, Breach of Privacy": Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Establishment Of Media Tribunal

Film Producer Nilesh Navalakha has moved the Supreme Court seeking establishment of an independent, regulatory 'Media Tribunal' to hear and expeditiously adjudicate complaints against Media-Businesses, filed by viewers/ citizens. The Petitioner has stated that the same is necessary to bring about a balance between the right to freedom of speech and expression of the Media-Businesses...

Advocate Mehmood Pracha's Office Raid: Delhi Court Summons Investigating Officer And Direct Production Of Entire Video Footage of Search

A Delhi Court on Friday has summoned an Investigating Officer connected with cases arising out of the Delhi riots over the CAA, besides requiring him to produce the entire video footage of a search conducted by the Delhi Police at the office of an advocate appearing in the matter.The order of Duty MM Anshul Singhal, Patiala House Court came on an application moved by advocate Mehmood...

Non-Constitution Of Internal Committee Under POSH Act In Violation Of Mandate Under Indian Laws; Delhi Court Punishes Srilankan Airlines

A Delhi court recently convicted SriLankan Airlines, holding them in violation of the Sexual Harassment at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013.Dev Saroha, Metropolitan Magistrate, Patiala House Courts, Delhi, while answering the question of whether the Company had an internal committee as mandated under section 4 of the Act, functioning in Delhi division or in India...