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Bombay High Court Rejects Rashmi Shukla's Plea To Quash Mumbai Police FIR In Phone Tapping Case
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday disposed of senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla's petition to quash FIR registered by Mumbai Police in the "illegal" phone tapping and data leak case.The Bench rejected her prayer to quash the FIR against unknown persons and also rejected her prayer to transfer the case to the CBI that is already probing former home minister Anil Deshmukh.However, the Bench...
Notify 27% OBC Seats As General Seats For Local Body Elections : Supreme Court Directs Maharashtra Govt & SEC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the State Government and the State Election Commission of Maharashtra to notify the 27% seats reserved for the Other Backward Classes in Maharashtra local body elections as general seats and take forward the election process.It may be recalled that on December 6, the Court had stayed the 27% OBC quota introduced by Maharashtra government in the local...
Gujarat HC To Consider If Exception To Marital Rape From Section 375 IPC Violates Wife's Fundamental Right To Sexual Autonomy
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (December 14) issued notice in a plea challenging the constitutionality of Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code. Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) criminalises rape. However, Exception 2 thereto exempts a man who rapes his wife if she is not under fifteen years of age. A Bench of Justices J.B.Pardiwala and Niral.R.Mehta noted...
Supreme Court Dismisses Maharashtra Govt's Plea To Direct Centre To Share Raw Caste Census Data Of SECC 2011
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the writ petition field by the State of Maharashtra seeking to direct the Union Government to share the raw census data collected in the Socio-Economic Caste Census(SECC) held during 2011. The State Government sought the raw census data for implementing reservation for Other Backward Classes(OBC) in the local body elections.A bench comprising Justices...
Breaking: Karnataka High Court Confers Senior Designation On 53 Advocates
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday has conferred senior designation on 53 advocates in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates' Act, 1961 and Rule 6(9) of the High Court of Karnataka (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2018. Only two of the designees are women. The notification issued by the Registrar General of the High Court lists out the name of...
Applications To Condone Delay In Filing Version In Consumer Cases Pending On 04.03.2020 Not Impacted By CB Judgment : SC Clarifies
Settling a conflict between two division bench judgments, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday clarified that the applications to condone the delay of more than 45 days in filing the version of the opposite party in consumer cases, which were pending as of March 4, 2020, will not be impacted by the ruling of the Constitution Bench judgment in the case New India Assurance...
Supreme Court Allows Defence Ministry's Plea To Allow Double Lane Widening Of Char Dham Highway Project
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an application filed by the Ministry of Defence for the double-lane widening of roads that are part of the 899-km Char Dham project in Uttarakhand.A bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Vikram Nath pronounced orders in the application filed by the Ministry of Defence seeking modification of the order dated September 8,...
'Granting Bail On Humanitarian Grounds Not Legally Tenable': Meghalaya High Court In POCSO Case
The Meghalaya High Court on Friday observed that granting of bail on humanitarian grounds is not legally tenable while setting aside the bail granted to an accused under the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act). Justice W Diengdoh was adjudicating upon a criminal revision petition seeking to set aside the bail granted to an accused who had allegedly kidnapped,...
What Is India's Judges to Population Ratio?
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha by a written reply that the nation currently has 21.03 judges per million population. The statement was in response to question posed by members of Parliament seeking the Law Minister's response on the judges-to-population ratio. Mr. Rijiju stated in his response that as on 31.10.2021 the judge to population ratio (Judge...
Has Not The Apex Court Done Violence To Section 149 IPC?
I chanced to peruse a Judgment dated 23-11-2021 by a two – Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India in Criminal Appeal No: 31 of 2019 (Viram @ Virma v. State of Madhya Pradesh), forwarded to me by a senior Advocate of the Supreme Court. Even though the judgment is shown as "non-reportable", there cannot be any doubt that it has equal binding force as any other judgment of the Apex Court. 2. The two-Judge Bench was disposing of an appeal by A2 to A4, A7 to A11, A18 and A20. Out of...
