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Breaking: "No Two Opinions About Right To Access Courts", Madhya Pradesh High Court To Provide Court's VC Weblinks, Allows 4 Journalists Plea
While hearing a writ plea filed by 4 Journalists seeking media access to Court's Proceedings, the Madhya Pradesh High Court today orally observed that the High Court administration has decided to "give you, what you (Journalists) wanted".A Division Bench of Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Virender Singh orally observed that "you people have in fact assisted the Court and the E-Committee...
Breaking: Class XII Students To Be Evaluated Based On Performance in Class X (30%), Class XI (30%) And Class XII (40%) : CBSE Tells Supreme Court
The CBSE on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it will evaluate the Class XII students for theory based on 30% marks from Class X, 30% from Class XI and 40% from Class XII, along with marks for practicals/internal assessment on actual basis as uploaded by the Schools on CBSE Portal.The submissions were made a before a vacation of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari...
'Don't Stick To Technicalities': Madras High Court Directs State To Not Insist On RTPCR Report While Deciding Compensation Claims If CT-Scan Test Confirmed Covid-19
The Madras High Court on Tuesday ordered the Health authorities of Tamil Nadu Government to process the claim for compensation of the Petitioner, widow of a private medical practitioner who contracted Covid-19 infection on duty and succumbed to it, without insisting for his RT-PCR report. A Single Bench of Justice N. Anand Venkatesh deprecated the practice of "sticking to...
Can't Give Custody Of Minor 'Husband' To 'Wife' As It Would Be Sanctioning Cohabitation Between Adult & A Child: Allahabad High Court
Noting that if a minor boy would be placed under the custody of his wife, it would be permitting an offence under the POCSO Act, the Allahabad High Court recently refused to give custody of a minor 'husband' to his 'wife'. The Bench of Justice J. J. Munir held that their marriage was voidable and if the minor boy is placed under the custody of his wife, it would amount to...
Decision To Hold NEET After August 31 Can't Be Faulted : Karnataka High Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Postponement
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a petition filed questioning the decision of the government to postpone the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) exams, for a further period of four months from the earlier stipulated date i.e. 08.04.2021. A division bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar said "This is not a case where there is cancellation of...
'Terrorist Acts' Under UAPA Only Deal With Matters Impacting 'Defence Of India' And Not Ordinary Law & Order Problems : Delhi High Court
"In our opinion, the intent and purport of the Parliament in enacting the UAPA, and more specifically in amending it in 2004 and 2008 to bring terrorist activity within its scope, was, and could only have had been, to deal with matters of profound impact on the 'Defence of India', nothing more and nothing less"
Dramatic Twists Of Enrica Lexie-Italian Marines Case : A Time Line Of 9 Years
The highly sensational Enrica Lexie -Italian Marines case relating to the killing of two Indian fishermen in a sea-firing incident nine years ago, which at one point sparked off diplomatic frictions between India and Italy, has attained a peaceful burial, at least as far as local proceedings are concerned.The Supreme Court today quashed the criminal cases against the two Italian...
'Right To Protest Not 'Terrorist Act' Under UAPA' : Delhi High Court Finds No Prima Facie Case Against Asif Iqbal Tanha, Natasha Narwal & Devangana Kalita
The Court noted that the CAA protests were not outlawed or banned.The protest was monitored by law enforcement agencies. The student organizations, which the accused were leading, are not banned organizations.
"Should This Court Wait Till Right To Speedy Trial Fully Negated?": Delhi High Court While Granting Bail To Delhi Riots Accused Asif Iqbal Tanha
Delivering its verdict in the appeal against rejection of bail of Delhi Riots accused Asif Iqbal Tanha, the Delhi High Court division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani today held that it was of the view that, "no offence under sections 15, 17 or 18 UAPA is made-out against the appellant (Tanha) on a prima facie appreciation of the subject charge-sheet and the...
MHA Notification On Citizenship For Refugees Unrelated To CAA, Centre Tells Supreme Court
n Notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on 28th May, 2021 has no relation with the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, the Centre has submitted to the Supreme Court in response to an Intervention Application filed by the Indian Union Muslim League against the impugned notification. On 28th May, 2021, the Centre issued a notification which stated that the...