"Trivials Should Not Be Allowed To Spread As Wild Fire": Madras HC Closes Suo Motu Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Actor Suriya [Read Order]

Expressing "a fond hope that the entire judicial system that fosters on the faith of the public at large should be the concern of everyone to preserve it in the endeavour to deliver justice", the Madras High Court on Friday "drew the curtain" on the suo motu contempt proceedings against actor Surya.Justice S M Subramaniam, judge of the Madras High Court, had written a letter to the Chief...

[LIVE UPDATES] SC Hearing On Plea Against Sudarshan TV's 'UPSC Jihad' Show

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Rule Of Reservation Prescribed For State Quota Seats Does Not Apply To The Seats Reverted from All India Quota: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Bombay at Goa has held that the rule of reservation prescribed for State quota seats does not apply to the seats reverted from All India Quota, though such seats are available to the State for allotment.Justice SC Gupte answered a split verdict delivered by the division bench of Justice MS Sonak and Justice DS Naidu in a writ petition filed by United Tribals Association...

Farmers Protest In Punjab: Plea In P & H HC Demands Police Officials Of All Ranks To Wear Uniform Bearing ID [Read Petition]

In the wake of the attack on the protesting farmers by some unknown persons camouflaging as policemen, in Haryana, the P & H High Court has been moved in a PIL to ensure that the Police officers of all ranks, while on law and order duty during protests/agitations, shall wear uniforms.Farmers from Punjab and Haryana are staging protests against bills on food and agriculture reform...

'Videos Submitted By Delhi Police Don't Show Natasha Narwal Indulging In Or Instigating Violence', Delhi Court Grants Bail To Pinjra Tod Member

[Updated with order]A Delhi Court on Thursday granted bail to Pinjra Tod member Natasha Narwal who is accused of instigating the riots that took place in the northeast districts of Delhi.While granting bail, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat noted that the video shown by the prosecution does show Narwal participating in the 'unlawful assembly', but it doesn't show anything to suggest...

'Stop Playing On The Back Foot; Hiding COVID Deaths Not In Public Interest', Gujarat HC Suggests Govt. While Requesting People To Follow COVID Norms [Read Order]

Recently, the Gujarat High Court, while taking suo-moto cognizance of the COVID situation in the State of Gujarat, said that it was at pains to observe that although all efforts were being put in by the State Government to combat the situation of the COVID-19 Pandemic, yet, unfortunately, the people at large were not cooperating.The Division Bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice J....

"Unfortunate That Adjudicating Authorities Delivering Judgments Based Upon Media Trials": MP HC Quashes NSA Detention Order For Participation In Muharram Procession [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed that the person detained to be set at liberty on the ground that the detention orders passed had not been confirmed within the statutory period of 12 days from the passing of the orders as provided in Section 3(4) of National Security Act, 1980 and therefore, the orders of detention were no longer in force.A Division Bench comprising of Justices S. C....

[LIVE-UPDATES] SC Resumes Hearing On Plea Against Sudarshan TV's "UPSC Jihad" Show

The Supreme Court is continuing the hearing today on the petition against the telecast of 'Bindas Bol' show of Sudarshan News TV hosted by its Chief Editor Suresh Chavhanke.On Sep 15, the top court had stopped the telecast of the remaining episodes of the show, after prima facie observing that the 'object, intent and the purpose of the show was to vilify the Muslim...

Delhi Court Convicts Srilankan Airlines Manager For Outraging Modesty Of A Subordinate Employee [Read Order]

A Delhi Court on Wednesday found the former Regional Manager (India) of the Srilankan Airlines guilty of outraging the modesty of his subordinate employee. The conviction order against the accused, Lalit D'Silva, was passed on the basis of sole testimony of the prosecutrix, Sales Executive at the Airlines, after the Court observed that her testimony had...

Repetitive Filing Of Applications Amounts To Abuse Of Process Of Law: SC Slaps Rs. 25K Costs On Adarsh Scam Accused [Read Order]

The Supreme Court imposed costs of Rs. 25,000 on Raj Kumar Modi, an accused in Adarsh Scam Case, for filing repetitive filing of interim bail applications.Repetitive filing of applications amounts to abuse of process of law, said the bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat while dismissing his application seeking extension of interim bail on...

Idea Of Establishment Of SC Bench Outside Delhi Has Not Found Favour With Supreme Court: Law Ministry [Read Statement]

The Ministry of Law and Justice has reiterated that it has no plans to establish separate Benches of the Supreme Court, as the proposition has not been supported by Supreme Court itself. "Representations have been received from time to time from various quarters for establishment of Benches of Supreme Court in various parts of the country. The Law Commission, in its 229th Report had...

Caste And Privacy - A Note On Madras High Court Judgement

The rejection of information about persons selected as per their caste of backward class is invalid when quotas are based on a caste, which was accepted as a social group in identifying backwardness. The Public Information Officers (PIOs) are consistently rejecting the requests wherever 'caste' is referred as 'private' information. This case is a classic example. Muthian asked for the following information: a) Total number of vacancies called for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008; b)...