'Causing Bomb Blast Not An Official Duty': Bombay High Court Dismisses Lt Col Prasad Purohit's Plea For Discharge In Malegaon Blast Case

The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, a prime accused, seeking discharge in the case of 2008 Malegaon blast that killed six people and injured over 101. A division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and Prakash Naik pronounced the order. "Even otherwise indulging into an activity of a bomb explosion causing the death of...

JKL High Court Slams Authorities For Denying Passport To Mehbooba Mufti's Mother, Says Passport Authority Can't Act As Mouthpiece of CID

Directing the Passport Officer to consider former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's mother's application for re-issuance of passport afresh, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Saturday said that the authority has not to act as "mouthpiece of the CID". It ruled that the police verification report cannot override the statutory provisions of Section 6 of the Passport...

Year End Review : Supreme Court's Highs & Lows In 2022

Sixty two year old Mohammad Qamir, who had been languishing in a detention centre since 2015 after being caught up in the legal cobwebs relating to citizenship, got freedom only due to an innovative and proactive intervention made by the Supreme Court. Though born in India in 1959, he had gone to Pakistan as a child along with his mother in 1967 to meet his relatives. He later returned to India in his late twenties. As an adult, he married and settled in India. Several years later, in 2011, he...

Difficult To Accept A Widow With Two Children Residing In A Thickly Populated Locality Could Be Forcibly Raped On Several Occasions: Bombay High Court

Finding it difficult to accept that a widow with two children could be raped many times in a thickly populated locality, the Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a man accused of raping a woman.“In fact, there was long standing acquaintance between applicant and accused. It is difficult to accept that a widow with two children residing in a thickly populated residential...

Important Judgments Of Kerala High Court In 2022

LiveLaw reported 671 judgements from Kerala High Court in 2022. Here are some of the important decisions:Kerala High Court Upholds 10% EWS Reservation For Veterinary & Dental Courses Under KEAMCase Title: Vinay Shankar v. Union of India & Ors.Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (Ker) 1The Court upheld the 10% reservation earmarked for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) for Veterinary and Dental...

Issues Of Personal Liberty Must Be Adjudicated With A Sense Of Urgency : CJI DY Chandrachud

In response to the oft-repeated criticism over the growing pendency of cases in the judicial docket, Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, citing National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) data, said on Friday that the disposal of almost 14 lakh cases was delayed as some kind of record or document is being awaited and more than 63 lakh cases were pending owing to the non-availability of a...

Blind Leading The Blind? Madras High Court Says Trained Judicial Officers Ignorant Of Procedure, Orders Academy To Conduct Refresher Course

The Madras High Court recently directed the Tamil Nadu State Judicial Academy to conduct a "refresher course" for judicial officers focusing on special enactments like Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, SC/ST Act and NDPS Act.The direction came from a bench of Justice P.N. Prakash and Justice N. Anand Venkatesh after it...

Rajasthan High Court Annual Digest 2022 [Citations 1-258]

As the year 2022 comes to a close, LiveLaw brings to you a yearly round-up of judgments and orders of the Rajasthan High Court. This yearly digest includes 258 orders and judgments from both the Jodhpur and the Jaipur Benches of the Rajasthan High Court, listed in the order of LiveLaw citation index.Nominal IndexLaxmilal Salvi v. Registrar General, Rajasthan High Court 2022 LiveLaw...

Bombay High Court Annual Digest 2022: Part II [Citations 258-527]

Continued From Part ICitations: 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 258 to 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 527Nominal IndexAnand Prabhakar Joshi vs Bank of Maharashtra 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 258Santacruz Gymkhana vs State of Maharashtra and Anr. with connected matters 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 259Vodafone Idea Limited vs UOI and Ors 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 260Derivados Consulting Pvt. Ltd. vs Pramara Promotions Pvt. Ltd. 2022 LiveLaw...

Allahabad High Court Annual Digest 2022: Part II [Citations 273 - 543]

CITATIONS: 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 273 to 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 543 NOMINAL INDEX Suresh alias Chaveney v. State Of U.P and connected appeal 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 273 Ramshankar v. State of U.P. 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 274 Saleem Alias Kaliya Vs. State of U.P. 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 275 Hariom Sharma v. State of U.P. 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 276 Mirza Shafiq Hussain Shafaq And Another v. State Of U.P...

NLU Delhi Faces Backlash For Fee Hike, VC Says Committed To Support Students From Weaker Sections

The National Law University, Delhi (NLUD) has increased its total fee for the academic session 2023-24 from Rs. 1,63,500 to Rs. 3,20,000, almost doubling the amount. The tuition fee has been increased to Rs. 1,35,000 from Rs. 85,000. The new fee structure includes other heads such as academic services and facilities, student welfare fund, utility services, refundable estate deposits, hostel and mess charges. The varsity has faced criticism for the increase in fee structure from law students...

US Federal Court Allows Sikh Recruits to Wear Unshorn Hair and Beards in Marine Corps' Boot Camp

A U.S. court has ordered the Marine Corps to allow Sikh recruits with unshorn hair and beards to begin basic training.