Justice Rajendra Menon Appointed As Chairperson Of Armed Forces Tribunal

Justice Rajendra Menon, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, has been appointed as the Chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal.Earlier, on September 30, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi had told in open court that Justice Rajendra Menon had been recommended to the post. On this, the Attorney General K K Venugopal submitted that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) will clear...

Walayar Rape Deaths : Reasons Stated By POCSO Court For Acquitting The Other 3 Accused [Read Judgments]

The copies of the judgment pronounced by the First Additional Sessions Court, Palakkad on October 25 acquitting three accused in the rape-deaths of Walayar sisters was released on Friday.The case pertained to death of two sisters, who were subjected to sexual offences. The elder sister, aged 13, was found hanging in her one-room house on January 13, 2017. Two months later, the younger...

Jet Airways CIRP : Need To Adopt UNCITRAL Model Law On Cross Border Insolvency

Jet Airways Case: Background The need for the implementation of proper legal framework for Cross Border Insolvency proceedings is triggered in Jet Airways Scenario. District Court in North Holland declared Jet Airways bankrupt on May 22 in response to a complaint filed by two European creditors. A letter was issued by the Dutch trustee (equivalent to insolvency professional in India) appointed by the Dutch Government addressing Ministry of Corporate Affairs and other secured creditors...

PILs Challenging Odd-Even Scheme: Delhi HC Directs Delhi Govt To Consider Petitioners' Representations

Delhi High Court has disposed off all the petitions challenging the Odd-Even scheme of the Delhi Government. The scheme was proposed to curb vehicular pollution in the capital city. The Division Bench of Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar has directed the Delhi Government to consider all the said petitions as representation made before it and deal with the same as per law. These...

Karnataka HC Directs Air India To Pay Rs. 20 Lakh Compensation For Not Providing Wheel Chair On Time To Physically Disabled Doctor

Karnataka High Court has directed Air India, to pay Rs 20 Lakh compensation to a physically disabled doctor, and her aged mother who had to suffer immense mental trauma and physical suffering as the Airline delayed giving her wheel chair, at the Heathrow Airport, London, while on a holiday to Europe. Justice B Veerappa while directing the Airline to pay RS 10 lakh each to Dr S J...

Soul-Searching From Pune To Indore Via Delhi

The Battle of Poona was won on Diwali in 1802. Yashwantrao Holkar of Indore marched to Pune, consolidating his position in the Maratha Confederacy and emerged victorious against his Pune counterpart in the battle fought outside Hadapsar. This accumulation of political wealth by Indore was soon to be threatened by outside interests. Elsewhere in 1802, two oceans and three continents away, the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Marshall was gearing up for a forward push...

'No Evidence For Homicidal Death Of Younger Sister' : POCSO Court In Walayar Rape-Death Case [Read Judgment]

The judgment dated September 30 of the First Additional Sessions Court, Palakkad, acquitting one of accused Pradeep Kumar in the rape-death of the younger sister in Walayar (Kerala) is out. In the judgment, the Court holds that there is no evidence to hold that the death of the nine year old girl was homicidal.It is relevant to note that the Police Surgeon Dr P B Gujaral who conducted...

Facebook Appeals To Delhi HC DB Against Single Bench Order For Global Blocking Of Content Against Baba Ramdev

The social media giant Facebook on Wednesday filed an appeal to the Division Bench of Delhi High Court against Justice Pratibha Singh's order imposing a global injunction against it to take down defamatory content against Baba Ramdev.The Single Bench of Justice Pratibha Singh in her interim order had held that so long as either the uploading takes place from India or the information/data...

Rajasthan HC Quashes Cattle Smuggling Case Against Pehlu Khan, His Two Sons And Driver [Read Judgment]

In a big relief to the family of Pehlu Khan, who was allegedly killed two years ago by a mob that set upon him while he was transporting cows, the charge sheet against Khan and his two sons for cow-smuggling has been quashed by the Rajasthan High Court.While disposing of the petition filed by truck driver Khan Mohammed and the two sons of Khan, Justice Pankaj Bhandari quashed the case and...

Condonation of Delay In Filing Petitions Under Special/Local Law – Issue Should Be Heard By A Larger Bench

IntroductionTime limitation of filing a suit/appeal/application stands prescribed under provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963. Sections 4 to 24 of the Act deal with exclusion of certain time periods in calculating such prescribed time periods. Section 5 deals with the condonation of delay. It provides that if a 'Court' is satisfied that the appellant/applicant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal or making the application within limitation, the Court may admit the same after the...

Delhi Bar Council Cautions Advocates Against Advertising/Soliciting Work; Initiates Proceedings Against Two Lawyers and An NGO

In a Public Notice issued on October 24, the Bar Council of Delhi has cautioned the Advocates against advertising their services and soliciting work. Considerably, an Advocate has a duty to his colleagues under Clause 36 of Section IV under Chapter II of the Bar Council of India Rules, which prescribes the Standards of professional conduct and etiquette, not to solicit work or...

RTI Amendments: An Obituary To Independent Information Commission

[We were celebrating the 12th October as RTI formation day. But immediately after 12 days we are now compelled to mourn the sad demise of institution of Independent Information Commission on 24th October 2019 on which the destructive Rules are notified.]