Hyderabad Nizam's Fund: UK Court Rules In Favour of India, Rejects Pak Claim [Read Judgment]

The High Court of England and Wales on Wednesday has given a Judgment in favour of India in a decades old legal battle with Pakistan over funds belonging to Hyderabad's Nizam.In a big relief to the eighth Nizam of the former province of Hyderabad, Mukarram Jah, the Court held that the funds worth 1 million pounds (now 35 million pounds) were sent by the erstwhile Nizam Asaf Jah to Pakistan...

DJS 2019 : Here Are The 9 Questions Corrected By Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday passed a judgment wherein 9 out of the 15 corrections pointed out in the answer-key of the Delhi Judicial Services Exam have been accepted by the court. The Division of Bench Justice Muralidhar and Justice Talwant Singh also went on to order the High Court to reevaluate the marks on the basis of the corrected answer-key and release the...

'Kenyan Court Process Better Than SC's Approach To Aadhaar Challenge' : V Anand, Who Testified Against Kenyan Biometric Project

"Regardless of the result of the case, I will say with full conviction that the Kenyan court has a superior process to deal with conflicting evidence in constitutional cases."

'Telegram Promotes Child Pornography, Terrorism' : Plea In Kerala HC Seeks Ban On Messaging App

Stating that the messaging platform 'Telegram' is unregulated, and is promoting child pornography and terrorism, a Public Interest Litigation petition was filed in the High Court of Kerala for banning it.The petition filed by Athena Solomon, an LLM student of National Law School of India University Bengaluru, stated that Telegram allows for anonymous posting of messages. This facility is...

DJS 2019:Delhi HC Corrects Nine Mistakes In The Answer-key, Orders Re-computation Of Marks [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has accepted 9 out of the 15 corrections pointed out in the answer-key of the Delhi Judicial Services examination and have noted that the same has caused substantial prejudice to the Petitioners.In the present PIL, 10 Delhi Judicial Services-2019 unsuccessful candidates had moved the Delhi High Court complaining about six "patently erroneous questions" in the examination...

CBI Court Extends DK Shivakumar's Judicial Custody Till Oct 15; Allows ED to Interrogate Him For 2 Days

Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar on Tuesday extended prominent Congress leader DK Shivakumar's judicial custody till October 15 in a money laundering case.The Judge has also allowed Enforcement Directorate to interrogate the leader from Karnataka in custody for two days - October 4 and 5. The proceedings began with Enforcement Directorate's counsel Amit Mahajan moving an application...

Delay In Pronouncing Judgments – Rafale, Sabarimala,RTI et al Need for Judicial Introspection

In the Sabarimala case(Indian Young Lawyers' Association v. State of Kerala), Supreme Court had rendered a path breaking judgment which led to a huge furore in the State of Kerala. A batch of fifty-plus Review Petitions was filed, the matter heard and the judgment reserved on 6th February, 2019. It has been 7 months since, but the judgement is yet to be delivered. Likewise, in the Rafale Judgment, the review petitions were heard and judgement was reserved on 10th May 2019. The delay...

Delhi HC Orders Facebook, Google To Take Down Posts Alleging Sexual Harassment By Artist Subodh Gupta [Read Order]

In a unique move, the Delhi High Court passed an ex-parte interim order directing Facebook, Instagram and Google to take down posts containing sexual harassment accusations against leading Indian contemporary artist, Subodh Gupta.The allegations of unwelcome sexual advances were made by an unnamed co-worker of Gupta a year ago, on an anonymous Instagram page. She listed a series of such...

Shahjahanpur Court Dismisses Bail Pleas Of Both Chinmayanand & Law Student Who Alleged Him Of Rape

A Shahjahanpur court today refused to grant bail to the former Union Minister and BJP leader, Swami Chinmayanand as well as to the law student, who had filed a rape case against him. While Chinmayanand was arrested by the SIT on September 20 in connection to rape allegations after the complainant gave a pen drive to the SIT to support her allegations, the complainant law student...

Inter-State River Water Disputes Bill- Watering-Down The Water-Federalism

National Commission for Review of Working of Constitution (NCRWC) has strongly recommended for protection of already adjudicated rights of states over the rivers flowing through their states and effective and meaningful consultation with all state governments before bringing any bill on River Water Rights. The Centre cannot ignore these two important suggestions because India is a federation and states have share in the sovereignty. The NCRWC after studying this aspect, explained ...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court Held that failure to give enquiry report to an employee, undergoing disciplinary proceedings, amounts to denial of reasonable opportunity to employee to prove his innocence and contravenes the principle "audialterempartem", as imbibed under the principles of natural justice. Bombay High Court In what has come as a huge relief to Project Affected...

One Year Of Sabarimala Verdict : The Emancipatory Force Of SC Judgment

One must realize that the judgement is not an attack on faith; it is merely an attack on the discriminatory practices embroiled in the faith.