PMO & RBI Should Reveal Information On Willful Defaulters & Raghuram Rajan's Letter : CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission has directed the Reserve Bank of India and the Prime Minister's Office to disclose information on list of willful defaulters and action taken on  the ‘alerting letter’ written by former Governor of RBI Raghuram Rajan on February 5, 2015"If the letter of Sri Raghuram Rajan is acted upon, PMO should have explained the same, if not acted upon, should...

Police Excess Cannot Be Permitted In Sabarimala, Observes Kerala HC

The High Court of Kerala observed that police excess cannot be permitted in Sabarimala in the guise of implementing the SC judgment on women entry. The special bench for consideration of Devaswom Matters orally remarked that police arrangements were causing hardships to genuine devotees.Justice P R Ramachandra Menon, who heads the bench, asked the State Attorney under what authority police...

An Overview On The Prevention Of Corruption (Amendment) Act 16 of 2018 [Part-1] Section 7

New Section 7 substituted by Amending Act 16/2018 7-Offence relating to public servant being bribed.commits an offence under this section.The punishment is imprisonment for not less than 3 years but upto 7 years AND fine. While fixing the fine the matters under new Section 16 will have to be taken into consideration. Eventhough new Section 9 (4) does not specify that the offence is cognizable, going by Part II of Schedule 1 of Cr.P.C the offence is cognizable and non-bailable. The ingredient of...

Probe ‘Motive’ Of Sexual Harassment Complaints Filed Against Public Servants Before Registering Cases Against Them, Says MP HC [Read Order]

‘It is the duty of the Investigating Officer to investigate thoroughly and reach to the motive for which the complaint has been filed against the public servant’While quashing a ‘sexual harassment’ complaint made against a public servant, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed that harassment of the public servant on pretext of false complaint at the instance of or in hands of...

Mere Pleading That Husband Was Attempting Sodomy Sufficient To Grant Divorce To The Wife On The Ground Of Cruelty: Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]

‘It will amount to be a cruelty, the reason being that no wife will ever in defence plead such an act to determine cruelty.’The Uttaranchal High Court recently observed that mere pleading by the wife in the divorce petition that husband was making an attempt to have an unnatural sexual relationship (sodomy) is sufficient to grant divorce on the ground of ‘cruelty’.The wife had come...

Rejection/Acceptance Of Anticipatory Bail Not Relevant While Considering Regular Bail Application: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the rejection or acceptance of anticipatory bail of an accused by the High Court is not relevant for consideration of the regular bail of the accused under Section 437(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.The Bench comprising Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice IS Mehta ruled, “While considering the regular bail application of the accused under...

Allahabad HC Gets 28 New Judges [Read Notifications]

The President has notified the appointment of 28 additional judges in Allahabad High Court. The notifications are issued separately in batches of 15 and 13.The first notification pertains to 15 advocates, who have been elevated as additional judges. They are:- Prakash Padia Alok Mathur Pankaj Bhatia Saurabh Lavania Vivek Varma Sanjay Kumar Singh Piyush Agarwal Saurabh Shyam Shamshery...

Kerala HC Refuses Anticipatory Bail To Activist Rehna Fathima Who Attempted Entry To Sabarimala [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court today dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of activist Rehana Fathima, who had made an attempt to enter into Sabarimala when the temple was opened for monthly puja in October after the Supreme Court order allowing entry of women in the age group of 10 and 50 into the Lord Ayyappa shrine.She was named accused in an FIR registered by  Pathanamthitta Police for offence...

Bombay HC Sentences Film Producer Gaurang Doshi To Six Months In Jail For Contempt Of Court [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently sentenced film producer Gaurang Doshi to six months’ imprisonment after he was found guilty of wilful breach of an earlier order directing him to deposit a sum of Rs 1.25 crore in court.Justice SJ Kathawalla observed that Doshi had repeatedly made false statements in court and has always disobeyed the directions of the court. Therefore, Doshi was held guilty...

 Sec.50 NDPS Act Cannot Be Complied By Stating That Police Conducted Search With Consent Of Accused : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has acquitted a person convicted under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act by holding that conditions of search under Section 50 are mandatory and that they cannot be fulfilled by the plea that accused waived the right to have the search conducted in the presence of a Magistrate or Gazetted Officer.While setting aside the conviction under Section 18(b) of...

Renaming Of Allahabad To Prayagraj: Allahabad Bench Dismisses PIL While Lucknow Bench Asks State To Respond To PIL Challenging Name Change [Read Order]

Two public interest litigations challenging the Uttar Pradesh Government’s decision to rename Allahabad to Prayagraj met different fate.While the bench at Allahabad dismissed the plea asking the petitioner to approach the government first, the Lucknow bench posted the case on Monday directing the state to respond.Sunita Sharma had approached the high court contending that the...

Justice R Banumathi & Justice Indira Banerjee Differ Over Issuance Of Notice In SLP [Read Order]

A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice R Banumathi and Justice Indira Banerjee expressed divergent views on whether to issue notice in a special leave petition filed against a Bombay High Court judgment.The bench was considering the SLP filed by Dhanada Corporation Limited against the high court order that had dismissed their appeals challenging proceedings under the Maharashtra Protection...