Registering Authority Cannot Cancel/Set Aside An Already Registered Sale Deed: Allahabad HC (FB) [Read Order]

‘Once a sale deed has been registered, the registering authority is having no power or authority under the [Registration] Act, 1908 to cancel the registration, even if an allegation of impersonation/fraud is alleged.’The Full Bench of Allahabad High Court in Kusum Lata vs. State of UP has held that a registered sale deed cannot be cancelled or set aside by registering authority or by...

Wife Entitled To Know Husband’s Salary, Says Madhya Pradesh HC Upholding CIC Order [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, while upholding an order of Central Information Commission (CIC), has observed that a wife is entitled to know what remuneration her husband is getting.In this case, the wife had filed a petition seeking maintenance from her husband in which she alleged that, as a very high officer in the Telecommunication Department (BSNL), her husband is drawing salary more...

Parties Summoned By CCI DG Have Right To Be Accompanied By Advocates But Can’t Consult Them While DG Collects Evidence: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The DG shall ensure that the counsel does not sit in front of the witness; but is some distance away and the witness should be not able to confer, or consult her or him, the bench said.Though upholding the right of parties summoned by the Director-General (DG) for investigation under the Competition Act to be accompanied by advocates, the Delhi High Court has directed the DG to ensure that...

MP HC Directs State To Compensate ‘Victims Of Malicious Implication’ For Making Them Spend More Than A Decade In Jail [Read Judgment]

It is unfortunate, that there is no provision under the Law to compensate the victim of false/malicious implication, after his acquittal in the Trial or in an appeal, the bench observed.While acquitting two persons, who spent more than a decade in jail, during the pendency of trial and appeal proceedings, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the state to pay compensation of Rs. 3 lakh...

PIL For Lowering Legal Age Of Drinking In Delhi In Consonance With Other Laws; Delhi HC Issues Notice

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Delhi government on a Public Interest Litigation seeking lowering of the legal age of drinking in Delhi from the present 25 years to bring it at par with other states where the legal age of drinking is anywhere from 18 to 21 years.The PIL moved by advocate Kush Kalra prays for “quashing of section 23 of Delhi Excise Act, 2009...

Intra-Court Appeal Maintainable Against Judgment Passed Under Art 226 Exercising Criminal Jurisdiction: Kerala HC DB Sets Aside Order To Probe Syro-Malabar Church Land Deal Case [Read Judgment]

A Division Bench of Kerala High Court has set aside a single bench judgment that ordered the police to investigate into allegations against the Major Arch Bishop and others of the Syro-Malabar Church in connection with the Syro-Malabar Church land deal.The Bench has held that an intra-court appeal is maintainable under Section 5 of the Kerala High Court Act against a Judgment passed by a...

US President Blocking Twitter Users For Their Political Views Is Unconstitutional, Holds US Court [Read Judgment]

“The blocking of individual plaintiffs has the discrete impact of preventing them from interacting directly with the President’s tweets, thereby restricting a real, albeit narrow, slice of speech. No more is needed to violate the Constitution,” the court said.A district court in the United States of America has held that blocking of Twitter users from US President Donald...

Justice CK Prasad Gets Second Term As Press Council Of India Chairman [Read Notification]

Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has been appointed as the Chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI) for a second term. The decision was reportedly taken by a three-member committee headed by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu in a meeting held last week. Justice Prasad had taken over from Justice Markanday Katju in November, 2014.Recently, journalists from...

Kerala HC Dismisses Plea Against Collegium Recommendations To Elevate Five Lawyers As HC Judges [Read Judgment]

The petition had also sought a direction to the collegium to make a fresh recommendation where the ordinary lawyers who have no “Godfathers” too are considered.The Kerala High Court, on Tuesday, dismissed a writ petition filed by two advocates challenging the High Court's recommendation to Supreme Court Collegium to elevate five lawyers as judges of the high court.Justice Shaji P Chaly...

CLAT 2018 Results Shall Be Subject To The Decision Of Petitions Challenging It: Rajasthan HC [Read Order]

The Rajasthan High Court has, while posting a writ petition challenging CLAT Examinations 2018, on 29th May, observed that if the result of the Examination is declared before the said date, it shall be subject to the decision of this writ petition.This order was issued by the division bench comprising of Justice Gopal Krishan Vyas and Justice Ramchandra Singh Jhala on a Writ petition filed by...

Why Can’t CM And PM Be Elected

The Karnataka crisis has reinvented the question - why can’t the Chief Minister of a State or Prime Minister of India be elected by the legislature (Assembly in respect of a State and Parliament in case of Prime Minister).The system in India is based on the principles of parliamentary democracy in the United Kingdom. Under this system, the Governor appoints the Chief Minister and President appoints the Prime Minister and then the appointees prove majority by moving the confidence motion in the...

Bombay HC Imposes 50,000 Fine On CBI For Arrest Of Woman After Sunset [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently slapped a fine of Rs. 50,000 on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for an illegal arrest made by its officer in the PNB fraud case.The Bench comprising Justice S.J. Kathawalla and Justice Bharti Dangre, however, clarified that the agency is free to recover this cost from the erring officers responsible for the violations, as found after...