Advocate Gautam Bhatia Makes It To Forbes 30 Under 30 List

Advocate Gautam Bhatia, who worked closely with Senior Counsel Arvind Datar, playing a major role in getting the right to privacy declared as a Fundamental Right, has made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.The 2011 National Law School of India graduate studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He then went to Yale University to study constitutional law, as he wanted "his...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtNo intervention with the right of privacy of an Indian citizen can be permitted so mechanically, Allahabad High Court observed while ordering the police to discontinue surveillance of a man, who was kept under surveillance since 2011.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently quashed and set aside an order passed by a metropolitan magistrate wherein an...

MPHC Asks State Government To Provide Security For Display Of Movie Padmaavat [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State government to provide adequate police protection and support to the persons, who are involved in exhibition and distribution of film ‘Padmaavat' and to the viewers.Issuing interim direction, the court restrained any person, group or protestors from carrying firearms, articles that might cause injury or damage to the property within 200...

The Press Is The Most Powerful Watchdog Of Public Interest In A Democracy: Bombay HC While Quashing Media Gag Order In Sohrabuddin Case [Read Order]

As reported earlier, the Bombay High Court has quashed and set aside the media gag order by special CBI judge SJ Sharma dated November 29 and held that subordinate courts did not have such inherent powers to pass such an order.In the 39-page judgment published yesterday on the high court website, Justice Revati Mohite Dere held that it is only the ‘courts of record’, i.e., the Supreme...

Ban On Legislators Practising As Advocates: BCI Calls General Council Meet On Sunday To Consider Sub-Committee Report

The Bar Council of India has called its General Council Meet on Sunday to decide the issue of ban on Members of Parliament and the Members of Legislative Assemblies from practicing as advocates.BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told LiveLaw that a meeting of General Council Meet has been called on Sunday.It is to be noted that the three-member committee of RG Shah, BC Thakur and DP...

Petition Filed In Delhi HC Against Debarment Of DU's LLM Students From Practicing Or Working; Notice Issued [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, issued notice on a Petition challenging an Ordinance passed in June, 2015 under the Delhi University Act, 1992 prohibiting LLM students from practicing or undertaking employment while enrolled in the course.The Bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Chander Shekhar, however, refused to pass any interim order and fixed the next date of hearing as...

Chhattisgarh HC Modifies ‘Aadhaar For Bail’ Order: Aadhaar Not Mandatory Anymore [Read Order]

The Chhattisgarh High Court has modified its order that made Aadhaar card of the accused as well as surety mandatory before obtaining bail. Now the surety can submit any document of identification like voter ID, PAN, passport also.Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, in the order on Thursday, said he was convinced with the submission made by the majority of the advocates who made their submissions...

Kamala Das’ Biopic ‘Aami’ Promotes Love Jihad, Claims Petition In Kerala HC [Read Petition]

A writ petition has been filed in the High Court of Kerala against the film Aami, which is reported to be based on the life of renowned author and poetess Madhavikutty, well known as Kamala Das. The petition has been filed by KP Ramachandran, a lawyer practising at the high court. The petition alleges that the film has been made by distorting the life of Madhavikutty.Madhavikutty, who used...

Insisting Husband To Live Separate From His Aged And Ailing Mother Is Cruelty: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Judgment]

Insisting upon the husband to live separate from his aged mother suffering from cardiac problem is by itself a cruelty, the Chhattisgarh High Court has held.A bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Arvind Singh Chandel made this observation while disposing of a matrimonial appeal against the trial court denying divorce sought by the husband.The bench referred to apex court decision...

Banishment Of Villagers For Following Different Religion Unconstitutional: Manipur HC [Read Judgment]

Inexorable and inescapable conclusion is that the said provision of the village constitution which lays down that there shall not be any denominational activity dividing the existing Religion (i.e., Baptist Christianity) is void in law and cannot be enforced being violative of Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution of India, it said.The Manipur High Court has held provision of the...

Father Of Teen Killed As 'Naxalite' Moves Chhattisgarh HC Seeking Justice For His Death, Protection From Authorities

Sulo Kashyap, the father of an 18-year-old youth who was killed by the police last year after being tagged a Naxalite, has moved the Chhattisgarh High Court seeking justice for his son and protection for his family from alleged constant abuse by the authorities trying to silence their voices against the cold-blooded murder.Early this month, Justice Goutam Bhaduri had directed the Jagdalpur...

'Any Attempt by Supreme Court to Introduce Safeguards Against SC/ST Act Would Send Wrong Message'

On 20th November 2017, a bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, while hearing the case Dr Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v State of Maharashtra, framed the following question for consideration: Whether there can be procedural safeguards so that provisions of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 are not abused for extraneous considerations?The facts of the case being heard by the bench are that certain adverse remarks were recorded...