Kerala HC Denies Bail To Actor Dileep In Actress Molestation Case [Read Order]

Kerala High Court dismissed the bail application of Malayalam film star Dileep in the actress sexual assault case.Justice Sunil Thomas had reserved the order in the bail application on Friday.Senior Advocate K. Ramkumar had submitted that the investigation in the case is over and there is no need to keep the accused in further custody.Director General of Prosecution Manjeri Sreedharan...

Article 256 of the Constitution: An Explainer

In his recent judgment in Swaraj Abhiyan v Union of India and Others, indicting the Centre for its inaction and the states which defied the National Food Security Act, 2013, Supreme Court Justice Madan B Lokur, drew attention to Article 256 of the Constitution, calling it a “forgotten” provision.  The learned Justice may indeed be correct,  as it is not very often that one comes across...

Sunanda Pushkar’s Son Moves Delhi HC Saying Swamy’s PIL A ‘Publicity Petition’

Claiming that the PIL filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and Ishkaran Bhandari seeking SIT probe into the death of his mother Sunanda Pushkar was a “publicity petition”, Shiv Menon on Saturday moved the Delhi High Court seeking impleadment in the PIL.Menon has challenged the locus standi of Swamy and Bhandari’s PIL.In the impleadment application, he said they had no locus in the...

Making Junior Bar Strong Important For Success Of Our Judicial And Legal System:Justice AK Sikri [Video]

Supreme Court Judge, Justice A.K. Sikri Book on Wednesday released a book titled ‘On the Rise’ by Mr. Tariq Khan, Advocate at an event held at Plenary Hall,  Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.  Guests of Honour were Mr. P Chidambaram and Mr. Fali S Nariman. Justice AK Sikri has praised the diligent efforts of all the stars of the book i.e. the contributors who have been brought together...

Gujarat HC Stays Criminal Proceedings Against Shah Rukh Khan For Mishap During Film Promotion [Read Order]

Gujarat High Court on Thursday provisionally stayed the criminal proceedings initiated against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for the alleged culpability in triggering a melee at Vadodara Railway Station early this year while promoting his film ‘Raees’, during which a man had died of heart attack.Justice A.J. Desai stayed the summons issued to Mr. Khan by a Vadodara Court, and fixed...

Extending Right To Self-Defence To Mother Protecting Kid From Rape, Delhi HC Acquits Woman, Companion [Read Judgment]

Extending the protection of right of self-defence to a woman protecting her minor daughter from being raped, the Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted a woman and her male companion sentenced to life for murder.Justice Mukta Gupta and Justice Siddharth Mridul directed the release of the woman named Madhu and her companion Virender, who were held guilty of murder of one Satender alias Nanhe,...

Delhi HC Dismisses Advocate’s Plea Seeking Revaluation Of Answer Sheets For Advocates-On-Record Exam [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition challenging Regulation 12 of the Advocates-on-Record Examination, 2013, which bars revaluation of answer sheets.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal dismissed the petition filed by Ravi Chandra Prakash, an advocate, who had prayed that Regulation 12 be declared “arbitrary, unjust, unfair, unreasonable, inequitable and violative...

Usage Of Mics In The Courtrooms – Another Step Towards Transparency And Accessibility

Imagine a Monday morning. You have a case listed in the highest court of the land. You have travelled for more than 10 hours to reach New Delhi. You barely had some sleep. You were able to speak to your lawyer on the phone who directed you to be at the Supreme Court around 10 a.m. to manage a Visitor’s pass for you. You stood in a queue, got your pass and at sharp 10.30 a.m. you find yourself before the courtroom where the matter is listed. It is jam-packed with lawyers. There isn’t an inch to...

Sunanda Pushkar Murder: Delhi HC Tells Delhi Police To Submit Status Report In 3 Days

The Delhi  High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Police to submit within three days its status report about its probe into the murder of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a five-star hotel suite in Delhi on January 17, 2014.The court also directed the Delhi Police to give an advance copy of the status...

Delhi HC Turns Down Plea For Video Recording Of Proceedings, Advises Advocate To Be More “Temperate And Civilised” [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reprimanded Advocate Deepak Khosla, advising him to be “more temperate and civilized in his communications, oral as well as written”, while refusing to allow his application for video recording of Court proceedings.The Application under consideration had, alternatively, demanded that the proceedings at least be audio recorded or transcribed by multiple...

Special Fee For Enrolment Of Retired Employees By Bar Council Illegal: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court, in an important judgment which was delivered in November last year (uploaded recently in the website), has held that collection of special fee from those retired employees who seek enrolment as lawyers is unauthorised and illegal. The court directed the State Bar Council to refund such fee collected by it, if such a request is made before it.Thomas Koshy, after...

Delhi HC Notice To Centre On PIL On ‘Discriminatory’ 12% GST On Sanitary Napkins [Read Petition]

With over 355 million menstruating women in India, among whom 88 per cent do not have access to sanitary napkins, 12 per cent GST on sanitary napkins, which have been grouped with mobile phones and leather goods, would end up playing havoc with the reproductive health of large number of women, particularly from lower economic strata.The issue of how “illegal” and “patently...