Narada Sting: Calcutta HC Orders CBI Probe [Read Judgment]

The Calcutta High Court on Friday has directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Narada sting operation in which many Trinamool Congress leaders were allegedly found taking bribe.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Nishita Mhatre and Justice T Chakraborti directed the CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry without any delay and in execution thereof, to take custody of the...

Plea Seeking FIR Registration Not Maintainable If Statutory Remedies Aren’t Availed Of: MP HC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition as not maintainable since the petitioner did not avail of alternate remedies before approaching the court for direction to command the police to perform its statutory duties.The petitioner sought direction to the police to lodge an FIR against Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (respondent no.5) and Gurdwara Committee (Bhopal)...

Uttarakhand HC Issues Landmark Guidelines On Solid Waste Management [Read Judgment]

Every citizen, at the same time, has a fundamental duty to maintain cleanliness in and around his abode, the court observed.The Uttarakhand High Court has issued landmark guidelines on solid waste management while disposing a public interest litigation filed by Sai Nath Seva Mandal.The Society, through the PIL, had brought to the notice of the court that the municipal waste generated in...

Delhi HC Junks JNU Students’ Plea Against UGC Regulations [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea challenging UGC regulations pertaining to admission policy for MPhil and PhD courses.The students had contended that the implementation of the Notification 2016 (Regulations) would imply drastic reduction not only in MPhil /PhD courses, but also make it almost impossible to students from marginalised communities to gain education in JNU.As per...

Delhi HC Upholds Centre's Ban On Zakir Naik's NGO [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld the Centre’s decision to ban NRI televangelist Zakir Naik’s NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) for five years.Observing that the Ministry of Home of Affairs (MHA) has “sufficient material for immediate ban”, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva dismissed Naik's plea, which has challenged the ban order."Immediate action appears to have been taken in...

TN Sessions Judge Tells Accused To Remove 100 Karuvel Trees Within 20 Days In Bail Order [Read Order]

Ariyalur (Tamil Nadu) Principal District and Sessions judge AKA Rahmaan has allowed anticipatory bail to an accused in case involving offences U/s 294(b), 323, 324, 354-A, 506(ii) of IPC on the following conditions:a) That the petitioner/accused shall be released on bail in the event of his arrest on his executing a bond for sum of Rs 10,000, along with two sureties each for the like sum to...

A Successful Advocate May Not Always Be A Good Teacher: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

No doubt, an advocate, who has experience, would have considerable weight, but that weightage will be in the field of practice of law, the court said.Merely being a successful advocate and having a good practice as an advocate will mean that such a person should be equated to a person who has teaching experience, the Delhi High Court observed while dismissing a plea challenging the...

Maintenance Tribunal Can Order Eviction Of Adult Children In Cases Of Parental Abuse: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Directions to remove the children from the property are necessary in certain cases like the present to ensure a normal life of the senior citizen, the court said.The Delhi High Court in Sunny Paul vs. State, has held that the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, amongst other remedies, provides for eviction of adult children in cases of parental abuse.Dismissing...

The Perils Of Judicial Impulsiveness

[This Article was first published in Law And Other Things. It is published here with permission from the Author and LAOT ]To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be on a par with noting that deserts are a little hot, dry and sandy. That the problem has affected all levels of the Indian judiciary – from the magistracy to the highest court in the land – has been a...

Offence Of Abetment To Suicide (306IPC) Can't Be Quashed On Settlement Between Parties: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has refused to quash an FIR against a person who had filed a writ petition seeking the same on grounds of settlement with the first informant.The FIR was registered under Sections 498 A (cruelty), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code against the petitioner, Mohd Asgar Chaudhari, who was in a relationship...

Should A Lawyer Have A “Writer’s Mind”? [Part - 1]

Quite often we hear of the phrase “you write like a lawyer”. Clearly, lawyers are associated with intense, dense, jargon- ridden, complex content. The truth is legal writers are faced with more challenges than other writers.The challenge lies in writing cogently and with persuasion on complex matters with high stakes for readers who are not entirely familiar with the nuances of legal writing.Not only do lawyers have to focus on the law, they also have to “think like a writer”.Although it is...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court directed the removal of the vice-chancellor of Integral University, Lucknow. A bench of Justice Narayan Shukla and Justice Sheo Kumar Singh passed the order after hearing a PIL filed by one Junaid Ahmed, seeking issuance of a writ of quo warranto to SW Akhtar, VC of the university.The High Court held that that mere possession and recovery of...