BREAKING| Calcutta High Court Directs IPS Officer Amit P. Javalgi To Supervise Probe Into Moynaguri Sexual Assault Case

The Calcutta High Court vide order dated May 4, 2022 has directed IPS officer Amit P. Javalgi to oversee the investigation into the case of death by suicide by a class eight girl at Moynaguri, West Bengal following the commission of the offence of attempt to rape upon her. The minor victim girl who had set herself ablaze following a threat to withdraw a police complaint regarding the rape...

Birth Register Recorded 'Muslim' Without Father's Consent: Sameer Wankhede Approaches Bombay High Court Against Caste Committee's Show Cause

Former NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede has approached the Bombay High Court against a show cause notice issued to him on April 29 by the Mumbai District Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee regarding confiscation of his caste certificate. He has claimed that the notice is illegal, arbitrary and issued without according him an opportunity to defend himself. Wankhede has sought...

BREAKING| Karnataka High Court Stays ED Order Seizing Xioami India Assets

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday stayed the order issued by the Enforcement Directorate dated April 29, by which it has seized Rs.5551.27 Crore of M/s Xiaomi Technology India Private Limited under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act,1999. A single judge bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar while issuing emergent notice to the respondent on the petition filed by...

Once Declared Citizen, Same Person Can't Be Declared Foreigner As Res Judicata Principle Applicable To Foreigners Tribunals' Proceedings: Gauhati HC

Relying upon the Apex Court's Judgment in the case of Abdul Kuddus V. Union of India [(2019) 6 SCC 604], the Gauhati High Court has observed that the opinion of the Foreigners Tribunal regarding the citizenship of a person would operate as res judicata.Here it may be noted that Res judicata is a principle of law that states that once a final decision has been given by a competent court on...

Registering Authority Bound To Verify If Power Of Attorney Gives Power To Sell; Sale Deed Registration Not A Mechanical Process : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that a Registering Authority under the Registration Act 1908, while registering a sale deed executed by a Power of Attorney holder, is bound to verify if the Power of Attorney empowers the agent to sell the property.The Court noted that the provisions of the Registration Act, particularly Section 34(3)(c), imposes an obligation on the Registering Officer to...

Postpone NEET-PG 2022 : Medical Students Association Moves Supreme Court

The All India Medical Students Association has filed a petition in the Supreme Court to postpone the the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2022 exam scheduled on May 21 citing clash with ongoing counselling for NEET PG 2021."On behalf of All India Medical Students Association (AIMSA) we have moved Supreme Court of India against scheduled examination of NEET...

Supreme Court Saves Over 90,000 Income Tax Reassessment Notices Issued After 2021 Amendment By Deeming Them As Notices Under Section 148A

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, directed that reassessment notices under Section 148 of the unamended Income Tax Act which were issued beyond 01.04.2021 (the effective date of amendment of the said provision by the Finance Act, 2021) to be deemed to have been issued under Section 148A of the IT Act as substituted by the Finance Act, 2021 and be construed as show cause notices in terms of...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Stays State Policy Increasing OBC Reservation From 14% To 27% In MPPSC Examination

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently granted stay against the policy of the State Government to increase the reservation for the OBC category from 14% to 27% in Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission. The stay was granted corollary to similar interim reliefs granted by the Court in identical matters, wherein the said policy of increasing the OBC reservations was...

"Defamatory": Delhi High Court Directs Twitter To Take Down 5 More Tweets Posted By Historian Audrey Truschke Against Vikram Sampath

The Delhi High Court has directed micro blogging site Twitter to take down five more tweets posted by historian Audrey Truschke against historian Dr. Vikram Sampath over alleged plagiarism with respect to his two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.Justice Amit Bansal was of the view that the tweets in question were defamatory in nature and that there was a link posted in the said...

Breaking: [Hanuman Chalisa Row] Navneet Rana & Ravi Rana Granted Bail By Mumbai Special Court

The Mumbai Special Court on Monday allowed the bail applications of independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana in the sedition FIR over forcibly wanting to chant the hanuman chalisa outside the personal residence of Uddhav Thackarey, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.The bail is subject to execution of personal bonds of Rs. 50,000 each. They have also been directed not to...

Breaking: Bombay High Court Rejects Review Plea Seeking Default Bail To Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves & Arun Ferreira

The Bombay High Court has rejected a review application filed by three accused in the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad Case seeking bail and factual corrections in the order refusing them default bail. The court disposed of a review application filed by the three, seeking factual corrections in the order refusing them default bail and subsequently release. A division bench led...

Monthly Digest Of IBC Cases: April 2022

Supreme Court Wages/Salaries Of Only Those Workmen/Employees Who Actually Worked During CIRP Are To Be Included In CIRP Costs: Supreme Court Case title: Sunil Kumar Jain v Sundaresh Bhatt, Civil Appeal No. 5910 of 2019. A Supreme Court division bench comprising of Justice M.R. Shah and Justice Aniruddha Bose has held that the dues towards the wages/salaries of only...