'Can't Discriminate': Delhi High Court Orders Sports Ministry To Enable Deaf Sportspersons To Apply For Khel Ratna

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that there can be no discrimination between persons with locomotor disability and those with hearing impairment.Justice Sachin Datta observed,“The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 read with Schedule thereto, leaves no scope of discrimination between persons having hearing impairment vis-a-vis those having physical/locomoter...

Sabarimala Overcrowding: Kerala High Court Caps Spot Bookings To 5,000 Amid High Influx Of Pilgrims

Taking note of the high influx of pilgrims that visited Sabarimala in the last couple of days for the Mandala-Makaravilakku season, and the Special Commissioner's report concerning crowd management issues, the Kerala High Court ordered that the booking be capped at 75,000 per day from today (November 20).The Division Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan and Justice K.V. Jayakumar...

Allahabad High Court 'Shocked' As Cancer-Stricken Teacher's Transfer Plea Rejected Despite 'Sympathetic' Consideration Order

The Allahabad High Court on Monday expressed its strong displeasure over the conduct of the Secretary, UP Basic Education Board, Prayagraj, for rejecting the transfer representation of an Assistant Teacher suffering from breast cancer, despite a specific prior direction by the Court to consider her case 'sympathetically'. The court directed the Secretary to file his personal affidavit...

No Requirement To Publish Entire Environmental Clearance In Newspaper : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (November 19) observed that there's no requirement to publish entire Environmental Clearance (“EC”) in the local daily newspaper, and “it will be sufficient compliance, if the project proponent publishes the grant of the EC, and indicates therein the substance of the conditions and safeguards.”A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Atul S Chandurkar made...

At UN Climate Conference In Brazil, Justice NK Singh Speaks Of Supreme Court's Environmental Jurisprudence

Justice N. Kotiswar Singh of the Supreme Court, speaking at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP-30) at Belém, Brazil, on November 13, said that the Court's environmental jurisprudence has undergone a significant shift over several decades. He stated that the judiciary has gradually moved from seeing nature primarily as a resource for human benefit to recognising it as possessing...

Breach of Settlement Instalments Cannot Trigger Insolvency Proceedings: NCLT Kolkata

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Kolkata has recently held that it is not a forum to recover money arising from a default in instalments under a settlement agreement, and that such a breach cannot be treated as an operational debt to trigger CIRP under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. A coram of Judicial Member Bidisha Banerjee and Technical Member Siddharth Mishra dismissed...

Indore Truck Rampage: MP High Court Raps State Over 1244 No Entry Infractions; Seeks Report On Proposed Measures

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday (November 19) criticised the State for allowing heavy vehicles to enter through designated no-entry zones.Expressing concern over the 1244 recorded violations, the bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf observed that the enforcement approach appeared to be one where vehicles were first permitted entry and only...

Delhi High Court Grants SanDisk Permanent Injunction Against Indian Company's Copycat Trade Dress

The Delhi High Court has granted a permanent injunction in favour of SanDisk LLC, the global flash-storage manufacturer, after Welborn Industries Pvt. Ltd., an Indian electronics company that sells memory-storage products, agreed to permanently discontinue packaging that SanDisk said copied the distinctive red-and-black trade dress of its USB drives and SD cards. Justice Manmeet Pritam...

Shanti Bhushan Didn't Remove 'Secular' & 'Socialist' From Preamble Because Constitution Is Obviously Secular & Socialist: Justice Nariman

Former Supreme Court judge Rohinton Nariman on Wednesday said that when Shanti Bhushan was Law Minister after the Emergency, he chose not to remove the words “secular” and “socialist” that had been added to the Preamble by the 42nd Amendment.Justice Nariman delivered the Shanti Bhushan Centenary Memorial Lecture, recounting the legal and political career of senior advocate and...

'Favouritism Vitiates Administrative Action': MP High Court Quashes Order Denying Seniority; Directs Regularization At Par With Juniors

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed an administrative order that denied seniority and regularization to a daily rated employee, observing that the authorities acted in an unreasonable and discriminatory manner, contrary to the constitutional mandates of equality (Article 14) and equal opportunity in public employment (Article 16). The petitioner, Shyam Verma, was appointed as a daily...

Oriental Insurance Held Liable For Unjustified Claim Repudiation; Orders Reimbursement And Compensation

The Thrissur Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission bench comprising C.T Sabu, President, Sreeja S, Member and Ram Mohan R, Member has held Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. liable for repudiating the claim of the complainant on unfounded grounds. It was held that the denial of claim was based on a misinterpretation of the exclusion clause of the policy. Brief facts: The...

Advocate Threatened, Forced To Withdraw Vakalatnama In Courtroom? Allahabad HC Directs District Judge To Verify Allegations

Expressing serious concerns over the allegations that an advocate was ill-treated and threatened inside a courtroom, forcing him to withdraw his Vakalatnama, the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) sought a report from the District & Sessions Judge, Lucknow verifying allegations. A bench of Justice Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi observed that if such allegations are accepted as correct...