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'Unique Crime Against Inanimate Object': Karnataka High Court Stays Criminal Trespass FIR Against Drone
The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Friday (February 6) stayed an FIR registered by the Police against a drone, booked for allegedly trespassing into a property in Doddaballapura, remarking that the case presented a unique crime registered against an inanimate object. After hearing the matter, Justice M Nagaprasanna in his order dictated:"The case projects a unique crime...
West Bengal SIR | CM Giving Provocative Speeches, EC Officials Facing Threats : Election Commission To Supreme Court
The Election Commission has filed a counter-affidavit before the Supreme Court raising concerns about alleged incidents of violence, intimidation and obstruction of election officials performing duties in the Special Intensive Revision process for West Bengal.The ECI has alleged reluctance on the part of state machinery to address threats against election officials and/or register FIRs...
Karnataka High Court Stays Hate Speech FIR Against RSS Leader Citing SC Order Upholding Guidelines For Cases Over Social Media Posts
The Karnataka High Court on Friday (February 6) stayed investigation in an FIR against RSS Leader Prabhakar Bhat booked for giving a speech in a college in Puttur circulated on a YouTube channel, referring to Supreme Court's recent decision upholding guidelines on registration of FIRs over social media posts. For context, Bhat moved the high court seeking quashing of an FIR over registered...
'Lowered Dignity Of Institution': Gujarat High Court Issues Contempt Notice To Litigant Claiming Courts Disregard SC Orders
The Gujarat High Court issued contempt notice to a litigant who had claimed that the general opinion was while Supreme Court passes orders and shows proactiveness to address public safety issues, other constitutional courts "flagrantly disregard the law". The court was hearing a plea by Vishwas Sudhanshu Bhamburkar, who appeared as party-in-person, challenging Magistrate Court's order...
Delhi High Court Issues Directions To District Courts On Numbering Of Applications, Flags Lack Of Basic Details In Orders
The Delhi High Court has issued detailed practice directions to all the district courts in the national capital to ensure that every judicial order clearly reflects the numbers of applications decided, as well as the appearance of parties or their counsel.A division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla noted that it was coming across several cases in which...
Statutory Authorities Can Intervene If Housing Society Delays Membership Decisions : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has observed that the statutory authority can step into the affairs of the co-operative housing societies' matters when the society refuses to decide or keeps the matter pending for a long time. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta heard the matter that relates to the delay in granting of the membership to the flat owners in one Malboro House Co-operative...
'Half-Baked Petition': Delhi High Court Dismisses Centre's Plea With ₹25,000 Costs
The Delhi High Court has recently dismissed a petition filed by the Union Government challenging orders passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), observing that it was filed after an inordinate delay of three years and was a “half-baked” attempt lacking the complete record.A Division Bench comprising Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Amit Mahajan imposed costs of Rs....
NEET-PG 2025 | 'Our Conscience Must Be Satisfied' : Supreme Court Asks NBEMS To Explain Reasons To Reduce Qualifying Percentile
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to file an affidavit explaining the reason behind the reduction of qualifying cut-off percentiles for NEET-PG 2025-26.A bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe was hearing pleas challenging the notice dated January 13 issued by the NBEMS reducing the qualifying...