Availing Of VRS No Bar In Claiming Past Dues If Scheme Does Not Cover It: SC [Read Judgment]

If it is specifically covered, or the language of VRS would show that it covers the claim under the scheme, no forum will have any jurisdiction, the Bench observed.A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court in A. Satyanarayana Reddy & ors. vs. Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Guntur & ors., has held that even though there is cessation of relationship between the employee and the...

NGT Can't Decide The Constitutionality Of Statutory Provisions: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court in Central Indian Ayush Drugs Manufacturers Association & Ors. vs. State of Maharashtra through Secy. & Ors., has decided the scope of jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).The bench comprising Justice B.P Dharmadhikari and Justice A.S. Chandurkar decided that the NGT did not have power to adjudicate upon the vires or validity of any enactment...

Madras, Kerala HCs Get New Judges [Read Notifications]

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday appointed 15 judges to Madras High Court and five additional judges to Kerala High Court. A notification to that effect has been published by the Law Minister.The newly-appointed additional judges of Kerala High Court are Sathish Ninan, Devan Ramachandran, Somarajan P., Shircy V. and Aettupanku Mohammedkhan Babu.The newly-appointed judges of Madras...

Yale Law School Recognizes Justice Gita Mittal's 2013 Judgment On Court Fees (Delhi Amendment) Act

The Indian judicial system can boast of many landmark judgments that have served society at large. Of these judgments, one recently attracted eyeballs from the global audience to have served social change by protecting judicial independence and questioning legislative authority of the state.A Delhi High Court judgment of 2013 penned down by Justice Gita Mittal has been included in Yale...

Prof. Sivakumar Appointed As New Law Commission Member

S. Sivakumar, professor at Indian Law Institute (ILI), has been appointed as full-time member of the 21st Law Commission of India.The professor confirmed this via an e-mail. Earlier Indian Express had reported that Rajkot-based lawyer Abhay Bhardwaj, who had represented the accused in the 2002 Gulbarg Society Massacre case, had been selected as part-time member of the 21st Law Commission...

Offence Under SC/ST Act Not To Be Attracted Merely Because Victim Belongs To The Community: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The provision of Section 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST Act is applicable only when a person commits such offence against a person belonging to the SC/ST community on the ground that such a person/victim is a member of SC/ST community. The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) in Shiv Mohan Tiwari vs. State of U.P., has decided that an offence under the SC/ST Act will not be attracted merely because...

NCDRC Imposes Rs 50-Lakh Compensation On School For Negligence [Read Order]

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has imposed a compensation of Rs 50 lakh on B.N.M. Educational Institutions in Bengaluru, holding it vicariously liable for negligence on the part of teachers accompanying a student who suffered brain inflammation during an educational tour in North India.The NCDRC was hearing a challenge against a State Commission order, which...

Statutory Contradictions On Criminality Of Consensual Teen Sex: Madras HC Refers Issue Of Constitutional Validity Of POCSO Act To DB

Recently, the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, in Marimuthu v. The Inspector of Police, dismissed a writ petition of a person who sought for a direction to his minor daughter’s abortion. Apart from addressing several important issues related to the rights of pregnant women and rights of minor children to voluntarily indulge in sexual relations, Justice Vimala has referred the issue...

WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Gets A Stamp Of Approval From The Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

A Delhi High Court Bench headed by Chief Justice G. Rohini has allowed WhatsApp to go ahead with the new privacy policy and to share data with Facebook under it's new privacy policy.Additionally, the court directed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to look into the issue if messaging services like WhatsApp can be brought under existing laws.But the Bunch has directed that, if the users...

In SPS Rathore Case, SC Addresses Three Vital Questions Of Law

In SPS Rathore vs. CBI & Ors., the Supreme Court has dealt with three important questions of law in respect of ingredients of Section 354 IPC, admissibility of former statements u/s 157 Evidence Act and evidentiary value of expert opinion by a handwriting expert.Live Law had reported on Friday about the upholding of conviction of former DGP of Haryana SPS Rathore in Ruchika...

FIRs May Be Electronically Communicated U/S 157 CrPC: Delhi HC [Read Order]

The High Court of Delhi on Monday suggested that FIRs may be electronically communicated to magistrates, in satisfaction of Section 157 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).“Given the electronic mode of communication which is now available with the police as well as the Delhi judiciary, we see no reason as to why the investigating agency should not resort to utilisation of e-transmission...

Madras HC Rejects Law Student’s Plea Against ‘Pokemon Go' [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a Law student for blocking ‘Pokemon Go’ game websites allowing the download of application, software, avatars of Squirtle, Pikachu, Charmander, Balbasaur pictures, images, animated design or any pictures in any form within the geographical area of India.The Bench comprising Chief Justice SK Kaul and Justice Mahadevan has dismissed...