Exclusion of widowed Daughter in Laws in compassionate appointment schemes constitutionally impermissible : Chhattisgarh HC

High Court of Chhattisgarh has held that the exclusion of widowed daughter-in-law in compassionate appointment policy is constitutionally impermissible and to that extent void. Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal made this observation in Duliya Bai Yadav vs. State of Chhattisgarh.The High Court, in a petition filed by a widowed daughter in law of a deceased employee challenging the order rejecting...

Delhi HC imposes costs on RTI applicant for filing vague and irrelevant RTI queries

Delhi High Court, in Shail Sahni vs. Valsa Sara Mathew, took an RTI applicant to task for filing vague and irrelevant RTI queries. Justice Man Mohan of Delhi High Court imposed costs of Rs. 25,000 on the applicant who approached had High Court seeking compensation of 4 Lakhs.The RTI applicant had approached the High Court challenging the CIC order refusing to intervene in denial of RTI replies...

Delhi Court says ink attack aimed at maligning Kejriwal’s reputation; remands accused to 14 days judicial custody

Ms. Bhawna Arora, accused of throwing ink at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while he was addressing a rally, has been remanded to judicial custody for 14 days by the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi. Rejecting the bail application, Judge Sunil Kumar observed that ink was thrown to “malign reputation of the duly democratically elected head of State”. “Now, coming to the facts of...

Do not Charge more that Rs.2 per page of Answer sheets; CIC [Read Order]

CIC Prof. M Sridhar Acharyulu, directed all Universities and examining bodies in India not to charge more than Rs 2 per page of Answerbooks. CIC also asked MHRD and UGC to implement the order, holding that charging Rs 750 by Delhi University and high amounts by other bodies would breach right to equality and violate RTI.A student Mr. Abne Ingty was asked to pay Rs 750 per paper to have his...

Eviction order passed under S. 5A of Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act not appealable: Allahabad HC (FB) [Read Judgment]

Full Bench of Allahabad High Court in Yogesh Agarwal vs. Union of India has held that eviction order passed under Section 5A of the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971 is not appealable. Bench comprising of the Chief Justice Hon'ble Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, Justices Manoj Kumar Gupta and Yashwant Varma held that High Court in the exercise of its...

Justice Sen to continue chairing panel probing Sexual Harassment charges against Justice S K Gangele

Justice Vikramjit Sen to continue to head the panel which probing sexual harassment charges against a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge despite his retirement from the Supreme Court.Although the Rajya Sabha Chairman is free to replace Justice Sen, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has said Justice Vikramjit Sen can continue to head the three-member panel against Madhya Pradesh High Court...

Judge B. Prabhakar Rao accused in Janardhan Reddy cash for bail scam found dead under suspicious circumstances

Judge B. Prabhakar Rao, accused in the cash-for-bail scam involving former Karnataka Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy, passed away under suspicious circumstances on Monday. Mr. Rao is survived by his wife, daughter Dr. Susan and son David Prashant.The Judge was found dead at his residence in East Maredpally in Secunderabad. Police has ruled out a suicide angle and have...

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Case: Ali Asgar, aka Dadi from Comedy Nights with Kapil granted anticipatory bail by Bombay HC [Read Order]

Taking a cue out of his co-actor Kiku Sharda's arrest, actor Ali Asgar approached the Bombay High Court on Friday and was granted anticipatory bail by Justice A.S. Gadkari for a period of one week, enabling him to move the concerned Court in Haryana.The bail has been granted on the condition that in the event of Mr. Asgar's arrest, he shall be released on his furnishing a bond of Rs. 25,000...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtDismissing the challenge against appointment of former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh and Allahabad High Court to the post of State Human Right Commission Chairman, the Allahabad High Court said that offering the post to a former Chief Justice is not a badge of servitude or of slavery or an outcome of quid pro quo. Division Bench comprising of Justices Amreshwar Pratap...

Book Review; Privacy Law ;Principles, Injunctions and Compensation By Rishika Taneja and Sidhant Kumar, Eastern Book Company, 2014, Rs.1490, Pages 850

Book Review; Privacy Law ;Principles, Injunctions and CompensationBy Rishika Taneja and Sidhant Kumar,Eastern Book Company, 2014, Rs.1490, Pages 850The question whether the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution was considered recently in Justice K.S.Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Another vs Union of India by a three Judge bench of the Supreme Court.  The bench,...

Statutory Analysis of Scope of crafting separate punishment for Child Rape Offenders

PrefaceSwami Vivekananda wrote – “Just as a bird could not fly with one wing only, a nation would not march forward if the women are left behind”. One day before Swami Vivekananda’s 153rd birth anniversary, the Supreme Court heard a petition raising an important socio-legal question in the same context expressed by him {SCWLA v UOI [WP 4/16]}. The petition sought imposition of...

Supreme Court of Canada joins Twitter

On its 140th anniversary of the first hearings, the Supreme Court of Canada has joined Twitter, popular social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character “tweets". Now the Supreme Court can be followed in twitter as @SCC_eng.Press Release issued by the Supreme Court on Monday says that Tweets will pertain to the business of the Court and will be posted from...