Tribal Malnutrition Deaths : Bombay HC Tells State To Formulate Action Plan

Expressing its displeasure over the lack of progress in curbing malnutrition deaths in the Tribal areas of Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Chief Secretary to come up with a constructive action plan to tackle the problem.A division bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice Swapna Joshi observed that the state government had shown “a completely insensitive approach...

Allahabad HC Dismisses Kejriwal, Vishwas’s Plea To Quash Criminal Case [Read Judgment]

“Whosoever influential leader, highly placed person, nationally renowned politician and other person belonging to high class may be, the law is equal to all. Code of Criminal Procedure has not granted any special status to the politicians or renowned Poet. All are equal in the eyes of law and all have to be treated equally”, said the CourtThe Allahabad High Court has dismissed a...

Just Because One Is poor, State Cannot Let Him Die: Kerala HC Orders Govt To Provide Therapy Worth 50 Lakh To Patient [Read Judgment]

Upholding the spirit of Article 21 of the Constitution and the duties of a welfare state towards its citizenry, the Kerala High Court in a recent judgment ruled that a welfare State cannot permit anybody to die for the reason that he/she has no means to afford his treatment expenses.Justice PB Suresh Kumar directed the state, which had shirked off earlier citing resource crunch, to...

Arbitration Conference: All That Happened

Organised by the NITI Aayog, law ministry, Department for Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), National Legal Services Authority, and International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, the global conference on “National Initiative Towards Strengthening Arbitration and Enforcement in India” began on October 21 at New Delhi.The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, inaugurated...

Bombay HC Upholds Councillor’s Disqualification For Faking Caste [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by a man, whose election as Solapur councillor was disqualified by the commissioner of the municipal corporation after the caste scrutiny committee in Solapur invalidated his caste claim.Apart from the order passed by the caste scrutiny committee, the commissioner’s order as well a circular dated 17th July, 2013, issued by the...

Petition In Bombay HC Seeking Appointment Of Advocate General [Read Petition]

The major contention of the petition is that post of “Acting” Advocate General is unconstitutional, and no other advocate who has been appointed under A.162 can discharge the functions of an AG who is appointed under A.165.A petition has been filed at the Bombay High Court seeking a writ of mandamus directing the Maharashtra government to appoint an Advocate General under Article 165 of...

Constitutional Club Of India Is A ‘Public Authority’ Under RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has declared the Constitutional Club of India (CCI) as a “public authority” under Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act.Central Information Commissioners M Sridhar Acharyulu and Sudhir Bhargava observed that there is an indirect funding of the government to the CCI and, therefore, it has to supply the information sought, as per Section 19(8)...

Global Conference To Make India The Centre For Arbitration Gets Underway In New Delhi Tomorrow

The first ever Global Conference to Strengthen Arbitration and Enforcement in India gets underway in New Delhi tomorrow. The three daylong conference titled, “National Initiative On Strengthening Arbitration And Enforcement In India” from October 21st to 23rd, 2016 is being launched by the Government and Judiciary as a major initiative to change the face of dispute resolution in...

Delhi HC Modifies ‘One Bar, One Vote’ Verdict; Issues More Directions For Elections [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on tuesday modified its May 31st judgment that directed ‘one bar, one vote’ system for bar association elections in Delhi.A division bench of Justice Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sidharth Mridul partly allowed the applications seeking clarification on some aspects in the judgment.Applicants have sought a modification of the judgment in two respects - firstly the...

Murder Of Two Minor Daughters: Bombay Hc Acquits Death Row Convict Mahendra Parve [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has acquitted Mahendra Prave, sentenced to death by the trial court for killing his two minor daughters by throwing them in a well. The court held that insufficient evidence and botched investigations have failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt and he was, thus, exonerated of the offence.The 36-year-old resident of Buldhana district, Mahendra Parve, was...

SC To Decide Maintainability Of Appeals Against 2007 Cauvery Tribunal Ruling [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear if the appeals filed through special leave against the 2007 Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are maintainable.The centre and union territory Puducherry have opposed the court’s jurisdiction to hear cases concerning interstate water disputes, while Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in a rare unison on the Cauvery issue agree that...

Maharashtra Information Commission Orders Immediate Review & Release Of Bhupendra Vira’s RTI Pleas

In the wake of RTI activist Bhupendra Vira’s gruesome murder, former information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi’s letter addressed to Chief Information Commissioner of Maharashtra Ratnakar Gaikwad has been accepted and registered as a complaint under section 18 of the RTI Act.The Commission has directed the authorities to carry out immediate review of the slain activist’s pending...