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Gujarat High Court To Examine Order Setting Aside Arbitral Award Over "Exorbitant Fees" Charged By Tribunal
The Gujarat High Court Thursday issued notice on a plea seeking stay of an order setting aside an international arbitral award on various grounds including that the fee charged by the arbitral tribunal was exorbitant.A division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Pranav Trivedi said, “Let a notice be issued to the Respondent, returnable date 28-8-2024…It is clarified that...
Former IAS Puja Khedkar Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Anticipatory Bail, Hearing Tomorrow
An anticipatory bail plea has been moved before the Delhi High Court by former probationer IAS officer Puja Khedkar who is accused of “misrepresenting and falsifying facts" in her application for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination, 2022.The matter will be heard tomorrow by Justice Subramonium Prasad. Khedkar was denied bail by the trial court on August 01. On...
Telangana High Court To Examine Authority Of Osmania University's VC To Reduce Fees Of Affiliated Colleges
A recent petition filed in the Telangana High Court has questioned the authority of Osmania University's Vice Chancellor to reduce fees for affiliated colleges. The case, brought forward by Koradala Naresh representing the Telangana Private Degree College Management Association, challenges the University's decision to lower the "Other Fee" from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 7,500 for the academic...
Chairperson, Judicial Member Will Be Appointed To Karnataka Real Estate Appellate Tribunal In Two Weeks: State Tells High Court
The Karnataka government on Thursday informed the High Court that in two weeks time Chairperson and Judicial member would be appointed to the Karnataka Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (REAT), which has become non-functional due to these vacant posts.Advocate General Shashi Kiran Shetty said “The concerned files are cleared after suitable recommendations and the same would be taken to its...
IT Rules Amendment & Fact-Check Units: Bombay High Court's Tie-Breaker Judge Reserves Judgment
The Bombay High Court's "tie-breaker" judge Justice Atul Chandurkar on Thursday reserved his judgment in petition filed by comedian Kunal Kamra challenging the IT Amendment Rules, 2023, which empowers the Central government to establish Fact Checking Units (FCUs) to identify any "fake or misleading" information on social media. Justice Chandurkar heard the detailed submissions by...
Gujarat High Court Quashes Abetment Of Suicide FIR Against Lawyer Engaged By Wife To Pursue Matrimonial Case Against Husband
The Gujarat High Court recently quashed an FIR registered against a female lawyer engaged by a woman to pursue matrimonial case against her husband. The Court also granted relief to the wife and her mother, booked for abetting her husband's suicide.Observing that there was no intention attributable to the three women, a single judge bench of Justice Divyesh A Joshi said,“the accused no.1...
Employee Can't Claim Continuance Of Benefit Of Advance Increment After His Promotion Or Revision Of Pay: Chhattisgarh HC
The Chhattisgarh High Court has recently held that employees cannot claim the continuance of advance increments granted for family planning purposes after their promotion or revision of pay scale. A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Parth Prateem Sahu held thus while hearing a writ appeal filed by Registrar General High Court of Chhattisgarh assailing an order of the...
Orissa High Court Admits Plea Challenging Election Of Odisha Deputy Chief Minister KV Singh Deo From Patnagarh Constituency
The Orissa High Court on Thursday admitted a petition challenging the election of Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo from Patnagarh constituency in 2024 assembly election.The petition has been filed by Saroj Kumar Meher, the candidate who was fielded by the then ruling party Biju Janata Dal (BJD). Meher lost the election to Singh Deo in a short margin of 1357 votes as he...
Institute Of Actuaries Of India Regulations | Bombay HC Upholds Validity Of Regulation Disallowing Associate Members From Getting Certificate Of Practice
The Bombay High Court has upheld the constitutional validity of Regulation 10 of the 'Institute of Actuaries of India (Admission as Member and Issuance of Certificate of Practice) Regulations 2017.' Regulation 10 sets out the qualifications required to obtain a 'Certificate of Practice' (CoP). This CoP allows a person to practice as an Actuary under the Actuaries Act, of 2006.'Actuary'...
Wrong Practices Cannot Change Law Of Pleadings: Gujarat High Court On Facts Being Mentioned In Grounds Of Writ Petition
While hearing a matter wherein an alleged “agricultural land” had been declared as “excess land” by the authorities, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (August 7) orally remarked that the “law of pleadings” cannot be changed by any “wrong practices”.The high court made the observations after noting that certain factual averments formed part of the grounds mentioned in...
Unemployment Plaguing Our System, Recruitment For Govt Jobs Should Be Conducted Periodically: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has said that recruitment process has to be undertaken periodically with a fair degree of regularity in public undertakings to fill up permanent posts which fall vacant because of death, disablement, retirement or removal of employees.A division bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice Vijay Kumar A Patil said, “When accumulated vacancies are continued...
Circulation Of Fake Currency Threatens Economic Security: Delhi High Court Denies Bail To Accused Charged Under UAPA
The Delhi High Court denied bail to an accused who has been in jail for two years, considering the seriousness of the UAPA charges related to circulating fake Indian currency. The Court stated that the circulation of fake currency severely threatens national economic security and asserted that bail cannot be granted if the allegations against the accused are prima facie true.A division bench...