Gujarat High Court Directs Passport Authority To Decide Renewal Plea Of Congress MLA Vimal Chudasama Convicted In Rioting Case

The Gujarat High Court has directed the Passport Authority to decide the plea of Congress MLA Vimal Chudasama–who has court case pending–for renewal of passport, in view of Ministry of External Affairs's notification which permits Indian citizens–against whom criminal proceedings are pending in court–to travel abroad if they present a court order.Under Section 6 of the Passport Act...

"Contractor Couldn't Collect Market Fee Due To COVID-19": Madhya Pradesh HC Upholds Order Directing Municipality To Refund Bid Money

The Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld a Collector's order directing a municipal council to refund the first instalment of the bid amount to a Contractor–engaged for recovering weekly market charges, after noting that the money could not be recovered on account of second wave of Covid-19 terming it as "force majeure". Justice Vivek Agarwal in his order observed,...

Telangana High Court Annual Digest 2024 [PART I]

Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 01 To 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 111498A IPC | Magistrate Can't Take Cognizance Merely On Superintendent's Note If Accused Given Clean Chit In Chargesheet: Telangana HCGangadhara Manoj and 3 others vs. State of TSCitation: 2024 LiveLaw (Tel) 01The Telangana High Court has held that a Magistrate cannot take cognizance against those accused, against whom a chargesheet is...

Kerala High Court Convenes Special Sitting After Children In Ponnuruni Anganwadi Get Food Poisoning, Takes Note Of Waste Dumping In Tirunelveli

A special Bench of Kerala High Court comprising Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas and Justice Gopinath P. convened a special sitting on Monday (December 23) after seeing news visuals about the food poisoning incident in an Anganwadi in Ponnuruni. Reportedly, 12 kids and one ayah of the Anganwadi have shown symptoms of food poisoning. The Court said that they noticed in the video that the...

Banks Cannot Coerce Defaulters To Pay By Publishing Their Photos, It Violates Right To Privacy & Reputation : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court held that a bank cannot publish the photo and details of defaulting borrowers to coerce them to repay loan. Justice Murali Purushothaman observed that such acts invade a person's right to live with dignity and reputation.“The borrowers cannot be coerced to repay the loans by threatening to damage their reputation and privacy. The publication or display of photographs...

Can't Curtail Or Play With A Citizen's Liberty By Detaining Him On Pretext Of Holding Fair Polls: Jharkhand High Court

Last week, the Jharkhand High Court observed that a person can't be detained on the grounds that the same is necessary for the proper conduction of Assembly Elections. “If this becomes a ground, then the same will amount to giving unbridled, uncanalised sweeping power to the administration to detain any person under the Act during the time of election, it will be nothing, but playing...

MP HC Gives Go-Ahead For Conducting Competency-Based Evaluation Test Under Prohibition Of Sex Selection (Six Months Training) Rules

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Public Health and Family Welfare authorities to conduct the Competency Based Evaluation test in confirmation with the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (Six Months Training) Rules, 2014. The test had been previously stalled by earlier interim orders of the High Court because of...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: December 16 - December 22, 2024

Citation 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 513 to 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 525Nominal Index:Satish Jarkiholi AND Dilip Kumar. 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 513ACTION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANISATION, REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT AND Union of India & Others. 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 514Syed Ajaz Ahmed AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 515SHIVAPRASAD AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2024 LiveLaw (Kar) 516B...

Calcutta High Court Declines To Interfere With Preliminary Report Against SRFTI Dean Filmmaker Vipin Vijay Over POSH Allegations

The Calcutta High Court has declined to interfere with a preliminary report by the Internal Committee (IC) of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) against Dean and Filmmaker Vipin Vijay who had been accused of sexual harassment.In declining a plea by Vijay seeking quashing of the report, Justice Kausik Chanda held: "I am not inclined to interfere with the preliminary report...

Gujarat High Court Issues Notice To GST Dept In Mahesh Langa's Plea Against Second FIR On Alleged Tax Fraud

The Gujarat High Court on Monday (December 23) issued notice to the State and GST Department in a plea by journalist Mahesh Langa for quashing an FIR registered at Rajkot where though Langa has not been made an accused, he apprehends the same as a similar FIR pertaining to alleged GST fraud is already registered at Ahmedabad. During the hearing, advocate AJ Yagnik submitted before Justice...

Andhra Pradesh HC Directs Chief Secretary To Constitute Committee To Suggest Measures To Reduce Tree Felling For State Funded Projects

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed the state's Chief Secretary to constitute a committee to look into the felling of trees in State-funded projects and suggest measures to reduce the felling of trees for execution of Government funded projects.The order was passed by a division bench of Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati in a PIL filed by a 20 year...

Bail Is An Essential Element Of The Criminal Justice System, Guarantees Right To Fair Trial: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that bail is an essential element of the criminal justice system as it affords a right to a fair trial to the accused in a criminal case. Justice Shampa (Dutt) Paul made these observations in a plea by a man accused under the POCSO act, against an order cancelling his bail issued by the trial court. She said:"Bail is a Rule and Jail is an exception. This is...