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Accused Lying Behind Bars Due To Baseless Allegations By Co-Accused, No Iota Of Evidence: Rajasthan HC Releases Man Booked Under NDPS Act
Rajasthan High Court has ruled that simply mentioning in the charge sheet that the offence under Section 29 of the NDPS Act was made out against an individual was not sufficient to keep that person behind bars until any material was attached to the charge sheet to show the involvement or participation of the individual.Section 29 of the NDPS Act lays down punishment for abetting or conspiring...
Pre-Arb Step(s) Cannot Be Treated As Mandatory If Could Not Be Fructified: Rajasthan High Court
The bench of Justice Sudesh Bansal at the Rajasthan High Court opined that where pre-arbitration steps mentioned in the agreement could not be fructified, it could not be held that those were mandatory in nature and in the event of failure of these no arbitration could be initiated. The Court held that it was a well settled principle of law that an arbitration agreement being a commercial...
Traffic Problems In Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court Emphasises Implementation Of Rules, Setting Up Expert Body To Plan Road Infrastructure
While hearing a suo motu PIL pertaining to traffic congestion and its management in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat High Court on Thursday orally flagged certain aspects requiring attention including the implementation of existing rules, identification of an expert body for comprehensive planning of road infrastructure, manpower and use of technology.The matter arose after a PIL was moved by 20...
Luxury Cars Tax Evasion Case: Kerala High Court Exempts Union Minister Suresh Gopi From Personal Appearance
The Kerala High Court has exempted actor and Union Minister Suresh Gopi from personal appearance before the trial court until further orders in the luxury cars tax evasion case . The Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate for MP/ MLA Courts had ordered the actor to appear before the Court for framing of charges. The stay order was passed today by Justice C. Jayachandran.The actor and Union...
Caste-Based Preference In Appointments Can Only Be Granted If Minimum Educational Qualification Is Met: MP HC Quashes Termination Of ASHA Worker
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at its Jabalpur Bench, recently, quashed the termination of an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker. The worker was terminated on account of a state policy giving preference to candidates from Scheduled Tribes (ST) in areas where their population exceeds 50%. The court held that the application of this policy was erroneous in this case due to...
Madras HC Quashes POCSO Case Against Woman Who Alleged Mother & Sister Illegaly Retained Her Daughter's Custody, Orders Child To Be Returned
In an unusual order, the Madras High Court has invoked its extraordinary jurisdiction in a habeas corpus case, to quash the criminal proceedings initiated against a woman under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The bench of Justice MS Ramesh and Justice Sunder Mohan were hearing an HCP filed by a woman for producing her 5-and-a-half-year-old daughter. The...
Bombay High Court Orders State To Create Social Media Handle For Citizens To Report Manual Scavenging
The Bombay High Court on earlier this week, ordered the Maharashtra government to create a social media handle, which could be used by citizens and also non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to report instances of 'manual scavenging' across the State. A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Milind Sathaye opined that such creation of the social media handle will help the District...
Madras High Court Quashes Proceedings Against Woman Who Killed Husband For Trying To Sexually Assault Daughter
The Madrasa High Court recently quashed a criminal case registered against a woman for allegedly killing her husband who tried to sexually assault their 21-year-old daughter in a drunken state. Justice G Jayachandran noted that on perusing the materials, it was clear that the act was committed under private defence and it was obvious that the woman had committed the alleged offence to...
Gujarat High Court Asks Times Of India, Indian Express To Publish "Public Apology" For Wrongly Reporting Court Proceedings
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday asked the The Indian Express and The Times Of India to publish a "public apology" in their respective newspapers by tomorrow i.e. Friday for wrongly reporting the court's proceedings during the hearing of a batch of pleas moved by various linguistic and religious minority schools challenging the amendments to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary...
"Courts Are Vigilant To Forcible Conversion Of Underprivileged Women, Children": Karnataka HC Denies Bail To Man Booked For Sexual Assault, Illegal Conversion
The Karnataka High Court recently rejected a bail plea filed by one Rafiq Bepari who is accused of inducing a married woman, sexually assaulting her and forcing her to convert to Islam for marriage with him.A single judge bench of Justice S Rachaiah said “In the present case, the act of inducing innocent and poor women and forcibly converting to Islam is a serious development and therefore,...
Kerala High Court Denies Bail To Accused Booked For Brutally Murdering 7-Yr-Old Boy, Says He Was Deliberately Protracting Trial
The Kerala High Court ruled that the accused who was deliberately protracting the trial was not entitled to bail.The petitioner, who is accused of allegedly brutally attacking and murdering the 7-year-old minor son of the woman he was living with after her husband's death has approached the Court with a bail application. Justice P.V.Kunhikrishnan dismissed the bail application and stated that...
Delhi High Court Issues Directions For 'Accessible' EWS/DG Category Admissions In Private Unaided Recognized Schools
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a slew of directions to ensure “respectful and accessible” admissions of students in all private unaided recognized schools under the EWS/DG category in the national capital.Justice Swarana Kanta also directed all the stakeholders to ensure that there is a seamless merger of EWS and non-EWS students in the schools, as per the spirit of Right...