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Sanctioning Authority Must Record Findings Based On Attending Circumstances To Prove Employee's Misconduct: Rajasthan High Court
Rajasthan High Court has ruled that to exercise the powers under Rule 170 of the Rajasthan Services Rules, 1950, (“the Rules”) the punishing authority cannot merely rely upon the findings of the enquiry officer but is obliged to record a finding clearly mentioning the circumstances that led to his/her satisfaction that the act of the accused constituted grave misconduct or...
AP High Court Dismisses Plea Alleging “Double Taxation” On Sale Of Basmati Rice, Says Fees Collected By Agricultural Market Committee For Its Services Is Not Tax
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition alleging that cess levied by State's Agricultural Market Committee on sale of 'Basmati rice' amounts to “double taxation”.One of the petitioners, a trader of Basmati rice, claimed that it sources the rice from Punjab where it already pays agricultural market committee tax and thus contended that if the State of Andhra Pradesh imposes...
Decision Of Cabinet Nominated By 'Their Leader' CM Siddaramaiah Not Unbiased: Karnataka HC Finds Governor's Independent Discretion Justified
Dismissing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's plea against the Governor's sanction to prosecute him in the alleged MUDA "scam", the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday observed that the decision of the cabinet–nominated by the CM, with regard to consideration of sanction would not be unbiased "towards their leader". Thus, the court noted, in such "exceptional circumstances", the Governor Thaawar...
Will Not Demolish Litigants' Construction Around Durgam Cheruvu Lake Until Notification On Full Tank Level: State To Telangana High Court
While hearing a batch of pleas by certain persons seeking protection of "peaceful possession" of their properties located around Hyderabad's Durgam Cheruvu Lake, the state government told the Telangana High Court that until the lake protection committee notifies the full tank level, the properties in question will not be demolished. A division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice...
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait Bids Farewell To Delhi High Court, Pays Homage To Dr. BR Ambedkar
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait bid farewell to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, following his appointment as the Chief Justices of Madhya Pradesh High Court. His appointment was notified by the Union Government on September 21. Justice Kait was elevated as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court on September 05, 2008, and was made a permanent judge on April 12, 2013. He was transferred...
POCSO Act: Delhi High Court Issues Directions For Disbursal Of Compensation To Child Victims By DSLSA
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued directions for disbursal of compensation to the child victims of sexual abuse under the POCSO Act by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA). A division bench comprising of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice Amit Bansal inserted a sixth part (Part F) in the existing SOP framed in the backdrop of Delhi Victim Compensation Scheme, 2018,...
Floundered From Chamber To Chamber But Broke Into "Entrenched" Legal Profession With Consistency: Justice Rajiv Shakdher In Farewell Speech
Justice Rajiv Shakdher bid farewell to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, following his appointment as the Chief Justices of Himachal Pradesh High Courts. His appointment was notified by the Union Government on September 21.Justice Rajiv Shakdher was appointed as additional judge of the Delhi High Court on April 11, 2008. He was made a permanent judge on October 17, 2011. He served as a judge of the Madras High Court between April 2016 to January 2018. Justice Shakdher began his farewell speech by...
Summoning A Serious Affair, More So When Issued After Rejecting Closure Report: Allahabad HC Quashes Murder Case Against Doctor Couple
The Allahabad High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings against a Doctor couple– who are also owners of a hospital in Rajepur–in a case where the deceased who had accompanied his mother in the hospital, was allegedly removed and later died in a road accident thereafter.The high court passed the order while hearing a plea moved by the doctor couple against the summoning order of...
Have Engaged External Consultancy Firm To Prepare "Gauhati Drainage Master Plan": State Tells High Court
On Monday, the Gauhati High Court was informed by the State that it has engaged 'Haskoning DHV Consulting Pvt. Ltd.', a consultancy agency services, for the preparation of a GIS-based Comprehensive Drainage Master Plan and Detailed Project Report for Guwahati City to tackle the problem of water logging in the city. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi and Justice N....
CM Siddaramaiah Was At Helm Of Affairs, Prima Facie "Rules Bent To Favour His Family": Karnataka HC While Upholding Sanction In MUDA Case
The Karnataka High Court today said it is difficult to accept that CM Siddaramaiah was not “behind the curtain” during the entire transaction of MUDA land, in which his family allegedly benefitted approximately ₹56 crores.The observation was made while upholding sanction granted by the Governor under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 218 of the Bharatiya...
Prosecution Can't Rely On Dying Declaration Unless Accused Is Confronted With Its Contents: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has observed that the prosecution cannot rely on a dying declaration unless an accused is confronted with its contents. A bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Dr Gautam Chowdhary observed thus while acquitting a husband and mother-in-law in connection with a dowry death case. The division bench noted that the contents of the dying declaration...
Any And Every Cruelty Or Harassment Of Wife Will Not Attract Section 498A Of IPC: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Monday (September 23) while acquitting a husband convicted for abetting the suicide of his wife by torturing her, held that section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) does not attract in any and every harassment or type of cruelty.Single-judge Justice Sanjay Mehare sitting at Aurangabad held that to convict a person under section 498A, the prosecution must...