High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court commuted death penalty awarded to duo convicted by the trial court for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 4-year-old girl.

Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court recently admonished a man who filed a writ petition against its sitting judges and their conduct in dealing with the cases filed by him.

Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court last week directed “While examining the surety papers, the trial court shall necessarily obtain copy of the Aadhaar card of the accused as well as of the surety.” The Court issued the directives in view of the rampant submission of forged revenue documents and sureties in Trial Courts.

Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, made it clear that patent working information is not “confidential” and has to be mandatorily submitted by all patentees.

The High Court, on Thursday, upheld Constitutional validity of the second proviso to Section 5 (1) of Prevention of Money laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), which empowers the Enforcement Directorate to provisionally attach the properties allegedly bought from proceeds of crime.

Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court, on Tuesday, directed the State to ensure that schools which are affiliated with the state board implement the 25 per cent reservation for underprivileged children under the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

Adultery undermines a relationship’s foundation and is one of the main reasons of a relationship crisis around the world the High Court Judge Justice JB Pardiwala observed while hearing a petition by a husband seeking to quash FIR against him and his parents under Domestic Violence Act. The Court refused to quash the FIR.

Himachal Pradesh

The Himachal Pradesh High Court sought to know the response of the Centre as well as the State government on a PIL against the State’s policy of total prohibition and burning of cannabis plant and calling for sustainable living with ‘hemp’ by tapping its industrial and medicinal potentials and promoting the modified cannabis with diminished psychoactive effect.

Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court, on Wednesday, disposed of its oldest case, which was 33 years old. The proceedings in the case, in fact, spanned over more than a century. The Appeal before the Court had assailed a judgment passed by the District Court, Ernakulam, which had declared that the proposed notified lands could not be declared as reserve forests under the Travancore Forest Act (Act II) of 1068. The notifications related to the proposed Alapra, Valiyakavu and Karikattoor Reserves.

Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court pulled up the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for not providing proper medical care and attention to the affected persons of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy even after passage of over 33 years.