Wife Refused To Fast For 'Karwa Chauth', Didn't Acknowledge Her Husband: Delhi High Court Upholds Divorce On Ground Of Cruelty

The Delhi High Court has ruled that constant rejection and non-acknowledgment of the husband in a marriage by his wife is a source of “great mental agony” for him. A division bench of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upheld a family court order granting divorce to a husband on the ground of cruelty by his wife. The couple got married in March 2011 and started...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Law To Ban Screening Procedure For Nursery School Admissions In Delhi

A civil rights group ‘Social Jurist’, has approached the Supreme Court against the order of the Delhi High Court rejecting its Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to expedite the finalization of Delhi School Education (Amendment) Bill, 2015. The bill prescribes banning of a screening procedure in the admission of children at the pre-primary level.The plea contends that even though bill...

Job Ads Not Complying With Minimum Wages Act Shouldn't Be Carried On 'Rozgar Baazar' Portal: High Court To Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to not publish any job advertisement in its “Rozgar Bazaar portal” which is non-compliant with the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula took note of Delhi Government’s submission that steps are being taken to update the software portal so that not a...

Misappropriation Of Funds Not 'Official Duty', No Sanction Required To Probe Chandrababu Naidu: Andhra Pradesh Govt Tells High Court

The Andhra Pradesh government today told the High Court that it does not need to obtain sanction to investigate former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party leader N Chandrababu Naidu in connection with the multi-crore Skill Development scam case.Additional Advocate General P. Sudhakar Reddy, State counsels Mukul Rohatgi and Ranjit Kumar submitted that Naidu's actions were deliberate,...

Husband Taking 'Academic Break' Doesn't Extinguish His Duty To Maintain Wife And Children: Madras High Court

While refusing to interfere with an order of maintenance made by the Family Court, the Madras High Court has observed that a husband is liable to pay maintenance to his wife and child even if he is on an academic break to pursue a Ph.D. “The amount awarded in our opinion would be just about sufficient for sustainance of one human being at the cost of living today. Merely...

Chandrababu Naidu Victim Of 'Regime Revenge', FIR Needs Prior Sanction As Per Sec 17A PC Act : Harish Salve To AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court today reserved judgment in the quashing plea filed by former state Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party leader N Chandrababu Naidu in connection with the multi-crore corruption in Andhra Pradesh skill development program scam case. Naidu has also sought cancellation of his judicial remand.The matter was heard by a Bench of Justice K. Sreenivas Reddy.Senior...

Centre's Bill On Women's Reservation Unlikely To Take Effect Before 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, Here's Why

Since the announcement of a special session of Parliament last month, the air has been rife with speculation over a big-ticket surprise sprung by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government. And it is here. After the union cabinet’s approval yesterday, on the second day of the special session Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth...

'School Children So Addicted To It' : Karnataka High Court Says Govt Should Consider Bringing Age Limit For Social Media Use

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday orally suggested to the Union Government that it should bring in an age limit for the use of social media. A division bench of Justice G Narendar and Justice Vijaykumar A Patil was hearing an appeal filed by X Corp. (formerly Twitter) against a single bench decision to dismiss its challenge to the Centre's blocking orders.During the hearing, Justice...

Delhi Police Opposes Plea By Delhi Riots Accused, Says They Have No Legal Right To Seek Status Of Investigation Before Arguments On Charge

The Delhi Police on Tuesday told a Delhi Court that the accused in the 2020 Delhi riots larger conspiracy case do not have any right in law to ask for overall status of the investigation or timeline for its completion, before proceeding with the arguments on charge.Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad made the submission before Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat of Karkardooma Courts...

Order V Rule 2 Of Civil Procedure Code Requires Service Of Summons With Plaint: Supreme Court

The Supreme recently said that service contemplated under Order V Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, implies service of summons along with the copy of the plaint.A bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Bela Trivedi, was hearing a challenge against an order of the original side of the Delhi High Court, Commercial Division. The Court was considering the starting day...

Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority Organizes State Level Colloquium On "Protecting Child Rights: Legal Perspective & Training"

The Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security, Government of Jharkhand, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, and Bachpan Bachao Andolan, organized a grand State-level Colloquium on "Protecting Child Rights: Legal Perspective and Training" on 17.09.2023. The event took place at the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul...

Adani-Hindenburg Case | Petitioner Questions Impartiality Of 3 Members Of Expert Committee Formed By Supreme Court, Seeks Constitution Of New Committee

In yet another development in the Adani-Hindenburg matter, the petitioner seeking a Court monitored investigation against the Adani group companies has filed a new affidavit in the Supreme Court, raising apprehensions against the Expert Committee constituted by the Supreme Court. The affidavit filed by petitioner Anamika Jaiswal has alleged that three out of the six members of the committee...