Karnataka HC Asks State Bar Council And AAB To Initiate Disciplinary Action Against Advocates Who Gather Outside HC Gate Seeking Entry Without Appointment

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday asked the Karnataka State Bar Council and the Advocates Association of Bengaluru to take disciplinary action against advocates who gather outside the high court premises and seek entry without having prior appointments issued by the registry for physical filing of matters. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajit...

Madras HC Directs Madurai Corporation To Ensure That Sanitary Workers Use Protective Gears While Working [Read Order]

"We believe that some strict action has to be taken in order to sensitise the Sanitary Workers about the need to wear the protective equipments for their own safety, as well for the well-being of their families."The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Madurai Corporation to take prompt action against the Sanitary workers who are found working in the public domain...

Delhi HC Directs Parties To Record A Video Clip of 15 Minutes For Oral Arguments And Submit A Brief Note Of 3 Pages on Submissions [Read Order]

In a case pertaining to a criminal writ petition, the Delhi High Court has directed the parties to record a video clip of 15 minutes of their oral arguments and submit the same to the court within one week. Apart from this video clip of oral arguments, the Division Bench of Justice JR Midha and Justice Brijesh Sethi has also directed the parties to file brief note of submissions...

Karnataka HC Allows State To Conduct SSLC Exams Starting From June 24 [Read Order]

Observing that "It is the duty of both the respondents (State and Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board) to take all possible precautions to ensure that the children who are going to appear for SSLC examination are not exposed to any danger." The Karnataka High Court has allowed the government to conduct SSLC exams starting from June 25. A division bench of Chief...

HC Can Recall Orders By Invoking Section 482 CrPC If Legal Grounds Exists: Kerala HC [Read Order]

The Kerala High Court has observed that an order passed by the High Court in criminal jurisdiction can be recalled by invoking the powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C, if legal grounds are properly established by the party. Justice PV Kunhikrishnan observed thus while recalling a bail order on the ground that the defacto complainant was not heard and his application for impleadment is pending...

Delhi HC Temporarily Restrains APN Live From Airing Allegedly Defamatory Content Against Patanjali Ayurved, Asks Facebook And YouTube To Take Down URLs [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has temporarily restrained APN Live news channel from airing allegedly defamatory content against Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved Limited. While asking the defendants to take down the URLs provided by the Plaintiff, the Single Bench of Justice V Kameswar Rao observed that the plaintiffs have made out a prima-facie case and even the balance of convenience is in their favour....

Delhi HC Dismisses Plea Challenging the Decision of the Central Govt To Freeze The Enhanced Dearness Allowance of Govt Employees [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has dismissed the plea challenging the order of the Central as well as the Delhi Government to freeze the disbursement of enhanced Dearness Allowance to government employees and pensioners. The Division Bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar noted that obligation in law upon the Central Government to disburse the increase in Dearness...

Allahabad HC Asks Govt To File Reply In Plea Seeking Arrangement For Conjugal Visits To Prison Inmates With Social Distancing Norms [Read Order]

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday issued notice on a petition seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh Government to make arrangements for meeting of inmates with their deponents, family members, friends and lawyers, while ensuring the guidelines of social distancing and sanitization. A bench comprising of Justices Anil Kumar and Manish Mathur has issued notice...

Tik Tok Mobile App Requires To Be Properly Regulated To Save Teens From Its Negative Impact, Says Orissa HC [Read Judgment]

"Tik Tok Mobile App often demonstrates a degrading culture and encourage pornography besides causing pedophiles and explicit disturbing content."

All Frontline Workers In Hospitals & Containment Zones In Vidarbha Region Entitled To Be Tested For Covid-19 On RT-PCR Method: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the state government to immediately conduct the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test of all frontline warriors (including doctors, nurses, policemen) attending to patients of Covid-19 working in the entire Vidarbha region. Division bench of Justice RK Deshpande and Justice NR Borkar of Nagpur bench was hearing a PIL filed...

Special MP-MLA Court Denies Bail To UP Cong Chief Ajay Kumar Lallu

A special MP-MLA court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, arrested on charges of alleged forgery of documents of buses arranged by his party for ferrying stranded migrant labourers during the coronavirus lockdown.He has been jailed since May 21.Judge P K Rai said Lallu was not entitled for bail at this stage as the offence was serious in nature...

Madras HC Extends All Interim Orders Till June 30; Parole Orders Till June 8 [Read Orders]

The Principal Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday extended the subsistence of the interim orders passed by it, that were subsisting as on March 20, till June 30, 2020. It may be noted however that the orders relating to parole/leave granted by the High Court to the life and other convicts, as a temporary measure to decongest prisons, have only been extended up till June...