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CAA protests: UP Court Grants Bail To Activist Parents Of Infant After Two Weeks Of Custody
A court in Uttar Pradesh has granted bail to the activist parents of a 14-month-old baby and 56 others nearly two weeks after they were arrested for protests against the citizenship bill and NRC in Varanasi. Additional Sessions Judge on Wednesday granted bail to Ekta (32) and Ravi Shekhar (36), a environment activist who runs an NGO named Climate Agenda. Fifty-nine people were...
CAA Protests : Delhi Court Grants Bail To Two Accused As Video Evidence Shows No Involvement In Violence [Read Order]
A Delhi Court on Tuesday allowed the bail applications of two persons - Sajid Ali and Daniyal- who were arrested for alleged violence during CAA protests in Seelampur. Additional Sessions Judge Gurdeep Singh of Karkardooma noted that the video evidence produced by the prosecution did not show involvement of the accused in violence.On December 18, Karkardooma Magistrate had remanded them to...
Bombay HC Allows Adoption Of A 22-Year-Old Girl Sought By 66-Year-Old 'Guardian' Who Raised Her [Read Judgment]
The Bombay High Court in a significant ruling, allowed an adoption petition filed by one Mathew Inacio Abreo, a 66-year-old man who sought adoption of Malaica Abreo, a 22-year-old girl who was raised by Mathew and his wife Dora. Justice GS Kulkarni declared the petitioner as the adoptive parent of Malaica and granted him liberty to apply before Municipal Authorities to issue a Birth...
Bombay High Court : 2019 Highlights
Like every year, the Bombay High Court in 2019 witnessed a flurry of fresh PILs and petitions filed and pronounced orders/judgements in plenty of old cases.Here is a look at the some of the most significant judgements/orders of the Bombay High Court in the past year.MARATHA RESERVATIONNo Constitutional Bar To Reservation Exceeding 50%; Bombay HC upholds Maratha ReservationBombay High Court...
No Infallible Principle That God's Name Is Not Registrable As Trademark, Says Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]
The Calcutta High Court has observed that there is no 'infallible' principle that God's name is not registrable as a trademark. The division bench of Justice I. P. Mukerji and Justice Md. Nizamuddin was dealing an interlocutory application in a suit filed by Shyam Steel Industries Limited, the registered proprietor of the word mark 'Shyam' and label marks for infringement of trademark...
A Complainant Cannot Be Put To Prejudice For Faults In Adjudication By Consumer Protection Fora: NCDRC [Read Judgment]
While refusing to remand a case back to the district forum on grounds of improper adjudication, the NCDRC observed that "a Complainant cannot be put to prejudice for faults in adjudication by Consumer Protection Fora." The court noted that the Revisionist Petitioner, aggrieved by alleged manufacturing defects in his car, had approached the District Forum in the year 2005. While...
CAA Protests : Delhi Court Grants Interim Bail To Two Accused Persons On Medical Grounds [Read Order]
A Sessions Court in Delhi has granted three weeks of interim bail on medical grounds to two persons who were arrested by Seelampur police for alleged violence during anti-CAA protests.Judge Brijesh Kumar Garg of the Karkardooma Additional Sessions Court granted three weeks of interim bail to both the accused from Seelampur Police Station to enable them to receive necessary medical treatment....
J&K HC Withdraws Its Job Advertisement Which Also Invited Applications From 'Outsiders' [Read Notification]
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has withdrawn an advertisement issued by it which invited applications from all over the country to fill vacancies in the district courts of the newly created Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh."It is hereby notified for information of all concerned that the advertisement Notice No. 09/2019 dated 26.12.2019, whereby applications were invited...
Important Orders Of National Green Tribunal 2019
NGT Says Major Railway Stations Having Potential Of Causing Pollution Are Not Beyond Environmental Laws Of Land. While hearing a petition filed by one Saloni Singh, highlighting the pollution caused at railway stations was informed by Railways that stations are not required to obtain consent under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (The Water Act), the Air (Prevention...
'Repeal CAA': Kerala Legislature Passes Resolution [Read Resolution]
The Kerala Legislature has passed a resolution requesting the Central Government to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. The Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan moved the resolution in which he said that the CAA is against the principles of Secularism and Equality doctrine, which are parts of basic structure of the Constitution of India. He said that the basic idea of constitution is...