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Victim/ Interested Persons Have A Right To File Protest Petition: Madras HC [Read Judgment]
The Madras High Court has ruled that a Petitioner, being a victim, is mandatorily entitled to notice before acceptance of final report of the Police and in case such a notice is not served, he has a right to file a protest petition. "When the Petitioner/victim being a person interested in the complaint is not put on notice of the final report filed in this case, this Court would view...
Air Pollution : Allahabad HC Initiates Contempt On Brick Kilns Without Environmental Clearance [Read Order]
In the backdrop of Delhi-NCR gasping for fresh air due to severe pollution , the Allahabad High Court pulled up Uttar Pradesh administration for failure to stop the operation of illegal brick kilns without Environmental Clearance and asked the administration to show cause as to why contempt proceedings must not be instituted against it. "…it appears that at no point of time...
Allahabad HC Directs Centre, UP Govt. To Decide Upon Establishment Of Single Wakf Board In The State [Read Order]
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday directed the Centre and the UP State government to decide whether or not the existing Shia and Sunni Wakf Boards in UP should be set aside to establish a Single Wakf Board instead. The order was passed in a PIL filed by one Masarrat Husain, seeking issuance of writ of mandamus to the Centre and the State government, to...
Importance Given To Attendance In Professional Courses Can't Be Overstated: Delhi HC Denies Relief To Students With Low Attendance [Read Judgment]
Delhi High Court has refused to provide relief to students who were given a year back for not meeting the required attendance criteria by the IP University, in pursuance of Clauses 9 and 11 of the Attendance Rules. Reversing the order of the Single Judge, the Division Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Asha Menon opined that importance attached to attendance in classes in a...
DCW Counsellor Death Case: Delhi HC Denies Bail To Father-In-Law
Almost a year after a Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) rape counsellor was found hanging at her matrimonial house within five months of marriage, the Delhi High Court denied bail to the father-in-law of the deceased while taking note of the fresh injuries found on her person and her WhatsApp messages wherein she had spoken of harassment at her matrimonial house. Justice Manoj Kumar...
PMC Bank Falsified Records, Treated NPA Accounts As Non-NPA; RBI Tells Bombay HC, Court Refuses To Interfere With Withdrawal Restrictions
As hundreds of aggrieved depositors of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank protested outside the Bombay High Court, Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday filed a detailed affidavit listing out the reasons why the financial irregularities at Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank were not detected earlier by the Central Bank and steps being taken to ease the financial stress that...
A Detailed Order Is Not Required Under Sec 228 Of CrPC, If There's A Prima Facie Ground : Delhi HC [Read Order]
Delhi High Court has held that the order of the trial court on charge need not be a lengthy or a detailed one. Such an order should indicate that in the opinion of the trial court a prima facie case is made out. The court made this observation while disposing off a revision petition filed under section 397, read along with section 401 of CrPC wherein the Petitioner had challenged...
Company Law Committee Suggests Further Decriminalization And Relaxation of Punitive Measures
Company Law Committee Submits Report, Suggests Further Decriminalization and Relaxation of Punitive MeasuresThe Company Law Committee, which was formed to track the progress consequent to the passing of Companies Act 2019, has presented its report to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman. The Committee was constituted in September 2019 by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to...
Plea To declare An Acquittal Judgment of Trial Court As "Honourable Acquittal" Not Maintainable: Madras HC [Read Judgement]
A Division Bench of the High Court of Madras comprising of Chief Justice Mr. A. P. Shahi and Justice Subramonium Prasad held that a Revision or a Petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking declaration to declare that an acquittal judgment of a trial court as "Honourable Acquittal" is not maintainable. An Appeal had been filed against the Order dated...
'Lawyers Are Obligated To Ensure Smooth Functioning Of Courts': CJ Of Karnataka HC Appeals To Advocates To Not Abstain From Court Work [Read Statement]
The Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, Abhay S. Oka, has issued a statement, requesting the lawyers in the State to refrain from abstaining from Court work and to ensure smooth functioning of the court. "It is a settled position of law that the acts of abstaining from Court work or boycotting the Court proceedings and the acts of the office bearers...
Registrar Of Companies Cannot Strike Off Company When Insolvency Process Is Pending : NCLT [Read Order]
The Registrar of Companies (ROC) cannot strike off the name of a company during Corporate Interim Resolution Process, which is reported to have pending litigation, the Ahmadabad Bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held. A bench of Harihar Prakash Chaturvedi (Member Judicial) and Prasanta Kumar Mohanty (Member Technical) said so while deciding the appeal moved by the liquidator of...