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TMC MP Mahua Moitra Moves HC Challenging Stay On Defamation Proceedings Against Zee News
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra Thursday challenged in the Delhi High Court a Sessions court order staying proceedings in a defamation complaint filed by her against Zee News and its editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary in connection with a show on her June 25 speech in Parliament. Moitra in her plea, which was listed before Justice Brijesh Sethi, has contended that the Sessions court ought...
'Sanjiv Bhatt Has Scant Respect For Courts', Says Gujarat HC While Refusing To Suspend His Sentence [Read Order]
While rejecting former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea for suspension of sentence in custodial death case, Gujarat High Court remarked that he had scant respect for courts.The bench comprising Justices Bela M Trivedi and A C Rao observed that the Court was prima facie satisfied about the conviction of Bhatt. Declining his application for suspension of sentence under Section 389 of CrPC,...
Documents Forming Genesis Of Opinion Of Detaining Authority Should Be Supplied To Detenu : Tripura HC [Read Judgment]
The High Court of Tripura on Thursday reiterated that the documents forming genesis of an order of preventive detention, necessarily have to be supplied to the detenu, as soon as possible and directed release of the Petitioner on the sole ground of non-compliance of the aforesaid. In a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of one Shyam Manik Debnath, the high court, in light of ...
Involvement Of A Person In a Solitary Case Would Not Be Enough To Enlist Him As Rowdy : Reiterates Telangana HC [Read Order]
The Telangana HC has reiterated that once a substantially long period has lapsed between involvements of a person in different criminal cases, a rowdy sheet maintained by the Police classifying him as a habitual offender cannot survive.In the facts of the case, the Petitioner, Mir Saber Ali, had approached the high court, seeking directions to the effect that the action of the...
NGT Directs Karnataka SPCB To Take Adequate Measures For The Conservation Of Kithiganahalli Lake [Read Order]
The principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board take appropriate action in accordance with law and conserve the Kithiganahalli lake situated in Bommasandra Pura Sabha, Anekal. A bench led by Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel while hearing a petition filed by one Dr Sanjay Rao said "Let the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board...
Plea Of Privacy Not Tenable To Resist Gender Detection Test By Parties In Matrimonial Disputes: MP HC [Read Order]
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday ruled that in a matrimonial dispute, if gender of one of the parties is questioned by the other party, the court may direct such a party to undergo medical examination and the plea of violation of privacy shall not be tenable. The order was passed by Justice Subodh Abhyankar in a petition invoking supervisory jurisdiction of the high court...
Sole Proprietary Concern Cannot Initiate Insolvency Proceedings : NCLT [Read Judgment]
The NCLT Delhi has held that since a 'Sole Proprietary' concern is not a person under section 3(23) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ('Code'), it cannot initiate insolvency proceedings. The petitioner RG Steels approached the Tribunal as an Operational Creditor (OC) seeking for the initiation of corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) against Corporate...
No GST On Duty Free Shops For Sales To Outgoing Passengers : Bombay HC [Read Judgment]
In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court has held that Goods and Services Tax cannot be levied on the Duty-Free Shop(DFS) at Mumbai airport for goods sold to outgoing passengers. The Court held that such shops are entitled to refund of input tax credit. A Division bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Bharati Dangre noted that duty free shops are within the limits of customs area....
Bihar Police Closes Sedition Case Against Eminent Persons Who Wrote To PM About Mob Lynching
The Bihar police today closed the FIR filed against a group of artists and intellectuals who had written an open letter to the Prime Minister last July complaining about rise in incidents of mob lynching in the country reported Hindustan Times. As per the report, the Muzaffarpur SSP, Manoj Kumar Sinha, had ordered the closure of the case citing lack of the substance in...
Kerala HC Directs Police To Ensure That Drivers & Commuters Are Not Obstructed From Using Uber [Read Order]
"What is expected from the police in a case of this nature, is to take effective and sincere efforts to see that no person using "the application is obstructed or injured or the property of such person is damaged."
Kerala HC Reinstates KSRTC Conductor Suspended For Circulating 'Derogatory' Whatsapp Post Against CM Pinarayi Vijayan [Read Order]
The Kerala High Court has directed to reinstate a KSRTC conductor placed under suspension for circulating allegedly derogatory remarks against the Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan through Whatsapp. Justice Muhamed Mustaque noted that there are no other allegations other than this against S.Prasanth, who is under suspension since 10th May 2019. The court also observed that if...
ED Not Liable To Disclose Identities Of People Named In Panama Papers: CIC [Read Order]
The Central Information Commission on Friday held that the Enforcement Directorate can withhold names of tax evaders and other information relating to the Panama Papers and disclosures in this regard cannot be made under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The decision was passed in an appeal filed by one Durga Prasad Choudhary, contending that the information sought pertained to...