NGT Refuses Relief To UP Jal Nigam, Directs To Pay Rs 1 Crore Compensation For Polluting River Ganga [Read Order]

National Green Tribunal refuse relief to UP Jal Nigam, it will have to deposit Rs 1 crore as Environmental Compensation with the Central Pollution Control Board for illegal permission granted by the Principal Secretary, Urban Development, for release of large quantity of untreated sludge and effluents directly into river Ganga on the ground of cleaning trunk sewer. A bench led by...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High Court Took suo moto cognizance of the shocking incident where three men began to open fire inside a courtroom in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh.The preventive detention is an encroachment upon the personal liberty of an individual and cannot be said to be encroached in a casual manner as has been done in the instant case,'' said High Court bench, Justices...

Madras HC Directs Police To Videograph DMK's Anti-CAA Rally [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has directed videographing of DMK's proposed rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act on Monday if the party goes ahead with it despite denial of permission by the police. It gave the interim direction late Sunday night on PILs opposing the rally after the Tamil Nadu government counsel informed that police have denied permission for the protest as there was no...

PIL Seeking Action Against Media For Revealing Identity of Rape Victim: Home Ministry Files Reply Before the Delhi HC

Central Government has filed its reply before the Delhi High Court in a PIL seeking action against media portals that had published the identity of the Hyderabad rape victim and the accused persons. At the outset, Union Government has clarified that the direction sought in the said plea doesn't fall under the mandate of Ministry of Home Affairs. It says that as 'police' and 'public order'...

Delhi HC Asks Police Commissioner To Institute Inquiry Against Police Officers For Brandishing Firearms In a Public Street [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has directed Commissioner of Delhi Police to institute an inquiry against police officers who were allegedly brandishing a firearm in a public street. The Single Bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru also noted that the court finds it difficult to accept that a police official should be walking in a street brandishing a weapon in the manner as is reflected...

Preventive Detention Is An Encroachment Upon The Personal Liberty Of An Individual And It Cannot Be Done In A Casual manner ; Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The preventive detention is an encroachment upon the personal liberty of an individual and cannot be said to be encroached in a casual manner as has been done in the instant case,'' said Allahabad High Court bench, Justices Shabihul Hasnain and Rekha Dikshit.The case was regarding a detention order passed by the State Government under the National Security Act, 1980 where the petitioner...

Delhi HC Stays Govt Order Transferring Chairperson, Members Of Child Welfare Committees [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has stayed till February 6 an office order issued by the Delhi government vide which 11 Chairpersons and Members of various Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) were transferred from one Committee to another. Justice Navin Chawla stayed the office order dated December 5, 2019 after the chairperson of a Committee (CWC-III) and six members of various other CWCs moved court...

In Relief To1.8 Million Investors Of Ponzi Scheme, SC Orders SMC To Proceed With Sale Of Properties

In a decision set to bring cheers to 1.8 million investors who lost their savings of Rs 8,500 crore in two "ponzi schemes" run by Royal Twinkle Star Club and Citrus Check Inns, the Supreme Court has directed the Sale cum Monitoring Committee (SMC) headed by Justice J P Deodhar (Retd) to proceed with the sale of 114 properties/investments identified by the Resolution Professional and endeavor...

Delhi CAA Protests : Karkardooma Magistrate Remands 11 Accused To 14 Days' Judicial Custody

A Metropolitan Magistrate at Karkardooma, Delhi on Saturday remanded 11 persons, who were arrested by Sememapuri Police on Friday night for allegedly indulging in violence during anti-CAA protests, to 14 days of judicial custody.The offences invoked in the FIR included Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 143/149 (unlawful assembly and common object), 147/148 (rioting, with deadly...

CAA Protests : Allahabad HC Calls For Documents Relating To Arrest Of Advocate Md Shoaib [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court on Saturday directed the UP Police to produce before it the arrest memo pertaining to the arrest of Lucknow based senior lawyer and president of human rights group Rihai Manch Mohammad Shoaib. The Court has directed the Government to produce documents to show that he was medically examined after the arrest. The court further said that Shoaib's family members or...

'State Can't Exploit Labour Of Unregulated Worker': Delhi HC Directs ICAR To Regularise Daily Wage Labourers [Read Judgment]

While directing a government agency to regularise its daily wage labourers, Delhi High Court noted that the state cannot exploit the labour of unregulated workers over a continued period of time. The present case pertains to the matter of regularisation of daily wage labourers in Indian Council for Agricultural Research. These labourers have been rendering their services to...

[Hyderabad Encounter] Second Autopsy To Be Done To Restore People's Faith In the Rule of Law : Telangana HC [Read Order]

The division bench of the High Court of Telangana comprising of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Abhishek Reddy, while observing the necessity of second autopsy of accused's dead body in the alleged rape and murder of the lady veterinary doctor, said," Since the alleged accused persons have been killed, while they were in police custody, the faith of the people in the rule...