Prof. Shamnad Basheer & Justice Ravindra Bhat Amongst 50 Most Influential People in IP 2019

Late Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer and Justice S. Ravindra Bhat are the two Indians who made it to the list of 50 Most Influential People in IP 2019. Prof. Basheer was an Indian legal scholar and founder of the blog SpicyIP. He was also the founder of IDIA, a trust which works on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students. He has been recognized as one of the...

Poverty/Deemed Indigent Status Of Accused Is An Extremely Important Factor For Granting Bail: Reiterates HP HC [Read Order]

While recapitulating the principles to be followed by courts while granting bail, the Himachal Pradesh High Court highlighted that poverty or the deemed indigent status of an accused must be taken into account while granting bail. In Dataram Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr., Crl. Apl. No. 227/2018, the Supreme Court had held, "The poverty or the deemed indigent status of...

Delhi HC Grants More Time To CBI To Complete Investigation Against Rakesh Asthana

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more time to CBI to complete investigation against the agency's former Director Rakesh Asthana. In yesterday's hearing, CBI sought an adjournment as the ASG designated to argue for the agency was busy in the Supreme Court. CBI also informed the court that four out of the eight stages of the investigation have been completed, and...

Students From Law Schools Across The Country Express Solidarity With Aligarh And Jamia Students

On Monday, a joint statement was issued by the student bodies of NLS, NUALS, NALSAR, MNLU Mumbai, MNLU Nagpur, NLUO, HNLU and NUSRL expressing solidarity with the students of Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and the Arts Faculty of Delhi University (DU). Similar statements were issued by the Student Council of NLUD, NLUJ and...

DV Act Not Maintainable If Family Member Leave Shared Household To Establish Own Household : Karnataka HC [Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has held that where a family member leaves the shared household to establish her own household, she cannot claim to have a right to move an application under Section 12 of the Domestic Violence Act. A bench of Justice B A Patil while allowing a petition filed by a mother and son, challenging the order passed by the lower court on a plea filed by a woman,...

HC Issues Contempt Notice To Deccan Herald For Publishing False News Report

Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the Registrar General of the High Court to issue notice under the Contempt of Court Act, against Editor and Publishers of 'Deccan Herald', for printing a false news report titled, "Rupees 9 crores was seized from the residence of a City Civil Court (Bengaluru) Judge in a raid by the "vigilance wing of the Karnataka High Court", in it's edition...

Delhi HC Asks Newspaper To Tender Apology For Publishing Name Of Rape Victim

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked 'The New Indian Express' to tender an apology for disclosing the identity of the Hyderabad rape case victim. A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar asked the media portal that whether such publication happened ignorantly or deliberately. The order has come in a PIL, asking the court to take action against...

Jamia Violence: Three Former Students Move SC For Judicial Probe [Read Petition]

Three former students of Jamia Milia Islamia moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking an independent judicial inquiry by a retired Supreme Court and/or High Court Judge into the alleged police atrocities on students of the varsity protesting peacefully against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. The petition was mentioned before Chief Justice S A Bobde by advocate M...

'Equity Can't Bend Arms Of Law Where An Individual Acquires Status By Fraud'; HP HC Condemns Suppression Of Material Facts [Read Judgment]

Taking a stern approach against parties resorting to suppression of material facts before the court, the Himachal Pradesh High Court observed, "Person who seeks equity must come with clean hands. He, who comes to the Court with false claims, cannot plead equity nor the Court would be justified to exercise equity jurisdiction in his favour. A person who weeks equity must act in a fair...

NGT Says Major Railways Stations Having Potential Of Causing Pollution Are Not Beyond Environmental Laws Of Land [Read Order]

Principal Bench of National Green Tribunal has held that Major Railway stations, must secure Consent to Establish/Expansion and Consent to operate under the Water Act and the Air Act, within three months failing which the State Board will take necessary action under the provisions of Water and Air Act in accordance with law. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel,...

Allahabad HC Disqualifies Rampur MLA Md Abdullah Azam Khan From UP Assembly [Read Judgment]

Court found that he had not attained the age of 25 years at the time of contesting elections.

Jamia Milia Protests: Delhi HC Refuses Urgent Hearing To Plea For Judicial Enquiry Into Police Violence [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to provide an urgent hearing in a plea seeking action against Delhi Police for using excessive force against the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University.The petition,which was mentioned before the Chief Justice D N Patel by Advocate Rizwan Nazmi, asked the court to constitute a judicial enquiry to investigate the incident. The plea also asked for...