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UP HJS Rules Do Not Provide Re-Evaluation Of Mains Answer Books: Allahabad HC [Read Order]
Refusing to grant relief to the Petitioner, the Allahabad High Court on Monday said that when the Rules pertaining to the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Services did not provide, it could not direct the authorities to re-evaluate the answer sheets. The Petitioner, Reeta Rani, was unable qualify the mains examination in the Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Services, 2018. In the writ filed...
Applications Invited For Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship With Texas A&M University School Of Law: Apply By September 15
The Association for Accessible Medicines has, in collaboration with the Texas A&M University School of Law, initiated the "Shamnad Basheer IP/Trade Fellowship with Texas A&M University School of Law". About This is the 1st edition of this Fellowship program that has been initiated in the loving memory of IP luminary, late Prof. Shamnad Basheer. Prof. Basher was a distinct legal scholar, who founded the IP blog SpicyIP and worked to make legal education accessible for underprivileged...
Insolvency Proceedings Against Jet Airways in India And Netherlands- NCLAT to Decide The Legality of Dual Proceedings
What should the domestic company law tribunals do when a foreign court has already triggered insolvency proceedings against an Indian entity – this question has popped up before the NCLAT in the Jet Airways insolvency proceedings. In an interesting turn of events, the NCLAT while hearing an appeal filed by the Administrator appointed in the Dutch Bankruptcy Proceedings, has now sought...
Unfair Means During Examination: Discovery Of Material With Candidate Sufficient To Take Action: SC [Read Order]
"The discovery of relevant material with such candidate, would suffice and it is not as if only on actual use being made of the material detected by the examiner that action can be taken."
CCI Directs DG To Probe If Intel Abused Its Dominant Position And Denied Market Access
The Competition Commission of India has directed the Director General (DG) to probe into allegations of abuse of dominant position by Intel Corporation and its Indian subsidiary Intel Technology India Private Limited. The decision came on a complaint filed by Matrix Info Systems Pvt. Ltd., (Informant), a Delhi based IT trading company engaged in the business of importing,...
Govt. Encouraging Caste Based Division? Madras HC Questions Allocation of Separate Burial Ground for Dalits
Decrying the practice of allocation of separate burial ground for Dalits, the Madras High Court observed on Monday that it appeared the government itself was encouraging divisions based on caste.The court was hearing a petition initiated by itself after access routes of a Dalit cremation ground were blocked in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, forcing the community members to drop the dead bodies...
NCLT Ahmedabad Admits Insolvency Proceedings Against Anil Ambani Group Company
The National Company Law Tribunal bench of Ahmedabad has ordered initiation of insolvency proceedings against 'RMOL Engineering and Offshore Ltd' ( till recently known as 'Reliance Marine Engineering and Offshore Ltd'), belonging to Anil Dirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG). This was done by admitting the insolvency application filed by Industrial Financial Corporation of India Ltd (IFCI), a...
Members of PCI & Independent Journalists Oppose PCI's Intervention In Petition For Media Freedom In J&K
A group of members of the Press Council of India have said that its Chairman did not consult them before moving an intervention application in the petition filed by Kashmir Times Executive Editor, Anuradha Bhasin, and have criticized the move. A joint statement was also issued by some seventy journalists and press agencies raising objections against the said intervention. The PCI has...
Bombay HC Convicts Man Of Rape 22 Years Later But Refuses To Impose Sentence As He Was A Juvenile At The Time [Read Judgment]
The Bombay High Court on Thursday convicted Hemant Mittal, a 38-year-old man for rape, 22 years after the said crime was committed. However, the Court did not impose any sentence as Hemant was a juvenile at the time of the incident. Division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre allowed the appeal filed by State government seeking conviction of the accused...
CBI Moves Delhi HC Against Bail Granted To Daati Maharaj In Rape Case
The Delhi High Court has sought the response of self styled godman Daati Maharaj to a case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation challenging the anticipatory bail granted to him by the Additional Sessions Judge in a rape case.In June 2018, he was accused of rape by a former student of the school run by him in Alawas, Pali district. The counsel for the CBI challenged the interim...