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Senior Advocate And Former ASG Amarendra Sharan Passes Away
Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan, 69, passed away on Monday morning at Rishikesh due to a heart attack.Having done LLB from Patna University in Bihar, he enrolled with the Bihar State Bar Council in 1975 and started practice in Patna High Court.He later shifted to Delhi, on becoming an Advocate on Record in 1981 and was designated as Senior Advocate...
Cannot Force Inter Religious Couple Who Executed Nikahnama To Register Marriage Under Special Marriage Act: SC
The Supreme Court recently diluted a direction issued by Allahabad High Court to a couple who had executed Nikhanama to register their marriage under Special Marriage Act.A couple had approached the Allahabad High Court seeking police protection. The High Court noticing that the girl was a Hindu before her conversion to Islam and marriage with the boy, directed them to get their...
Using Whitener, Eraser In OMR Sheet Will Amount To Disqualification Of Candidate: Patna HC [Read Judgment]
The Patna High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition challenging the invalidation of OMR answer sheets on the account of use of whitener on them in the Bihar Elementary Teachers Eligibility Test, 2017. Background The Respondent, Bihar School Examination Board, conducted the aforementioned teacher eligibility test following which a model answer key was released. On...
Sex Workers Should Not Be Arrested, Rather They Must Be Treated As Victims Of Crime: Calcutta HC [Read Order]
Dismissing an anticipatory bail moved by a brothel owner, the Calcutta High Court has reiterated that sex workers exploited for commercial sex are victims and they should not be arrested in course of investigation under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (the Act) unless materials on record suggest that they were involved as co-conspirators in the crime. The matter came up before...
Ensure Legible Typewritten Copy Of First Information Statements Are Maintained In Police Stations, Kerala HC Directs DGP [Read Order]
The Kerala High Court has issued significant directions to ensure that legible typewritten copy of the First Information Statement is also immediately maintained after the recording of the FIS in the Police Station concerned.Justice Alexander Thomas, in an order disposing some anticipatory bail applications, directed the State Police Chief to immediately issue a Circular directing all the...
"Need To Amend The Provisions Contained in Section 13 Of The Official Secrets Act At The Earliest ": Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
Delhi High Court has held that submitting the investigation report under section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code is mandatory even when a complaint has been filed under Official Secrets Act. The Single Bench of Justice RK Gauba also opined that the Magistrate is not compulsorily required to conduct an inquiry before committing the case to the court of Sessions. In the present case,...
NGT Directs UPPCB And CPCB To Verify Compliance Of Recommendations To Curb Air Pollution Due To Emissions From Incinerator Of Bio-Medical Waste
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to verify compliance of its inspection report by the Respondent, M/s Ferro Build Hards (I) Pvt. Ltd., w.r.t. air pollution caused by it due to sub-standard incinerator of bio-medical waste. An application was filed under Section 14 of the National...
Appoint Permanent RERA and Appellate Tribunal Within Three Months, SC Tells 'Recalcitrant' States/UTs [Read Judgment]
The Supreme Court has directed the States/Union Territories to appoint permanent adjudicating officers as Real Estate Regulatory Authority and Appellate Tribunal within a period of three months.The court issued this direction in its judgment upholding the amendments made to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in 2018 to treat homebuyers as financial creditors. The bench comprising...
Non-Filing Of Affidavit In Support Of Application U/s 156(3) CrPC A Curable Defect, Holds Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]
“If that defect of application under Section 156(3) not being supported with affidavit, is made as an uncurable, it may at times in some cases be giving superior hand to the Magistrate to deprive the applicant of filing application under Section 156(3) by rejecting the same on this procedural ground itself.”