Punjab and Haryana HC and Chandigarh District Court Receive Bomb Blast Threat

In a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association intimated the high court regarding a threat letter that it had received. The letter dated October 23 discloses that one Aadil Khan, a resident of Mohali, had threatened to "destroy" both the high court as well as the Chandigarh District Court on...

Abuse of Dominant Position: NCLT Imposes Rs 1 Lakh Costs On Insolvency Resolution Professional For Stalling Claim

Censuring an Insolvency Resolution Professional for not taking a decision with respect to the claim of the Applicant against a Corporate Debtor, the Mumbai Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal imposed on him costs of Rs. 1,00,000/- for "abuse of dominant position". The bench comprising Judicial Member Bhaskara Pantula Mohan and Technical Member Shyam Babu...

Delhi HC Raps Centre for Inefficient Functioning of IPAB, Issues Notice to the ASG [Read Order]

Delhi High Court has issued notice to ASG Maninder Acharya to take instructions from the central government in order to furnish information about the functioning and other important issues pertaining to Intellectual Property Appellate Board. The current matter arose from a petition filed by Novartis AG under Article 227 of the Constitution. It was moved because the appeal filed against...

Horror Beyond Imagination, Accused Don't Deserve To Live In Any Society; Bombay HC Confirms Death Penalty For Three Men Who Raped And Killed 16 Yr Old [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court last week confirmed the death sentence awarded to three men convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl who was on her way back home after finishing school in Ahmednagar district at Aurangabad.Division bench of Justice TV Nalawade and Justice KK Sonawane at Aurangabad, dismissed the criminal appeal filed by all three accused in the case, Santosh Lonkar, Mangesh...

Augusta Westland: Christian Michel Moves Delhi HC To Seek Bail In The CBI Case

The alleged middleman in the Augusta Westland scam, Christian Michel, has moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail in a CBI case against him. In his bail plea, Michel has submitted that all the offences he's charged with, both under the Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC, are punishable with less than 7 years of imprisonment. Hence, they are not grave offences to warrant...

Bombay HC Sets Aside Anti-Profiteering Authority's Order Against McDonald's Franchise [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court granted relief to Hardcastle Restaurants Private Ltd, which operates several franchises of McDonald's in Western and Southern India and set aside an order of National Anti-Profiteering Authority alleging profiteering on behalf of the company for not passing on the benefits of reduction in tax on restaurant services, from 18% to 5%, to the consumers. A division bench...

Court Should Lean In Favour Of Declaring Accused A 'Juvenile' In Borderline Cases; Bombay HC Sets Aside Death Penalty [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed a criminal application filed by one Sandeep Shirsat, convicted of murder and rape and declared him to be a juvenile at the time of crime. Consequently, Shirsat will not face the death penalty awarded to him by the trial court.Division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice SK Shinde set aside the findings recorded against the applicant accused...

Plea In Delhi HC Seeks Linkage Of Social Media Accounts With Aadhaar

A plea has been filed before the Delhi High Court, seeking linkage of Social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter, with Aadhaar Cards. The plea also seeks in the alternative directions to the Central Government to take apposite steps to deactivate fake and ghost social media accounts in order to control fake and paid news. A petition in this behalf was earlier filed by...

Karnataka HC To Decide If Smoking In Separate Rooms At Restaurants, Airport Legal

The Karnataka High Court has issued rule and will finally hear a Public Interest Litigation filed by Healthcare Global Enterprises, which operates a network of Cancer hospitals in India, seeking to hold Section 4 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (COTPA) Act, as unconstitutional. The section prohibits smoking in public places, but allows smoking in separate rooms at restaurants...

MP HC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Rule Exempting Women From Wearing Helmets

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday issued notice on a petition challenging Rule 213(2) of the Madhya Pradesh Motor Vehicles Rules, 1994, by virtue of which the Section 129 of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988, which mandates wearing a helmet while riding a two-wheeler, does not apply to women riders in the state. The impugned rule states, "the provision of Section 129 of the Act, shall...

Delhi Court Dismisses Complaint Against Gautam Gambhir Alleging Commission Of Electoral Offences [Read Order]

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal has dismissed AAP leader Atishi Marlena's complaint against BJP MP Gautam Gambhir for committing electoral offences under sections 17, 31 and 125A of The Representation of The People Act. Marlena had submitted before the court that since Gambhir is registered as a voter in two different constituencies, and the same was...

Kathua Rape-Murder Case: Jammu Court Orders FIR Against SIT On Allegation Of 'Making False Evidence' [Read Order]

A Jammu Court today directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu to register a FIR against the six-member SIT which investigated the infamous Kathua rape case, for allegedly coercing the Applicants, who were witnesses in the said rape case, to depose false statements. The SIT had investigated the case of an eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped last year and was...