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SC Dismisses CBI's Appeal Against Commutation Of Death Penalty In A Murder Case [Read Judgment]
The Supreme Court, in May, dismissed an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation challenging commutation of death penalty by the High Court in a murder case.The death penalty awarded to Sakru Mahagu Binjewar and three others was commuted by the High Court, though it confirmed the conviction for murdering four persons. The mitigating factor, according to High Court was that (i)...
Bombay HC Dismisses Petition Challenging AICTE Decision To Reduce Lateral Entry In Engineering Colleges [Read Judgment]
The world is so fiercely competitive may be regrettable, but we can do nothing to change it, observed the Bombay High Court while hearing writ petitions filed by students challenging the All India Council for Technical Education's (AICTE) decision to reduce the percentage of intake of lateral entry students in second year of engineering from 20% to 10%.Division bench of Justice SC...
DRT Not Able To Focus On High-Value Cases: Raj HC Upholds Centre's Notification Raising Pecuniary Limit To Rs 20L [Read Judgment]
Observing that "small value cases" were not allowing the Debt Recovery Tribunals focus on "high-value cases" which would have otherwise led to significant recovery of public money, the Rajasthan High Court has upheld Centre's notification raising the threshold pecuniary limit for filing application for recovery of debts before the Debt Recovery Tribunal from Rs 10 Lakh to Rs 20 Lakh. ...
Jaya Prada Challenges Azam Khan's Election
BJP leader Jaya Prada Friday filed a petition before the Allahabad High Court, challenging the election of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan from the Rampur parliamentary constituency. Jaya Prada alleged in the petition that at the time of his election, Azam Khan held the post of the Chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, which was an office of profit. She also alleged that Azam...
Contractual Part Time School Teachers Are Entitled To 'Equal Pay For Equal Work': Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]
The Calcutta High Court recently directed the West Bengal government to give salaries and benefits to part-time school teachers at par with full-time permanent employees due to the fact they had the same workload as their full-time counterparts, in view of Article 16 of the Constitution of India. Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya was hearing petitions filed by contractual...
'Article 15' : Uttarakhand Govt Undertakes To Ensure Smooth Screening Of Film After HC Criticized SDM's Order Banning It [Read Order]
The Uttarakhand High Court on Friday observed that the order passed by Sub Divisional Magistrate, Roorkeebanning the screening of film 'Article 15' is arbitrary."On the face of it, the order dated 28.06.2018 is arbitrary", said Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia while hearing a petition filed by the makers of the film.When the Court expressed its view about the SDM's order during the course of hearing,...
Lok Sabha Passes Aadhaar Amendment Bill [Read Bill]
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Aadhaar(Amendment) Bill 2019, which seeks to replace the Ordinance brought by the Centre last March to modify the existing laws in relation to the use of biometric data for authentication of identity for the purposes of grant of services, benefits and subsidies.The Bill proposes to allow voluntary use of Aadhaar voluntary use of Aadhaar for getting...
Rajasthan HC Stays Its Order To Cancel Driving Licences Issued To Illiterates [Read Order]
A Division Bench of Rajasthan High Court has stayed the single bench order that directed cancellation of all light motor vehicle driving licenses issued to illiterate persons. The bench comprising Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Narendra Singh Dhaddha passed the stay order in a writ appeal filed by Deepak Singh. Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, while considering the writ petition filed...
Delhi HC Dismisses Plea Seeking Amendments Of HC Rule To Enable Pleadings And Petitions In Hindi [Read Judgment]
Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition which sought a declaration that the Delhi High Court Rules be declared ultra vires the Delhi Official Languages Act, 2003 to the extent they allow only "English" as the language in which the pleadings can be filed in the High Court, as well as a direction to amend the said Rules permitting the pleadings/petitions in Hindi by adding the words "or Hindi...