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Husband Has to Pay Maintenance For Children Irrespective Of His Wife Earning: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
The Delhi High Court recently observed that the husband cannot avoid undertaking the responsibility of maintaining his children merely because his wife is earning. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva of the Delhi High Court was hearing a revision petition challenging an order of the Sessions Court whereby an appeal of the petitioner against an order of the Trial Court was dismissed....
Lawyers To Continue Boycott Odisha HC CJ's Court Till July 12
Orissa High Court lawyers Wednesday said they will continue to boycott the chief justice's court till July 12. The lawyers are protesting for over a month now against the decision of the collegium for recommending the names of outside law practitioners to be elevated as judges. They are boycotting the court of Chief Justice K S Jhaveri and those of collegium members Justice Kumari...
Mumbai Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Kerala CPI(M) Chief's Son Binoy Kodiyeri In Rape Case
The Bombay City Civil and Session Court today granted anticipatory bail to Binoy Kodiyeri, son of Kerala State Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.The order pronounced by Additional Sessions Judge M H Shaikh is awaited.Binoy Kodiyeri had moved the Sessions Court after a crime was registered by Oshiwara police for rape and cheating acting on a complaint filed by...
Union Law Minister Evades Query In Lok Sabha About Centre Bringing Law To Overturn Sabarimala Verdict
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, asked the Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Lok Sabha on Wednesday whether the Central Government is considering or is in the process of drafting any legislation, including an amendment to the constitution, to overturn the Sabarimala judgement of the Supreme Court "to restore the traditions of the temple". In response, the Law...
Allahabad HC Notifies Procedure To File Application For Anticipatory Bail [Read Notice]
The Allahabad High Court has notified the procedure to be followed while filing anticipatory bail applications. Section 438 Criminal Procedure Code which had been omitted by Uttar Pradesh government during the Emergency was reinserted by the Government with effect from June 6, 2019. The notification states that an anticipatory bail application must bear Court fee of Rs.5/- and it must...
Sec.34 Arbitration Act - Order Rejecting Permission For Producing Additional Documents Is Not An 'Interim Award' : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
"For an order to qualify as an "award", the test of finality is undoubtedly essential, but that does not mean that any final view of the Arbitral Tribunal would come within the ambit of an "award".
RTI- Information Commission Is Expected To Be Autonomous and Resistant To Any Pressure From the Executive: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]
The High Court of Kerala has observed that State Information Commission is expected to be autonomous and resistant to any pressure from the Executive.In the instant case. the petitioner who is an information activist, had preferred an application to the Government under Right to Information Act.The information pertained to certain data on inter state matters.The Government issued an order...
Sex After False Promise Of Marriage: Bombay HC Refuses To Quash Charges Of Cheating And Sexual Assault [Read Judgment]
The Bombay High Court has refused to quash proceedings against a 45-year-old businessman from Goregaon, Mumbai and held that the only way to find out whether charges of fraud and sexual assault against him, were true is through a trial where all the material gathered during the investigation can be examined. Justice SS Shinde was hearing a criminal writ petition filed by the accused...
Is Kerala Above Rule Of Law, Asks SC While Hearing Jacobite-Orthodox Church Dispute Matter [Read Order]
"Is Kerala above rule of law", an angry Supreme Court asked on Tuesday as it blasted the state government and threatened to put its chief secretary behind bars for not implementing its 2017 judgement on a dispute between two factions on right to conduct administration and prayers in churches.A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and M R Shah, which was hearing a matter related to...