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Bhushan Power Insolvency - NCLAT Wonders How P&H HC Passed Directions; Asks NCLT To Follow Orders Of Only SC & NCLAT
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal has expressed surprise at the intervention made by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the corporate insolvency resolution process of Bhushan Power and Steel, which is going on in National Company Law Tribunal, New Delhi bench.The NCLAT has directed the NCLT to consider the matter "uninfluenced by any order except the decision of this...
Collegium Extends Tenure Of Three Additional Judges Of Chhattisgarh High Court [Read Resolution]
Supreme Collegium has extended the tenure of three additional judges of Chattisgarh High Court.The tenure of Justices Sharad Kumar Gupta, Ram Prasanna Sharma, and Arvind Singh Chandel will expire on June 26.The recommendation made by the Collegium of the Chhattisgarh High Court vide Minutes dated 4 th January, 2019 and approved by the Supreme Court Collegium vide Minutes dated 8th April, 2019...
Delhi HC Acquits Man Of Rape, Notes Woman Called Him 529 Times Before Calling Police [Read Judgment]
Delhi High Court acquitted a man charged with rape noting amongst other things the fact that the complainant woman called him 529 times before calling police which made her narration shady. Bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal was hearing an appeal filed under Section 372 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, challenging the judgment of the Trial Court, whereby...
BCI Demands Compensation, Tight Security For Members Of Bar After Murder At Agra Court [Read Press Release]
Reacting strongly to the broad daylight murder of Uttar Pradesh Bar Council President Darvesh Singh today, the Bar Council of India has demanded that a compensation of Rs 50 Lakh be given to the family of the deceased besides strict security for members of the Bar across country.BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said the incident has proven that lawyers are not safe. He said the shooting...
Omitted During Emergency, UP Reinserts Provision For Anticipatory Bail
The Uttar Pradesh government has reinserted the provision of anticipatory bail in the State with effect from June 6, 2019. Section 438 Criminal Procedure Code which provides for anticipatory bail had been omitted by Uttar Pradesh government during the Emergency and has been brought back following recurrent demands for its reinsertion by way of writ petitions, recommendations of the...
First Female President Of UP Bar Council Shot Dead In Agra Court Premises
Newly elected President of UP Bar Council Darvesh Yadav was shot dead in Agra Civil Court today evening, reports the IANS.#JustIn: First woman President of #UttarPradesh Bar Council, #DarveshYadav, shot dead in #Agra Civil Court.Photo: IANS pic.twitter.com/GxjjLpIsWm— IANS Tweets (@ians_india) June 12, 2019She is the first woman to be the Chairman of UP Bar Council, who was elected two...
Perpetrators Of Sexual Offences On Innocent Children Are Psychosocial Deviants, Who Cannot Lay Any Claim To Leniency: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
Perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are psychosocial deviants, who cannot lay any claim to leniency held Delhi High Court in Lokesh v. State. Making further observation on heinous nature of sexual offences, Justice C. Hari Shankar said that it is in the order of nature, and is the sacred right of every living being to blossom from infancy to childhood, to...
Drunken Driving: Going To Jail Will Risk Job, Court Orders Man To Serve At Old-Age Home Instead [Read Judgment]
Adopting a lenient view towards a man, sole bread earner of his family, sentenced to two-day imprisonment for drunken driving, a Delhi court has ordered him to serve at an old-age home instead. Additional Sessions Judge Sonu Agnihotri ordered the 36-year-old to do "seva" at old-age home for two weeks and file daily photographs of him doing the seva. The court modified his...
Medical Negligence: Karnataka HC Quashes Criminal Case Against ENT Surgeon
The Karnataka High Court by an order dated May 31, quashed and set aside an order passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) at Sagara, taking cognizance of a complaint filed by a patient against an ENT surgeon, alleging medical negligence. Justice Alok Aradhe allowed the plea filed by Dr Prabhakar who sought to quash the proceedings on grounds that no expert opinion was...
Jharkhand HC Stays Proceeding Against Union Agriculture Minister
In a relief to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, the Jharkhand High Court (HC) has granted a stay in proceeding against him in lower court in a case related to alleged insult and provocation knowing that it would cause break of public peace. Justice AK Gupta granted the stay on the ground that the complainant failed to appear before HC after a notice was issued to him in...