Karnataka HC Dismisses Vijaya Mallya's Review Petition Against Order Directing Deposit Of Rs 3101 Crores [Read Order]

Karnataka High Court has rejected a review petition filed by fugitive economic offender Vijay Mallya, challenging a coordinate bench order which in turn had upheld the order by Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT), asking Mallya to deposit a sum of Rs.3101 Crore, as a precondition for hearing his appeal against a Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) order. On January 19, 2018, the DRT had ordered...

Delhi HC To Hear A Plea Seeking Establishment of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Each Tehsil To Ensure Uniform Education [Read Petition]

Delhi High Court will hear a PIL seeking directions to be issued to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) for establishing at least one central school in each tehsil. Filed by BJP leader Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, the petition seeks the following directions from the court: Direct the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, to ascertain the feasibility...

Road Building and Widening Does Not Enjoy Blanket Exemption From Land Acquisition Law : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court has passed an order restraining the Municipal Corporation from utilising a part of private land for the purpose of road widening, without acquiring it under the law and in the absence of any compensation paid to the owners. In the present case, the question before the court was can the New Delhi Municipal Corporation widen a road by utilising a part of land from a plot...

Delhi HC To Hear A Plea Challenging CBSE And DU Rules That Restrict Change Of Gender On Education Records

A transgender woman has moved a PIL before the Delhi High Court challenging rules of Department of Publication, Government of India, which mandatorily requires Sex Reassignment Surgery for changing the gender of a person on official records. In the present PIL, the Petitioner, who identifies as a hijra, seeks to challenge the Guidelines for Notification of Public Notice for Change of...

Former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand Arrested In Law Student Rape Case

Former Union Minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who was accused of raping a law student, has been arrested by the UP SIT from his Ashram, as per a report from News 18. The student is a LLM candidate at Swami Shukdevanand Law, where Chinmayand is the director. The case came into lime light after she leveled allegations of sexual harassment against Chinmayanand by posting a...

No GST For Services Of Court Receiver : Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The amounts collected by the Court Receiver may be subject to GST depending on fact situation, added the Court.

Five Lawyers Appointed As Judges Of Karnataka HC And Calcutta HC [Read Notifications]

Advocates Singapuram Raghavachar Krishna Kumar, Ashok Subhashchandra Kinagi, Govindaraj Suraj and Sachin Shankar Magadum have been appointed as Additional Judges of Karnataka High Court.Advocate Kausik Chanda has been appointed as Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court.The appointment is for two years with effect from the date they assume charge as Judges of respective High Courts....

Housing Society Is Not An Industry And Its Employees Are Not Workmen: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad High Court reiterated that a housing society is not an industry within the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and its employees are not workmen. In a petition filed by Arun Vihar Residents Welfare Association, G.B. Nagar, through Advocate Diptiman Singh, challenging the decision of a Labour Court, Justice Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava held that "…society was registered under...

Benefit Of Doubt: SC Acquits 'Wife' Accused Of Murdering Her 'Husband' [Read Judgment]

"It could not be the handiwork of one person and it would be rather preposterous to assume that the accused hanged the dead body by ceiling fan all by herself."

DK Shivakumar Has Not Disclosed The Source Of Assets Mentioned In The Election Declaration: ASG KM Nataraj

As the hearing on the bail application of Karnataka Congress Leader DK Shivakumar continued before the Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar, ASG KM Nataraj replied to the rejoinder filed by Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioning the election declaration of DK Shivakumar. In the previous hearing, Mr Singhvi had presented the election declaration of DK Shivakumar which showed the value of his...

Ayushman Bharat: Govt. Submits No Bar On Admitting Transgender In Govt. Hospitals [Read Order]

In the petition challenging the Central government's National Health Protection Scheme, popularly known as "Ayushman Bharat", the government submitted that Government hospitals will not deny admission to any member belonging to the transgender community. The petition moved in public interest by Assam's first transgender judge, Swati Bidhan Baruah, contended that Government hospitals were...

No Maternity Leave For Govt Servants Having Two Or More Living Children: Uttarakhand HC Upholds Rule[Read Order]

The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday set aside an order passed by a single judge of the high court whereby a provision denying maternity leaves to female government servants having two or more living children was struck down as unconstitutional.The second proviso to Rule 153 of the U.P. Fundamental Rules states that "if any female government servant has two or more living children, she shall...