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Centre Notifies Appointment Of Ali Zamin As Judge Of Allahabad HC And Transfer Of Two Judges [Read Notifications]
Centre notified appointment of Judicial Officer Ali Zamin as Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court. In February Collegium had recommended Ali Zamin as Judge of Allahabad High Court . In another notification Justice Prashant Kumar has been transferred to Jharkhand High Court and Justice Sushri Ghandikota Sreedevi has been transferred to Telengana High Court.[Read...
Justice Ravindra Bhat To Take Oath As CJ Of Rajasthan HC On May 5
Justice Ravindra Bhat, the senior most Judge of the High Court of Delhi will be sworn in as the 36th Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan at a formal function at Raj Bhavan, Jaipur on May 5 at 11.30AM. Justice Bhat was appointed as an additional Judge of the Court on 16th July,2004. He became a permanent judge on 20.02.2006.He succeeds Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog, also...
Enquiry On Sexual Harassment Allegations Against CJI Should Not Be Proceeded In Complainant's Absence, PUDR, Activists [Read Full Statements]
People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) has demanded that the enquiry on sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi should not be proceeded in the absence of the Complainant. In a press statement PUDR also suggested that the inquiry into the allegations levelled by the Ex-Supreme Courtstaffer should be conducted by a special committee comprising and headed by...
SC Slaps Costs On Litigant For Incorrect English Translation Of Rajasthan HC Judgment In Hindi [Read Order]
The Supreme Court slapped costs on a litigant for filing incorrect translation of a Rajasthan High Court judgment impugned in the Special Leave Petition filed by him. The bench comprising Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari asked the petitioner to pay a cost of Rs. 25,000. However, subject to payment of costs, the bench permitted the petitioner to file a fresh...
Ishrat Jahan Case: Spl. CBI Court Discharges D G Vanzara and N K Amin
A special CBI court At Ahmedabad on Thursday discharged former police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case. Vanzara and Amin had filed discharge applications in the court after the Gujarat government refused to grant sanctions to the CBI to prosecute the two former police officers. Special CBI court judge J K Pandya said that since...
Environment Ministry Constitutes Committee To Implement National Clean Air Programme
The Environment Ministry has reportedly constituted a committee to implement the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The committee will be chaired by the Secretary, Union Environment Ministry and has among its members the Joint Secretary (Thermal), Ministry of Power; Director-General, The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based think-tank; and Professor Sachidananda...
ECI Bars Pragya Singh From Campaigning For 72 Hours For Karkare, Babri Remarks [Read Order]
The Election Commission of India has barred Sadhavi Pragya Singh Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal constituency, from campaigning for 72 hours from 6 AM of May 2 for violating model code of conduct.During this period, she is barred from holding any public meetings, public processions, public rallies, road shows and interviews, public utterances in print, visual and electronic media in...
JeM Chief Masood Azhar Designated As A Terrorist In The UN Sanctions List
In what is described as a big diplomatic win for India at the United Nations, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar has been designated as a terrorist in UN Sanctions list. India's Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin confirmed the news through his twitter account. The reason for sanctioning Masood Azhar is for his association...
'Insulting' Jain Saint: P&H HC Directs Vishal Dadlani and Tehseen Poonawala To Pay Rs. 10Lakh Each To Quash FIR Though No Offences Are Made Out
It would be appropriate to impose the costs of `10 lacs each on the petitioner – Vishal Dadlani and the petitioner –Tehseen Poonawala, so that in future they may not mock at any head of a religious sect, just to gain publicity on social media like Twitter.
Howrah Lawyers- Police Face Off : Ensure That There Is No Intrusion To Court Premises, Calcutta HC Tells Police
In the suo moto proceedings initiated by the Calcutta High Court following the attack by police on Howrah lawyers, the Division Bench of Chief Justice T B Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee today directed the police officials to ensure that there is no intrusion into the court premises without request or direction by the judicial officer in control."The police officials and the...