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Flat Purchasers Can't Be Made To Wait For 'Inordinate' Time Period For Possession, Reaffirms NCDRC
Placing reliance on the decision of Supreme Court in Kolkata West International City Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Devasis Rudra (Civil Appeal NO. 3182 of 2019), in which the Hon'ble Supreme Court has observed that the flat purchasers cannot be made to wait for inordinate period of time hoping to seek possession, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) reaffirmed to the same effect in...
Police Attack On Howrah Lawyers: Court Premises Are To Be Insulated From All Sorts Of Intrusions, Says Cal HC, Seeks Response From Govt, Cops
Taking suo motu cognizance of the brutal police assault on lawyers in Howrah following a row with the Howrah municipal corporation staff over parking, the Calcutta High Court today said "The Court premises are locations which are to be insulated from all sorts of intrusions, except as authorised by law" and that "the society cannot afford to exclude the existence of courts within the...
Delhi High Court Issues Notice On A Petition Against Writing-off NPAs & Waiving-off Loans By Banks [Read Petition]
Delhi High Court has issued notice today to the government in a plea before it for ensuring that the banks stop practice of technical writing-off of Non Performing Assets (NPAs) and to restrain political parties from offering loan waiving schemes or other monetary schemes in their election manifestos and also to not permit the Central and state governments to reduce or waive off loans as same...
Delhi HC Sets Aside Centre's Move To Restrict Basmati Rice Cultivation To Seven States [Read Judgment]
The Delhi High Court has set aside the Centre's decision to restrict production of Basmati rice only to the Indo-Gangetic plains in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of maintaining the quality and purity of the seeds. Justice Vibhu Bakhru set aside two Office Memorandums (OMs) dated May 29, 2008 and February...
Delhi HC Invites Application For Designation As Senior Advocate [Read Notification]
Delhi High Court has invited the application for conferment of designation as Senior Advocate."The applications seeking conferment of designation as Senior Advocate are accordingly invited from eligible practicing advocates as provided in Rule (5) of the High Court of Delhi Designation of Senior Advocate Rules, 2018, in the prescribed proforma annexed to the aforesaid Rules with a...
Centre Creates 6 Additional Posts Of NCLAT Members For Circuit Benches
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), which is currently functioning from New Delhi, is likely to have circuit benches soon with the Centre having created six additional posts of its Members. In response to an RTI query, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has said that "in order to set up circuit benches, 6 additional posts of Members of NCLAT have been created by...
High Courts Weekly Round Up
Allahabad High Court Held that a woman employee was entitled to maternity leave for a full period of six months as against only three months she was granted by the respondent District Basic Education officer, Bijnor and directed latter to provide the petitioner woman employee maternity leave with honorarium with effect from 30.12.2018 to 31.3.2019 as was prayed by her.Dismissed a...