Special Courts In NDPS Act Cases To Record Statements Of Official Witnesses Via Video Conferencing: Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

In a path breaking judgment, the Calcutta High Court suggested the Special Courts under NDPS Act to record statements of official witnesses by way of video conferencing. Background Brief facts of the case titled "Md. Sarfaraz @ Bonu & Anr. v. The Union of India" are that based on intelligence information, certain officers of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) boarded a Railway...

Delhi HC Stays The Charge-Sheets Issued Against Protesting Teachers Of JNU By The University

Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed an inquiry ordered by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration against teachers for participating in a protest march organized by students.The present petition was filed by the teachers to challenge the action taken by Jawaharlal Nehru University (Respondent) against teachers of the University for participating in strikes/protests organised...

Queering The Law: Vidhi's Report on How Gendered Laws Affect LGBTQ Community [Read Report]

Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has released its report on the Gender Impact Assessment of the laws in India. Titled 'Queering The Law', the report highlights as to how our laws are plagued by the flawed and restrictive understanding of sexual and gender complexities that exist in our society. This lacuna transcends the black letter of law and severely affects the lived experience of...

File Status Report On Reasons For Attachment Of Property And Continued Arrest: Delhi HC Directs ED In Ratul Puri's Bail Plea

Delhi High Court has asked the Enforcement Directorate to file a status report in response to a plea filed by Ratul Puri challenging the trial court's order which cancelled his anticipatory bail. Appearing for the Petitioner, Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi made the following submissions before the court in order to challenge the trial court's order: There are ...

'Batla House' Makers Agree Before Delhi HC To Make Changes In The Film

The movie 'Batla House', starring John Abraham, has got the green signal from the Delhi High Court for release on the Independence Day after the film makers and an accused in the encounter case, who wanted the screening to be delayed, reached consensus on ceratin changes in it. Justice Vibhu Bakhru passed the consent order and said the film makers are bound by their statement as...

Punjab And Haryana HC Imposes Rs. 50,000 Cost On HC Bar Association For Restricting Entry Of A Litigant [Read Order]

After issuing notice to High Court Bar Association (HCBA) for obstructing administration of justice by restricting entry of litigants in the court, Punjab and Haryana High Court has imposed costs of Rs.50,000/- on the HCBA in a related matter. The case titled Monu Rajput v. State of Haryana & Ors was filed by Monu Rajput, praying for the release of his live-in partner Neeshu from the...

ITAT Allows Sec.37(1) Deduction For Harish Salve's Foreign Scholarship As Business Expenses To Promote Professional Profile [Read Order]

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi, has accepted the claim of Senior Advocate Harish Salve for deduction of the foreign scholarship given by him to two Indian students as "expenditure solely and exclusively for the purposes of business".Allowing the claim for deduction of Rs. 28,45, 372 under Section 37(1) of the Income Tax Act,1961, the ITAT ruled that the scholarship expenses...

Gujarat High Court Designates 12 Advocates As Senior Advocates

The Gujarat High Court has designated 12 lawyers as Senior Advocates with effect from August 13, 2019. The names of the newly designated Senior Advocates are as follows: Devang Sudhir Nanavati Mitesh Ramanbhai Amin Satyajeet Atul Desai Jal Soli Unwalla Asim Jayantbhai Pandya Hasmukh Mohanlal Parikh Bharatkumar Shanubhai Patel Iqbal Hasanali Syed Maulin Ramesh...

Law Firm Issues Public Apology To Indiabulls For Filing False Cases

(Updated)The law firm Managium Juris LLP has issued a public apology to Indiabulls Housing for filing false cases against it. The father-son duo Mani Ram Panday and Kislay Panday, who head Managium Juris, came into limelight when the financial services company, Indiabulls, moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent listing of the plea filed by their law firm against the company,...

Unexplained Delay Of 13 Years In Initiating Inquiry Vitiated The Disciplinary Proceedings: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court grants relief to a government servant who was held liable for misconduct through a disciplinary proceedings that took place 15 years after the alleged incident took place. The court held the delay to be unreasonable, devoid of any justification and of a nature that vitiated the disciplinary proceedings. In the present case, an inquiry for misconduct was initiated against...

P&H HC: Entry Of Litigants To HC Allegedly Restricted By Lawyers, HC Issues Notice To The Bar [Read Order]

The Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana constituted a full bench today, in order to address the law and order catastrophe in the court premises itself. The court noted that the Advocates as well as members of the Bar Association of Punjab and Haryana High Court have not only been abstaining from work but were also restraining entry in the court premises. They have locked...

HC Can't Reappreciate Evidence While Exercising Revisional Jurisdiction U/s 20 Of Kerala Rent Control Act, Reiterates SC [Read Judgment]

While exercising revisional jurisdiction under Section 20 of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, the High Court cannot re-appreciate the evidence, the Supreme Court has reiterated.In this case [Thankamony Amma vs. Omana Amma N.], setting aside concurrent orders of the Rent Control Court and the Appellate Tribunal in favour of the landlord, the High Court of Kerala had held...