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4 Lawyers Appointed As Patna HC Judges [Read Notification]
Advocates Anjani Kumar Sharan, Anil Kumar Sinha, Prabhat Kumar Singh and Partha Sarthy have been appointed as Patna High Court Judges. The Supreme Court collegium had recommended them as High Court judges in its resolution dated 1st April 2019.A notification to that effect has been issued by Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.Read Notification...
HC Has No Jurisdiction To Appreciate Evidence While Hearing A Petition Under Section 482 Cr.P.C.: SC [Read Judgment]
The Supreme Court has held that the High Court has no jurisdiction to appreciate the evidence of the proceedings under section 482 Cr.P.C. The division bench of the Supreme Court Comprising of Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari held so while allowing an appeal in a case (Md. Allauddin Khan v. State of Bihar) against the order of the High Court of Judicature of...
Accident, While Returning To Join Duty, Should Be Construed As An Accident While On Duty: Delhi HC [Read Order]
The High Court of Delhi, while deciding a writ petition, has held that an accident while returning to join duty should be held to be construed as an accident while on duty. The petitioner, the widow of an Assistant Sub Inspector of CRPF, raised a plea before the court to direct the respondent State to grant the petitioner extra-ordinary family pension and ex gratia...
ECI Bars Yogi Adityanath & Mayawati From Campaigning For Making Communal Speeches [Read Orders]
The Election Commission of India today barred UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from campaigning in elections for three days from April 16, for making communally provocative speech. The ECI also found BSP Chief Mayawati to have made communal appeal for votes, and has barred her from campaigning for two days from April 16.The ban is imposed invoking powers of ECI under Article 324 of...
'Moderate Corporal Punishment' For Juvenile Offenders Unconstitutional, Holds Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe [Read Judgment]
"A deliberate and systemic assault with a cane on the buttocks of an individual, inflicted by strangers as a form of punishment authorised by a judicial tribunal, is inherently a demeaning invasion on the inherent dignity of the person punished."
PIL Seeking Ban On PUBG: Take Action If Any Objectionable Content Is Found, Bombay HC Tells MEIT
The Bombay High Court has directed the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEIT) to assess and review online game PUBG and take action if any "objectionable content" is found. The PIL was filed in the name of an 11-year-old boy from Mumbai, Ahad Nizam, represented by his father Tanveer Nizam. The PIL alleged that the popular online game promotes immoral conduct, such as violence,...
High Courts Weekly Round Up
Allahabad High Court Dismissed a challenge against appointment of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose as the Chairman of Lok Pal.The Division bench comprising Justice Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Justice Rajnish Kumar observed that the Chairperson and Members of Lokpal are not an employment under the Government therefore the prohibition for employment under the Government of India or under...
Whether Revenue Officials Performing Judicial Functions Violate Doctrine Of Separation Of Powers - Karnataka HC To Decide
"Whether the appointment of a revenue official in the rank of an Assistant Commissioner as an Appellate Authority under Section 136(2) and Rule 69 of the KLR Rules and Deputy Commissioner as revisional authority under Section 136(3) of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, leading to adjudication of various complex adversarial revenue disputes, inter- partes, involving adjudication of question...
Rape Accused Claims He Has Been Married To The Victim; SC Asks Him To Show Marriage Certificate
A man accused in a rape case has approached the Supreme Court taking an interesting plea: he says that he had married the victim in March, 2018. Earlier, the Allahabad High court had dismissed his plea seeking to quash the summons issued to him in the case. As he claimed that the marriage is registered, the bench comprising Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Justice Indira...