Delhi HC Directs The GST Commissioner To Allow A Taxpayer To Rectify Errors Made In The TRAN-1 Form

Delhi High Court has directed the GST Commissioner to allow a company which had made an error in filing the TRAN-1 form online to rectify the same immediately. The court has asked the authority to either open the online portal so as to enable the Petitioner to again file the rectified TRAN-I Form electronically or accept the manually filed TRAN-I Form with the correction on or before 31st...

Student Moves Kerala HC Challenging Restriction On Mobile Use In Girls' Hostel

The petitioner argues that curtailing access to internet violates Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.

Action Against Frivolous PILs: Bombay HC Deputes 'Serial Petitioner' As Para Legal Volunteer In Tribal Area To Collect Data From Students [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has passed a unique order in a Public interest Litigation filed by one Sapan Shrivastava, who has already filed more than 40 PILs before the High Court.The bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice NM Jamdar noted-"Other than filing Public Interest Litigations we find that the Petitioner is not helping the Society by rendering services as a para...

Breaking : Lok Sabha Passes RTI Amendment Bill [Read Bill]

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2019 which seeks to amend the RTI Act 2005.Speaker Om Birla announced that the motion to vote on bill was passed with 218 'yes' votes as against 79 'no' votes. At present, the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners have a fixed term of five years. The amendment bill proposes to change the period...

High Courts Weekly Round Up

Allahabad High Court Ordered to grant police protection to Sakshi Mishra, daughter of BJP MLA Rajesh Mishra, and Ajitesh Kumar, her lover who she claimed to have married on July 4. a notice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a petition challenging his election from Varanasi parliamentary constituency. Bombay High Court Held that a victim under the Immoral...

Madras HC Dismisses PIL Against Opening Of Temples At Mid-Night For 'Western' New Year Celebrations [Read Order]

"Several thousands of people go to temples on January 1st of every year, and it has become the practice of many, for several years."

Consensual Sex Even After Refusal To Marry Does Not Amount To Rape: Madhya Pradesh HC [Read Judgment]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court recently quashed a 'rape case' against a man on the ground that the consent for sex was granted by the prosecutrix even after knowing very well that the accused would not marry her.The court also found that the prosecutrix was 'deeply in love' with the 'accused' and wanted to remain in his company. Therefore, the prosecutrix cannot turn around and claim that...

Rape And Murder Of 5 Year Old Girl: SC Sets Aside Death Penalty; Sentences Accused To 25Yrs Imprisonment [Read Order]

The Supreme Court recently commuted the death sentence awarded to a man accused of rape and murder of a minor girl of age five years.Initially, the Trial Court had imposed capital sentence convicting the accused [Dileep Bankar] for offences under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The High Court of Madhya Pradesh set aside this judgment of the trial Court and remanded...

Rajasthan Civil Judge Examination: Mains Postponed In Light Of High Court Judgment, Fresh Dates To Be Announced Soon [Read Judgment]

Mains Examination for recruitment of civil judges in the subordinate judiciary of Rajasthan scheduled on 27th and 28th of July 2019 has been postponed and fresh dates and time schedule of the Main examination will be announced soon. Background This came on the heels of Rajasthan High Court Judgment in case of Aarti Meena v. Rajasthan High Court wherein court decided on a batch of...

Non-Joining Of Public Witnesses At The Time Of Recovery Not Enough Reason To Doubt The Police Witnesses: Delhi HC[Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has held that merely non-joining of any public witness at the time of recovery of weapons does not raise doubt as to the truthfulness of the testimony of a police witness on the same point or discard their evidence While hearing an appeal pending before it challenging the order of conviction of the appellants by the Sessions Court under Section 302/34 Indian Penal Code...

Calcutta HC Rejects PIL To Declare Chanting Of Jai Sri Ram A Fundamental Right [Read Order]

"It is like searching for a black cat in a dark room, which is not at all there"

SC Agrees To Hear Plea Seeking Reforms On Shared Parenting Of Child In Divorce, Separation Cases

The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to respond to a plea seeking reforms on shared parenting of a child in cases of divorced or separated parents. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and B R Gavai issued notice to the Centre on the plea which has sought slew of directions to Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) and family courts for implementation of shared parenting in cases of...