'If People Are Dying, Someone Has To Go To Jail', Delhi HC Says While Hearing PIL On Manual Scavengers

Delhi High Court has ordered 10 local bodies including Delhi Jal Board, New Delhi Municipal Corporation and Municipal Corporation of Delhi to file affidavits stating whether or not they are employing manual scavengers, directly or indirectly. The court also remarked that if people continue to die, someone has to go to jail. The court was hearing a PIL filed by National Campaign for Dignity...

A Prisoner's Transit Warrant Can Never Be Converted Into A Regular Warrant In A Case Where The Accused Person Is Already On Bail: Madras High Court [Read Order]

A Prisoner's Transit Warrant Can Never Be Converted Into A Regular Warrant In A Case Where The Accused Person Is Already On Bail: Madras HC [Read Order]

Courts Cannot Recast The Terms Of Arbitration Agreement, Reiterates Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that court cannot recast the terms of an arbitration agreement entered into between parties and should rather make efforts to ensure that the parties adhere to the choice of the Arbitrator or to the mechanism for constituting the Arbitral Tribunal as envisaged by the Arbitration Agreement. Justice Sanjeev Narula observed, "The Court while exercising...

Railway Tribunal Judge Dismissed In Rs 50 Crores Fake Claims Scam

A judge of Railways Claims Tribunal, A K Mittal, has been dismissed from service after being found guilty in a scam relating to fraudulent claims worth Rs.50 crores, reports the Indian Express.This is the first time a judge of RCT is facing punishment on such a charge.The probe headed by Supreme Court judge Justice U U Lalit found Mittal, who was lastly posted at the Ernakulam bench,...

Amount Written In Different Inks In Negotiable Instrument Renders It Void: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

When the amount is written in two different inks in a Negotiable Instrument, it amounts to material alteration, which renders it void in accordance with Section 87 of the Negotiable Instrument Act, the Madras High Court has held.In this case, the promissory note in question had been filled up in two separate inks and the amount, 35,000 had also been filled up in two separate inks with the digit...

Infant Deaths : Rajasthan HC Issues Urgent Directions To Fill Up Shortage Of Medical Staff [Read Order]

In the suo moto proceedings initiated in the wake of deaths of infants in tribal and backward areas of the state, the Rajasthan High Court on Friday issued omnibus directions to address the acute shortage of medical staff.The division bench of Chief Justice Ravindra Bhat and Justice Dinesh Mehta directed the Government to fill up the vacancies of medical officers in primary health centres...

Right To Education Means, Right To Health & Hygiene, Drinking Water, Building And Transport Safety Etc: Madras HC [Read Order]

"In this context, we also observe that right to education means, right to health & hygiene, drinking water, fire safety, building safety and transport precautions in the school, as well. It also includes adequate facilities for providing recreation, physical education, conduct of various activities and programmes for the cultural and moral development of children."

Delhi HC To Decide Whether Service Tax Can Be Imposed On Banks By Treating 'Minimum Balance' As Consideration [Read Petition]

The petition challenges validity of Section 66E(e) of Finance Act 1994.

Mukherjee Nagar Incident : Petition Filed In Delhi Court For Action Against Cops For Allegedly Hurting Sikh Sentiments

Almost a month after the street fight incident in Mukherjee Nagar between a Sikh driver and Delhi Police officers, social activist Manjeet Singh Chugh has moved a petition in a Delhi court alleging that the cops hurt the religious sentiments of Sikh community. Chugh, who has taken various civic agencies to court for dereliction of duty and non-maintenance of civic amenities in the past,...

Jharkhand HC Grants Bail To Lalu Prasad Yadav In One Of The Fodder Scam Cases

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in a fodder scam case, but the former Bihar chief minister will remain in jail as he is also serving sentence in two other related cases. Justice Apresh Kumar Singh granted Yadav's bail plea in the case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar Treasury on the ground that he has served...

Sr Adv KTS Tulsi Introduces Bill In RS To Make Sexual Crimes Gender Neutral [Read Bill]

Senior Advocate and Rajya Sabha member K T S Tulsi introduced a private member bill in the upper house on Friday for amending the Indian Penal Code to make sexual crimes under it gender neutral. The Bill seeks to ensure protection of all vulnerable persons, including men and transgenders in addition to women, from sexual exploitation and punish sexual offenders of any sex or gender. This...

Consider Self-Financed Buses, Town Planning, As Measures To Curb Air Pollution: Delhi HC Tells Delhi Government

Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government to consider the plan of self-financed buses as one of the solutions to curb air pollution in Delhi. The Division Bench of Justice Sistani and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a clubbed PIL seeking directions to be given to the Delhi government to take measures to curb chronic air pollution in the capital city. The court told the...