News Updates
Rahul Gandhi, Yechury Summoned In Criminal Defamation Case For Linking RSS With Gauri Lankesh Murder [Read Order]
A metropolitan magistrate's court at Mumbai yesterday issued summons to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury after a defamation complaint was filed by an RSS worker for allegedly linking journalist Gauri Lankesh's murder with "BJP-RSS ideology". RSS worker and lawyer Dhrutiman Joshi had filed a private complaint in the court in 2017 against Rahul Gandhi,...
Bombay HC Extends Interim Bail Of Anand Teltumbde Till Feb 27
The Bombay High Court today extended till February 27 the interim protection from arrest granted to activist and academic Anand Teltumbde. While Teltumbde's plea seeking anticipatory bail was listed for hearing Friday, a single bench presided over by Justice N W Sambre adjourned the hearing and extended Teltumbde's protection at the request of the latter's counsel. Teltumbde is one...
Leprosy No More Ground For Divorce : Personal Laws (Amendment) Act 2019 Notified
The Central Government yesterday notified the Personal Laws(Amendment) Act 2019, to remove leprosy as a ground for divorce.To this end, it amends five Acts: (i) the Divorce Act, 1869, (ii) the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, (iii) the Special Marriage Act, 1954, (iv) the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and (v) the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. The Amendment Bill proposes to...
Bombay HC Dismisses Contempt Petition Against Two HC Judges, Attorney General, Adv Gen of Maharashtra [Read Judgment]
The Bombay High Court has dismissed a contempt petition filed by Dr. Manohar Rawate seeking action against Justice (retd) Anoop Mohta and Justice GS Kulkarni. The petitioner alleged that the two judges had "forged an order" dated September 29, 2016.Dr. Rawate has appeared in person before the division bench of Justice BP Dharmadhikari and Justice Revati Mohite Dere. The bench concluded that...
Malegaon Blast 08': Use Of Photocopied Documents Wrong In Law; Bombay HC Stays NIA Court Order
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday held that the use of un-verified, photocopied documents as evidence is bad in law and stayed an order of the Special NIA Court allowing photocopied statements of witnesses and confessions of accused as secondary evidence in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.A division bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice AS Gadkari were hearing an appeal filed by Sameer Kulkarni,...
HC Asks Delhi Govt To Consider Ex-CM Chautala's Plea For Special Remission
The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government to consider the plea of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala for his release from Tihar jail in light of the Centre's Special Remission Notification dated July 18, 2018, while observing that anyone who is convicted has a right to get remission of good conduct as per law. A bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Prateek...
SC Upholds Dismissal Of Air Force Officer Accused Of Having Sexual Intercourse With Colleague's Minor Daughter [Read Order]
“In the course of the proceedings before the Court of Inquiry, it emerged that the petitioner had engaged in sexual intercourse with a minor daughter of a colleague in the Air Force”