Karnataka HC Refuses To Quash Condition Imposed By IDBI Bank For Release Of Pledged Equity Shares Of United Spirits Ltd[Read Order]

The Karnataka High Court has refused to grant relief to United Spirits Limited and USL Benefit Trust, which sought to quash a condition imposed by IDBI Bank Limited for release of its pledged equity shares given in lieu of a loan of Rs 625,45,056 crores sanctioned and disbursed to Kingfisher Airlines, in 2010. Justice Alok Aradhe while dismissing the writ petition filed by USL and USL...

PIL Seeking Revision of Backward Community List In Kerala:SC Asks Petitioner To Approach HC [Read Petition]

A Bench comprising of Justices SA Bobde and RS Gavai today turned down a public interest litigation today seeking for a writ or order to revise the backward community list f Kerala and to increase the percentage of reservation of Muslim minority community and SC/ST in the public employment in Kerala accordingly. However, the Bench stated that they could approach the...

Lok Sabha Passes Bill To Overturn SC Decision On Subject-Wise Reservation For Teaching Posts [Read Bill]

The Lok Sabha today passed "The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Bill, 2019" to treat 'University/ College' as the unit of reservation roster for teaching posts instead of 'Department/ Subject'.It will apply to 'central educational institutions' which include universities set up by Acts of Parliament, institutions deemed to be a university, institutions...

Power Of Review Not Inherent To Right To Information Act, Beyond The Jurisdiction Of Information Commissioner: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that Right to Information Act 2005 does not confer the power of review upon the Information Commissioners and allowed a petition filed by a 60-year-old man from Nagpur. Justice AS Chandurkar of the Nagpur bench heard the writ petition filed by Dominic Philip, who filed an application before The Principal and Information Officer, St. John's High School, Nagpur...

PIL In Uttarakhand HC Seeks To Raise Retirement Age Of High Court Judges From 62 To 65 Years [Read Petition]

The Youth Bar Association of India has recently filed a Public Interest Litigation in Uttrakhand High Court requesting the Court to direct the Ministry of Law and Justice to reconsider raising the upper age limit of High Court Judges to bring it on par with the age limit prescribed for Supreme Court judges. The petition filed by the Honorary Secretary Mr. Saurabh Pandey and the President of...

No Proposal To Amend RP Act To Make Winning Political Parties Accountable To Promises Made In Election Manifesto, Says Law Minister

In response to a query, the Law Minister has told the Lok Sabha that there is no proposal to amend the Representation of the People Act to make parties winning elections accountable to the promises made in the Election Manifestos.Ravi Shankar Prasad told the house that there is no proposal to make it compulsory for political parties winning general and assembly elections to bring...

High Courts Weekly Round Up

Allahabad High Court Stayed the May order of the AICTE rejecting the application for extension of approval of the courses run by Hindustan College of Science and Technology, Mathura. Bombay High Court Held that when the rights and title of the litigants is settled in proceedings by the Civil Courts, such verdicts would be binding upon the revenue authorities.Issued...

'I Believe In Judicial Accountability' : Justice Swaminathan Of Madras HC Releases Case Disposal Data [Read Statement]

In a highly commendable gesture in the interests of judicial accountability, Justice G R Swaminathan of Madras High Court, Madurai bench, has released data of the cases disposed of by him over past two years after assuming charge as HC judge on June 28, 2017.He has disposed of a total of 21,478 cases, with 18,944 cases as single bench and 2,534 cases while sitting in division bench, as per...

Nurses Are Not 'Medical Practitioners', State Medical Council Has No Jurisdiction To Take Action Against Them: Karnataka HC [Read Order]

"The nurses cannot be categorized as medical practitioners practicing medicine and the Karnataka Medical Council has no jurisdiction to take action against the nurses."

Many Pillion Riders Are Not Wearing Helmets: Madras HC Pulls Up State, Traffic Police [Read Order]

"Pillion riders do require safety. In Indian Ethics, it can be said that women pillion rider, is the most vulnerable, in a road accident.”

'Frivolous' ! Kerala HC Dismisses PIL Alleging Customer Data Leakage Due To Security Lapse At SBI [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court came down heavily on a person who filed a Public Interest Litigation alleging there are serious lapses by the State Bank of India which resulted in customer data leakage and disruption of online services. Referring to a newspaper report in this regard, Shaheer Ali @ Shaheer Chingath, filed a PIL and sought investigation by an independent agency, and a further direction...

How To Record The Evidence Of Deaf And Dumb Rape Victim? Bombay HC Explains [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court remanded a rape case to the Trial Court on the ground that evidence of deaf and dumb victim was recorded without considering the provisions of Section 119 Evidence Act.As per the proviso to Section 119 Evidence Act, when the witness is unable to communicate verbally, the court shall take the assistance of an interpreter or a special educator in recording the statement,...