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Sudhir Bhargava Takes Charge As CIC Chief
Mr. Sudhir Bhargava took oath as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Tuesday.He was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan.Mr. Bhargava is a retired bureaucrat, having worked as a Secretary to the Ministry of Social Justice. He has been an Information Commissioner since June, 2015 and...
Bombay HC Allows Surrogate Mother To Abort 24-Week Foetus With Consent From Intended Parents [Read Order]
The Bombay High Court recently allowed a surrogate mother to abort her 24-week foetus, as the foetus had numerous heart abnormalities and was expected to require multiple surgeries if born.The petitioner had entered into an agreement with a Pune-based couple, for carrying their baby. She had, however, approached the court after a routine check-up and screening had revealed serious defects in...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court last week refused to quash the FIR filed against one Satish, who is an accused in the Bulandshahr violence case in which police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and a local youth was killed on December 3. Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently held that a 'child', as is defined under Section 2(12) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection...
Sohrabuddin Case A Pre-Meditated Theory To Implicate Political Leaders, says CBI Court [Read Judgment]
Thwarting the prosecution's case and evidence placed on record, Special CBI Judge SJ Sharma who presided over the Sohrabuddin trial, recorded in a 358-page judgement that the entire investigation of the prosecution was based on a pre-meditated and scripted theory that the killing of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and a pregnant Kausar Bi, was part of a larger conspiracy hatched...
1984 Anit-Sikh Riots : Sajjan Kumar Surrenders In Delhi Court
Sajjan Kumar, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by Delhi High Court for his involvement in 1984 anti-sikh riots, has surrendered in a Delhi Court today. On his surrender before the Metropolitan Magistrate Aditi Garg at Karkardooma, he was sent to Mandoli jailOn December 17, the Delhi High Court had reversed his acquittal by trial court in 2013 and held him guilty for conspiracy and...
Legal Luminaries Reflect On Law & Story Telling At IDIA Annual Conference
The recently held IDIA Annual Conference on "Law and Story Telling" saw legal stalwarts share riveting insights on storytelling within courts and in the practice of law.The panel was moderated by Mr. Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi and comprised of: Justice Srikrishna, former judge, Supreme Court of India, Justice Gita Mittal, Chief...
Agusta Westland : Christian Michel Passing Chits To Lawyers Seeking Tips To Tackle Interrogation, ED Tells CBI Court
The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday told a Delhi court that alleged middleman Christian Michel, arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, was misusing the liberty of legal assistance during his interrogation by passing chits to his lawyers asking how to tackle questions on Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.In the remand application, the CBI submitted that Michel's access to...
No Change In Sight For Allahabad High Court’s Name After Prayagraj: Govt In RTI Response
There is no proposal to change Allahabad High Court’s name in view of the decision to rename Allahabad to Prayagraj, the government has said in response to a Right To Information (RTI) application filed by The Indian Express.The response by the Department of Justice (DoJ) said that there was “no proposal under consideration at present for changing the name of Allahabad High...
Share Profits With Local Communities Under Biodiversity Act: Uttarakhand HC to Baba Ramdev’s Divya Pharmacy [Read Judgment]
The Uttarakhand High Court has directed Divya Pharmacy, owned by Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, to share its profits with local and indigenous communities, as part of the Fair and Equitable Benefit Sharing (FEBS) objectives of the Biodiversity Act, 2002.Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia upheld the order passed by the Uttarakhand Biodiversity Board (UBB) and affirmed the powers of the...
NCLT, Mumbai Says CoC Not Right In Rejecting Resolution Plan Only Coz It Was Sent After Cut-Off Date [Read Order]
Tribunal says Code is paramount, not the RegulationsObserving that when there is a conflict between the Regulations and the Insolvency Code, the object of the Code is paramount and not the Regulations which are formed only for the just implementation of the Code, the Mumbai bench of National Company Law Tribunal has held that the Committee of Creditors of a corporate debtor was wrong in...