NCDRC Enhances Compensation From Rs 3L To Rs 50L For Lasik Eye Surgery Gone Wrong [Read Order]

"In today's day and age, Lasik Surgeries are being advertised to be extremely simple and uncomplicated…Medical Professionals involved in performing Lasik Surgeries should at least explain the common complications like Dry Eyes, for example, prior to the performance of the Surgery," the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has said while enhancing to Rs 50 lakh a...

Delhi Court Issues Summons To Shashi Tharoor Over 'Scorpion' Remarks

A court here Saturday summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on June 7 on a complaint about his remarks that an unnamed RSS leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling". Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal was hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed against Tharoor by Delhi BJP leader Rajeev Babbar, who has said...

Madras HC Suggests To Exclude Consensual Sex With Girl Aged Above 16 From Rigours Of POCSO Act [Read Judgment]

"More liberal provision can be introduced in the Act itself in order to distinguish the cases of teenage relationship after 16 years, from the cases of sexual assault on children below 16 years."

Najeeb Ahmed Missing Case: Delhi Court Allows Mother to File Protest Petition Against CBI's Closure Report [Read Order]

A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed Fatima Nafees, the mother of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed who went missing two years ago, to file a protest petition against the closure report of the Central Bureau of Investigation in the case.The CBI Prosecutor objected the prayer for supply of documents and submitted that there is no provision of protest petition and consequently supply of documents. The...

Guj HC Orders Removal Of Police Protection Granted Mechanically For Fencing Disputed Land [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court has ordered the removal of police protection granted mechanically to a person only for enabling him to fence the land which was subject of civil litigation and in respect of which a district court had ordered status quo. Justice AP Thaker asked the authorities concerned not to grant any police protection to the respondent for the land in question while asking the...

Export Of Patented Products For Trials Abroad Covered Under Bolar Exemption- Sec 107A(a) Patents Act: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The question of infringement of patent holder's rights does not arise "if the object or purpose of that transaction is solely to experiment or research and develop information that is reasonably related to the requirements of the law (Indian or overseas)"

Bombay HC Upholds Capital Value Method Of Computation Of Property Tax, Strikes Down Rules Framed Under Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act [Read Judgment]

In an important and extensive judgment, the Bombay High Court has upheld the method of computation of property tax under capital value method under the Mumbai Municipal Corporations (MMC) Act, but struck down certain rules framed under the said Act in 2010 and 2015 for assessment of capital value of a property. The court struck down rules 20, 21 and 22 of the capital value rules of...

Delhi Court To Hear On May 1 Plea Against Gautam Gambhir For Allegedly Having Two Voter IDs

A Delhi court Friday said it will hear on May 1 a criminal complaint filed by AAP leader Atishi against the former cricketer and BJP candidate Gautam Gambhir for allegedly enrolling as a voter in more than one constituency in violation of the Representation of the People Act (RPA). The complaint seeking directions to police to investigate the matter has been put up for consideration...

All Cases Of Assault Or Simple Hurt Cannot Be Categorized As Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude: SC [Read Judgment]

"The release under probation does not entitle an employee to claim a right to continue in service"

PepsiCo Sues Gujarat Farmers For Growing Potato Variety Used In Lays; Court Passes Injunction[Read Order]

On April 8, Judge Moolchand Tyagi passed an ex-parte ad-interim order restraining the farmers from growing the potato variety, after observing that Pepsico had established a "prima facie case".

SCAORA And Orissa HC Bar Association Lock Horns Over 'Outsider' Lawyer Elevation As HC Judge

The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association and Orissa High Court Bar Association have locked horns on the issue of elevation of 'outsider' lawyers as Judges of the Orissa High Court. Today, the Supreme Court AoR Association has passed a resolution requesting the Supreme Court to send a serious message to all High Courts not to accede to unreasonable resolutions like the one...

UK Court Denies Bail To Nirav Modi Yet Again

Fugitive Businessman Nirav Modi's bail has been rejected by London Court, reports NDTV.It is learnt that he has been further remanded till May 24 and a full hearing has been scheduled for May 30. This was his third bail application since he was arrested.Modi is allegedly responsible for the Rs.13,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam and was arrested by the London Police a month ago. His first...