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Delhi HC Affirms Application Of IPC Sexual Harassment Provision To Transgenders [Read Order]
In a welcome development, the Delhi High Court has affirmed the application of Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 to transgender victims of sexual harassment.The determination came by a bench comprising Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, on a petition filed by a transgender person who identifies as a woman, though she was assigned “male” sex at...
Court Not Denuded Of Power To Look Into Anticipatory Bail Plea In Cases Under SC/ ST Act: Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]
The Calcutta High Court has held that despite the recent amendment providing against the applicability of Section 438 CrPC (anticipatory bail) to cases under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act (atrocities against members of SC/ST), a court is not denuded of its power to look into the anticipatory bail petition of a person accused of having committed an offence under Section 3...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh Government for cancelling a Type-VI accommodation provided to the Lokayukta and instead allotting a lower category accommodation.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court on Monday refused to stay the Reserve Bank of India’s deadline of December 31 for dilution of promoter stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank. The RBI...
Make In India: Bombay HC Grants Relief To 3 Chinese Firms, 69 Chinese Workers; Quashes ‘Leave India’ Notice Issued
A Hong-Kong based concern claiming to be working in India under the ‘Make in India’ initiative secured relief from the Bombay High Court on Friday. Some 69 workers of the said concern were invited by Pacific Cyber Company Pvt Ltd, an Indian company engaged in development and assembly of mobile phones, to visit the Pacific’s plants in Daman and Silvasa, to provide technical know-how...
Another Win For Gopal Subramanium For Daiichi: Singapore Court Dismisses Appeal By Singh Brothers Of Ranbaxy Against Rs 3,500 Crore ICC Award
In yet another setback for former promoters of Ranbaxy – Malvinder and Shivinder Singh -- the Singapore High Court has upheld the Rs. 3,500 Crores (720 Million Dollars) ICC Arbitral Award in favour of a Japanese Pharmaceutical major Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited which was represented by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium who assisted the court on Indian law.This is also the first of its...
Yavatmal Human Sacrifice Case: Bombay HC Acquits 6 Death Row Convicts [Read Judgment]
Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday acquitted six people in the Yavatmal human sacrifice case of 2012.The judgment was passed by a bench comprising Justice PN Deshmukh and Justice MG Giratkar.In October 2012, a seven-year-old girl was killed in Yavatmal district. As per the prosecution case, one of the convicts, Durga Shirbhate had claimed that she had been possessed by a goddess....
Bhima-Koregaon: Bombay HC Rejects Professor Anand Teltumbde’s Plea To Quash FIR [Read Judgment]
“We are of the opinion that this is not a case where there is no incriminating material against the Petitioner”The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed Professor Anand Teltumbde plea to quash FIR registered against him in relation to Bhima-Koregaon incident.Refusing to interfere with the investigation, the bench comprising Justice B. P. Dharmadhikari and Justice Sarang V....
NGT Sets Up Expert Panel To Look Into Re-Use Of RO Waste Water, Report Sought By 4 Months [Read Order]
Agreeing with the view that the rejected water in the process of purification by Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems further percolates down to the ground water, thereby contaminating it, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted an expert committee to devise ways of re-filtration or secondary use of such water.The tribunal, while dealing with an application filed by an NGO, Friends, has set...
Vedanta Copper Plant: Madras HC Temporarily Rolls Back NGT Verdict; Orders Status Quo On Reopening [Read Order]
In a major setback to the Vedanta Group, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday stayed the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) December 15 order that had permitted it to reopen its copper smelting plant in Tuticorin.A bench comprising Justice KK Sasidharan and Justice PD Audikesavalu ordered status quo to continue, thereby restraining Vedanta from reopening its copper...
Does It Behove State Govt To Treat Lokayukta In A Casual And Irresponsible Manner, Says Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]
“The Lokayukta is an independent statutory authority and not a Commission under the State Government nor is he the Chairman of any such statutory Commission under the State Government.”The Allahabad High Court came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh Government for cancelling a Type-VI accommodation provided to the Lokayukta and instead allotting a lower category accommodation.Justice...
Delhi HC Abolishes Beggars Court 4 Months After Decriminalising Begging
The Delhi High Court has abolished the Beggars Court, through a public notice dated December 20. The move comes four months after the court struck down anti-begging provisions as unconstitutional.The notice also announcesthe immediate transfer of the following judicial officers: Shelly Arora Vijeta Singh Rawa Saumya Chauhan Harvinder Singh Arun Goel Ajay Kumar Malik Richa Parihar Preeti...
Women Wall Campaign : Participation To Be Voluntary; Children Must Be Excluded, Rules Kerala HC [Read Order]
The High Court of Kerala has directed the exclusion of persons below the age of 18 years from the 'Women Wall'(vanitha mathil) campaign of the Government.The Division Bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar was considering a batch of petitions challenging the program.'Women Wall' is an awareness campaign announced by the Women and Child Department, whereby...