Man Plays Outright Fraud On Lok Adalat, Guj HC Issues Non-Bailable Warrant [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against a man who had secured release from judicial custody in a case of dishonour of cheque after playing fraud on the Lok Adalat which had set him free on the premise of a settlement he had arrived at with the complainant promising to pay back the entire amount within a year.Terming it a case of “outright fraud”, Justice J B...

Kerala High Court Prescribes Dress Code For Interns [Read Notice]

Through a notice issued by the Registrar General dated 14/02/2018, the High Court of Kerala has called for a prescribed dress code to be worn by interns doing internship in the High Court, and Subordinate Courts across Kerala.The notice reads thus : “It is hereby informed that all Law Students undergoing internship in the High Court and Subordinate Courts shall follow the dress code...

Maoist Leader Azad’s Encounter Death: Sessions Court Allows Widow’s Pleas To Relook Into CBI’s Clean Chit To Accused Cops [Read Order]

Paving the way for a re-look into the alleged fake encounter killings of CPI (Maoist) spokesperson Cherukuri Raj Kumar alias Azad and freelance journalist Hemchandra Pandey in Adilabad forests of Andhra Pradesh in 2010, a Sessions court in Adilabad has allowed revision petitions moved by widows of the two deceased challenging the clean chit given by the CBI to the accused policemen on the...

SC Allows HP Govt. To Carry Out Monitored Silviculture Felling Of Trees [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, allowed the Himachal Pradesh Government to carry out "silviculture felling" of trees and directed that the activity be closely monitored in order to ensure that it is, in fact, helping regeneration of forests."Felling of trees in India has been banned for more than two decades. We are of the view that on an experimental basis we may permit silviculture felling...

SC Transfers Plea Seeking CBI Probe Into ‘Gangrape’ Of 14-yr-old Scheduled Caste Girl By ‘Men In Uniform’ To Orissa HC

A Supreme Court bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice UU Lalit has transferred a petition seeking CBI probe into the alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old Scheduled Caste girl by “men in uniform” and subsequently her suicide to death last month in Koraput district, to Orissa High Court saying four petitions on similar issue were pending there.The bench passed the order after the...

Uttarakhand HC Slams State For Making Freedom Fighter Run From Pillar To Post For Three Decades [Read Order]

No action was taken since 1981 till 2014, i.e. or last 33 years by them, the court observed.The Uttarakhand High Court has come down heavily on the state government for making a freedom fighter run from one office to another for the fulfilment of his legitimate claim of the grant of freedom fighter pension.Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma imposed a cost of Rs.3,50,000 to be paid to the widow for...

Setting Aside Allahabad HC’s Acquittal, SC Convicts Man Charged For Kidnap & Murder Of Two Boys [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has set aside a judgment of the Allahabad High Court that had acquitted a man of all charges in a kidnap and murder case.The trial court had convicted and sentenced Mahipal to death for kidnap and murder of two boys. The main evidence against the accused was the recovery of a SIM card from his room and that the dead bodies of the children were recovered from...

Calcutta Lawyers Announce 5-Day Cease Work To Protest Against Judicial Vacancies

The frustration of various stakeholders over judicial vacancies has reached the city of Calcutta now, with the Calcutta High Court Bar Association, on Friday, announcing a five-day long cease work starting Monday.In an urgent General Body meeting held on Friday, the members decided to abstain from work till Friday next week, "as a mark of protest against the authority for not taking...

Expressing Concern On Use Of Money, Muscle, Communal, Political, Liquor Power Ahead Of Bar Council Elections, Madras HC Sets Directions For All, Including IT Dept [Read Order]

Observing that the ensuing elections to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry is more glorified for use of money power, communal power, political power, muscle power and liquor power, the Madras High Court has set out directions for the Bar Council of India, the police and the Income Tax Department to ensure fake lawyers or those indulging in corruption to win elections can be weeded...

Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary: Only 27.6% Women Judges In Lower Courts Across India, Finds Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy [Read Report]

Though a lot is said about judicial vacancies, docket explosion and delays when it comes to Indian judiciary, the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has scooped out another thought-provoking issue in its report which shows that the lower judiciary across India has a mere 27.6 per cent female judges.In its report titled Tilting The Scale: Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary, it shows how of the...

Anuradha Paudwal’s Daughter-In-Law Agrees To Withdraw DV Case Filed Against Her; To Dissolve Marriage Amicably

In a respite to Bollywood’s well-known playback singer Anuradha Paudwal, who was entangled in her son’s divorce battle for past few years, her daughter-in-law Ambreen Akhoon and her son Aditya have arrived at a settlement and have decided to withdraw all proceedings against each other and their respective family members.Filing the consent terms before a Supreme Court bench of Justice...

Challenge Against Rule For Allotment Of Chamber To Heir Of Lawyer On The Event Of His Death: SC Issues Notice

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A. K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan on Friday issued notice on the writ petition filed by Advocate on Record (AOR) Vishnu Shankar Jain challenging the constitutionality of Rule 7B of the Supreme Court Lawyers Chambers (Allotment and Occupancy) Rules.It is the petitioner’s case that the Rule, which provides that upon the death of an advocate having a chamber in...