Despite Delhi HC’s Worry About “Disaster Waiting To Happen”, Civic Bodies Fail To Come Up With Action Plan On Making Structures Safe In Quake-Prone Delhi [Read Order]

Only 25% structures in Delhi are made with sanctioned plan.Even as over two years have passed after the Delhi High Court expressed its concern about 75 percent of Delhi being unauthorised and only 10-15 percent complying with regulations specific for seismic zone, the civic bodies have failed to place before it an action plan to make the city compliant with the National Building Code-2005.A...

Appalled To See Jharkhand CM Distributing Letters Of Appointment To Judicial Officers: PIL In Jharkhand HC

A PIL has been filed before the Jharkhand High Court contending that Jharkhand Chief Minister Mr Raghubar Das, owing to the criminal cases filed against him, should not have handed over letters of appointment to judicial officers during a function organized by the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority (JHALSA).In his Petition, Mr. Diwan Indranil Sinha says that he was "appalled" to see...

Discharge Orders In Sohrabuddin Case Need To Be Examined By HC: Former Bombay HC Judge Abhay M. Thipsay

Former Judge of Bombay High Court, Justice Abhay M. Thipsay, who heard four bail applications of accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case, has now asserted that the orders of discharge passed in the case need to be re-examined.He had granted bail to DG Vanzara, an accused in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati,...

Justice Chitambaresh Quotes Song From Rajnikant's Movie 'Mannan' While Allowing Habeas Corpus Plea By Mother

In a judgment, passed on 7 February, Justice Chitambaresh of the Kerala High Court began the verdict quoting the lyrics of a song from Rajnikant's super-hit movie, Mannan, while allowing a habeas corpus plea by a mother for custody of her child. The Judge wrote:"“Amma endrazhaikatha uyir illaiye Ammavai vanangatha uyir illaiye” (There is no life form which does not call for its mother...

Madras HC Puts Interim Stay On BCI’s Resolution Deferring New Eligibility Rules For Contesting State Bar Council Polls

The Madras High Court has put an interim stay on the resolution adopted by the Bar Council of India vide which it had deferred the new eligibility conditions, including minimum 10-year practice, brought in by the Special Committee of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry for lawyers to contest in the ensuing elections to Bar Council.A bench of Justice CT Selvam and Justice N...

No Application Can Be Filed Against Taking ‘Symbolic Possession’ Before DRT: Allahabad HC (FB) [Read Judgment]

The full bench of Allahabad High Court, in M/s N.C.M.L. Industries Ltd. through Director and another Vs. Debts Recovery Tribunal, Lucknow and others, has held that taking “symbolic possession” or issuance of possession notice, meeting with any resistance, cannot be treated as “measure”/s taken under Section 13(4) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and...

Delhi HC Provides Some Relief To SSB Jawan Forced To Sustain In Under Rs 5K A Month [Read Order]

Coming to the aid of a Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan left to fend for himself and his family in under Rs 5,000 every month, the Delhi High Court has called for rules allowing 80 per cent of the salary to be deducted from his salary towards defaulted instalments of a medical loan.A bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Rekha Palli directed SS Deswal, Additional DG, SSB to file an...

Passengers Should Be Compensated If Denied Seat Due To Overbooking: DGCA Tells Delhi HC [Read Order]

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has, in unequivocal terms, submitted before the Delhi High Court that passengers who are denied boarding due to over-booking need to be paid immediate compensation and provided with necessary arrangements for their travel by the concerned airlines.The submission was made on a Petition filed by Mr. Pallav Mongia, who had been denied boarding by...

Delhi Court Refuses RK Pachauri’s Plea For Gag Order On Media, Orders Disclaimer Of Pendency [Read Order]

Observing that “the media by its reporting should throw more 'light rather than generate heat”, a Delhi court on Monday refused to put a gag order on the media from reporting on the issue of allegation of sexual harassment against former TERI chief RK Pachauri but added that any reportage should consider his views or that of his representatives and denote that the matter...

Justice GS Patel Initiates Contempt Action Against Litigants, Lawyers Who Committed Fraud On Bombay HC [Read Order]

There is some something very rotten in the state of our commercial litigation. It is exemplified by this case. If ever there was an example of a commercial fraud and a fraud on the court, this is it. This is how Justice GS Patel of the Bombay High Court described the case at hand wherein a litigant named Jitenderpal Singh Chadha, his father-in-law Prithipal Chadha and a lawyer Chadha...

MBA Student Accused Of Rape Offers To Teach Poor Children To Show Bonafide Intention Towards Society, Gets Anticipatory Bail [Read Order]

A 26-year-old MBA student accused of raping a girl he had befriended on Facebook and causing her miscarriage, has been granted anticipatory bail by a Delhi court after he offered to do community service by teaching underprivileged children to “show his bonafide towards the society”.Additional sessions judge Jitendra Kumar Mishra granted bail to the accused while directing him to do...

SC Dismisses Commodore PK Banerjee’s Appeal Against Adverse Remarks In ACR Which Affected His Promotion [Read Judgment]

While rejecting an appeal filed by Commodore PK Banerjee, who led India’s first anti-piracy operation as the captain of INS Tabar in 2008, against an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal, the Supreme Court has held that the Chief of the Naval Staff, in his capacity of Senior Reviewing Officer/Next Senior Reviewing Officer(SRO/NSRO), is competent to undertake review of confidential report...