10 Year Practice Criteria For Contesting Elections To State Bar Council Valid, But Subject To BCI Approval: Madras HC [Read Order]

The Madras High Court, on Monday, upheld the amendments prescribing 10 years of practice experience as a minimum eligibility criteria to contest elections to the State Bar Council."Considering the immense responsibility on the Bar Councils to maintain the highest standards of discipline, integrity and even their role in law reforms, it is necessary that the members should collectively have...

Stepson Of A Hindu Dying Intestate Can’t Claim Inheritance Under Hindu Succession Act: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that the stepson of a Hindu citizen dying intestate cannot claim inheritance over his property.Justice SC Gupte passed the judgment in a chamber summons taken out in a partition suit involving partition of ancestral property jointly owned by the parties in the suit.Case BackgroundDuring the pendency of the suit, one of the defendants (No.14), who was said to be...

Delhi HC Upholds Conviction Of Seven Policemen For Encounter Killing Of Youth In Uttarakhand [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of seven policemen of Uttarakhand Police for killing a young man in a ‘fake’ encounter in 2009. The case pertained to killing of 22 year old MBA graduate Ranbir Singh in Dehradun on 03.07.2009.  In the trial which was transferred to Delhi from Uttarakhand by the Supreme Court to ensure free and fair proceedings, the CBI Court convicted...

SC Stays Bombay HC Judgment Asking State Of Maharashtra To Reconsider Appointments To Shirdi Saibaba Trust [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court of India has stayed a judgment of the Bombay High Court, wherein State of Maharashtra was directed to reconsider appointments to the managing committee Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi.Justice Ranjan Gogoi passed the order and issued notice in a batch of PILs tagged together, challenging the state government’s notification dated March 27, 2012. The managing committee...

DSLSA Holds Mega Legal Services Camp

The Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA), in conjunction with the district legal services authorities (East, Northeast and Shahadra) organised a mega legal services camp on Saturday. The camp was organised from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at KendriyaVidyalaya, VigyanVihar.Justice Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and executive chairman of DSLSA, inaugurated the...

Advocate Gautam Bhatia Makes It To Forbes 30 Under 30 List

Advocate Gautam Bhatia, who worked closely with Senior Counsel Arvind Datar, playing a major role in getting the right to privacy declared as a Fundamental Right, has made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.The 2011 National Law School of India graduate studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He then went to Yale University to study constitutional law, as he wanted "his...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtNo intervention with the right of privacy of an Indian citizen can be permitted so mechanically, Allahabad High Court observed while ordering the police to discontinue surveillance of a man, who was kept under surveillance since 2011.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently quashed and set aside an order passed by a metropolitan magistrate wherein an...

Office of Profit: AAP MLAs’ Petition Not Maintainable After President’s Assent To Disqualification, ECI Tells Delhi HC [Read Affidavit]

The Election Commission of India has submitted before the Delhi High Court that the petition of AAP MLAs against their disqualification in an office-of-profit case is liable to be dismissed as not maintainable since they challenge the ECI recommendation which is non-existent once the President has taken a decision on it.In an affidavit filed before the court, Vijay Kumar Pandey, director...

MPHC Asks State Government To Provide Security For Display Of Movie Padmaavat [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State government to provide adequate police protection and support to the persons, who are involved in exhibition and distribution of film ‘Padmaavat' and to the viewers.Issuing interim direction, the court restrained any person, group or protestors from carrying firearms, articles that might cause injury or damage to the property within 200...

As Maharashtra Court Fee (Amendment) Act Is Yet To Be Notified By State, Bombay HC Adjourns Petition Challenging Vires Sine Die

The Bombay High Court on Thursday adjourned the petition challenging the vires of the Maharashtra Court Fee (Amendment) Act sine die granting the petitioners liberty to mention the matter once the said amendment is notified by the state.This development took place after Advocate-General AA Kumbhakoni challenged the maintainability of the petition and submitted that even though the...

The Press Is The Most Powerful Watchdog Of Public Interest In A Democracy: Bombay HC While Quashing Media Gag Order In Sohrabuddin Case [Read Order]

As reported earlier, the Bombay High Court has quashed and set aside the media gag order by special CBI judge SJ Sharma dated November 29 and held that subordinate courts did not have such inherent powers to pass such an order.In the 39-page judgment published yesterday on the high court website, Justice Revati Mohite Dere held that it is only the ‘courts of record’, i.e., the Supreme...

India Needs To Free Up Judicial Time, Address Delays To Make Doing Business Here Easy [Read Report]

Economic Survey finds injunctions, stays, SLPs, original jurisdictions, lack of modernization burdening courtsIndia needs to address pendency, delays and injunctions which are overburdening courts and severely impacting the progress of cases, especially economic cases, through the different tiers of the appellate and judicial arenas if it wants to further ease the prospects of doing...