Gujarat HC Directs Payment Of Rs 50k As Compensation To Murder Convict For Extra Months In Jail [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court, on Tuesday, directed the State Government to pay a compensation of Rs. 50,000 to a murder convict who was not released from prison, despite his case being eligible for remission of sentence.“The lethargy shown by the State and its Officer has kept a person behind the bars for a period of around six months. These six months of illegal incarceration of the petitioner...

Online Medicines’ Sale: Union Health Ministry Plans National E-portal, Submits Before Bombay High Court

In a matter regarding sale of different types of medicines online in an unregulated manner, the Assistant Commissioner of Food and Drugs Administration has filed an affidavit before the bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice NM Jamdar.According to a PIL filed by one Mayuri Patil, a professor, several schedule ‘H’ drugs as well as drugs which are not approved by the Food and...

Bombay HC Issues Notice To UoI In PIL Challenging Constitutional Validity Of Finance Act, New Tribunal Rules

In a PIL filed by Tax Friends association challenging the constitutional validity of Sections 156 to 189 of the Finance Act, 2017, the Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notice to the Union of India seeking a reply.A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur directed the Union of India to file its reply in eight weeks, and the petitioners to file the rejoinder two weeks thereafter.It...

Encroachment Over Tactile Paths: Delhi HC Notice To Centre, Local Agencies, Others [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government on a public interest litigation highlighting the difficulties faced by visually challenged students due to lack of tactile paths in most public places or encroachments over it, wherever such paths have been laid down.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal also issued notices to the Delhi Police, DTC,...

No Relief For Villagers Demanding Land On Lease From MP HC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has rejected the plea of some villagers of Chakaldi in Sehore district seeking direction to the state government not to demolish their houses and allocate the land on lease on which the houses are constructed.The petitioners stated that the lease may be granted in view of the policy announced by the Chief Minister on allocation of patta (a small piece of land) to...

Sunanda Pushkar Murder: Delhi HC Tells Delhi Police To Submit Status Report In 3 Days

The Delhi  High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Police to submit within three days its status report about its probe into the murder of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a five-star hotel suite in Delhi on January 17, 2014.The court also directed the Delhi Police to give an advance copy of the status...

Assembly Ruckus: Madan On Hunger Strike Inside Tihar

Rajan Kumar Madan, who along with Jagdeep Rana has been in Tihar Jail after being jailed by the Delhi Assembly Speaker for Assembly ruckus, has gone on a hunger strike inside the Central Jail.Madan has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday 4 pm.Madan's advocate Vibhor Anand, who visited him in Tihar Jail told LiveLaw that Madan has been on hunger strike without water."I met him today...

In Case Of Mohammedans, Caste Claim Can’t Be Decided On Surname Basis: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

Quashing and setting aside an order passed by the Caste Scrutiny Committee, which invalidated the caste claim of the petitioner, the Bombay High Court has said such claim cannot be decided on the basis of his surname.A division bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice Vibha Kankanwadi allowed the writ petition and ordered the Caste Committee to call for a fresh report under Rule 13 and clause (d)...

KHCAA To Observe ‘Lawyers’ Unity Day’ On Thursday

The Kerala High Court Advocate Association (KHCAA) has called upon its member lawyers to observe July 20 (Thursday) as ‘Lawyers’ Unity Day’.The president of the association, in his letter, said it is in remembrance of the “atrocities perpetrated on lawyers and their defiance against brutalities”.“It marks the day when the self-proclaimed apostles of constitutional freedom...

Delhi HC Dismisses Plea Filed 898 Days After Lower Court’s Decree In Cheque Dishonour Case [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by a woman against a lower court’s’ decree in a suit for dishonour of cheque of Rs. 3.96 lakh passed almost three years ago.She urged the court to condone the delay saying she did not contact her advocate all this while, after the latter assured her of the best services.The high court, however, found it tough to believe that a client would...

Are Pulses Food Grains? Delhi HC To The Rescue [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday examined whether pulses fall within the scope of the term ‘grains’ for the purpose of exemption from levy of Environment Compensation Charge (ECC).Answering the question in the positive, Justice Vibhu Bakhru ruled, “...there is no reason to limit the scope of the word “grains” to exclude any essential commodity falling within that classification. The...

Delhi HC Turns Down Plea For Video Recording Of Proceedings, Advises Advocate To Be More “Temperate And Civilised” [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reprimanded Advocate Deepak Khosla, advising him to be “more temperate and civilized in his communications, oral as well as written”, while refusing to allow his application for video recording of Court proceedings.The Application under consideration had, alternatively, demanded that the proceedings at least be audio recorded or transcribed by multiple...