Shut Down Terrace Restaurants In Khan Market And Connaught Place: PIL In Delhi HC, Notice Issued [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, issued notice to the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) on a PIL seeking closure of restaurants on terraces in Khan Market and Connaught Place on grounds of safety.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar was hearing a Petition filed by one Manjit Singh, challenging Clause 3.1.5 of the National Building Code,...

2G Scam Case: Special CBI Court Acquits All 19 Accused In Money Laundering Case Also [Read Judgment]

In a major setback to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a Special CBI Court, on Thursday, acquitted all accused, including former Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi, from charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, arising out of the Rs. 1.76 lakh crore 2G scam case.Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the Court also...

CLAT 2018 To Be Held On 13 May

Next edition of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be held on 13 May, 2018, from 3 to 5 pm. The online applications for the exam will begin from 1 January and the last date for application is 31 March.The 2018 exam will be organized by National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) Kochi, for admission to five-year LL.B (undergraduate) and LL.M (postgraduate) courses at eighteen National Law Universities.Interestingly, this year's notification does not prescribe an age limit for...

As Minor Rape Victim Changes Her Mind On Abortion, Delhi HC Says It Wants To Be Sure Of What She Wants

The Delhi High Court has said it wanted to be sure of whether a minor rape victim, who had earlier sought permission to abort terminate her 20-week pregnancy, wanted to go-ahead with the decision before constituting any medical board to assess her fitness to undergo abortion.A bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice IS Mehta said so while hearing the petition of a 15-year-old, referred to as...

Ryan International School Case: Juvenile Justice Board Directs 16Yr Old Accused To Be Tried As An Adult

The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), on Wednesday, ruled that the 16-year old teenager accused of killing seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur at Ryan International School will be tried as an adult.Delivering the verdict, Principal Magistrate Davender Singh reportedly opined that the offence was "heinous" and that circumstances showed that the teenager was “mature enough” to understand...

Rajasthan HC Grants Parole To Terror Convict For Attending Son’s Wedding [Read Order]

The Rajasthan High Court has granted a week’s parole to one Fazlur Rehman Sufi, who was convicted under the TADA Act, 1987; Explosives Act 1884; Arms Act, 1908; Indian Railways Act; and Prevention of Damages to Public Property Act for his involvement in the serial train blasts in 1993.Fazlur was sentenced to life imprisonment along with 14 others in the case by the trial court in Ajmer....

Member Of Panchayat Can’t Claim Immunity From Disqualification While Insisting To Encroach Upon Govt Land: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that no member of a village panchayat can insist upon encroaching on government land and have immunity from disqualification under the Maharashtra Village Panchayat Act, 1958.Justice MS Sonak set aside an order of the Additional Commissioner, Pune Division, and allowed the writ petition.Case BackgroundThe writ petition was filed by one Satish Deshmukh who...

U'khand HC Declares National Parks Plastic-Free, Orders Tracing Of Missing Bodies; Recommends Insurance Cover For Pilgrims [Read Order]

Four years after the Kedarnath tragedy, the Uttarakhand High Court has declared all national parks, including tiger reserve, elephant reserve, Jim Corbett and Rajaji National Park, plastic free zones while banning dumping  of garbage around rivers and its tributaries and recommending the state government to provide insurance cover to all pilgrims visiting the Char Dhams at a...

Life Term For Suhaib Ilyasi Of ‘India’s Most Wanted’ Fame For Wife’s Murder

A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life term to Suhaib Ilyasi, who was held guilty last week of murdering his wife 17 years ago, besides imposing a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the former TV producer who once shot to fame with his show ‘India’s Most Wanted’.Additional sessions judge S K Malhotra has sentenced Suhaib to life imprisonment.He was also directed to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to...

Wife Working Against Husband’s Wishes Is Not ‘Cruelty’: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a wife working against the wishes of husband or his family is not a ‘cruelty’ to grant divorce to husband.The family court had granted divorce to husband on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. One of the grounds urged by the husband for seeking divorce was that wife is in employment against his wishes.A bench of Justice Shabihul Hasnain and...

Weeding Out Fake Lawyers: Madras HC Issues Circular; No Court/ Tribunal To Accept Vakalat Without Advocate’s Complete Details [Read Circular]

The Madras High Court has issued a circular directing heads of all sections of the Registry to not accept any vakalatnama sans the enrolment ID, mobile phone number and complete residential address of the counsel as well as the advocate who has attested the vakalat.The circular issued by the Registrar General of the high court said, "All the heads of the sections of this registry, both in...

Reformative Ideas Are Totally Ineffective Nowadays: MP HC Upholds Death Sentence In Triple Murder Case [Read Judgment]

The accused may not be a hardened criminal, but he committed brutal murder of three persons by cutting their neck and causing several fatal injuries together in a preplanned manner, who were unarmed and sleeping, the court observed.The Madhya Pradesh High Court confirmed death sentence awarded to a man convicted of murdering his two brothers and a nephew by observing that reformative ideas...