Served Rotten, Infested Potatoes, Jawan Moves Delhi HC

Another army jawan has moved the Delhi High Court alleging poor quality food being served to them with potatoes infested with insects.Posted in Panbari, Assam, the jawan is currently in Delhi on leave.He alleged that authorities started harassing him after he complained on a WhatsApp group that the troopers were being served with poor quality food.He told the court that the WhatsApp group...

Delhi HC Relief For Sunil Shetty, Complaint By Stuntman Quashed [Read Judgment]

Bollywood actor and action star Sunil  Shetty got a major relief from the Delhi High Court which quashed a criminal complaint filed against him by a stuntman alleging criminal conspiracy and criminal intimidation.Justice Mukta Gupta quashed the complaint case filed by Puran Chauhan against Shetty, his company Popcorn Entertainment Pvt Ltd and three others for criminal conspiracy and...

Senior Advocate HS Phoolka Chooses 1984 Riot Victims Over ‘Office Of Profit’

Eminent lawyer and AAP leader HS Phoolka has decided to give up his post as the Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly after the Delhi Bar Council barred him from practicing while holding the cabinet-rank post and enjoying office of profit.Having fought court battles for over 30 years for the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases without charging any fees, Phoolka had tweeted that he would...

Delhi HC Appoints Local Commissioner As Slum Dwellers Fear Homelessness

The Delhi High Court has appointed a local commissioner to visit those residents of Rajeev Camp at Mandawali in east Delhi who feared forcible eviction by the Delhi government for expansion of NH 24.A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal appointed a local commissioner to scutinize the claim of the slum dwellers who alleged that they were wrongly declared ineligible for...

Jharkhand HC Recalls Former CJ P.K. Mohanty’s Order Directing Audit Of NUSRL, Ranchi [Read Order And Judgment]

A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court recently recalled an order passed by former Chief Justice P.K. Mohanty, wherein the Bench had directed an audit of National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), Ranchi and other institutions.Justice Mohanty had, last month, allowed a Petition alleging mismanagement and misutilisation of funds by Jharkhand State Legal Services...

Amit Shah’s Public Meeting At Goa Airport: Bombay HC Issues Notices To Civil Aviation Ministry, Goa Chief Secretary

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has issued notices to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Chief Secretary of Goa and other respondent authorities in a petition that questions the legality of a public meeting that took place at Goa’s Dabolim Airport upon BJP president Amit Shah’s arrival.The bench of Justice FM Reis and Justice Nutan Sardessai issued notice to all respondents seeking...

Bombay HC Dismisses Appeal By Man For Divorce On Grounds Of Cruelty, Wife’s ‘Mental Disorder’ [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has dismissed an appeal by a man who challenged a judgment by the family court of Bandra, wherein his petition for divorce was rejected.A bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was hearing the appeal wherein the grounds for seeking divorce were cruelty and that the respondent wife has been “suffering intermittently from mental disorder” and,...

Victims Of Acid Attacks Before Cr.P.C. Amendment Entitled To Compensation: Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

Calcutta High Court on Friday ruled that victims of acid attacks prior to 31 December, 2009, i.e. the insertion of Section 357A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 would be entitled to compensation.“Section 357A is a beneficial piece of legislation introduced for the benefit of the victims of a crime. It does not prescribe a time limit. It does not say that, a crime occurring prior to...

Remedy Under SARFAESI Act Subject To Provisions Of Limitation Act: Calcutta HC [Read Judgment]

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ruled that any remedy under Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) would be subject to the provisions of Limitation Act, 1963.“The Act of 2002 gives an independent right to a secured creditor to proceed against its financial assets and in respect of which such asset the...

Imprisonment For Throwing Pamphlets In Delhi Assembly: Petition In Delhi HC To Quash Speaker’s Order [Read Petition]

A Petition has been filed before the Delhi High Court, challenging the Delhi Assembly Speaker’s order of imprisonment handed down to two men who had thrown pamphlets in the Assembly last week.The Assembly had witnessed high-pitch drama after two visitors had hurled pamphlets and raised slogans demanding resignation of Health Minister Mr. Satyendar Jain. AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj had then...

Long Queue In Front Of Liquor Shops, An Affront To Citizenry And Loss Of Self Respect, Avoid It: Kerala HC Tells Excise Dept [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Kerala through Justice Devan Ramachandran, in a recent judgment, has directed the state Excise department to take proactive steps to avoid long queue formations in front of liquor shops all across the state.The court observed that such longer queues extending even to public roads amounted to public nuisance and caused severe hardships to the general public.Terming such...

PIL Questions Legality Of Amit Shah’s ‘Public Meeting’ At Goa Airport [Read Petition]

A PIL has been filed by advocate Aires Rodrigues before the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court questioning the legality of the public meeting that took place at Goa’s Dabolim Airport when BJP president Amit Shah arrived there on July 1.The PIL stated that “for the first time ever in the history of our country”, a public meeting was organised by a political party on July 1, 2017, within...