Delhi HC Left Aghast At Detention Of 72-Year Old In Violation Of Mental Health Act [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court recently censured a Magistrate and several mental health professionals for partaking in directing detention of a 72 year old man, Mr. Ram Kumar, by the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) without complying with provisions of the Mental Health Act, 1987.Mr. Kumar has been defending a claim petition before the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal at Rohini...

Pradyuman Thakur Murder Case: SC Dismisses Plea For Cancellation Of Anticipatory Bail Of Ryan International Group CEO, His Parents [Read Order]

The Supreme Court bench of Justice RK Agrawal and Justice AM Sapre on Monday dismissed the petition for the cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to Ryan International Group CEO Ryan Pinto and his parents Augustine and Grace Pinto, the chairman and managing director respectively of the group, in connection with student Pradyuman Thakur’s...

Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer To Receive Pirappancode Memorial Award For "Outstanding Lawyer With Social Commitment" For 2017

Founder of SpicyIP, Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer, has been awarded the Pirappancode Sreedharan Memorial Award for outstanding lawyer with social commitment for the year 2017.Mr. Basheer is also the Managing Trustee of IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education), which has been a pioneer in the struggle for elimination of inequities in education. Since its inception,...

No Ban On Movie "Muzaffarnagar-The Burning Love" In Any UP Districts: State Govt To SC

The Supreme Court today disposed off a plea challenging the ban on screening of movie " Muzaffarnagar  The Burning Love" in 6 districts of UP after the state government denied there was any such ban."The state government counsel says there is no ban. Then what remains? It is an unequivocal statement which we are recording.Now if you face any problem you can come back to us", a bench headed...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court, last week, upheld the acquisition of land by the State for the purpose of building the Delhi Meerut Expressway.The High Court held that the cut-off marks cannot be lowered to merely fill the seats reserved for the special category and once a candidate has submitted himself to a given procedure of selection, he cannot turn back and challenge the...

‘Former Wife’ Not A ‘Relative’ Of Husband And Can’t Be Prosecuted For 498A IPC : Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

The Gujarat High Court has quashed a case against the former wife of a man whose present wife had filed a criminal case under Section 498A IPC arraying her as well, as an accused.The complainant wife had alleged that her husband after getting married to her, went back to his divorced wife. She had arrayed the former wife also as accused in her complaint, along with her husband.Justice...

Kerala HC Quashes Criminal Proceedings Against College Principal, Students For Article Published In Magazine [Read Order]

The attempt is nothing but to shut the mouth of the citizens and this is nothing but an act against the freedom of speech and expression, the court said.The High Court of Kerala has quashed a criminal case against the principal and some students of Sri Vivekananda Arts and Science College for publishing some article in the college magazine allegedly defaming Hindu rituals and the Indian...

Delhi HC Refuses To Salvage LLM Dreams Of Candidate Allegedly Awarded Zero Marks In LLB Subject By Mistake [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Friday, refused to come to the rescue of an LL.M. candidate who had alleged that he could not submit the requisite documents for admission as the University had wrongly awarded him zero marks in one of his LL.B. subjects.The Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva was hearing a Petition filed by one Mr. Ravi Yadav, who had challenged...

If Agreement Has Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause, Courts In The Venue Of Arbitration Also Cannot Be Approached: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Friday, dismissed an Application filed under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, noting that the agreement specifies Courts in Noida to have exclusive jurisdiction."Now simply to allege there being no High Court in NOIDA would not confer the jurisdiction upon the Courts at U.P.; would be stretching the Article 12 (supra) too much. The...

BCI Condemns Justice G.S. Singhvi And Justice A.P. Shah's Comments On Dismissal Of CJAR's Petition

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has condemned the statement issued by former Supreme Court Judge, Justice G.S. Singhvi, and former Law Commission Chairman Justice A.P. Shah on the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Petition filed by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) demanding an independent probe into allegations of corruption in the higher judiciary."Probably they...

Delhi HC Refuses To Waive Costs Imposed On Officer Of Rajya Sabha Secretariat For Filing Frivolous Appeals [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court has refused to waive the costs of Rs. 50,000 which it had imposed on the officer of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat for wasting "judicial time of three courts" by filing frivolous appeals.The Secretariat had to face the Court's ire in August this year for harassing an ex-employee for a paltry sum of Rs. 39,000 by pursuing litigation against him for over a decade.Justice...

NLU-D Centre On Death Penalty Releases ‘Matters Of Judgment’ Report On Award Of Capital Punishment [Read Report]

The National Law University of Delhi (NLU-D) on Friday hosted an event at India International Centre, New Delhi, to celebrate the release of the research compilation of the Centre on Death Penalty -‘Matters of Judgement’, an opinion study on the death penalty and the criminal justice system with 60 former judges of the Supreme Court. The occasion saw in attendance Delhi High Court...