SC Notice On Plea By Discharged 2013 IPL Spot Fixing Case ‘Bookie’ Seeking Exchange of Seized Old Notes

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the RBI and Ministry of Finance on a petition filed by Abhishek Shukla, discharged by the trial court in 2013 IPL spot-fixing case in July 2015, seeking request to accept demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 currency notes valuing Rs. 5 lakh, which was seized by the special cell of Delhi Police during probe of the case.The stand of the RBI and...

Bombay HC Upholds CIC Order Directing UoI To Furnish BARC Employee’s Annual Appraisal Report

The Union of India has approached the Bombay High Court invoking its writ jurisdiction against an order by the Central Information Commission (CIC), wherein the UoI was directed to furnish complete annual appraisal reports (APAR) of an employee at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for the period of 2008-2014.The said employee is a scientific officer, Design & Projects Division,...

Inform If You Will Implement Water Harvesting Plan, SC To States

The Supreme Court today emphasized on the need to implement the Centre’s master plan for artificial recharge of ground water.Chief Justice J S Khehar –led bench asked all state governments to inform by tomorrow if they planned to implement it.“Several states like Assam, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana have not yet filed affidavits in this regard”, said the bench.“The...

Initiate Process to Fill Up Vacancies In ITAT:SC To Centre [Read Order]

“The process of appointment has been obfuscated and mere lip service has been paid to the matter”, Senior Advocate Meenakshi Arora who appears in the matterThe Centre has been given three weeks time by the Supreme Court to initiate process of filling up vacancies of presidents, vice presidents and members in different benches of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunals (ITAT) across the...

Rajasthan HC Envisions For Subordinate Courts To Disposal Of 10 Year Old Cases By Year End [Read the Circular]

The Rajasthan High Court has envisioned for its Subordinate Courts to dispose of by year end, cases that have been pending for more than 10 years. It also aims for the lower Courts to dispose of by September, 2018, cases that have been pending for more than 5 years.Subordinate Courts have, further, been directed to prepare a list of cases that have been pending for more than five years, and...

Appointments: Nine Additional Judges For Allahabad HC, Six For Punjab And Haryana HC [Read Notifications]

President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday approved the appointment of six Additional Judges to Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Judges appointed are Arvind Singh Sangwan, Rajbir Sehrawat, Anil Kshetarpal, Avneesh Jhingan, Mahabir Singh Sindhu, and Sudhir Mittal. The appointments have been made for a period of two years.Another notification confirmed appointment of nine Judges as Additional...

Bring In Policy For Pre-Primary Education In Maharashtra Before Year-End: Bombay HC Tells State Govt [Read Judgment]

Expressing displeasure over the lack of procedure or policy with regard to pre-primary education in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court has directed the state government to bring in a policy that is in consonance with Section 11 of the Right to Education Act, 2009.Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice RM Borde were hearing a PIL filed by one Dr. Jagannath Patil highlighting...

Senior Advocate HS Phoolka Can't Represent '1984 Riot Victims' : Delhi Bar Council

No scope for Phoolka representing ’84 riot victims pro bono, should have surrendered his licence like Jaitley, Prasad, says Delhi Bar Council.The Bar Council of Delhi said Thursday that Aam Aadmi Party leader and Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Senior Advocate Advocate HS Phoolka cannot be allowed to represent the victims in the 1984-anti-Sikh riots cases pro bono and should...

HC Has The Power To Notify The Cadre Strength Of District Judges: Kerala HC DB Overturns SB Judgment

By setting aside a judgment of the learned Single Judge, a Division Bench of Kerala High Court has held that it was within the powers of the High Court to notify the cadre strength of District Judges. The Division Bench further held that there was  no illegality in including temporary posts in the cadre strength.The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Navniti Prasad Singh and Justice...

Delhi HC Dismisses Petition For An Independent Probe In alleged ‘Cash for Contract’ Scam in Assam Rifles [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a Petition demanding an independent probe into the allegations of corruption (‘Cash for Contract’) in the awarding of civil contracts by Assam Rifles.The inquiry into the allegations was initiated by the force in September, 2014, after a sting operation by the magazine Tehelka had claimed that the Director General, the Additional Director General...

Posting Same “Naib Courts” In One Court Not Conducive For Credibility Of Justice Delivery System: HC To Top Cop

The Delhi High Court has sent out a communication to the Delhi police commissioner asking him not to post same naib court in  a court or with a judicial officer for long duration for it reflects poorly on the credibility of the justice delivery system.In a letter through Registrar General Dinesh Kumar Sharma Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal has asked Amulya Patnaik to ensure that a naib court...

Delhi HC Directs 5 Lakh Damages To Yahoo Inc. For Trademark Infringement [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed payment of Rs. 5 lakh as damages to US-based Yahoo Inc. for trademark infringement by a website called ‘yahookochi’. The Court restrained the website from using its trademark or any other deceptively similar mark.“There is also no plausible explanation for the adoption of the identical mark as part of trading name and domain name of the...