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...

In A First, A Transgender And Acid Attack Victim Assist In National Lok Adalat

In yet another first-of-its-kind initiative by Delhi High Court Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, a transgender and a victim of acid attack sat as associate members on the National Lok Adalat conducted on Friday by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority.The Lok Adalats were organised in all 11 districts in all the court complexes and were presided over by the judges/ retired judges of...

Madras HC Puts Interim Stay On NCLT Order Telling Advocates To Wear Gowns Before NCLT Benches [Read Order]

The Madras High Court has stayed for now the operation of the order issued by the Registrar of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) which made it mandatory for advocates to wear gowns while appearing before any bench of NCLT.A bench of Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice K Ravichandrabaabu placed the November 14 order issued by NCLT Registrar under interim stay while holding that the...

Delhi HC For Expeditious Disposal Of Pleas Of Patients Of Rare Diseases For Free Treatment

The Delhi High Court has directed the AAP government to expeditiously process applications of patients suffering from rare genetic disorder called Gaucher (LSD) for free Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT) under the National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases (2017), while taking note to Centre’s submission that it has asked the National Health Mission to earmark Rs 100 crore towards...

Police Machinery Can’t Be Utilised To Hold Husband At Ransom: Gujarat HC [Read Order]

Every matrimonial conduct, which may cause annoyance to the other, may not amount to cruelty, the court observed.The police machinery cannot be utilized for the purpose of holding the husband at ransom so that he could be squeezed by the wife at the instigation of her parents or relatives or friends, observed the High Court of Gujarat while quashing a case against the husband filed by...

Law Commission Refutes News Reports Claiming LCI Chairman Doesn't Consider Uniform Civil Code Possible [Read Press Release]

In a press statement issued on Thursday, the Law Commission of India (LCI) has refuted news reports which quote its Chairman Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan as saying that the "UCC is not possible and not even an option". Recently, News18 had quoted Mr. Chauhan as saying, "UCC is not possible. We will try to recommend religion-wise amendments in family laws. It would be the piecemeal way to...

Bombay HC Quashes FIR Against B’desh Citizen Booked Under Arms Act As He Was Not In Conscious Possession [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a citizen of Bangladesh booked under sections 3 and 25 of the Arms Act.After hearing the writ petition filed by the accused, MA Latif Shahrear Zahedee, the bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi held that the accused was not in conscious possession of the live cartridges that were recovered from his luggage at...

Cut-Off Marks Can't Be Lowered For Reserved Category Merely To Fill Vacant Seats: Allahabad HC [Read Order]

Can cut-off marks be lowered to fill the quota of seats reserved for Special category candidates in the absence of required number of candidates qualifying the written examination? The Allahabad High Court has answered the question in the negative.Justice Siddharth held that the cut-off marks cannot be lowered to merely fill the seats reserved for the special category and once a candidate...

Exemption From Tax To Encourage Industrialization Cannot Be Equated With Refund Of Tax: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Refusing to allow refund of tax which was paid despite there being an exemption sanctioned for the payee, the Delhi High Court, on Thursday, observed that such exemption to encourage industrialization cannot be equated with refund of tax.The Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice S.P. Garg explained, "Exemption from tax to encourage industrialization cannot be equated with...

Teesta Setalvad Withdraws Her Appeal In SC Challenging The Investigation Into The Complaint Filed By Her Former Employee [Read Order]

Social activist, Teesta Seetalvad’s Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) withdrew its six-year old SLP from the Supreme Court  on Wednesday, December 6, to challenge orders passed by a trial court in Gujarat in December 2010 without hearing her, in connection with a complaint by her former employee, Rais Khan Pathan.The CJP’s special leave petition, filed against the Gujarat High...

Delhi HC Refuses To Accept Abductor's "Settlement" With Abducted Government School Teacher [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Thursday, refused to accept a "settlement" entered between the abductor and the abductee, noting that the offences in the FIR were non-compoundable.The Court was hearing an application filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the accused Mr. Wajid Khan, seeking anticipatory bail in an FIR filed against him under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing...