Plea For Law On Genocide: Delhi HC Directs Centre To Consider Petition As Representation [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, disposed of a Petition demanding a deterrent legislation for the offence of genocide, directing the Centre to consider the Petition as a representation.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar noted that the Petitioner, one Manjit Singh Butalia, had approached the Court without making any representation to the Centre....

Kerala HC Dismisses Plea Against Kerala Ministers Who Boycotted Cabinet Meeting

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HC Dismisses Plea Against Kerala Ministers Who Boycotted Cabinet Meeting [Read Judgment]

The Kerala High Court has dismissed a plea questioning the authority of some Kerala ministers to continue as ministers, for their abstinence from cabinet meeting convened by the Chief Minister.Alappey Asharaf had filed a writ petition seeking a Writ of Quo Warranto against Kerala Ministers viz. E Chandrasegharan, Minister For Revenue; K Raju, Minister For Forest; P Thilothaman, Minister For...

Justice Vijaya Tahilramani To Be Acting CJ Of Bombay HC Again

Justice Vijaya Tahilramani will once again take over as the Acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court as CJ Manjula Chellur retires on December 5.Justice Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani has been appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court with effect from December 5.She was appointed as Acting Chief Justice for the first time after Chief Justice Mohit Shah retired in 2015,...

In A First, A Former Assistant Makes His Way To Judgeship In Kerala High Court

He was appointed as High Court Assistant in the year 1981.In probably the first time in the history of the court, a former assistant of Kerala High Court has made his way to High Court judgeship.Justice R Narayana Pisharadi was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Kerala High Court through a notification dated November 28. He was sworn in as a judge on November 30.“Way back in the year...

In A First, A Former Assistant Makes His Way To High Court Judgeship In Kerala HC

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13-Year-Old Rape Victim Seeks Permission From Bombay HC To Terminate Pregnancy

A 13-year-old girl rape survivor has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking permission to terminate her pregnancy.The matter came up with the bench of Justice SS Kemkar and Justice GS Kulkarni who directed the medical board comprising of experts at KEM hospital to examine her condition and submit a report on whether the termination would be safe.According to the petition filed by...

Delhi Soccer Association Declared As A Public Authority Under The RTI Act [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) is a public authority under the Right to Information Act."The Commission has no hesitation to declare unequivocally, that being under the control of Government of India, AIFF and with grant of monopoly, that is totally established over the sport of Football within territory of NCR of Delhi, the Delhi...

J&K HC Orders Release Of Detained ‘Notorious Stone Pelter’ [Read Order]

To classify the detenu as a ‘ notorious stone pelter ’ cannot be sufficient to invoke the statutory powers of preventive detention.Ordering release of a man detained for being a ‘notorious stone pelter’, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court observed that prevention detention laws cannot be made a substitute for the ordinary law and absolve the investigating authorities of their...

CJI Misra’s 148-Word Long Sentence In Padmavati Order

In a 2015 judgment, Justice Misra had written a 192-word sentence.Chief Justice Dipak Misra has done it again.The judge known to quote extempore from Shakespeare peppering his orders/judgments with words from ancient texts/literature and famous for his word play has written a 148 word long sentence in an order he pronounced three days ago.In a 2015 judgment, Justice Misra had written a...

Exclusive: CJI As Master Of The Roster Strikes Again As A 32-year Old Partition Suit Referred To Mediation By Court No.2 Is Shifted To Court No.8

The Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, has exercised his prerogative as the Master of the Roster, by deleting a matter heard at Court No.2 on October 30 and shifting it to Court No.8 on Friday.Justices J.Chelameswar and S.Abdul Nazeer, on October 30, heard a partition matter, Shiv Dutt Salwan and Ramesh Dutt Salwan (since deceased) through LR & Others. Senior counsel, Gopal...

Former Law Secretary Snehlata Shrivastava Becomes First Woman Secretary General Of Lok Sabha

Former Law Secretary, Ms. Snehlata Shrivastava has become the first woman ever to be appointed as the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha.Ms. Shrivastava is a retired IAS Officer from the 1982-batch Madhya Pradesh cadre and will succeed incumbent Anoop Mishra, who will relinquish the post on 30 November. She will hold office until 30 November, 2018.Besides having been appointed as...