SC To Take Up 25 Miscellaneous Matters Every Tuesday [Read Notice]

The Supreme Court has decided to take up 25 Miscellaneous matters, along with 5 regular hearing matters on Tuesdays.As per a notice, this would begin from 7 November.Those matters which are not taken up, will be repeated the next week on Tuesday.Further, in case any Tuesday happens to be a holiday or a miscellaneous day on account of a holiday on Monday, the not taken up matters will be...

Delhi Court Clears Name Of DG Home Guards 17 Yrs After Being Accused Of Corruption [Read Judgment]

Seventeen years after being accused of corruption, senior IPS Officer and Director General of Home Guards Jatinder Kumar Sharma has been given a clean chit by a Delhi court, which found no substance in the CBI's version that the officer held assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.Special CBI judge Sarita Birbal acquitted Sharma, a 1982 batch IPS officer, who was...

Govt Can’t Take Advantage Of Its Failure In Making Appointments To Deny Child Care Leave: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Judgment]

In Dr Kanchan Bala vs State of Haryana, a single bench of the Punjab and Haryana Court has allowed the petitioner to be granted child care leave despite the plea of the government that there were insufficient number of medical specialists available in the hospital, with only one other medical specialist available other than the petitioner.  In the instant case, the petitioner, a...

Delhi HC Constitutes High Level Committee To Suggest Measures For Enhancing Security In Prisons [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, directed the creation of a High Level Committee to suggest measures for enhancing security of jail complexes.The Bench comprising Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice I.S. Mehta directed the Secretary of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to constitute the Committee within 10 days. The Committee would comprise of a retired District Judge who has served in Delhi...

Madras HC Examines Impact Of Capital Sentence On Children Of Convicts And Victim [Read Judgment]

The court must also ensure that these three children of the convicts, when they grow up and enter into the society, do not have any anger or any reason to wreak vengeance in any manner whatsoever...All they (children of convict) would know is that the Government or the judiciary, through the Government, was responsible for the death of their fathers. Leaving out to society, these three...

Veere Di Wedding Vs Veere Ki Wedding: SC To Hear Anil Kapoor’s Transfer Petition, Stays Suit Proceedings In Haryana Court

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed proceedings in Make My Day Entertainment vs Anil Kapoor Film Co Pvt Ltd and Others, which was pending before a civil judge (senior division), Rohtak.Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justice AM Khanwilkar heard the transfer petition on Friday, filed by Anil Kapoor Film Company after Justice DY Chandrachud, who was the third member of the full bench,...

Justice Antony Dominic Appointed As Acting Chief Justice Of Kerala HC [Read Notification]

President of India has appointed Justice Antony Dominic, senior-most Judge of Kerala High Court, as the Acting Chief Justice of Kerala High Court with effect from 6th  November, 2017 consequent upon the retirement of present Chief Justice Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh.Justice Dominic started his practice in Munsiff’s Court and JFCM, Kanjirappally in the year 1981. He then shifted practice...

Retd HC Judge, Advocates Move PIL For Filing Up Of Vacancies In Karnataka HC [Read Petition]

A retired Karnataka High Court judge along with two advocates have moved a public interest litigation seeking expeditious filling up of 34 vacancies in the state high court, which has a total strength of 62, in the interest of justice.The PIL has been filed by Justice AN Venugopala Gowda (Retd.) and advocates S Basavaraj and BM Arun, as the huge manpower shortage stares the justice...

Cancel Allotments To Unutilized Chambers At Dwarka Court Complex: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, directed the authorities to cancel the allotment of Chambers that have been left unutilized in District Courts at Dwarka.The Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar directed, "So far as unutilized chambers are concerned, steps shall be taken for cancellation of the unutilized chambers after issuance of notice to show cause...

Delhi HC, DSLSA Holds Trainers’ Training on ‘Child Abuse & Violence – Interpersonal & Digital World’

Under the executive chairpersonship of Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi, and the aegis of the Delhi State Legal Services Authority, Shreya Arora Mehta, judge, Delhi Judicial Service/ Secretary South District Legal Services Authority, has drafted a module on “Child Abuse and Violence- Interpersonal and Digital World” (age group 14 to 18 years).On Thursday, a training...

'Can A Person Convert To Another Religion Without Any Rule Or Procedure?' Rajasthan HC To Examine Converted Woman's Interfaith Marriage [Read Orders]

The Rajasthan High Court, on Wednesday, questioned the conversion of a 22-year old woman to Islam as well as her interfaith marriage, before sending her to government-run Nari Niketan women's home in Jodhpur.The woman, Payal Singhvi alias Arifa, had converted to Islam and had married one Mr. Faiz Modi in April this year. Her brother, Mr. Chirag Singhvi, however alleges that the conversion...

Right To Property Is A Human Right As Well: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Order]

The Chhattisgarh High Court, in Narayan Prasad vs State of Chhattisgarh, has held that right to property is not only constitutional right, but also human right and it can be deprived of only by the authority of law.In this case, owners of the land had approached the Arpa Special Area Development Tribunal seeking No Objection Certificate for sale of their lands to one person, which was rejected...