Delhi HC Comes To The Aid Of 11Yr Old Ailing Daughter Of A Daily Wage Labourer [Read Order]

Coming to the aid of an 11-year-old in need of a life-saving surgery, the Delhi High Court has directed Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital to immediately admit and provide necessary treatment to the daughter of a daily wage labourer whose health is deteriorating due to a structural heart defect.The girl needed immediate surgery, but her father could not arrange the money.Justice Vibhu Bakhru...

Junaid Khan Lynching Case: Trial Court Says Haryana AAG Helping The Accused; Directs Action For Professional Misconduct [Read Order]

Additional Sessions Judge Y.S. Rathore has accused Additional Advocate General for State, Mr. Naveen Kaushik, of assisting the defence counsel appearing for the accused persons charged with brutally lynching 16-year-old boy, Junaid Khan, in June this year.According to an interim order, it came to the notice of the Court that Mr. Kaushik was helping the defence counsel during the cross...

Kerala HC Denies Anticipatory Bail To Criminal Lawyer Adv. CP Udayabhanu In Rajeev Murder Case [Read Order]

The High Court of Kerala dismissed the application seeking pre-arrest bail filed by Advocate C.P Udayabhanu, who stands accused of hatching the conspiracy to murder a real estate broker Rajeev.  The order was pronounced today by Justice Hariprasad, after Justice P.Ubaid recused from hearing the bail plea.Adv.Udayabhanu was appointed as special public prosecutor in the sensational...

Kerala Nurses’ Assn Moves SC, Says Pvt Hospitals Trying To Wriggle Out Of Implementing Revised Salaries [Read Application]

Amid growing resentment in nurses’ associations over meagre salaries, the Kerala State United Nurses’ Association on Monday moved an application before the Supreme Court for impleadment in the matter concerning revision of salaries of nurses in private hospitals in Kerala.The impleadment application comes close to the stay granted by the apex court on Friday on implementation...

Defamation Case By Arun Jaitley: Delhi HC Refuses To Quash Summons Against AAP's Deepak Bajpai [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, refused to set aside the summons issued against AAP leader Deepak Bajpai in the criminal defamation case filed against him by Union minister Arun Jaitley.Mr. Jaitley had filed the complaint against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for allegedly making defamatory allegations against him regarding his tenure as the Chief of the Delhi...

Delhi HC Raps MCI's Ethics Committee For Debarring Cardiology Professor Without Proper Probe [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Friday, rapped the Ethics Committee of the Medical Council of India (MCI) for debarring a Professor of Cardiology without proper inquiry into the allegations against him.The Court was hearing an Appeal filed by the MCI, challenging an order passed by a Single Judge, wherein the order of debarment against one Dr. Anil Grover had been set aside.Dr. Grover was debarred...

State Police Can Probe Corruption Cases Against Central Govt Employees Posted In The State: MP HC [Read Order]

A larger bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court headed by Chief Justice Hemant Gupta has held the State police or special police establishment (SPE) have powers to probe offences of bribery and corruption against the Union Government employees posted in Madhya Pradesh.Three criminal revisions were referred to the larger bench for opinion on a common question – whether in view of Section 3 of...

Kashmir Gets It’s First Rhodes Scholar Sameer Bhat; Also Awarded To Rahul Bajaj Who Was Born Blind

Nagpur University graduate Rahul Bajaj and GNLU Gandhingar's Sameer Rashid Bhat have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, enabling them to pursue a postgraduate course in Law for a year at Oxford University.Rahul, who was born blind due to a “rare retinal condition called Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis”, is currently working as an Associate at Trilegal. He graduated from...

'Vande Mataram’ Inseparably Linked With Freedom Struggle, Protection Under Law Not The Only Way To Show Respect: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Aartis, works of Kalidas also revered but need no protection of law, says Centre‘Evocative’ national song 'Vande Mataram' is inseparably linked with India's freedom struggle but does not call for amendment in law to ensure that it is granted the respect and dignity it deserves, the Delhi High Court has held while agreeing with the government that protection under law is not the only way...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging recovery proceedings initiated against a borrower firm, which challenged recovery proceedings on the ground that due to demonetisation and imposition of GST, it suffered loss in business and could not pay loan installments to the bank. Bombay High CourtUpholding the decision of the Supreme Court in Valsamma...

Can't Disbelieve Rape Survivor's Testimony Just Because She Couldn't Offer Physical Resistance: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, reiterated the position that a rape survivor's testimony cannot be disbelieved merely for the reason of absence of injuries on her body."Therefore, mere absence of injuries either as a mark of resistance to the advances allegedly made by the appellants or as internal injuries, would not by itself discard the testimony of prosecutrix," Justice Sangita...

After Taking On Unwarranted Excesses In Legal Education, Justice Kirubakaran Of Madras HC Now Picks On Mushrooming Of Engg Colleges [Read Order]

After taking on the excesses in legal education, Justice N Kirubarakan of Madras High Court has taken suo motu note of increasing number of engineering colleges across the country and rising unemployment among engineering graduates with searching queries on scheme to employ them and if it is true that most of them lack employability skills.Justice Kirubakaran asked the Centre if there is...