Delhi HC Conducts Training For Doctors Dealing With Sexual Offence Cases

The High Court of Delhi on Sunday conducted a training programme for doctors dealing with cases of sexual offences as per the Supreme Court norms on the matter.As per a press release, the training programme is being conducted through initiative of the Acting Chief Justice Ms. Gita Mittal, who is the Chairperson of the “Committee to monitor proper implementation of several guidelines laid...

Madhya Pradesh HC Orders CBI Probe Into Theft Of Machine From RRCAT, Indore [Read Order]

The High Court of Madhya Pradesh on Friday directed a CBI investigation into theft of a machine from the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India at Indore.“In view of the correspondence entered into between the concerned Authorities and the affidavit sworn in by Shri Gopalkrishnan Venkatesan, Administrative Officer-III, RRCAT, gravity...

Bombay HC Grants Relief To Widow Of Man Who Died In Train Mishap 15 Yrs Ago, Sets Aside Rly Tribunal Order [Read Judgment]

The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has allowed an appeal against a railway claims tribunal order which rejected a claim for compensation by the widow of a man who died in train accident 15 years ago.Justice RK Deshpande ordered the Railways to pay Rs. 4 lakh as compensation to Mamtarani Shende along with 6% interest to be computed from the date of application for such compensation.It...

6 New Judges Appointed to Bombay High Court Including AG Rohit Deo

Sixt new judges have been appointed to the Bombay High Court. Current Advocate General of Maharashtra Rohit Deo is one of the appointees.Other names include current public prosecutor Sandeep Shinde, Government Pleader Bharti Dangre, Manish Manish Pitale, Sarang Kotwal and Riyaz Chagla.The High Court has a sanctioned strength of 94 judges, with these appointments the total number of sitting...

Give Admission On Seats Reserved For Domicile Students In Pvt Medical Colleges As Per Norms: MP HC To Medical Education Officials [Read Order]

In an interim direction, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the medical education authorities to ensure filling up of 50% seats reserved in private medical colleges for students’ domicile of Madhya Pradesh as per provisions of MP Autonomous Medical and Dental Post Graduate Colleges Admission Rules 2017.The court served notices on the respondents, including the director of...

Bombay HC Refuses To Grant Stay On Cutting Of Trees For Mumbai Metro [Read Order]

A vacation bench of the Bombay High Court has refused to stay the cutting of trees that is being carried out for Phase III of Mumbai Metro as residents approached court.A bench of Justice PD Naik and Justice MS Karnik refused to allow a notice of motion in a writ petition filed by one Nina Deepak Verma, a city resident who had contended in her petition that Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation...

Remedy Of Winding-Up Petition Can’t Be Relied Upon For Bona Fide Payment Disputes: Karnataka HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court, in the case of M/s Uttam Industrial Engineering Ltd vs M/s Shree Basaveshwar Sugars Ltd, has held that a winding-up petition has serious ramifications on the financial standing of a company and cannot be used in cases where there is a bona fide dispute regarding the amount owed by one party to the other and in such cases the company court should relegate the...

Delhi HC Dismisses Challenge To Designation Of Senior Advocates

The High Court of Delhi recently rejected a challenge to designation of lawyers as Senior Advocates of the High Court, observing that the Petition, filed through Advocate Mathews Nedumpara, was “completely bereft on any factual basis for the prayers made”. The Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, noted that the Petitioner was aware of pendency of...

Trump Issued Immigration Ban In Bad Faith: Appeals Court Upholds Stay

The Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a lower Court ruling against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order banning entry to the US from six majority-Muslim countries. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has, however, vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.“Surely the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment yet stands as an untiring sentinel for...

Income Of Husband Not Sole Criterion To Determine Maintenance Pendente Lite: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, in the case of Deepak Malhotra vs Deepti Malhotra and Ors, has held that the proportion of the husband’s income to be awarded as maintenance pendente lite to the wife is dependent on the surrounding circumstances and cannot be determined by a strict mathematical formula.In this case, the family court had directed the husband to pay Rs. 22,000 every month to his wife as...

Award Of Interest Obligatory Under S.34 Of Land Acquisition Act Can Be Claimed At Any Stage: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held that claimants of compensation under the Land Acquisition Act can claim award of interest at any stage as the payment of the same is obligatory under Section 34.Justice Shalini Phanslakar Joshi dismissed an appeal filed by the State of Maharashtra against an order by the reference court of joint district judge, Nashik, correcting its award dated September 11,...

Over 60 MPs Make Fresh Plea To Impeach Justice Nagarjuna Reddy

A fresh motion seeking impeachment of Justice Nagarjuna Reddy of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has been moved by 60 members of the Rajya Sabha cutting across party lines.This is the second attempt made by the members of the Upper House to remove the Judge, after the first attempt had failed in December last year, upon withdrawal by 19 signatories.According to the...