Bombay HC Allows Habeas Corpus Petition As Detaining Authority Didn’t Draft Grounds For Detention Himself [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently allowed a habeas corpus petition challenging an order dated March 20, 2017, passed by the Commissioner of Police, Solapur, sanctioning preventive arrest of one Taufiq Ismail Shaikh under Section 3(1) of the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Dangerous Persons, Video Pirates, Sand Smugglers and Persons engaged...

GST Council's Notification On 5% GST Toll For Cereals, Pulses Etc

The GST Council, at its 21st meeting held recently in Hyderabad, has recommended that for 5% GST rate on cereals, pulses and flours etc. put in unit container and bearing a registered brand name: A brand registered as on 15.05.2017 shall be deemed to be a registered brand for the purposes of levy of 5% GST, irrespective of whether or not such brand is subsequently deregistered. A brand...

Complaint For Trespass Registered Against CBI Agents Who 'Mistakenly' Raided Sitting Judge’s House

A complaint of trespass has been filed against the Central Bureau of Investigation for raiding the house of Orissa High Court Judge, Justice C.R. Dash instead of retd. Justice I.M. Quddusi against whom the CBI had registered a case.Justice Dash had reportedly complained about the incident to Chief Justice Vineet Saran, after which the officers were summoned to the Court. An F.I.R. has...

JGLS Rape Case: HC Suspends Sentence Of Convicts; Notes Victim’s “Casual Relationships” As “Compelling Reasons” [Read Order]

The  Punjab and Haryana High Court has suspended the sentence awarded to the three law students from Jindal Global Law School who were convicted for blackmailing and gang raping a student of the same University for about two years.The Additional District and Sessions Court had, in March this year, awarded 20 years’ of imprisonment to the main accused, Hardik Sikri and his friend...

Calcutta HC Lifts Bengal Govt’s Restriction On Durga Idol Immersion [Read Order]

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday lifted restriction on Durga idol immersion imposed by the West Bengal government citing threat to law and order situation.The state had announced that the immersion of Durga idols on September 30 will be allowed till 6 pm and there will be total prohibition on the subsequent day i.e., October 1, due to Muharram, in the interest of maintaining law and order...

DUSU Polls & Defaced Delhi: HC Wants Delhi Clean Before Diwali [Read Order]

The new office-bearers of the Delhi University Students’ Union might be thumping their chests with the recent victory, but the Delhi High Court has raised serious doubts over their leadership qualities looking at the defacement caused across Delhi in the name of poll campaigning.On Wednesday, a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal asked DUSU’s newly-elected president...

Reducing Pendency: Delhi HC Tells Judicial Officers To Return Case Records To Trial Courts Concerned [Read Directions]

The Delhi High Court has directed all judicial officers to return record of any case requisitioned by them to the trial court concerned to enable it to proceed with the disposal of the case.In a practice direction issued by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, the judicial officers have been told to return the trial/ lower court record to the trial court concerned if a stay has not been granted...

Bhopal Tragedy: MP HC Stays Criminal Proceedings Against Ex-DGP For Aiding Warren Anderson Flee India [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the proceedings of criminal complaint pending against former Director General of Police Swaraj Puri at a CJM court in Bhopal, accusing him and former district collector of releasing main accused Warren Anderson in Bhopal gas tragedy case.Abdul Jabbar, convener of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sangthan, and Shahnawaz Khan had filed a...

Delhi HC Frowns Upon Rampant Practice Of Litigants Blaming Their Lawyers [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, refused to permit an Appellant Company to shift the blame on its Counsel for the delay in challenging an ex-parte judgment and shared the Trial Court’s concerns on employment of such measures.“Trial court has, accordingly, held that appellant/defendant cannot conveniently shift the blame upon his counsels because now-a-days it is routine for the litigants...

Centre Terms Blue Whale Game ‘Abetment To Suicide’, Issues Advisory To Parents

The Centre has issued an advisory terming the Blue Whale game abetment to suicide and advising all parents to watch out for any signs of distress in their children and not discuss the game with them, which might increase the chances of children searching it online.The advisory has been issued by the Ministry of Electronics &  Information Technology at a time when even though Blue Whale...

DDA’ For Delhi Development Authority Also Stands For ‘Don’t Do Anything’: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Delhi Development Authority (DDA) seems to have perpetually entered the bad books of the Delhi High Court, owing to the array of frivolous appeals and objections filed by it in several matters.Justice Valmiki J. Mehta, on Monday, cited various cases “where the officers of the DDA are taking rank illegal actions” and directed the Vice Chairman of the DDA to “streamline the legal...

CBI Arrests Former Orissa HC Judge I.M. Quddusi And Four Others In Medical College Bribery Case

After registering an FIR against former Judge of Orissa High Court, Justice I.M. Quddusi and others in a corruption case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has now arrested him and other four accused in the case.The other accused arrested are B P Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Educational Trust which runs a medical college in Lucknow, Biswanath Agrawala, a middleman, and...