No Requirement That ‘Economic Offence Police Station’ Can Only Be Created By Gazette Notification: Patna HC [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court has held that there is no requirement in law that an ‘Economic Offence Police Station’ can only be created by a gazette notification.Justice Navaniti Prasad Singh was considering the matter due to difference of opinion between judges of a division bench in the matter. The chief justice, who headed the earlier division bench, had held that steps taken by the...

2001 Amendment To NDPS Act Adopts Reformative Approach Towards Drug Addicts: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The legislature was wise enough to provide different punishments for possessing small or commercial quantity of drugs, the court said.The Delhi High Court has observed that the 2001 amendment to the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, has adopted a reformative approach towards addicts.The court observed that the said amendment is a beneficial legislation which provides...

Centre Directs Hospitals To Issue Detailed Bills To Patients, Separate Bills Disclosing Cost Of Coronary Stents

The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, on Tuesday, directed hospitals to issue detailed bills to the patients, specifically and separately mentioning the cost of the Coronary Stents, along with the brand name of the manufacturer and importer, batch number and other details.Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of...

Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2017 Introduced In The Lok Sabha

Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ms. Uma Bharti on Tuesday introduced the Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2017 in the Lok Sabha. It intends to set up a single permanent tribunal to resolve inter-state river water sharing disputes expeditiously.The Tribunal, called the Inter-State River Water Disputes Tribunal will subsume all...

Bail For Convicts Sentenced To Life Term Possible Only If They Complete 7 Years In Jail: Patna HC [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court has observed that if a prayer for suspension of sentence and release of an appellant on bail, convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life, it is to be considered favourably and he is ordinarily allowed bail if he has completed seven years of incarceration in connection with such case before conviction and after conviction, taken together...

Footwear Design And Development Institute Bill, 2017 Introduced In The Lok Sabha

Commerce & Industry Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday introduced the Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) Bill, 2017 in the Lok Sabha.The Bill intends to declare the FDDI as an Institution of National Importance (INI). It further seeks to “facilitate and promote teaching, training and research in all disciplines relating to design and development of Footwear and...

Offence Of Abetment To Suicide (306IPC) Can't Be Quashed On Settlement Between Parties: Bombay HC [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court has refused to quash an FIR against a person who had filed a writ petition seeking the same on grounds of settlement with the first informant.The FIR was registered under Sections 498 A (cruelty), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code against the petitioner, Mohd Asgar Chaudhari, who was in a relationship...

No Reason For Victim’s Mother To Falsely Implicate Accused At Cost Of Daughter’s Reputation: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Bombay recently rejected the bail application of a school van driver accused of sexually abusing a six year old girl within the school premises.While considering the validity of the submission that the teacher as well as the school authorities had no knowledge of the incident, the Court took into account an email sent to the school authorities by the victim’s father. It...

Bombay HC Holds 30-Yr-Old Land Acquisition By Maharashtra Govt As Lapsed [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court has held the acquisition of land by Government of Maharashtra in 1986 as lapsed under Section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.A bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice GS Kulkarni was hearing a writ petition filed by owners of a piece of land in Pune.They contended that after...

Trial Court Can Re-call It’s Judgment Vitiated By Fraud: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The high court upheld a trial court move ordering retrialThe Allahabad High Court has held that when an acquittal was obtained by playing fraud upon the court, it is no acquittal in the eyes of law, and in such a case the bar of Section 362 CrPC would not come into play.Justice Anil Kumar Srivastava made this observation while disposing of a challenge against an order by the trial court...

Britannia Vs ITC: Injunction For ‘Passing Off’ Only If Colour Combination Is Distinctive Of Plaintiff’s Product, Says Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

It is only when it is established, may be even prima facie, that the colour combination has become distinctive of a person’s product that an order may be made in his favour, the bench said.Setting aside an order of interim injunction passed against Britannia Industries restraining it from using a packaging get-up/wrapper for its Nutri Choice Digestive Zero biscuits, the Delhi High Court...

HC Can’t Carry Roving Inquiry Into Conflicting Versions Of Incident: MP HC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held exercising jurisdiction of section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code this court cannot indulge in a “roving inquiry” to ascertain the two conflicting versions concerned to any incident whether it is correct or not.Furthermore the court held it is the sole domain of the trial court to enquire and deduce to the truth of two conflicting versions relating...