Justice Sapre Appointed As Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Chairman

Supreme Court Judge Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre has been appointed as the chairman of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT). The post fell vacant following the resignation of Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan, reports ‘The Hindu’.Justice Sapre was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court and assumed charge on August 13, 2014.The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was constituted by...

Explore Appropriate Programmes For Rehabilitation Of Women Prisoners: Delhi HC to Authorities [Read Judgment]

A division bench of Delhi High Court on Monday asked the authorities to explore appropriate programmes and intervention for mainstreaming and rehabilitating women prisoners.The bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra observed that the status of women prisoners is extremely sad and unfortunate.“In several cases involving women prisoners, we are coming across the fact...

Bombay HC Finds Woman Guilty Of Culpable Homicide, Not Murder, For Setting Husband On Fire [Read Judgment]

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has set aside a judgment by the trial court in Omerga convicting a woman of her husband’s murder.In a judgment dated April 3, 2013, the sessions court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment. This was challenged by the accused before the high court.A division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice KK Sonawane had reserved judgment in the case...

MP HC Asks Centre To Frame Rules For Appointment Of Doctors And Staff In BMHRC [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to give one year time to the Union government to frame the rules for appointment of doctors, specialists and other category of staff in the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC).The 350-bed BMHRC was instituted at Bhopal to provide advanced tertiary level super specialty care facility to the Bhopal Gas Tragedy affected persons.Over...

Jolly LLB-2: Delhi HC Refuses To Stay Defamation Case By Bata [Read Petition]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to stay proceedings before the trial court against the team of Jolly LLB-2 in a defamation case filed by footwear company Bata India Limited.Fox Star Studios India Pvt Ltd, production house of Jolly LLB-2 and one of the accused in the criminal complaint filed by Bata India Limited, has filed a petition under Section 482 of the CrPC in the high...

Nothing Wrong In Giving Judgment On Admissions In Cases Of Mutually-Agreed Talaq: Gujarat HC [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court has observed that there is nothing wrong in giving judgment on admission in cases of mutually-agreed ‘talaq’.In the instant case, the family court had dismissed an application in a suit seeking declaration under Section 7 of the Family Court Act, 1984 ,where both the parties admitted that talaq has been given and they have both agreed to this proposition...

Prof. Parmanand Singh, Former Dean, DU Faculty Of Law, Passes Away

Former dean of faculty of Law, Delhi University, Professor Parmanand Singh passed away at 10.30 am on Monday. He was a founding member of the Board of Management of OP Jindal Global University and was also a visiting professor at Jindal Global Law School. Earlier, he taught at Banaras Hindu University and University of Gorakhpur.He had to his credit over 90 publications in law journals and...

Bombay HC Reserves Order On Sadhvi Pragya’s Appeal Against Bail Rejection

The Bombay High Court on Monday reserved its order while hearing an appeal filed by Pragya Singh Thakur, main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.Thakur’s appeal is against the rejection of her bail application by the Special NIA Court last year.A bench of Justice Ranjit More and Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi had reserved their order last week in Colonel Prasad Purohit’s appeal...

Big Relief To Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth As ITAT Holds ‘Propagation Of Yoga’ As Medical Relief [Read Order]

The Delhi bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has granted exemption status under Sections 11 and 12 of the Income Tax Act to Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth and held that propagation of yoga qualifies as medical relief.Challenging the order of the Commissioner, the assessee had contended before the bench that the authority erred in holding that Yogpeeth’s activities in...

Rajasthan HC Allows Sentences In 32 Cheque Cases To Run Concurrently [Read Order]

In a recent Case, Rajasthan High Court has invoked the power under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure to grant relief to a petitioner, who faced 35 years of jail cumulatively on account of conviction sustained in 32 different cheque cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.Justice Vijay Bishnoi granted relief to Rajendar, who approached the high court for the...

Sexual Harassment At Workplaces: Internal Complaints Committee Must Give Definite Conclusion: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court has recently held that the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, must give a definite conclusion regarding the guilt of the person involved in the incident.Justice Valmiki Mehta was hearing a petition filed by Ashok Kumar Singh against the report of...

Bombay HC Expunges Remarks In Controversial Bail Order [Read Order]

Justice Sadhna Jadhav of the Bombay High Court has expunged her remarks and observations which were made while granting bail to a man accused of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter.The reasoning given for the bail order was- “She has admitted that she used to do all dirty things. It appears that she was inherently abnormal and had sexual instincts right from her childhood, in...