NEET PG | Quota For In-Service Candidates Reduced In Casual Manner: Karnataka High Court Quashes Govt Notification

The Karnataka High Court has quashed and set aside the government notification dated 06.10.2022, by which seats earmarked for in-service candidates for PG-NEET Examination 2022, was reduced from 30 percent to 15 percent. A division bench of Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty while allowing a batch of petitions said, "The quota for in-service candidates has been...

246 CrPC | Accused Failure To Cross-Examine Pre-Charge Prosecution Witnesses Does Not Relieve Complainant From Adducing Post-Charge Evidence: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that post framing of charges, the accused has a choice under Section 246(4) CrPC to test the veracity of the pre-charge evidence adduced by a complainant by cross-examining the prosecution witnesses.However, the bench comprising Justices Sureshwar Thakur and N.S. Shekhawat made it clear that if the accused abandons this "statutory privilege",...

Insurance Company Can Repudiate Mediclaim If Insured Fails To Disclose Pre-Existing Illness: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has said that a mediclaim policy is an insurance contract of utmost good faith, wherein divulging pre-existing illness is a duty of the insured, having not done so repudiation of the claim by insurance company cannot be found fault. A single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna observed thus while dismissing a petition filed by a couple against the order...

Delhi High Court Junks RBI Officer's Plea Against Disciplinary Proceedings For Assisting Rajya Sabha MP In Drafting Private Bill

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea filed by a senior officer of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) against whom proceedings were initiated by the regulatory body last year for allegedly assisting Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha in drafting a private member bill for establishment of Public Credit Registry.Justice Rekha Palli said the plea has no merit as it is an admitted position that...

Kerala High Court Extends Stay On Appointment Of Priya Varghese As Associate Professor In Kannur University

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday extended its stay on the appointment of Priya Varghese, wife of K.K. Ragesh - who is private secretary to the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, as an Associate Professor at the Department of Malayalam, in Kannur University. Justice Devan Ramachandran extended the court's interim order, while adjourning the case challenging Varghese's appointment.When the matter...

'Public Confidence And Black Robes' Is All What A Judge Has, Nothing Else Sustains Us: Kerala High Court To Baiju Kottarakkara In Contempt Case

The Kerala High Court Tuesday said the counter affidavit filed by Malayalam Film Director Baiju Kottarakkara in the suo motu contempt proceedings initiated against him for making "abusive remarks" against a trial court judge neither specifically affirmed that he made those comments, nor refuted the same.Granting a further period of three weeks to him to make his stance clear, the court sought...

Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 17 To October 23, 2022

NOMINAL INDEX Amarjeet v. State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. /Prin. Secy. Home, Lko. Lko. And 4 Others 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 466 Flipkart Internet Private Limited v. State Of U.P. And 3 Others 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 467 State of U.P. v. Govind Pasi along with a connected appeal 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 468 Sujit & Ors. v. State & Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 469 Naresh Kumar Valmiki...

'Aggravated Penetrative Sexual Assault' Under POCSO Act Doesn't Require Deep Or Complete Penetration: Meghalaya High Court

The Meghalaya High Court has observed that for the purpose of the POCSO Act, 'Aggravated Penetrative sexual assault' does not require deep or complete penetration and even the slightest amount of penetration would constitute the offence.With this, the bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice W. Diengdoh confirmed the conviction of a man under Section 5(m) of the POCSO Act who...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 17 To October 23, 2022

Nominal Index [Citations 390 – 406] 1. Sunita Manohar Gajbhiye v. Union of India 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 390 2. Yash and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 391 3. Ashok Babarao Patil v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 392 4. ABC v. State of Maharashtra 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 393 5. Jyoti Jagtap...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against ₹64 Lakh Penalty On Municipal Body For Dumping Solid Waste In Wular Lake

In a matter related to the dumping of solid waste in the catchment of Wular lake in Kashmir, the Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal that challenged National Green Tribunal's refusal to interfere with J&K State Pollution Control Committee's order imposing a penalty of Rs 64.21 Lakhs on Municipal Committee, Bandipora."We find no ground to interfere with the impugned order passed by...

Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 10 To October 16, 2022

NOMINAL INDEX Tulsarani And Another v. Union Of India And 3 Others 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 462 Azizurrahman v. Hamidunnisha @ Sharifunnisha 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 463 Prveen Kashyap v. State Of U.P. And 3 Others 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 464 Monu v. State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 465 ORDERS/JUDGMENTS OF THE WEEK Commercial Court Can't Hear S....

After Backlash, Pune Court Withdraws Notice Asking Women Lawyers To Not Arrange Their Hair In Court

The Pune District Court has withdrawn a notice issued by it earlier which asked women lawyers to not fix their hair in open court. The notice issued on October 20 had said that the act of women lawyers arranging their hair in open court was "disturbing the functioning of the Court".The notice received huge backlash online after Senior Advocate Indira Jaising tweeted about it."Wow now look! Who...