Ankita Bhandari Murder Case | Uttarakhand High Court Seeks Case Diary, Status Report From State Govt On November 3

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday sought a status report along with the case diary from the State Government with regard to the probe into the Ankita Bhandari Murder case. The details sought for by the Court have to be filed by the state on the next date of hearing on November 3.Essentially, the bench of Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra issued this order on a plea moved before it by the...

Didn't Have Maturity To Accept Rejection, Killed Her By Pouring Petrol On Her: Madras High Court Dismisses Convict's Appeal In Murder Case

Upholding the conviction of a 28-year-old man who set a class IX student on fire in 2018 merely because she rejected his proposal, the Madras High Court has said such incidents are on the rise and only reflect the fact that man considers woman chattel and wants to own or "forcibly take her under his control" without understanding that she is a human being, who is entitled to "decide on...

Visually Challenged & Print-Disabled Persons Facing "Book Famine": Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently expressed concern over the "book famine" being faced by the present generation where people with print disabilities including visually challenged persons do not have access to printed works and books. Justice R Mahadevan and Justice Sathya Narayana Prasad were hearing a plea for bringing out Braille Version of Thirukkural in Tamil and English languages to...

Kerala High Court Dismisses PIL Against Use Of Star Plates And Flags On Cars Of Senior Police Officers

The Kerala High Court recently dismissed the Public Interest Litigation challenging the display of star plates and the use of flags on the cars of senior police officers. The division bench of Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly observed that symbols and markings are used by the high ranking police officers for the identification purpose by the other police officers and...

Inconclusivity Of Blood Stains Not Relevant When Disclosure Statement & Link Of Other Circumstantial Evidence Stands Proven: Punjab & Haryana HC

The Punjab and Haryana High Court while dealing with a case of murder based on circumstantial evidence, affirmed lower court's decision finding chain of circumstances conclusively proving the guilt of accused-Appellant. The bench comprising Justices Sureshwar Thakur and N.S.Shekhawat observed that inconclusivity of serologist's opinion about blood stains on the murder weapon and clothes...

Recognition Of LoP By Speaker/Chairman Is A Part Of Convention Not Governed By 'UP State Legislature Act': Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that there is no provision in the Uttar Pradesh State Legislature (Members' Emoluments and Pension) Act, 1980 which mandates the Speaker/Chairman of the house to recognize the leader of a party having the greatest numerical strength, to be the leader of the opposition.The court further observed that if the Speaker recognizes any person who is the leader of...

Rajasthan High Court Stays Pali District SP's Order To Seize 'DJ' Vehicles Used During Religious Festivals, Seeks State's Reply

The Rajasthan High Court recently stayed an order issued by the Superintendent of Police, District Pali to the district police officials to seize vehicles carrying the Disk Jockey system if the same are used during the upcoming religious festivals in the district.In a prima facie observation, the Bench of Justice Dinesh Mehta also remarked that neither the Rajasthan Noises Control Act, 1963...

CCI Imposes Penalty Of Rs. 1337.76 Crore On Google For Anti-Competitive Practices In Relation To Android Mobile Devices

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a penalty of Rs. 1337.76 Crore on Google under Section 27 of the Competition Act, 2002, for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in the Android Mobile device ecosystem. The Commission has also issued a cease and desist order against Google. The Commission has laid down a slew of measures which Google has to...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Reduces Rape Convict's Sentence Considering He Had Left Minor Victim Alive

Note: The Court modified the judgment on October 27 and said the remark "he was kind enough to leave the prosecutrix alive" was an inadvertent mistake.

Arbitration Clause In The Initial Agreement Binding Even If Subsequent Settlement Doesn't Have It: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that an arbitration clause contained in a rent agreement would continue to be binding upon the parties, despite the fact that after the expiry of the agreement the parties had entered into a 'Terms of Settlement' and 'Addendum to Settlement', which did not contain an arbitration clause. The Court observed that the relationship between the parties came...

GST Council Notifies Authorities On Actions To Be Taken Consequential To The Issuance Of A Show Cause Notice And Recurring SCNs In The Case Of Enforcement Actions

The Goods and Service Tax Council has notified the authorities regarding action consequential to the issuance of a Show Cause Notice and for the issuance of a recurring Show Cause Notice in the case of an enforcement action initiated by the Central authorities against a taxpayer assigned to a State and vice versa.It has been noted that varied practices are followed by the field...

Govt Servant Turning Hostile In Criminal Trial Does Not Amount To Misconduct, May Be Unethical: Bombay High Court

The court clarified that appointing authority can proceed against the employee departmentally for turning hostile in a criminal trial based on conviction under Section 191 IPC, without conducting any departmental inquiry.