NI Act | Complainant Can't Seek To Prosecute Company's Former Directors For Cheque Issued To Repay Amount Invested When They Held Office: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka High Court has quashed the proceedings initiated against two former directors of a company under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act by the complainant claiming that when he invested the money in the company they were directors. A single judge bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar allowed the petition filed by Sunita and Vidya and quashed the proceedings...

'Drug Menace Affecting Entire Society': Karnataka High Court Denies Bail To Medical Shop Owner In NDPS Case

The Karnataka High Court has rejected the bail petition filed by one Thaha Ummer, a resident of Kerala, who was arrested on August 25 for allegedly exporting banned Clonazepam Tablets. Ummer has been booked under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) by the Narcotic Control Bureau. A single judge bench of Justice Rajendra Badamikar while rejecting the bail...

Kottayam Shelter Homes Missing Girls Cases | NHRC Takes Suo Motu Cognisance, Kerala Gov Asked To File Action Taken Report

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken a suo moto cognizance of the media reports pertaining to the case of 9 girls who recently went missing from a shelter home at Manganam in Kottayam, Kerala. Though the girls were later on traced at the residence of one of the inmates by the Kerala police, however, the girls resisted their return back to the shelter home. This is 3rd...

Plea In Varanasi Court Prays For Transfer Of Suit Seeking Possession Of Gyanvapi Mosque Premises From FTC To District Judge

An application has been moved before the District Judge, Varanasi to transfer a suit, seeking handing over of the possession of the Gyanvapi Mosque premises to 'Lord Adi Vishweshwar Virajman', pending before the FTC/Civil Judge (Senior Division), to the Court of District Judge, which is presently hearing another suit of a similar nature.The transfer application has been moved under Section 24...

Madras HC Permits Online Gaming Companies To Withdraw Petitions Against TN Ordinance Which Is Yet To Come Into Force

The All India Gaming Federation and other online gaming companies on Wednesday withdrew all petitions challenging Tamil Nadu government's ordinance for Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games, after State informed that it is yet to be notified.The bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice D Krishnakumar also gave liberty to the petitioners to file fresh petitions...

Practice Of Duping Innocent People On Pretext Of Sending Them Abroad 'Rampant': Punjab And Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that the practice of duping innocent people on the pretext of sending them abroad is rampant and the same is required to be curbed with an iron hand to save such innocent people.The bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Verma observed thus while hearing an anticipatory bail plea filed by a woman who has been booked for cheating and criminal conspiracy...

J&K&L High Court Keeps In Abeyance FFRC Order Restraining Private Schools From Charging Annual Fee From Nov 2022 Till March 2023

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Tuesday stayed an order of Committee for Fixation and Regulation of Fee of Private Schools, J&K, Srinagar (FFRC) in terms of which it had restrained all the school managements of the private schools from charging and collecting annual fee for the period of November 2022 to March, 2023. "The impugned order dated 2nd of November,...

Karnataka High Court Grants Pre-Arrest Bail To Govt Hospital Nurse Accused Of Facilitating Infant's Sale

The Karnataka High Court recently granted anticipatory bail to a government hospital nurse accused of mediating the sale of a new born baby-girl, after the infant's mother expressed undesirability to raise her on account of financial hardship.A single judge bench of Justice Shivashankar Amarannavar sitting at Dharwad observed that there is no specific averment in the complaint that...

"Mentioning Citations In Pleadings Sufficient": Madhya Pradesh HC Requests Bar To Avoid Unnecessarily Filing Judgment Photocopies With Petitions

Explaining the financial burden of filing unnecessary documents with petitions/applications on litigants and its Registry, the Madhya Pradesh High Court, Indore Bench requested the members of the Bar to avoid filing judgments that could be relied upon by them at the time of arguments by providing citations to the bench. The division bench comprising Justices Vivek Rusia and...

Mere Illegal Entry Without Anti-National Material Not Attempt To Wage War Against India: Calcutta HC Commutes Death Sentence Of 4 LeT Members

The Calcutta High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) members who were apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) whilst attempting to illegally cross the border into India from Bangladesh in 2007, with an objective of spreading terror in Kashmir.A Division Bench of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Ananya Bandyopadhyay found that possession of explosives...

Allahabad HC Upholds Conviction Of Man Who Raped A 10 Y/O Girl 43 Years Ago, Sends Him To Jail To Serve Remaining Sentence

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a man who raped a 10-year-old girl 43 years ago (in the year 1979) after finding the testimony of the victim to be reliable. The convict, presently on bail, has been directed to be sent to jail to serve the remaining sentence.The bench of Justice Samit Gopal also observed that the age of the accused cannot be a ground to extend...

Bombay HC Directs Re-Testing Of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder, Allows Company To Resume Manufacture But No Sale Or Distribution For Now

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed Johnson and Johnson Pvt Ltd to re-start manufacturing of its baby powder at their Mulund unit and also directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to re-test four samples, at two government and one private laboratory. The court directed FDA to collect the samples for testing in front of an authorised person from the company within three...