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Telegraph Act | Suit Over Insufficiency Of Compensation Maintainable In Civil Court: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court recently ruled that under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, determination of full compensation to the aggrieved can be done by the civil court if the dispute is regarding the insufficiency of compensation paid under Section 10(d) of the Act. Justice Umesh Trivedi found that such claims need not be filed before the District Judge as contended by the...
POCSO Act: Rajasthan High Court Issues Notice On PIL For Compulsory Sex Education In Schools, Committee To Check Special Courts
The Rajasthan High Court bench comprising Chief Justice S.S. Shinde and Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand has recently issued notice on a public interest litigation seeking formation of a committee to check the condition of Special Courts constituted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) in the state.The public interest litigation filed by one Kunal Rawat also...
ED To Investigate Bhima Koregaon Accused For Money Laundering, Seeks Permission To Record Surendra Gadling's Statement
Over four and a half years after the Bhima Koregaon – Elgar Parishad caste violence incident, the Enforcement Directorate is pursuing money laundering proceedings against certain civil liberties activists accused in the case. The ED has approached the Special Court in Mumbai seeking permission to record accused Advocate Surendra Gadling's statement under section 50(2) of the...
Prison Violence: Delhi Court Directs Tihar DGP To Install CCTVs Inside Offices Of Senior Jail Officials To Ensure Transparency
A Delhi Court has directed the Director General of Prisons, Tihar to install CCTV cameras inside offices of Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent in order to dispel false allegations by inmates regarding beating at the hands of jail officials. Additional Sessions Judge Sonu Agnihotri of Saket Courts was dealing with a plea filed by an inmate Monu alleging that he was beaten inside the...
Gwalior Resident Seeks FIR Against Jyotiraditya Scindia For Allegedly Filing False Election Affidavit; High Court Directs To Avail Statutory Remedy
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed a Gwalior resident, seeking registration of FIR against Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for allegedly filing a false election affidavit, to avail statutory remedy under the Criminal Procedure Code.70 years old Gopi Lal Bharti alleged that Scindia provided false statement under oath by not mentioning to the Election Commission that a criminal case...
No Recovery Can Be Made From Pension If Employee's Promotion Was Not Based On Any Misrepresentation: J&K&L High Court
A division bench of J&K&L High Court today ruled that in absence of any misrepresentation on the part of the petitioner with regard to factum of seeking her promotion, no recovery, whatsoever, can be made from her retirement benefit or for that matter her promotion cannot be withdrawn. A bench comprising Justices Tashi Rabstan & Wasim Sadiq Nargal observed "By no stretch...
Drains Left Uncovered, Grates Missing: Kerala High Court Seeks Response From Kochi Corporation, CSML
The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the Cochin Corporation and Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) to file a report on the missing grating covering the drains on the roads in the city. The matter came to the notice of the Court from a newspaper report in the 'Malayala Manorama' that the gratings were missing on certain roads in Kochi, covering the holes to draw water into the drains,...
Irony That We Celebrate Women's Rights In All Spheres But Show Little Concern For Her Honour: Allahabad HC On Increasing Rape Cases
"...crime against women in general and rape, in particular, is on the increase. It is an irony that while we are celebrating women's rights in all spheres, we show little or no concern for her honor. It is a sad reflection on the attitude of indifference of the society towards the violation of human dignity of the victims of sex crimes," the Allahabad High Court remarked on Thursday.The bench...
Workman In Continuous Service For Years Without Any Break Can't Be Denied Benefit U/S 25F ID Act Merely Because Of Contractual Engagement: Gujarat HC
The Gujarat High Court has held that a workman cannot be denied the benefit of Section 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act which prescribes conditions precedent to retrenchment merely because he is engaged on contract basis, given that he rendered continuous services for several years, without any break.In this light, Justice AY Kogje dismissed the petition filed by the Jamnagar...
President Appoints Justice Ranjit Vasantrao More As Chairman Of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)
The President today appointed Justice Ranjit Vasantrao More (former Chief Justice, Meghalaya High Court), to the post of Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).A notification issued in this regard states thus:"The President is pleased to appoint Justice Ranjit Vasantrao More, Retd. Chief Justice, Meghalaya High Court, to the post of Chairman, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in...
'Matter Of Life & Death': Delhi High Court Dismisses Challenge To Minimum Percentile Criteria For NEET-PG Admissions
The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging a regulation mandating minimum marks of 50th percentile in National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET) as a mandatory requirement for admission to postgraduate courses. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad observed that there cannot be any compromise with the quality...
Transgender Persons Entitled To Participate In Sporting Events In Gender Of Their Choice In Absence Of Separate Category: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court, on Friday, while passing an interim order in a Writ Petition, observed that in sporting events, in the absence of a separate category for transgender persons, they must be permitted to participate in their chosen category.Justice V G Arun, observed that transgender persons are having equal rights to participate in competitions, and in the absence of a separate...