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Late Night Police Visits To Rowdy Sheeter's Residence Violates His Privacy: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has held that Police cannot visit the residence of a 'Rowdy Sheeter' during late night hours as it amounts to intruding into his privacy.Thumkunta Madhava Reddy, a rowdy sheeter, had approached the High Court alleging that the Police enters in the midnight every day ringing the door bell/knocking the door, waking him up late night, thereby disturbing his sleep....
Sonu Sood's Intentions 'Malafide' Not Approached The Court With "Clean Hands", Says Bombay High Court In 'Illegal Constructions" Case
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood and his wife's intentions were "malafide" and they did not approach the court with "clean hands," the Bombay High Court has observed in its order rejecting his petition for temporary relief against an unauthorized construction notice issued against them by the BMC in October 2020. Justice Prithviraj Chavan observed that in the past two years, the couple...
Munawar Faruqui's Case- Misuse Of Section 295A Of Penal Code And An Aggravated Insult On Free Speech
Having regard to the ingredients of the offence created by the impugned section, there cannot, in our opinion, be any possibility of this law being applied for purposes not sanctioned by the Constitution- Supreme Court on S.295A IPC in Ramji Lal Modi v. State of U.P [(1957) S.C.R. 860]
CIBIL Score Updation Borrower's Statutory Right; Credit Information Companies Bound To Consider Objections : Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has held that updation of CIBIL score is a borrower's statutory right and therefore, credit rating agencies are legally bound to consider objections against the rating given to a debtor.A single bench of Justice N Nagaresh made this significant pronouncement in the case Sujith Prasad v The Reserve Bank of India and others.The Court noted that credit rating agencies...
Retrospective Application Of 10% EWS Quota Is Against Articles 14 & 16 Of Constitution : Jharkhand High Court
The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday set aside a 2019 advertisement published by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission giving retrospective application to the 10% Economically Weaker Section (EWS) reservation by way of merging the earlier vacancies of the year 2013 and 2015 with those arising after the implementation of the said reservation in 2019. A single bench of Justice Sanjay...
Bombay High Court Refuses To Interfere With Ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta's Transfer From JJ Hospital To Taloja Jail
The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to intervene and grant relief to ex- Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dadgupta, accused in the TRP Scam, while he was being shifted from the state run JJ Hospital to the Taloja Central Prison. In an urgent plea, Dasgupta's lawyer Arjun Singh on Friday sought for him to be shifted to a private hospital owing to...
"There Is A Threat To Very Democracy If Agencies Like CBI, ED Do Not Act Independently": Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Thursday said the judiciary and agencies like the RBI, CBI and ED are considered independent and therefore should act impartially. A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and Manish Pitale was hearing a petition filed by Eknath Khadse, seeking to quash an Enforcement Directorate complaint registered against him in October last year. In the interim, Khadse's...
Delhi High Court Refuses To Stay 'The White Tiger' Release In Netflix
A day ahead of the scheduled release of the film 'The White Tiger' on Netflix, the Delhi High Court heard an urgent petition filed by Hollywood producer John Hart Jr seeking a stay on its streaming on grounds of alleged copyright violation.After an urgent virtual hearing which started at 7 PM, a single bench of Justice C Harishankar held that no prima facie material was shown to justify a...
The Puzzling Dismissal Of Aadhaar Review Despite Pendency Of Larger Bench Reference On Money Bill Issue
The Supreme Court, by 4:1 majority, dismissed the review petitions challenging the Aadhaar verdict.The majority order, which starts by rejecting the prayer for open Court/personal hearing of Review Petition(s), is very brief and non-speaking. It only 'hastens' to add that change in the law or subsequent decision/judgment of a coordinate or larger Bench by itself cannot be regarded as a ground...
"Whether A Lawyer Has Any Privilege Against Coercive Action By Police When He is In Prescribed Robes? Allahabad HC To Examine In Etah Case
"Whether the Advocates Act, 1961 extends any privilege to an advocate for being not taken any coercive action by the police against him, if he is in prescribed robes?" High Court frames question.
