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Mentally Disabled Persons Entitled To Have Assessment Done At Their Homes For Disability Certificate : Madras High Court
In a verdict emphasizing the right to dignity of mentally disabled persons, the Madras High Court held that they are entitled to have the assessment done at their residences for the purposes of getting disability certificate under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016.A single bench of Justice GR Swaminathan issued the direction after taking note of the hardships underwent by...
Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2022 - MOTOR ACCIDENT CASES (Jan- Mar)
Motor Accident Compensation Claims - Enhanced the compensation payable to over Rupees 50 Lakhs in a motor accident case where appellant has been rendered paralysed for life after he met with an accident as a 5 year old boy in 2010 - The appellant is not able to move his both legs and had complete sensory loss in the legs, urinary incontinence and bowel constipation and bed sore. Master...
Don't Share Photocopies Of Aadhaar; Unlicensed Entities Like Hotels Can't Keep Aadhaar Cards : UIDAI
UPDATE : UIDAI has withdrawn this press release on May 29.The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has warned the general public not to share photocopy of one's Aadhaar with any organizations because it can be misused. Alternatively, a masked Aadhaar which displays only the last 4 digits of your Aadhaar number can be used for the purpose. It can be downloaded from UIDAI...
Explainer : What Is Order 7 Rule 11 CPC? When Can Plaint Be Rejected?
The presentation of a plaint, i.e. the pleading of the plaintiff in a suit; marks the institution of a civil suit. The Civil Procedure Code, 1908, provides for the remedy of rejection of plaint under Order VII Rule 11, on certain specifically states grounds. Order VII Rule 11 provides: "Court shall reject a plaint: (a) where it does not disclose a cause of action; (b) where the relief...
Supreme Court Quarterly Digests 2022 - CRIMINAL LAW (Jan-March)
Anticipatory Bail - SLP Against Madras HC Judgment dismissing anticipatory bail with some observations about requirement of custodial interrogation- Dismissed - High Court, after having found no case for grant of pre-arrest bail, has otherwise not given any such direction of mandatory nature - Observations are essentially of the reasons assigned by the High Court in declining the prayer...
Supreme Court Quarterly Digest 2022- IBC (January - March)
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 - Appeal challenging NCLAT order which reversed the order of the NCLT wherein it had held that the application under Section 9 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 was not time-barred - Allowed - The failure of the NCLAT as the first appellate authority to look into a very vital aspect such as this, vitiates its order, especially when NCLT...
Yasin Malik May Have Given Up Guns In '94, But Did Not Desist From Violence; Can't Claim To Be Gandhian: Delhi Court
While awarding life sentence to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in connection with Jammu & Kashmir terror funding case, a Delhi Court today observed that the crime in question fails the test of rarest of rare case as held by the Apex Court. Special NIA Judge Praveen Singh of Patiala House Courts also rejected Malik's submission that he had followed Gandhian principle of non...
"Barbaric & Inhuman Killing": Allahabad HC Denies Bail To 34 Cops Accused Of Killing 10 Sikhs In 'Fake' Encounter Treating Them As 'Terrorists'
In a significant order, the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow bench) last week denied bail to 34 Cops, Constables in Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC) who have been accused of killing 10 Sikh men in an alleged fake encounter in the year 1991 treating them as terrorists.The Bench of Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Brij Raj Singh observed that the accused cops had indulged in a barbaric and...