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Delhi High Court Weekly Round Up: April 18 To April 23, 2022
CITATIONS 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 333 TO 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 360NOMINAL INDEXCase Title: Asifa v. State of NCT of Delhi 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 333Case Title: RISHU AGGARWAL v. MOHIT GOYAL 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 334Case Title: Neha Pudil v. Union of India & Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 335Title: SNAPDEAL PRIVATE LIMITED v. GODADDYCOM LLC AND ORS. 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 336Case Title: LIVING MEDIA INDIA LIMITED...
Won't Demolish House Without Following Due Process Of Law, MP Govt Tells HC On Plea Of Wife Of Khargone Riots Accused
The High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Indore Bench, recently received assurance from the State of Madhya Pradesh that the authorities won't proceed with demolition of House of the Petitioner, whose husband was accused in the Khargone riots case, without following due process of law. The Petitioner was allegedly being threatened by the State with an ultimatum of razing down her house because...
Supreme Court Asks BCI To Examine Amicus Suggestion To Provide Incentives To Senior Lawyers To Induct Newly Enrolled Advocates
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, asked the Bar Council of India (BCI), to consider the suggestions of the Amicus Curiae to provide incentives to Advocates who take in young lawyers as their juniors.Apart from this, the Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh also requested the High Court Judges to engage young lawyers as law clerks. It noted - "BCI has constituted a...
Hope High Courts Will Expedite Process Of Sending Proposals To Fill Remaining 212 Vacancies : CJI NV Ramana
While speaking on the issue of filling up of judicial vacancies and increasing the sanctioned strength of judges, the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday said that he hoped that the High Courts will expedite the process of sending the proposals to the government to fill the remaining 212 judicial vacancies.It may be noted that recently, the Union Law Minister had told the Parliament...
Ad Hoc Employee Can't Be Replaced By Another Ad Hoc Employee; Can Be Replaced Only By Regular Employee : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has reiterated that an ad hoc employee cannot be replaced by another ad hoc employee and can be replaced by only a regularly appointed candidate."It is a settled principle of law that an ad hoc employee cannot be replaced by another ad hoc employee and he can be replaced only by another candidate who is regularly appointed by following a regular procedure prescribed", the...
To Claim Backwages, Dismissed Employees Must Plead That They Were Not Gainfully Employed; Only Then Burden Shifts To Employer : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court, on Friday, held that an employee whose services are terminated and who is desirous of getting back wages is obligated to either plead or at least make a statement at the first instance that they were not gainfully employed or was employed on lesser wages after being dismissed from service. It added that only then the burden would shift to the employer to...
Ban Two-Finger Test On Rape Victims Forthwith : Madras High Court Directs State
The Madras High Court has directed the State Government to ban the practice of two finger test on victims of sexual offences by the medical professionals forthwith.The bench of Justices R. Subramanian and N. Sathish Kumar issued this direction as it noted that the two finger test is being used in cases involving sexual offences, particularly, on minor victims even after the Supreme Court...
S.176 Contract Act | Court Should Not Be Used To Prevent Lender From Exercising His Rightful Legal Claim Against Borrower: Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court has recently underscored that the Court should not be used to prevent a loan giver from exercising his rightful legal claim against the borrower. Justice Shekhar B. Saraf was adjudicating upon an interlocutory application seeking injunction against the respondent bank from giving any effect to letters dated 23rd February, 2022 vide which the bank had invoked the pledge...
"File Better Affidavit" : Supreme Court Expresses Dissatisfaction At Delhi Police Stand That No Hate Speeches Were Made At Hindu Yuva Vahini Event
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its dissatisfaction at the affidavit filed by Delhi Police which stated that the speeches made by Sudarshan News TV Editor Suresh Chavhanke at the Hindu Yuva Vahini meet held in Delhi in December 2021 didn't amount to hate speech against any particular community."The affidavit has been filed by Dy Commissioner of Police. We hope he has understood the...
"Lawyer Shall Not Bear The Sins Of The Client": Madras HC Quashes Criminal Case Against Advocate Over Fabricated Documents Submitted By Sureties
The Madras High Court has quashed the charge sheet on the file of Judicial Magistrate, Theni and the order of de-nova trial for altered charges against a lawyer who was accused of forging documents of surety. The Madurai Bench of Justice G.R Swaminathan observed that the lawyer was merely discharging his professional service in connection with the furnishing of sureties. He had...
BCI May Allow Persons With Other Jobs To Provisionally Enrol As Advocates On Undertaking To Resign From Job Within 6 Months After Clearing AIBE : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, accepted the suggestion made by Amicus Curiae Senior Advocate KV Vishwanathan that persons engaged in other employments can be permitted to provisionally enrol with the concerned Bar Council and to appear in the All India Bar Examination (AIBE), and that upon clearing the AIBE, they can be given a period of 6 months to decide whether to join legal profession...
"You Require Bulldozers To Remove Stalls & Chairs?": Supreme Court Asks NDMC On Jahangirpuri Demolitions
"To remove stalls, chairs, bench, boxes, you require a bulldozer?", the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the North Delhi Municipal Corporation in relation to the anti-encroachment drive carried by it in Jahangirpuri, New Delhi.A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai posed the question after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for NDMC, submitted that as per the provisions...