Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court: Customary divorce a social evil, courts can’t allow it August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Customary divorces can never be approved as they are undoubtedly a social evil, the Madras high court has said while declaring as null and void an order of the family court in Madurai in this regard. The court lamented that even after the development of constitutional principles and many welfare legislations passed in favour of […] Read more » courts can't allow it Customary divorce social evil
Court, Judiciary & Legal System This High Court bars recording of phone calls with Judges August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an out-of-the-ordinary direction, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has banned across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh the recording of telephonic conversations between court officials and Judicial Officers belonging to the subordinate judiciary. The orders restraining the court officials are applicable to the recording of conversations with the families of the judicial officers as well. […] Read more » 'No rethinking of CISF security cover for High court' Permission sought to keep NSA phone records longer recording of phone calls
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Madras high court directs Southern Railway to install CCTV cameras in trains August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that police officials committing act of sexual harassment against women in running trains cannot be spared, the Madras high court on Thursday directed Southern Railway to install CCTV cameras in train coaches for the safety of woman passengers. The court issued the direction while rejecting a petition filed by a dismissed police constable, A […] Read more » cameras in trains install CCTV Madras High Court Southern Railway
Bar, Bench & Firm News While deciding the issue of leave to defend, High Court cannot dismiss the summary suit itself August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has held that when the High Court is deciding a reivsion petition concerning leave to defend, it should confine itself to the issue raised and should not dismiss the suit itself. A bench of Justice Lalit and Justice Saran on 25.07.2019 has passed the order in the case titled as NETRAPAL SINGH vs RAVINDER […] Read more » deciding the issue High Court leave to defend
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delay in Courts Trial pushing Victims of Sexual Assault to out of Court Settlement with Accused August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In one of the most disturbing testimonies during the trial in Yeroor case, the seven-year-old victim was heard asking Mama nammal engotta pone (uncle, where are we going)? to the man who brutally raped & murdered her. She seemed happy & carefree & they were about to enter the forest mouth. Her question, so full […] Read more » court settlement delay in courts Sexual assault
Bar, Bench & Firm News Supreme Court bench to begin daily hearings in Ayodhya title case tomorrow August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court will begin hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case from August 6. The bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, passed orders to the effect after an attempt for an out-of-court settlement of the issue failed. The three-member mediation panel looking into the dispute had […] Read more » Ayodhya title case bench to begin Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi court directs DCP to train SHO on basic law, procedure, ethics August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has directed a deputy commissioner of Delhi Police to give one-week training to the SHO of a police station apprising him of basic law, procedure and ethics after he failed to file reports with the requisite sanctions in a 2018 alleged murder case. Additional Sessions Judge Sonu Agnihotri directed the DCP of […] Read more » DCP to train SHO Delhi court directs DCP to train SHO ethics Law procedure
Criminal Law News US woman upset over High Court granting bail to rape convict, releases video August 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has granted bail and suspended the seven years’ sentence awarded to a man for digitally raping an American woman who recently shot a video outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, alleging that she was denied assistance there. The incident dates back to 2013, when Delhi resident Rajiv Panwar sexually assaulted […] Read more » Delhi High Court granting bail rape convict US woman
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court directs Municipal Body to Compensate for injuries suffered by Motorists due to Bad Roads August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka observed that tax-paying citizens run the risk of getting injured on roads.To avoid going to the court over the issue, an aggrieved party can directly approach the civic body for suitable compensation. The order is somewhat similar to the one passed by a bench of […] Read more » Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka Compensate for injuries High Court directs Motorists due to Bad Roads Municipal Body
Court, Judiciary & Legal System This High Court stays Govt order banning Taxies in State August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Providing interim relief on an appeal moved by Rapido, a bike taxi service provider, a division bench of Justice Vineeth Kothari & Justice C V Karthikeyan also stayed the operation of a communication of Tamil Nadu police addressed to Google LIC, Apple India & Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CRET-In) directing them to remove the ‘Rapido Bike’ […] Read more » banning Taxies in State High Court Justice C V Karthikeyan Justice Vineeth Kothari
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Supreme Court orders statu quo for 2 weeks on Jaypee Group plea against NCLAT order August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday ordered status quo for two weeks on Jaypee Group’s plea against NCLAT order which allowed fresh bidding for debt-laden Jaypee Infratech. A bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari ordered status quo after the apex court was informed that Parliament had passed the proposed amendments in the Insolvency […] Read more » NCLAT order statu quo for 2 weeks Supreme Court orders
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Man awarded death penalty, wife gets life term in murder case August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Rajasthan’s Kota has awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his wife in a five-year-old robbery and murder case here. An additional district judge [ADJ] on Wednesday pronounced the verdict, holding the man guilty of looting and murdering a couple at their home in the city and his wife […] Read more » death penalty murder case wife gets life term
