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Authorities can’t insist on dad’s name in passport: Delhi HC

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Passport authorities cannot insist upon mentioning the name of an applicant’s father in the travel document, the Delhi High Court said on Monday. “There is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father’s name in the passport,” Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said while referring to an earlier judgement passed by the high court in May this […]

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Noise pollution:NGT orders closure of Noida banquet hall

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Taking note of loud music played at weddings and functions, the National Green Tribunal has ordered the closure of a Noida banquet hall located adjacent to a hospital for causing noise pollution beyond permissible limits. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi directed immediate closure of Punjabi Club located in sector 29 Noida after […]

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High Profile Cases

Coal scam: Delhi HC extends bail of RSPL officials

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Delhi High Court today extended the bail granted to three top Rathi Steel and Power Ltd (RSPL) officials who were sentenced to varying jail terms in a coal block allocation scam case. Justice Mukta Gupta extended the relief given to RSPL’s 34-year-old Chief Executive Officer Udit Rathi, 60-year-old Managing Director Pradeep Rathi and 35-year-old AGM […]

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Madras HC declines to stay suspension of 79 DMK MLAs

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The Madras High Court today declined to grant an interim stay on suspension of 79 DMK MLAs from the state Assembly but issued notice to the state Chief Secretary on petitions filed by leader of the opposition M K Stalin and another DMK member. The petitions challenged their en masse suspension from the Assembly and […]

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Transport scam: Court to hear SPP appointment

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A special court today decided to hear afresh the arguments on appointing of special public prosecutor (SPP) in the Rs 100 crore transport scam case in Delhi in view of Delhi High Court’s recent verdict on powers of Delhi government and Lieutenant Governor. Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry said the court has not yet received the […]

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Criminal Law News

Death for 2 , lifer for another in Jigisha murder case

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A Delhi court today awarded death penalty to two convicts and life term to another for robbing and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh here in 2009, observing that it was a “brutal” and “cold blooded murder”. “To be hanged by neck till death,” Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Yadav said, while awarding death to convicts Ravi […]

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Manjula Chellur sworn-in as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court

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Justice Manjula Chellur today took oath as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, the second woman to occupy the post. Chelluar, who was the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, was transferred following the retirement of D H Waghela as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on August 10. Waghela held the […]

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Criminal Law News

Three accused in murder case acquitted

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Three persons accused of murdering a youth in Bhiwandi taluka here have been acquitted by the district court which gave them benefit of doubt following a six-year trial in the case. District Judge V V Bambarde observed that the prosecution failed to prove the charges under IPC sections 302 (murder) read with 34 (acts done […]

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No relief from Bombay HC to guard carrying brown sugar

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The Bombay High Court has refused to interfere with a 2008 order of Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) confirming departmental penal action of stopping increment for three years in case of a prison guard who was found carrying 40 grams of brown sugar at Yerwada central prison in Pune more than a decade ago. The guard […]

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High Profile Cases

Debate over SC verdict on reforms in BCCI unending

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A month after the historic apex court verdict favouring a clean-up operation in the BCCI, debate over it seems to be unending with some experts terming it as “glaring unconstitutionality” while others think the judgement has basis as the question of public interest and public money is involved in the matter. The cricket body chose […]

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HC slaps Rs 50,000 fine on minor boy who drove without licence

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The Bombay High Court has imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the father of a minor boy, who drove his family car without having a licence and met with an accident in the city last year injuring his minor friend sitting behind. After the accident on November 14, 2015, the injured boy was hospitalised […]

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Human Rights

Contractual employees of BSES defer strike

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Contractual employees of power distribution companies BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna today agreed to defer their proposed indefinite strike for the time being after Delhi High Court asked the two discoms to “hear them out”. Observing that “everything will come to a standstill if electricity was disrupted” in the national capital, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva asked […]

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