Bar, Bench & Firm News Chopper deal: Ratul Puri moves HC seeking anticipatory bail August 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Businessman Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in connection with a money laundering case related to the VVIP chopper scam. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar agreed to list the matter for hearing post […] Read more » Chopper deal High Court ratul puri
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court sets aside arrest warrant against BJP’s Roy Mukul August 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court has set aside an arrest warrant against BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with the alleged recovery of unaccounted cash from a person. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha set aside the warrant issued by a city court on a plea by the Kolkata Police to question him in connection with the alleged recovery […] Read more » arrest warrant BJP's Roy Mukul High Court
Bar, Bench & Firm News Supreme Court asks wife to approach HC to file plea against reduction of maintenance August 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court of India has instructed the petitioner-wife to approach the High Court for appropriate relief on reduction of maintenance due to change of circumstances in which it was earlier reduced. The High Court has allowed the reduction in maintenance on the ground that the respondent-husband has been paying E.M.I. of Rs.42,000/- for the home loan which he […] Read more » High Court reduction in maintenance Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi Police didn’t appreciate seriousness of orders to install CCTV cameras: High Court August 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said the police did not appreciate the seriousness of its past orders to ensure better street lighting and CCTV cameras in West Delhi’s Aman Vihar area, despite hundreds of cases of missing children and adults being reported from there. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice […] Read more » CCTV cameras Delhi Police High Court
education law Urdu & Persian Words in FIR: High Court directs Police not to use such “bombastic” language August 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment HC Bench comprising of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari Shankar stated that,“Too much flowery language, the meaning of which is to be found out by a dictionary, should not be used. An FIR should be in the words of the complainant”. Bench further added that,”Police is there for public at large and […] Read more » bombastic language Chief Justice D.N. Patel FIR High Court Justice C Hari Shankar urdu and persian
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court discharges Think Tank’s claim on ITO plot August 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court has allowed the recovery of a prime property at ITO that was alloted forty years ago to a Think Tank founded by late Prime Minister Chandrashekhar. The 2,000 sq yards plot in Central Delhi was being run as a political party office, the land and development office (L&DO) had alleged, while cancelling the allotment. The High Court upheld L&DO’s move to evict centre of applied […] Read more » claim an ito plot High Court think tank
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court reinstates Judge fired for passing wrong judicial orders after 10 years August 7, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The High Court of Karnataka has reinstated a Judge who was dismissed from service on allegations of wrong judicial orders. “We have no hesitation that allegations made against the appellant could not have been subject matter of departmental inquiry,” the bench comprising of Justice L Narayana Swamy and Justice R Devdas said in their judgement on Aug […] Read more » fired for passing wrong High Court reinstses judge
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court shifts conviction from ‘murder’ to ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ after finding no unusual behavior in attack August 6, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The High Court of Chattisgarh has shifted the conviction of the convict from Section 302 of the IPC to Section 304 PartI of the IPC after finding that the accussed hasn’t shown any unusual behaviour in the claimed attack on the deceased which showed that he knew that the attcak may result in death but wasn’t intending to murder the deceased intentionally. The Court also […] Read more » culpable High Court murder
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 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 Order limiting cash transactions at Rs 10K will be contrary to tax law: High Court August 2, 2019 / August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said it cannot issue any direction to the Centre to cap cash transactions at Rs 10,000 as it will lead to a contradiction with the income tax law, which has set a limit of Rs two lakh. The observation by a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and […] Read more » at Rs 10K will be contrary cash transactions High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court asks MCD to give building plans to fire dept for fire audit in Karol bagh July 29, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking note of fire incidents in Karol Bagh area resulting in loss of lives and goods, the Delhi High Court Monday directed the North MCD to share building plans of the area with the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) so that a fire audit can be done on priority basis. A bench of Justice Hima Kohli […] Read more » building plans to fire dept fire audit in Karol bagh High Court MCD