Month: January 2018

Source:- indiatimes.com BENGALURU: The high court on Monday directed police to provide security to a newly wed couple belonging to different castes. A division bench headed by Justice B S Patil gave this direction after the couple -Suresh Babu, 31, an MBA graduate and resident of Chintamani, and Anuja, 26, an M.Com graduate and resident

Source:- newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: With the warning of passing a strict order against officials for apathy, the High Court on Monday suggested to Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike(BBMP) to have a software to deal with the complaints of illegal constructions in city. “There is no dearth of software engineers in the Silicon Valley of India. Why don’t

Source:- indianexpress.com WITH AT least 240 of the 293 cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots being closed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the central government, the Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it wanted a “high-level committee” to monitor the probe and trials, observing that “these cases concern the entire

Source:- hindustantimes.com Overturning its earlier recommendation to put an age cap on candidates taking the law entrance exam, a state advisory committee for legal admissions has asked the government to not restrict aspirants on the basis of their age. Instead, the panel suggested, that the government wait for the outcome of multiple petitions filed in

Source:- indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Taking a tough stand against convicted terrorists, the Supreme Court on Monday said those lodged in prison for long years for slaughtering people could not be given parole or interim bail because of family exigencies. “If you are involved in such [a] heinous offence of [the] indiscriminate killing of innocents, you

Source:- livelaw.in The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has set aside a judgment by the trial court in Omerga convicting a woman of her husband’s murder. In a judgment dated April 3, 2013, the sessions court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment. This was challenged by the accused before the high court. A

Source:- thehindu.com The Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday said that it would give quietus to the vexatious issue of challenge to the land acquisition process taken up by the Telangana government through GO Ms 123 which contemplated payment of money to land owners through negotiation and giving the go-by to new the Land Acquisition Act

Source:- ndtv.com New Delhi:  The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction of a man accused of raping his specially- abled minor cousin, but reduced his jail term from life to 10 years so that he gets an opportunity to reform himself. A bench of justices Gita Mittal and Anu Malhotra observed that the convict

Source:- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court Tuesday observed that a report based on public views regarding corruption in judiciary may not invite contempt of court action and that such surveys instead gave opportunity to address the malady in the system. A bench led by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar said that the law of

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Mumbai police drew ire from the Bombay high court last week for booking a handicapped woman for allegedly subjecting her brother’s wife to cruelty. The court directed the Director General of Police to issue a circular to all police stations instructing officials to “apply their minds” before showing any person as an