Month: January 2018

Source:- indialivetoday.com Thiruvananthapuram/Kerala, April 6: In a relief to former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, a city civil court on Wednesday annulled its verdict directing six persons, including him and a firm to together pay Rs 1,60,85,700 in a case relating to the alleged solar scam. The court said that the case would be heard

Source:- hindustantimes.com India’s oldest civil case pending in a court — since 1956 — is in the Rajasthan high court. This is followed by the Jharkhand high court where a civil case is pending since 1958, and the Orissa high court, where a civil case is pending since 1961. For criminal cases, the Allahabad and

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Preferring social welfare to legal technicality, the Supreme Court has held that even if a woman is disentitled to maintenance from her husband during the period of separation after deserting him, she will be entitled to it after divorce if she is unable to sustain herself. The judiciary has resorted to

Source:- in.news.yahoo.com With the appointment of Justice Indira Banerjee as the Chief justice of the Madras High Court on Wednesday, four high courts in India are now headed by women. The sex ratio in the Indian judicial system is skewed as it is not representative of the female population of the country, and therefore, this

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Bombay High Court has said Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation must use modern technology including satellite and drones to supervise unauthorised constructions. “Make use of satellite…make use of drones. Human machinery has failed,” said a bench of Justice Naresh Patila and Justice Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi on April 5. The observations were made as the court

Source:- indianexpress.com The Supreme Court on Friday directed various high courts to initiate steps for appointing independent public prosecutors for POCSO courts meant for trial of sexual offence cases against children. Terming the issue as “extremely important and significant”, a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar also directed the Delhi High Court to

Source:- economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today slapped a cost of Rs 5 lakh on the Haryana government for filing an appeal against a high court order after more than five years saying it is “destroying” the judicial system by “blatant misuse” of the process. “You (Haryana government) are destroying the judicial system. The

Source:- asianage.com New Delhi: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will take up for hearing on April 19 a petition for protection of the rights of displaced people from minority communities in Bangladesh, who were compelled to take shelter in India. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud

Source:- news18.com New Delhi: A convict was set free on Sunday due to a typographical error in the Delhi High Court’s order, which was directed by the Supreme Court to surrender first before hearing his plea challenging the order to re-arrest him. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan refused to grant any relief

Source:- hindustantimes.com Private medical and dental colleges from Maharashtra have submitted a plea in the Supreme Court, challenging the Medical Council of India’s (MCI) decision to conduct admission to all medical and dental colleges, including private and deemed, through the state-led centralised admission process (CAP). According to a notification from MCI, issued on March 11,