Month: July 2019

Speedy justice: Man rapes, murders eight-year-old girl in Bhopal, awarded death penalty within 32 days

Source: indiatoday.in n a speedy judgment, a Bhopal court on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl last month. Special Judge (for POCSO cases) Kumudini Patel pronounced the punishment to Vishnu Bamora on two separate offences under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 376-AB (raping a

Restructure elementary school system: Kerala HC

Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: Directing the state government to restructure the elementary school system, a full bench of the Kerala High Court held that the state government cannot “wriggle out” of its obligation on the premise that a child has got the right to get transfer to another school. “The government can’t shirk its responsibility to establish

Pan-India outlook in mind, Supreme Court to cast net wide for staff

Source: telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court, majority of whose 2,200-strong employees hail from northern India, has decided to cast its net wide to make its administrative wing “pan-Indian”. Plans are afoot to recruit more personnel from the east, the Northeast, the south and the west without discriminating against candidates from the north, sources said. Chief Justice

Local authorities can prohibit malls, multiplexes from collecting parking fees: Gujarat High Court

Source: newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat High Court Wednesday said local authorities can prohibit owners of malls and multiplexes from collecting parking fee, under the provisions of the Comprehensive General Development Control Regulation 2017 (GDCR). A bench of Chief Justice Anant S Dave and Justice Biren Vaishnav said this in its order on an appeal filed by

CBI conducts raids at 110 locations across country in separate cases

source:theindianawaaz.com The places include Delhi; Bharatpur; Mumbai; Chandigarh; Jammu; Srinagar; Pune; Jaipur; Goa; Kanpur; Raipur; Hyderabad; Madurai; Kolkata; Rourkela; Ranchi; Bokaro; Lucknow and other places in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Odisha; Himachal Pradesh; Punjab; Haryana; Andhra Pradesh; Karnataka and Bihar. In one of the cases, the premises of accused persons were searched in a matter related

Supreme Court to hear plea filed by two Rohingya men against Central Government’s plan to deport the illegal immigrants

Source:www.opindia.com The Supreme Court will hear a plea filed by two Rohingya men on illegal immigrants and whether they can be granted the status of refugees. The apex court Tuesday agreed to hear the petition against the Central government’s plan to deport about 40,000 Rohingyas members back to their homes in Myanmar. The Rohingyas fled their home

Bengaluru Urban DC moves High Court seeking CBI probe

source:thehindu.com He questions constitution of SIT when new ordinance on unregulated schemes mandates CBI investigation Deputy Commissioner of Bengaluru District (Urban) B.M. Vijayshankar, who was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for allegedly taking a bribe of ₹1.5 crore for sending a favourable report about I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Group, moved the High Court