Source: deccanchronicle.com Chennai: While quashing the proceedings against 92 persons, who were affected by Gaja cyclone, pending before the lower court, for allegedly raising slogans and conducting a Dharna when the state machinery was carrying relief works in Nagapattinam district, the Madras high court has dismissed another petition from 33 persons, which sought to quash an
Source: scroll.in The Karnataka High Court allowed a rape survivor to terminate her 21-week-old foetus, Live Law reported on Tuesday. The court directed the Vani Vilas hospital in Bengaluru to carry out the termination of pregnancy. It also asked the investigating officer in the case to preserve the foetus and carry out DNA test. “District medical board
Source: thehindu.com Singapore makes its biggest illegal ivory seizure since 1932, impounding a haul of nearly nine tonnes of contraband tusks from an estimated 300 elephants, authorities said on July 23. The illegal cargo, discovered on July 21 in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo being shipped to Vietnam via Singapore, also included
Source: barandbench.com The Supreme Court recently set aside an order of the Orissa High Court restraining the State from reviewing its policy on telemedicine. The Supreme Court ruled that it amounted to an interference in an exercise which was purely in the executive domain. The judgment by a Bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Aniruddha Bose came in an
Source: millenniumpost.in Noida (UP): A journalist of a TV news channel, accused of airing defamatory content on UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court in a fraud and forgery case on Tuesday, his lawyer said. Anuj Shukla, the managing editor of the Noida-based Nation Live channel, has been given
Source: greaterkashmir.com The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to decide within six weeks the plea seeking ban on the use of pellet guns for controlling street protests in the state. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of a letter dated 4 July by the Registrar
Source: telegraphindia.com he new Jharkhand High Court building complex in Dhurwa, which was supposed to be ready by December 21, 2017, is now expected to be complete by March 2020, secretary-cum-managing director of building construction department Sunil Kumar has said. The deadline for the new high court complex assumed urgency on Friday when a bench
Source: indianexpress.com The High Court of Manipur Tuesday disposed of separate petitions filed by two Congress MLAs against Minister Th. Shyamkumar Singh, seeking disqualification of the minister under the anti-defection law. The court refused to pass any order citing shortfalls of its jurisdiction under the tenth schedule. However, while giving an observation of the petition,
Source: indianexpress.com The sky was overcast, but, for the first time in over two decades, they were no longer under cloud, as they stepped out of the Jaipur Central Jail Tuesday, a day after the Rajasthan High Court acquitted them in the 1996 Samleti blast case. At 5:19 pm Tuesday, Latif Ahmed Baja (42), Ali
Source: telegraphindia.com he Bengal government’s panel of lawyers in Calcutta High Court, including advocate general Kishore Dutta, boycotted the court of Justice Samapti Chatterjee on Monday, saying the judge was not hearing their submissions properly. Justice Chatterjee said in an open court that she wasn’t bothered with the boycott. “The state panel lawyers have decided
