Source: hindustantimes.com The Bombay high court (HC) has received 74 petitions from students from the scheduled tribe (ST) communities alleging that their constitutional right has been deprived because they were denied documents that entitled them to quota seats. Admissions to undergraduate medical and dental courses have been on hold for more than three weeks now
Source: evartha.in Kochi: A day ahead of the end of the five-day deadline for vacating their flats here, built in violation of CRZ norms, the owners on Friday stuck to their stand of staying put and decided to move the Kerala High Court against alleged illegalities in the pre-demolition notices. The owners, who have been
Source: news18.com Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Friday said it will hear on September 23 a plea by self-styled godman Asaram for suspension of life imprisonment awarded to him for raping a girl in his ashram in 2013. The Jodhpur bench of the high court deferred the hearing after the public prosecutor sought time for
Source: deccanchronicle.com KURNOOL: The demand for shifting the capital city and AP High court from Amaravati to Kurnool has been gathering momentum with protest marches and hunger strikes on the rise. Kurnool Bar Association which had been in the forefront of securing establishment of the AP High Court at Kurnool has passed a resolution in the
Source: indiatoday.in Shehla Rashid, JNU student leader and aspiring politician from Kashmir, is the latest target of the sedition law. Her tweets on alleged army excesses in Kashmir prompted Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava to file a complaint with the Delhi Police. Given that the complaint cites a cognisable offence under the Indian Penal
Source: scroll.in The Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association has written to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, requesting him to transfer the court’s third most senior judge, Sanjay Yadav, from the state because of his alleged misbehaviour with lawyers, Live Law reported on Friday. The lawyers are apprehensive that Yadav may become the acting chief justice at
Source: dnaindia.com Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing Muslim parties in the Ayodhya Babri Masjid land dispute case, on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that he has been receiving threats on social media for appearing in the matter.”I am receiving threats on Facebook for appearing against in the case,” he submitted before a five-judge constitution
Source: dnaindia.com Former BJP parliamentarian Dinu Bogha Solanki and his nephew Shiva, who have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court on July 11 for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa, have moved the Gujarat High Court challenging the verdict of the lower court. The appeals are likely to
Source: thehindu.com The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the State government and the Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR) Ltd. to submit an application within a month to the Union government seeking consent — under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 — for the lodges operated in permanent structures built using materials such as bricks in the forest
Source: nenow.in The Sikkim High Court on Thursday rejected a plea for live telecast and video recording of the court proceedings of a writ petition. The single-bench court of Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan in an order said the application seeking live telecast and video recording of the court proceedings “does not merit any further consideration”. The petitioners
