Source – hindustantimes.com High courts in the country are functioning with only 62% of their sanctioned strength of judges, according to the latest figures released by the ministry of law and justice on Tuesday, illustrating the difficulties impeding the justice system and leading to a long backlog of cases. As of December 1, the 25
Source – indianexpress.com Indore police on Monday filed the chargesheet in the alleged Madhya Pradesh ‘honey strap case’, naming eight people, including two who are at large. Meanwhile, Indore police have booked Jeetu Soni, businessman and editor of the newspaper Sanjha Lokswami, on a rape complaint by a Mumbai-based woman. Soni’s newspaper had filed several
Source – thenewsminute.com In a temporary relief to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh, High Court gave stay on the cancellation of his Indian citizenship on Monday. Earlier in November, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had cancelled his citizenship on the grounds that he held citizenship of Germany and didn’t fulfil the norms
Source – deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court asked the Centre and state governments why they had taken no steps to add to the number of protected monuments of national importance in the state and particularly in Hyderabad. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy directed the two governments
Source – indiatoday.in In a jolt to Rampur MP Mohmmad Azam Khan, the Allahabad High Court on Monday annulled the election of senior SP leader’s son Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan as an Uttar Pradesh MLA on the ground that he was underage and not qualified to fight the poll in 2017. A bench of Justice
Source – ndtv.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea filed by advocates seeking disciplinary action against police personnel who sat on protest after the lawyers-police clash at Tis Hazari court complex and asked them to approach the Delhi High Court for relief. The top court said the high court is
Source – npr.org The U.S. Supreme Court said late Friday that it will review three lower court decisions upholding congressional and grand jury subpoenas for financial records from President Trump’s longtime personal accountants and from banks he did business with. The high court’s order sets the stage for a constitutional battle over the limits of
Source – newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: As the Supreme Court stayed the the Telangana High Court’s proceedings on the Shadnagar ‘encounter’, a division bench of the high court on Thursday directed state Advocate General BS Prasad to immediately make a mention before the apex court seeking clarification on the bodies of the four accused, which are preserved at
Source – hindustantimes.com The Madhya Pradesh High Court’s principal bench at Jabalpur has dismissed Bhopal BJP MP Pragya Thakur’s objections against a petition challenging her election in the Lok Sabha polls earlier this year. A Bhopal based journalist has accused Thakur of winning the polls by inciting communal passion and sought that her election is
Source – newindianexpress.com The Supreme Court has appointed a three-member inquiry commission headed by former apex court judge V S Sirpurkar to inquire into the circumstances leading to the encounter killing of the four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad. Sirpurkar’s team includes a retired judge of the Bombay High Court
