Month: December 2019

Delhi High Court refuses protection from coercive action to two Jamia students.

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to grant interim protection from coercive action to two women students of Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) University in relation to the violence during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The hearing in the matter also witnessed heated exchange of words between Delhi government

Cyber space aspects should be made part of syllabus: Former Supreme Court CJI Dipak Misra.

Source – indiatoday.in Cyber space and cyber crime, its control, impact and all other aspects should be made part of school and college syllabi to make students aware of the field, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra said on Saturday. Human intelligence always have primacy and the educated should not be scared of using

AP high court orders discoms to clear arrears of Rs 1450 cr of renewable power producers.

Source – hindustantimes.com The Andhra Pradesh high court on Friday directed state-run power distribution companies to pay Rs 1,450 crore to solar and wind power producers towards arrears to be paid to them for the power supplied by them. A division bench of the high court comprising chief justice JK Maheshwari and justice Venkata Ramana

Citizenship Act stir: Yogi Adityanath government starts process to seize property of rioters.

Source – newindianexpress.com LUCKNOW: The Lucknow district magistrate Abhishek Prakash has set up a four-member panel that will assess damage to public and private property during the violence in anti-CAA protests. The panel will identify the trouble makers and impose fine on them and if they fail to pay the amount, their properties will be

Clear lawyers’ dues or face the music, Punjab and Haryana HC warns officials.

Source – hindustantimes.com The Punjab and Haryana high court has warned officials dealing with sanctioning of lawyers’ bills to clear the same by February 20 failing which they will be forced to attach their salaries. The direction was given by the bench of justice RN Raina, who was hearing a clutch of petitions, initially brought

Bodies of 4 men killed in Telangana encounter to be kept for further probe: SC

Source – hindustantimes.com The bodies of the four men accused in the veterinary doctor’s rape and murder case, who were killed in an alleged encounter with the police at Chatanpalli village of Telangana’s Shadnagar town last week, will continue to remain in the morgue of the Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad for an indefinite period. The

Vidarbha irrigation scam: Bombay HC adjourns hearing in PIL for central probe till Jan.

Source – hindustantimes.com The Bombay High Court on Monday adjourned the hearing to January in a plea demanding a central probe into the multi-crore Vidarbha irrigation scam and opposing the Maharashtra anti-corruption bureau’s (ACB’s) clearance to NCP leader Ajit Pawar. ACB, in its affidavits submitted to the high court in November, had ruled out the

Supreme Court to hear plea on Jamia violence today.

Source – hindustantimes.com Expressing his disapproval of “rioting and destruction of public property” , Chief Justice of India refuse to hear a case on the run-in between the police and students of Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia university and Aligarh’s Aligarh Muslim University till the “rioting” stopped. Students at both universities were at the receiving end

Trying to delay the inevitable, Centre to Supreme Court on Delhi gang-rape convict’s review petition.

Source – hindustantimes.com There were demands of showing no mercy to Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts awaiting death penalty in connection with the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, during the hearing on his review petition. The Solicitor General, opposing any leniency to Akshay, said, “There are crimes when humanity is put