Month: December 2020

Arvind Kejriwal’s neighbours move Delhi High Court for action against Delhi Police [Read Order]

Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s neighbours moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking contempt action against Delhi Police for allowing protests to be held in their area, causing problems in traffic movement due to road Jam. The Single Bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva heard the plea filed by Civil Lines Residents Association thereby

MP govt seeks court intervention to prevent honey-trap accussed from getting access to video evidence

Source:-https://www.indiatoday.in The Madhya Pradesh government does not want to hand over the video and electronic evidence seized in the murky honeytrap case that rocked the state in September 2019 to the accused. A Special Court in Indore on December 4 had asked the Special Investigation Team formed to investigate the case and to hand over

Centre can notify any land, acquire it for highway: Supreme Court

Source:-https://indianexpress.com The Centre is “fully competent” to notify “any land (not necessarily an existing road/highway) for acquisition, to construct a highway to be a national highway”, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday while upholding notifications issued under the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Act, 1956, for acquisition of land for construction of the eight-lane

Supreme Court sets aside Madhya Pradesh HC order on grant of tender for flyover project

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order asking the state government to grant tender for a 7.4 kilometer-long flyover project at Indore to Uttar Pradesh State Bridge Corporation Ltd (UPSBCL), saying it suppressed ‘most material fact’ of lodging of an FIR against it in the 2018 Varanasi

Supreme Court Pushes Back Tata-Mistry Case Hearing To Wednesday

Source:-https://www.ndtv.com The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred hearing in Tata-Mistry case for Wednesday, December 9. Tata Sons and Cyrus Mistry Group have challenged a December 18, 2019, order of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that had ordered the reinstatement of Cyrus Mistry as the Chairperson of Tata Sons Limited. The two conglomerates have been

Bombay High Court seeks to know stand of other democracies on offensive social media posts

Source:-https://scroll.in The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sought to know what stand democracies across the world take about offensive tweets or posts on social media, PTI reported. The High Court was hearing the final arguments on a plea filed by Mumbai resident Sunaina Holey, who was booked for allegedly posting offensive tweets against Maharashtra Chief

Justice Bindal made Acting CJ of Jammu & Kashmir High Court

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com The appointment follows retirement of Chief Justice Gita Mittal. Justice Bindal is known for his proficiency in bringing justice closer to the people through computerisation. As chairman of a panel constituted by the National Legal Services Authority, he has already submitted a report on optimal use of technology, including artificial intelligence. Justice Bindal was

Resume land registrations using old system: Telangana High Court

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: Making it clear that it has not issued interim orders for stoppage of registrations of non-agricultural properties, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday suggested to the State government to go ahead with registrations of such properties as per the old procedure. The court also said that such registrations are subject to outcome of

Bombay High Court seeks to know stand of other democracies on offensive social media posts

Source:-https://scroll.in The Bombay High Court on Tuesday sought to know what stand democracies across the world take about offensive tweets or posts on social media, PTI reported. The High Court was hearing the final arguments on a plea filed by Mumbai resident Sunaina Holey, who was booked for allegedly posting offensive tweets against Maharashtra Chief

Defence Ministry stops ‘illegal’ pay cut of troops

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com The Ministry of Defence has stopped the practice of deducting one-third salary of the jawans and junior commissioned officers in case there was “no reporting” about any “occurrence” about the career or life of troops within 10 months. The Defence Ministry has told the accounts wing, which is known as Controller General Defence Accounts