Month: December 2020

Post offices in Jammu and Kashmir to help deliver justice

Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Post offices in Jammu and Kashmir will help deliver justice. In an out-of-the-ordinary initiative, the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir is on Monday launching a project that uses the pre-existent postal system in 11 districts to allow citizens to register their disputes through the local post offices as well as common service centres.

Government teachers begin indefinite stir in Tripura to reinstate their jobs

Source:-https://www.edexlive.com Thousands of government school teachers in Tripura, who had earlier lost their jobs following court verdicts, began an indefinite sit-in demonstrations from Monday to reinstate their jobs. The leaders of the Joint Movement Committee (JMC), which is spearheading the agitation, announced that they would intensify their stir until the state government gives them written

‘Abuse of power’: Allahabad HC questions ‘attempt to murder’ charge for attending Tablighi meet

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com LUCKNOW: IN a major observation, the Allahabad High Court said that filing a charge sheet for attempt to murder a person for attending Tablighi Jamaat meet at New Delhi early this year even though he tested negative for COVID-19 prima facie reflected an abuse of the power of law. The court directed to put

Gauhati High Court stays environmental clearance for drilling near Dibru-Saikhowa National Park

Source:-https://www.timesnownews.com Guwahati: The division bench of the Gauhati High Court on Monday stayed the Centre’s permission to government owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) to drill seven wells inside a famous national park in eastern Assam, officials said. The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, where the OIL proposed to drill for its ambitious hydrocarbon projects is adjacent to

Supreme Court hears lawyer from his home through video-link

Source:-https://www.thenews.com ISLAMABAD: After conducting proceedings of cases through the e-court system, the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday initiated listening to the counsel at the principal seat, Islamabad, from their homes. A three-member SC bench, headed by Justice Mushir Alam, heard arguments of senior lawyer Khalid Anwar from his home in Karachi in a case regarding

Manipur student organisations ask state government to look into absence of VC in MU

Source:-https://www.thenortheasttoday.com IMPHAL: Six different student bodies namely Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM), All Manipur Students Union (AMSU), Manipur Students Federation (MSF), Kangleipak Students Association (KSA), Students Union of Kangleipak (SUK) and Apunba Ireipakki Maheiroi Sinpanglup (AIMS) on December 7, urged the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the state government to look into

LIFE Mission scam: CBI moves Kerala HC seeking to vacate interim stay on probe order

Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday approached the Kerala High Court seeking to vacate the interim order staying the ongoing probe into the scam in LIFE Mission, the Kerala government’s housing project for the homeless. The Single Judge had earlier stayed for two months all further proceedings in the CBI probe

Businessman accused of GST fraud gets Gujarat HC relief

Source:-https://indianexpress.com A Surat-based businessman accused of fraudulently claiming input tax credit under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was granted temporary relief by the Gujarat High Court on December 2 after it emerged that the state and Centre were conducting parallel investigation under their respective Acts for the same offence. The court directed that there

J&K HC comes down heavily on illegal occupation of govt bungalows by former ministers, ex-legislators

Source:-https://www.indiatoday.in After Roshni land scam, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court intervened in a case related to the illegal occupation of government bungalows by former ministers and ex-legislators. While hearing a PIL filed by Prof SK Bhalla through Advocate Sheikh Shakeel, Jammu and Kashmir High Court has come down heavily on the Union Territory administration