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Source: hindustantimes.com In a setback to the Punjab government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s decision on micro-reservation in private medical colleges in the state. With this, the deadlock over the counselling for MBBS and BDS courses being conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot,

Source: thehindu.com The Madras High Court on Tuesday strengthened security on its campus in the wake of a bomb threat letter received by its Registrar General C. Kumarappan on Monday from a person who identified himself to be Hardarshan Singh Nagpal of the ‘International Khaalistan Support Group’ and claimed to have planned multiple bomb blasts

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: A 23-year-old man who filed a habeas corpus petition that his distant relative, a woman, was missing and sought the Telangana High Court’s intervention, was penalised by the court with Rs 50,000 for filing a false petition and misusing the law. The High Court last week, received a habeas corpus petition from Vaspari

Source: indialegallive.com The High Court of Delhi has refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation filed by Suraz India Trust, an NGO, through its Chairman Rajiv Daiya. Court said the Supreme Court had earlier issued orders against Rajiv Daiya and had directed the Registry not to accept any application filed by them. The Delhi High Court bench

Source: moneycontrol.com A 2004 sexual harassment case against angel investor Mahesh Murthy has been quashed by the Bombay High Court. The court noted that the complainant has not “properly explained” why a case was filed 14 years after the incident. The suburban Bandra Police had registered the case against Murthy in March 2018 under Indian Penal

Source: telegraphindia.com Calcutta High Court division bench on Tuesday extended the order restraining the resumption of East-West Metro’s tunnel-boring work in the Bowbazar area till November 8. The division bench of Chief Justice T.B.N. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee asked the state government and the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation, the project’s implementing agency, to file

Source: indiatoday.in Four new judges were appointed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, taking its strength to 34, the highest-ever. According to separate Law Ministry notifications, justices Krishna Murari, SR Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy were appointed as judges of the top court. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names to the government

Source: deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has expressed its outrage over the apathy of the Fire Safety Department, Medical and Health department and municipal authorities in not acting against private hospitals that do not follow fire safety and other rules. The division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Annireddy Abhishek Reddy came

Source: freemalaysiatoday.com PETALING JAYA: The number of Anti-Trafficking in Persons (ATIP) cases that ended in conviction in 2018 was 115, while between January and July this year there were 23 convictions, the de facto law minister’s office clarified today. Samantha Chong, the press secretary to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Liew Vui Keong, said

Source: indiatoday.in he Supreme Court on Tuesday sought to know from CBI and ED the status of investigation and trial in the coal block allocation scam cases probed by the two agencies. The court said it would take a practical view on repatriation of officers, involved in the investigation of coal scam cases, to their