Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of 12 Delhi University colleges, which are fully funded by the AAP government, on a plea challenging the decision asking the institutes to pay outstanding salaries of staffers from the Students Society Fund. Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices to the 12 colleges and asked
Source:-https://www.ndtv.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court today issued a show cause notice to the Secretary of Maharashtra legislative assembly asking him to explain in two weeks as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for his letter to journalist Arnab Goswami allegedly cautioning him against disclosing house notice to the Supreme Court.The
Source:-https://www.theindianwire.com The Kerala High Court has observed that an employer should not deprive an employee from the privilege of the Gratuity Act by nominating him/her as a trainee while extracting daily work from him. Under the Gratuity Act, Justice AM Badar noted that a trainee is not exempted from the meaning of the term ’employee,’
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com NEW DELHI: The Centre Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the Central Vista project, covering three-km stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate in Lutyens’ Delhi, would “save money” which is paid as rent for housing Central government ministries in the national capital. It submitted that the decision to have a new parliament building
Source:-https://www.tribuneindia.com Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, November 4 Can a Subdivisional Magistrate (SDM) in Haryana entertain an application filed by parents under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act in his individual capacity instead of a duly constituted maintenance tribunal as envisaged under rules? This vital question of law has come under the judicial
Source:-https://www.thenortheasttoday.com Kali Sankar Baidya’s application seeking medical reimbursement for a total expenditure of Rs.3,72,031 was rejected because he did not obtain a prior referral order from the Medical Board. Challenging the rejection order, Baidya approached the High Court and contended that he had applied for a referral order before going for treatment outside the state
Source:-https://www.freepressjournal.in The Bombay High Court recently came to the rescue of a senior citizen, who had dragged his employer to the court for withholding his terminal benefits of Rs 5 lakhs. The company withheld this amount towards pending dues since it by mistake hiked his salary during his service. A Bench of Justice Manish Pitale
Source:-https://www.nationalheraldindia.com The other day a Madras High Court judge lamented that India, the holy land, has become the land of rapists, where a rape is happening every 15 minutes. Justice Kirubakaran, his name literally meaning merciful, made the observation while hearing a petition relating to the gang-rape of a migrant labourer in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur,
Source:-https://theprint.in New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the contempt proceedings initiated against Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal for alleged non-compliance of the Uttarakhand High Court’s last year order on payment of rent by former chief ministers of the state for occupying government accommodation. A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman stayed the contempt
Source:-newindianexpress NEW DELHI: With Justice Arun Mishra set to retire on September 2, the strength of the Supreme Court judges will not only get reduced to 30 from the total 34 but the regional imbalance will get further accentuated. As many as nine high courts are not represented at all in the apex court and
