Category: LEGAL NEWS

A special court here on Thursday granted 60 days extension to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to file a charge sheet in the drugs-on-cruise case, in which Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is an accused. The probe agency had on Monday filed an application before special judge V V Patil, seeking a 90-day extension to file a charge sheet in the case since the investigation in the high-profile case was still on. However, the judge, after hearing arguments of both the prosecution and defence lawyers, gave…

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The Allahabad High Court has observed that there is no penal provision to hold political parties accountable if they fail to fulfil promises made in their election manifestoes. The court clarified that a political party as a whole can’t be made liable under the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951 for adopting corrupt practices of the election. Justice Dinesh Pathak observed it on March 2 while hearing a petition filed by Khurshidurehman S Rehman, who had sought the registration of a criminal case, contending that the BJP “failed” to fulfil the…

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The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed actor Dileep’s plea opposing further probe in the 2017 actress assault case and permitted the Crime Branch to go ahead with the investigation. The order was passed by Justice Kauser Edappagath who said that the investigating agency has to complete the further probe as expeditiously as possible and not later than April 15. The actor, represented by senior advocate B Raman Pillai and advocates Philip T Varghese and Thomas T Varghese, had contended that the further investigation was a “sham” and an attempt…

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The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed former West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay’s challenge to the transfer of his application concerning proceedings against him from Kolkata to New Delhi by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Jyoti Singh said there was no reason to interfere with the transfer, and clarified that it was not expressing any opinion on the merits of the proceedings against him. Bandyopadhyay had moved the Kolkata bench of the CAT to challenge the proceedings initiated against him…

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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on March 11 a plea of Malayalam news channel ‘MediaOne’ against the Kerala High Court order upholding the Centre’s decision to ban its telecast on security grounds. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna took note of the submissions of senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for the news channel, that the plea needed an urgent hearing. This is too serious. For 11 years, we have been functioning and we have 350 employees and millions of viewers.…

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The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the District Judge (Headquarters) to file a report in relation to the trial court proceedings on sentencing of a lawyer who was convicted for assaulting a retired district court judge when she was an advocate. The high court’s direction came after being informed by the retired judge that two sitting district judges were present on the dias when the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) was conducting the proceedings in the matter. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anoop Kumar Mendiratta wondered how two other…

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The Kerala High Court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its verdict on Malayalam news channel MediaOne’s appeal against a single judge order upholding the Centre’s decision to stop its telecast by not renewing its licence. Besides the channel, appeals were also moved by some of its employees, including its Editor, as well the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) whose pleas against the Centre’s decision were also rejected by the single judge on February 8. According to the cause list uploaded on the high court website, it will pronounce…

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Four new Delhi High Court judges took oath of office on Monday, taking their total strength to 34. Chief Justice D N Patel administered the oath of office to Justices Neena Bansal Krishna, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, Anoop Kumar Mendiratta and Sudhir Kumar Jain, who were appointed as judges of the Delhi High Court on February 25. The swearing-in ceremony took place at the court of Chief Justice in the presence of other high court judges and family members of the newly sworn-in judges and lawyers. The new appointments take the…

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Prima facie, there are reasonable grounds to believe that allegations against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik are “well-founded”, observed a special court here while remanding him in the custody of the ED in connection with a money laundering case. Special judge R N Rokade, designated to hear matters related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), also said that sufficient time is required to be granted for the investigation of the offence and Malik’s custodial interrogation was necessary. The court on Wednesday remanded Malik, a senior NCP leader, in the…

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The Delhi Government Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the process of appointing a Lokayukta, as promised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its election manifesto of 2020, was going on. The submission was made in response to a public interest litigation seeking a direction to the AAP government here to appoint within one month a Lokayukta as promised by the party in its election manifesto. Noting the submission of the counsel for Delhi government, a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh listed…

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