Category: LEGAL NEWS

The Delhi High Court today extended till September 28 the interim protection from arrest granted to senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on his pleas seeking anticipatory bail in the INX Media case. The matter was mentioned before Justice A K Pathak, who asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file a reply within four weeks. During the hearing, the CBI told the court that it has already filed its reply in the case. Senior advocates Dayan Krishnan, Pramod Kumar Dubey, Ramesh Gupta and Mohit Mathur appeared for Chidambaram. The matter will…

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A Delhi court today allowed Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, accused in a case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in a luxury hotel here, to travel abroad. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal allowed Tharoor’s application seeking permission for eight visits to five countries, including the US, Canada and Germany, till December. The court placed several conditions on Tharoor, while noting that there was nothing on record to suggest that he may flee justice. “He (Tharoor) has cooperated with the investigation. He had appeared before court on the first…

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The Supreme Court today said there will be no coercive action by authorities against over 40 lakh people, whose names do not figure in Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), observing that it was merely a draft. The top court asked the Centre to formulate modalities and the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) including timelines for deciding claims and objections arising out of the publication of the draft NRC. A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman asked the Centre to submit the modalities and SOPs before it for…

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The Supreme Court today made it clear that it cannot direct doctors to perform genital mutilation of minor girls of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and questioned the “scientific justification”, if any, behind the procedure. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which was hearing a PIL challenging the practice, questioned the process saying that there was hardly any rationale behind it as a girl child is forced to undergo it due to non-medical reasons. “Do you (A M Singhvi) wish us to pass an order under Article 142…

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New Delhi, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court considered today the submission of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA) that it should dispose of the suo motu cognizance of the Kathua gangrape and murder case in which it has taken strong note of some lawyers obstructing the judicial process. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud took note of the submission by senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the JKHCBA, that the trial in the matter has…

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New Delhi, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi Police commissioner to come out with a time line for removing traffic bottlenecks at 77 congested corridors in the city and also asked him to frame a policy to deal with impounded vehicles lying at police stations here. Pulling up the authorities for not having a definite timeline on the issue, a bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta referred to a dialogue in a Bollywood movie ‘tareekh pe tareekh’ (date after date) about court…

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New Delhi, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court has said that courts need to pass a reasoned order in every case which would enable the parties involved in the litigation to understand as to “why one party has won and other has lost”. The top court remanded back to the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore, a matter related to provident fund contribution for deciding it afresh. A bench of justices A M Sapre and Navin Sinha said that the order of the court should highlight the legal principles…

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Mumbai, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government and the Directorate of Education to call for compliance reports from all educational institutes and universities in the state on facilities provided to disabled students. In an order passed earlier this week, a bench of Justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni said the state must inform the court whether or not all educational institutes across Maharashtra were providing barrier-free access in their buildings to disabled students and staff members. The bench was hearing a Public…

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Mumbai, Jul 28 (DIN NEWS) The Maharashtra government justified its decision to remove a special public prosecutor from Khwaja Yunus custodial death case, for seeking to arraign four policemen as accused in it, and told the Bombay High Court that it was not trying to protect the police officials. The government, through a notification in April this year cancelled advocate Deepak Mirajkar’s appointment as special public prosecutor in the case. The government’s decision came after Mirajkar filed an application before a sessions court, which is presently conducting the trial in…

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Lucknow, Jul 27 (DIN NEWS) A court here framed charges today against Mohsin Raza alias Arshad, a minister in the BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh, in connection with a 29-year-old road rage case. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nirbhay Prakash also framed charges against co-accused Akbar and fixed August 4 for the recording of evidence of the prosecution witnesses. The accused were present in the court at the time of framing of charges. A truck driver, Lallan, had lodged an FIR at the Wazirganj police station on August 4, 1989, alleging…

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