Category: LEGAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism. The bench, which also comprised justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said it was the duty of state…

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying “horrendous acts of mobocracy” cannot be allowed to become a new norm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide “preventive, remedial and punitive measures” to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism. The bench, which also comprised justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, said it was the duty of state…

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Mumbai, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) The Bombay High Court today imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Hotel Leela Venture Limited for “forum-hunting” by seeking that their pleas, challenging eviction proceedings initiated against it by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), be heard by a single judge bench. The AAI had, in February last year, issued an eviction notice to Hotel Leela Venture, which runs a five-star hotel near the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, for non- payment of dues. The Airports Authority initiated the procedure to evict the hotel…

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New Delhi, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Taking note of several cases where persons were arrested or taken into preventive custody as there were “no guidelines”, the Delhi High Court has decided to examine the issue saying such instances curtailed the liberty of an individual. Considering that liberty of the detained persons was being curtailed through the use of statutory powers by special executive magistrates (SEM), the court raised another question about the provision of legal aid to such people to make them aware of their rights. “The court proposes to…

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New Delhi, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court has asked Air India to replace the chairperson of its panel looking into the sexual harassment allegations by an air hostess against one of its senior officials following which the national carrier agreed to bring in a new person. The complainant had claimed that the panel chairperson was close to the official accused of misconduct. Air India agreed to replace the chairperson of its internal complaints committee (ICC) after the high court made it clear that it would otherwise stay…

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New Delhi, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sodomising a three-and-a half-year-old boy, observing that the child was subjected to traumatic and brutal sexual assault. A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel dismissed the man’s appeal and upheld a trial court’s order convicting him for the offences of aggravated penetrative assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and kidnapping and wrongful confinement under the IPC. The bench noted that the child was “too young…

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New Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) A special court today ordered framing of an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block. Special judge Bharat Parashar said the charge will formally be framed against the accused on August 16. The court had in April, 2016 ordered framing of charges against Jindal, former MoS for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao (since deceased), former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former Coal Secretary…

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New Delhi, Jul 13 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be “like creating a surveillance state”. The top court said the government wants to tap citizens’ WhatsApp messages and sought its response within two weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the Centre on a plea by Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator…

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Chennai, Jul 11 (DIN NEWS) Coming down heavily on the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR and CE) Department over idol thefts in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today said if such a situation continued, it would be constrained to hand over all the related cases to the CBI. Justice R Mahadevan said this while hearing a batch of petitions with regard to idol thefts in the state. The judge, during the course of the hearing, took serious view of the news published in some newspapers with regard to…

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Madurai, Jul 12 (DIN NEWS) The Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit video recordings, documents and reports pertaining to protests against the Sterlite Copper smelter plant in Tuticorin, which saw violence and firing in the town on the 100th day of the stir. Thirteen people were killed in police firing on May 22 and 23 when violence broke out during the protest by locals, demanding closure of the Sterlite plant (a unit of Vedanta Limited) over pollution issues. A division bench comprising justices C T…

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