The Calcutta High Court on Thursday questioned the legality of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker’s decision to recognise expelled All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MLA Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition (LoP), despite the party having nominated senior leader Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay for the post. The single-judge Bench of Justice Krishna Rao raised concerns regarding…
A Delhi court has refused to grant bail to a man accused of cheating a Haryana judicial officer of more than Rs 52 lakh through an alleged online romance scam that originated on the dating application Tinder. Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler of Patiala House Courts held that the material available on record…
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed an Allahabad High Court verdict that had censured Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sanjay Prasad for allegedly obstructing the implementation of police reforms in the state, while making adverse remarks against him. The Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Atul S Chandurkar stayed the operation of…
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted interim protection from coercive action to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Abhishek Banerjee in connection with a criminal case alleging forgery of signatures of the newly-elected party legislators on a resolution related to the appointment of the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly….
The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a writ petition filed by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh. The matter was orally mentioned on Thursday before the Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice AS Chandurkar by Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi,…
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a petition before a Mumbai court seeking cancellation of bail granted to Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, accused in the Elgar Parishad Maoists link case, on the grounds of alleged violation of bail conditions. Special Judge Chakor S Baviskar at a special court in Mumbai on Wednesday directed…
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the loss of domestic care and household services provided by a homemaker constituted a distinct and compensable head of damages in motor accident compensation cases and quantified the minimum value of such services at Rs 30,000 per month. The Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice NK Singh…
Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan has approached the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of her nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 18. Natarajan’s candidature was rejected on June 9 by the Returning Officer and Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Principal Secretary Arvind Sharma following objections raised by Bharatiya…
The Supreme Court has referred to a larger Bench an important question concerning the scope of powers exercised by a third judge hearing a criminal appeal under Section 392 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, after expressing doubts about the correctness of its earlier decision in Sajjan Singh vs State of Madhya Pradesh…
The Delhi High Court has quashed the FIR registered by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police and the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against news portal NewsClick and its Editor-in-Chief, Prabir Purkayastha, in connection with allegations of illegal foreign funding and money laundering. The single-judge Bench of…