The Allahabad High Court has granted interim anticipatory bail to Aligarh Muslim University Professor Dr Jitendra Kumar who is facing an FIR for teaching students in the class room on the topic of rape having historical perspectives. A single-judge bench of Justice Vikram D Chauhan passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Anticipatory Bail…
The Central government has been given six months by the Delhi High Court to expeditiously address the decision on exclusion of ‘unnatural offences’ from the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita . The Delhi High Court has expressed its concern, pointing out that even non-consensual acts are no longer punishable, stating that there cannot be a vacuum when it…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to Prem Prakash, an alleged aide of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice KV Viswanathan noted that the general principle of law – ‘bail is rule and jail is exception’…
The Supreme Court will continue hearing on Wednesday on a petition filed by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) against the Jharkhand High Court order, which granted bail to Dilip Ghosh, accused in the a land scam case of Ranchi. As per the investigating agency, Kolkata-based Ghosh, as Director of Jagatbandhu Tea Estate Private Limited, bought…
The Supreme Court has directed the disbursal of arrears and allowances to claims raised by judicial officers as per earlier Court directions by states and union territories within four weeks. The CJI DY Chadrachud-led bench also comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra heard on Tuesday the states and UTs’ non-compliance with the court’s earlier…
The Gujarat High Court imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on the petitioner while dismissing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to agitate against illegal mining activities in Village Tavdi, District Navsari. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Pranav Trivedi noted that the record of the PIL presents a sorry state of…
The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional anticipatory bail to company employee Beena Rai in the FIR lodged against the builders for not handing over possession of flats after collecting the price from buyers of the multi-storey building being constructed in Manduadih police station area of Varanasi. A single-judge bench of Justice Nalin Kumar Srivastava…
The Gauhati High Court has issued notice on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against the conduct of paper lotteries in the State of Mizoram. The PIL has been filed by one Rajhu Pun. D. Mazumdar, senior counsel on behalf of the petitioner, submited that the State of Mizoram has permitted one of its distributors…
The Chhattisgarh High Court rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to set aside the Invitation for Bids (IFB) of Number 2021, assembling, establishing, procuring technology, designing, developing, producing, embossing, affixing and fitting of High Security registration Plates (HSRPs) in the State on Build, Own and Operate basis, as the same being arbitrary and against public interest….
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a joint committee to tackle pollution in Srinagar’s Dal Lake. The order was passed last week by the Coram of Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Dr A Senthil Vel. The Coram directed the committee to prepare environmental management guidelines for…