The Allahabad High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings going on in the court of CJM Mirzapur against SP candidate former minister Kailash Chaurasia and others in the 2017 Sadar Mirzapur assembly elections, terming the process illegal. A Single Bench of Justice Raj Beer Singh passed this order while hearing an application filed by Kailash Chaurasiya and…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently heard an original application filed suo motu, regarding encroachment and pollution of Baghel Talab, a large water body stretching over 42 km in Uttar Pradesh. The Principal Bench comprising Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Judicial Member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Expert Member Dr A Senthil Vel considered a joint committee…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi heard a suo motu application relating to the eruption of a major fire at the Bhagtanwala garbage dump. The application sought action against the Municipal Corporation, Amritsar, and other respondents for their alleged failure to comply with environmental norms. During the hearing, the Principal Bench Comprising Judicial…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) heard an original application filed suo motu, regarding pollution in Sindh Nallah in Ganderbal, Kashmir. The Principal Bench comprising Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Judicial Member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Expert Member Dr A Senthil Vel examined the issue based on a report filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of gang leader MLA Abbas Ansari in the Gangster Act case registered in Chitrakoot, Karvi. A Single Bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Abbas Ansari. The bail application under Section 483 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the second bail plea of Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Ramakant Yadav in a spurious liquor case. A Single Bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Ramakant Yadav. This is the second bail application of the applicant. The first bail…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to enforce complete bans on firecrackers, mirroring the ban already established in Delhi. Noting the ban will effective only when other National Capital Region states have like measures in place, the bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih, which is hearing…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take all precautionary measures and ensure that no hate speeches were delivered during the ‘Dharam Sansad,’ being organised between December 17 to 21 in Ghaziabad by controversial priest Yati Narasinghanand. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar further…
The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to Mohd Abdul Samad @ Saddam, the brother-in-law of former MLA Ashraf, the brother of slain mafia don Atique Ahmed. A Single Bench of Justice Raj Beer Singh passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Mohd Abdul Samad @ Saddam. The bail application has been…
The Meghalaya High Court has directed the state government to acquire the requisite land for expansaion of Shillong airport and hand it over to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) within three months. The bench of Chief Justice I.P. Mukerji and Justice W. Diengdoh were hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) concerning the development and…