The Kerala High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking direction to the respondents to provide nomenclature in the English language for the Acts (The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and The Bharathiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023). The Petitioner further prayed to:- -Declare that the action of respondents in…
The Allahabad High Court has quashed the order to recover the excess payment made due to wrong pay fixation from a retired sub-inspector of the police department. A Single Bench of Justice J.J Munir passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Ravi Shankar Tripathi. The petition is directed against the order dated 06.03.2024…
A local court in Maharashtra on Thursday refused to grant bail to six individuals, including the parents of a minor driver, accused of tampering with the evidence in the Kalyaninagar car accident case. Additional District Judge UM Mudholkar came down heavily on the accused for conspiring to swap blood samples and shielding the minor driver…
The Supreme Court today adjourned the hearing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s pleas challenging his arrest and seeking bail in the case registered by the CBI over the alleged Delhi Liquor Policy scam, after the CBI sought time to file a counter-affidavit in the matter. A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal…
Members of the Executive Committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association have written a letter to Senior Advocate and SCBA President Kapil Sibal, after a resolution on the letterhead of SCBA was put out, signed by Sibal, regarding the brutal rape and murder of a Post-Graduate trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of the matter relating to the July 16 landslide in coastal Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district. The petition is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item dated 02.08.2024. As per the article, a preliminary report by the Geological Survey of India has listed…
The Allahabad High Court while dismissing the petition said that the benefit of concession / Input Tax Credit (I.T.C) under the tax statute can be availed only on fulfilment of certain conditions or restrictions as stipulated under the Act. By means of the petition, the petitioner has assailed the order dated 31.01.2023 passed by the…
The Gauhati High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the petitioner with the prayer to issue a direction to the respondent Nos.3 and 4 Tezpur Municipal Board and Its Chairman) to stop the project of transforming the Paltan Pukhuri road in the northern boundary of the ‘Litchu Pukhuri’, into a Food…
The Gauhati High Court admitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the petitioner, essentially being aggrieved with the action of the respondents of not completing the construction of the 15.550 km of L048–Borlangphar Railway Station Approach Road, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). It is alleged in the petition that only 13…
The Allahabad High Court while allowing an appeal said that money may always be short to fulfill all human needs, the Courts may not look at the pay package of the parties alone to determine the amount of alimony that would be awarded. The Division Bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh…