The Allahabad High Court said that instances of the kind in which the advocates show discourteous behaviour towards the presiding judge cannot be tolerated. The Division Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Gautam Chowdhary heard a contempt application taking suo moto cognizance. The case arose from an incident on February 3, 2023, during…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a cost of Rs 1 upon the Surveyor General, Survey of India for not complying with the directions of the Tribunal. The Principal Bench of Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and Dr A. Senthil Vel examining the issue wherein admittedly at least 30,000…
The Allahabad High Court has stayed the order of SSP Meerut to recover Rs 4,02,938 from a retired sub-inspector for excess payment of salary due to a departmental mistake. A single-judge bench of Justice JJ Munir passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Gajendra Singh. The petitioner is a retired Sub-Inspector of Police,…
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the implementation of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 all over the state of West Bengal. In the petition there are certain annexures which included notices issued by the National Highways Authority of India for removal…
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Maharashtra police over the death of Badlapur sexual assault accused Akshay Shinde in an encounter on Monday. The Division Bench of Justice Revati Mohite Dere and Justice Prithviraj Chavan questioned the Thane police’s claim that Shinde had snatched a policeman’s weapon, prompting the cops…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday closed suo motu proceedings it had initiated against a judge of the Karnataka High Court for calling an apparently Muslim-dominated area in Bengaluru as Pakistan. The five-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice BR Gavai, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hrishikesh Roy closed the…
The Allahabad High Court has said that a person’s exoneration in departmental proceedings cannot be the basis for quashing the criminal case while dismissing an application. A single-judge bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing an application under section 482 filed by Subhan Ali. The Application U/S 482 CrPC has been filed…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken Suo Motu cognizance of a recent study that has found that pollution and human conflict has significantly increased stress hormone levels among mugger crocodiles (crocodylus palustris). The petition is registered suo-motu on the basis of a news item dated 14.08.2024. As per the article, mugger crocodiles, also known…
The Bombay High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking a direction to the respondents to consider providing one compartment with separate entrance for senior citizens in local trains in Mumbai. Responding to this PIL petition, an affidavit in reply has been filed on behalf of the respondents, wherein it has…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of a man accused of murdering a minor child. A single-judge bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Manu Kumar Rajbhar. By means of the bail application, the applicant has prayed to be enlarged on bail…