The Supreme Court has held that an employee, who died after meeting with a fatal accident during commute to work, was entitled to compensation under the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923. The Bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice KV Viswanathan passed the order on Tuesday in case of a watchman, who died after meeting with…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house inquiry committee’s report that indicted him over the alleged recovery of a huge sum of unaccounted cash from his official residence in Delhi. The Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice AG…
Five lawyers and two judicial officers were sworn-in as judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday. Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva administered the oath of office and secrecy to Advocates Pushpendra Yadav, Anand Singh Bahrawat, Ajay Kumar Nirankari, Jai Kumar Pillai and Himanshu Joshi, along with judicial officers Ramkumar Choubey and Rajesh Kumar Gupta. …
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has filed an application in a Pune court seeking contempt of court proceedings against Satyaki Savarkar, the complainant in a criminal defamation case filed against Gandhi for allegedly defaming freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Judicial Magistrate First Class Amol Shinde of Special MP/MLA court will hear…
The Karnataka High Court has reserved it’s judgment on a petition filed by X Corp challenging the authority to issue information blocking orders under Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act. The single-judge Bench of Justice Nagaprassana reserved it’s verdict in the case. The petition sought declaration that Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act did not…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader and activist Medha Patkar in a criminal defamation case filed by Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001. The single-judge Bench of Justice Shalinder Kaur held that there was no illegality in the verdicts delivered by the trial and…
The Supreme Court has expressed its reservation over the procedural casualness and the timing of a petition filed by Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, challenging the in-house inquiry committee’s report that indicted him over the alleged recovery of a huge sum of unaccounted cash from his official residence in Delhi. The Bench of…
The Supreme Court has sought response from the Union government, the Bar Council of India (BCI), the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Law Commission of India on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking establishment of a legal education commission. The Apex Court passed the order on a petition filed by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay,…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday assured the petitioners challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar that it would not let any mass exclusion take place during the draft list of voters currently being prepared by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya…
The Madras High Court has expressed its strong displeasure over a lawyer making communal allegations against a sitting High Court judge and television channels for raking in money by running such stories, stating that both should be taken head on. The Bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice K Rajasekar made these observations while hearing a…