Jignesh Shah run- 63 Moons Technologies, the prime accused in the Rs 5,600 crore National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) scam, has siphoned off crores from attached assets breaching Supreme Court order, an investigation by the Maharashtra Government Competent Authority found. Legal experts are of the firm belief this is a clear-cut case of contempt. The…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the principal of Government High School, Jamalpur Awana, District Ludhiana, for having cut three fully-grown healthy trees in the school premises thereby causing adverse impact to the environment. On issuance of notice by the High Court, a status report has been…
The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to a man accused of entering a house and raping a woman and the niece of the informant at knife-point. A single-judge bench of Justice Krishan Pahal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Kuldeep. Applicant seeks bail in Case under Sections…
The Allahabad High Court while rejecting an application observed that the Court by invoking inherent power under Section 482 Cr.P.C cannot become a tool to frustrate the very object of Section 125 Cr.P.C merely on objection of jurisdiction. A Single Bench of Justice Saurabh Shyam Shamshery passed this order while hearing an application under section…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) praying for the quashing of Expressions of Interest (EoI) invited for preparation of District Survey Reports before inviting bids for mining of sand in Punjab. The petitioner claims that in violation of the Supreme Court judgment passed in 2020, (State of…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Central government to file a comprehensive affidavit on whether the directions passed by the court in suo motu proceedings on granting ration cards to migrant workers & unskilled labourers and the subsequent passed orders have been complied with. The Bench of Justice C.T. Ravikumar and Justice Sanjay Karol…
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on a petition seeking the transfer of trial against him and others in the 2015 cash-for-vote scam outside the state. The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice K V Vishwanathan directed the Congress leader and others to respond to the…
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Bibhav Kumar, an aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested in connection with the alleged assault on Member of Parliament (MP) Swati Maliwal, till the conclusion of trial in the case. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan allowed the bail…
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed an appeal filed under Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 challenging the order passed by the Additional District Judge, Fatehpur, whereby the trial Court dismissed the divorce case instituted by the appellant, seeking dissolution of his marriage on the grounds of insanity and cruelty. The Division Bench…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of the matter relating to the death of 17 workers and injuries caused to 20 others due to the eruption of a major fire reportedly after a reactor blast in a manufacturing company plant in the Special Economic Zone at Atchutapuram in Anakapalli of Andhra…