Renowned lawyer, scholar and political commentator, Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani, passed away in Mumbai on Thursday. He was 93. Born in 1930, Noorani practiced in both the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court. He was a reputed name in the Indian legal and political circles, respected for his knowledge in Constitutional law. He was…
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday dismissed two petitions challenging the Karnataka government’s decision to rescind consent for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in a corruption case against Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar. The Bench of Justice K Somashekhar and Justice Umesh Adiga observed that the dispute between the Central government and the…
The Allahabad High Court has dismissing an appeal and held that pre-institution mediation under Section 12A (1) of Commercial Court Act, 2015 is necessary only when urgent relief is not claimed in the suit. A single-judge bench of Justice Vipin Chandra Dixit passed this order while hearing an appeal filed by Ashok Kumar Katiyar. The…
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed alleging public cause that to avoid transparency and open competition, the Municipal Council, Rampura Phul, District Bathinda, has adopted the process of open bidding where only two bids were received for execution of the work of completion of CT/PT toilet blocks, which…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of the matter relating to the rising pollution in the seven Great Lakes trek in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. The petition is registered suo motu on the basis of the news item dated 09.08.2024. As per the news item, the pollution crisis is due to…
The Allahabad High Court has quashed the order of the District Basic Education Officer dated August 9, 2024 which refused to grant 180 days maternity leave to Kushal Rana, assistant teacher of Primary School Mundika Mankara Rampur, terming it illegal. A Single Bench of Justice Prakash Padia passed this order while hearing a petition filed…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo motu cognizance of rising ground level ozone pollution across India’s major cities. The petition is registered suo-motu on the basis of a news item dated 06.08.2024. News item relates to the rising ground level ozone pollution across India’s major cities. As per the news item, this invisible…
The Allahabad High Court has said that if the lawyer assessed that there was no chance of success of the entire appeal and he decided to restrict his prayer for waiver of the penalty, it cannot be said that he acted absolutely without any authority. A single-judge bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed this order…
The Supreme Court on Thursday reprimanded Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over his remarks against the Apex Court’s judgment of August 28, in which it granted bail to BRS leader K Kavitha in the Delhi liquor policy scam case. A report was today published by a media outlet, quoting Reddy as saying, “It is…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor seeking to quash a criminal defamation case filed against him over a statement comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion. Noting that no ground was made in the petition to quash the proceedings at this…