A Bengaluru court on Wednesday directed the Karnataka Lokayukta to investigate the alleged Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) scam, involving Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, his wife and others. Special Court judge Santhosh Gajanana Bhat ordered the Mysore Lokayukta police to probe the matter and submit a report before the court within 90 days. The Bengaluru court…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of YouTuber Savukku Shankar, currently in detention under the Tamil Nadu ‘Goondas’ Act, 1982. The Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra passed the order on two petitions, including a habeas corpus plea filed by Shankar’s mother challenging his recent detention under the Tamil Nadu…
The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a direction to recall and/or cancel and/or quash the entire process of selection and empanelment of the advocates made by the respondent/State Bank of India in relation to advertisement of March 2019. The PIL has been filed by a practicing advocate. After the…
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…