The Delhi High Court has ordered a lawyer to provide pro bono legal services in at least two cases registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, as condition to accept his apology in a contempt of court case registered against him. Advocate Shivanshu Gunwal was charged with raising his voice…
The Karnataka High Court on Friday stayed the proceedings going on in a trial court against former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in a sexual harassment case filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012. The single-judge Bench of Justice Pradeep Singh Yerur further quashed the summons issued against Yediyurappa on the…
The Delhi High Court has dismissed the bail petition of one Naval Kishore Kapoor, booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with a terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmir. The Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur noted that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the allegations against the…
The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Union government, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University and others on a petition challenging the appointment of Professor Mazhar Asif as Vice Chancellor of the varsity. The single-judge Bench of Justice Prateek Jalan sought response from the President’s Secretariat, Union Ministry of Education, Professor Mazhar Asif, JMI…
The Bombay High Court on Thursday held that its former judge, Justice Pushpa V Ganediwala, who took voluntary retirement from service in February 2022, was entitled to pensionary benefits, as applicable to High Court judges. The Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Bharati Dangre passed the order on a petition filed by the…
The Uttarakhand High Court has stayed the proposal to fell 3,300 trees in the Shivalik elephant reserve for a road-widening project connecting Bhaniyawala in Dehradun to Rishikesh. The Bench of Chief Justice G Narendar and Justice Ashish Naithani on Wednesday directed the Counsel appearing for the State of Uttarakhand to intimate the officers not to…
In order to bring transparency in the electoral process of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and make it more democratic, a committee appointed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday invited suggestions from SCBA members regarding changes in its bye-laws. Headed by Apex Court judge Justice L Nageswara Rao, the committee asked the SCBA members…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a petition filed by Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid, challenging a trial court order denying him custody parole in a terror funding case. The Division Bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Rajneesh Kumar Gupta issued notice to NIA and…
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to undertake and complete the whitewashing of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh within a week. The single-judge Bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal further ordered the ASI to install lights on the outer portion of the mosque. On…
The Centre on Wednesday apprised the Punjab and Haryana High Court that MP Amritpal Singh has been granted leave of 54 days from attending the ongoing Budget Session of the Parliament. Appearing for the Union of India, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Satya Pal Jain contended that Amritpal’s application seeking leave from the Parliament was allowed…