The Delhi High Court has refused to grant bail to a man accused of committing a largescale crypto currency fraud to the tune of Rs 50 crore. The single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia denied bail to the accused on the grounds that unlike most conventional bodily offences, economic offences, especially those dealing with crypto currency,…
The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) has written a letter to the Bar Council of India, denouncing BCI’s Rules for permitting market liberalisation. Recently, SILF constituted a committee of lawyers headed by Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Chairman Shardul Shroff to suggest changes to the amended BCI Rules. Sent by SILF President Lalit Bhasin on July 9,…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to give internship stipend arrears within two weeks to 11 medical students who completed their primary medical education from foreign institutions and qualified as Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs). The petitioner-FMGs were currently doing internship at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, a constituent college of…
A court in Lucknow on Tuesday granted bail to Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, booked for allegedly making derogatory comments against soldiers of the Indian Army during his Bharat Jodo Yatra The order was passed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Alok Verma after Gandhi personally appeared before the MP-MLA Special Magistrate…
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday permitted the construction of a passenger jetty and terminal near the Gateway of India in Mumbai worth Rs 229 crore, albeit with conditions on facilities to be provided at or near the terminal. While dismissing two petitions seeking discontinuation of the project, the Bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to de-register All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Musalimeen (AIMIM), a political party led by Member of Parliament (MP) Asaduddin Owaisi. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymala Bagchi directed the petitioner to file a plea on the larger…
The Union government on Monday notified the appointment of new Chief Justices for the High Courts of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gauhati, Patna and Jharkhand. It also approved the transfer of four High Court Chief Justices. A notification issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice said Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, (parent High Court, Delhi), was appointed as…
The Union government on Monday approved the transfer of 17 High Court judges. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended the transfer of 22 judges on May 26. Out of these, the Ministry of Law & Justice approved 17 names today. The judges chosen for transfer included four from the Allahabad High Court; three from the Punjab…
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, who contracted a severe infection during his recent visit to Telangana, is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi. Sources said the CJI was responding well to the treatment and was expected to be discharged soon. He would resume duties in a day or two, they added. Details about the…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg Sandra Day O’Connor, former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, once said: “The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.” Taking a…