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West Bengal Panchayat Election 2023| Calcutta High Court slams SEC & State for non-cooperating with Centre on deployment of Central Forces

Calcutta High Court directed the Chief Secretary of the State of West Bengal to call for an urgent meeting to take policy level decisions with regards to the pertaining issue.

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Constitutional Courts to tread with caution while dealing with challenges to Orders of Specialised Tribunals: Meghalaya HC

The Constitutional Courts would not interfere with a view expressed on interpretation unless it appears to be grossly inappropriate and outlandish.

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Delhi High Court upholds arbitral award for not falling within the mischief of Section 48(2)(b)(ii) of Arbitration Act

A challenge to an Award on the grounds of violation of “public policy” or “fundamental policy of Indian law” would be liable to be countenanced provided it is established that its enforcement would run contrary to well-established legal tenets which brook of no exception.

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Setback for Former Hockey Player Birendra Lakra; Orissa HC orders fresh Probe into Friend’s Death

The Court said that proper and fair investigation is sine qua non of criminal jurisprudence and directed the CID-Crime Branch to reinvestigate the case.

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Failure in Verifying Address of Bail Applicant even after Sufficient Opportunities, Orissa HC warns of Contempt Action against Erring Officials

The Constitution of India embodies a federal structure of Government which essentially requires a strong sense of cooperation among not only the Government at the Centre and the States but also the provincial Governments inter se.

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Karnataka High Court refuses to grant relief to an advocate accused of raping a law intern; Says that the advocate must come clean in a trial

The Court stated that any interference under S. 482 of CrPC would be rendering approval of the accused-advocate’s depravity and will have a chilling effect on legal profession. Thus, the accused-advocate must come clean in a full-blown trial.

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Bombay High Court refuses medical bail to Nawab Malik in PMLA case

Nawab Malik’s bail plea will be heard on merits in two weeks.

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‘Privacy, publicity and personality rights not heritable’; Delhi High Court refuses to stay “Nyay : The Justice” movie based on Sushant Singh Rajput

“The rights ventilated in the plaint, that is, the right to privacy, the right to publicity and the personality rights which vested in Sushant Singh Rajput, were not heritable. They died with his death. The said rights, therefore, did not survive for espousal by the plaintiff.”

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‘Never been in custody’, says Police for a person claiming to have spent 2 years in custody; P&H HC directs DGP to look into the matter

Punjab and Haryana High Court perused the affidavit submitted by the Superintendent of Prison, according to which, the petitioner had already undergone custody of more than 2 years and 5 months.

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Madras High Court directs DGP to identify cases involving consensual relationship amongst pending POCSO cases; Discontinues two-finger test and potency test

If consensual relationship cases are segregated from the pending cases, it will be easy to deal with them and in appropriate cases, the Court can also exercise its jurisdiction and quash the proceedings, if the proceedings are ultimately going to be against the interest and future of the children involved in those cases and it is found to be an abuse of process of Court.

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Delhi High Court refuses bail to Leena Paulose wife of Sukesh Chandrashekhar in 214 crore extortion case

Delhi High Court observed that at the stage of bail, the mini trial is totally prohibited. However, the record amply indicates that Leena Paulse was involved in the organized crime syndicate. It is unbelievable that such huge amount of money were coming in her account and she was accepting the same only as a dutiful wife.

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Calcutta High Court resolves ‘Seat’ versus ‘Venue’ enigma when agreement confers ‘exclusive jurisdiction’ upon a court other than venue

Calcutta High Court dismissed the present petition on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction.

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[Dishonour of cheque] Rajasthan HC suspends sentence of convict and grants him bail till final disposal of Revision

Rajasthan High Court said that the hearing of revision is likely to take more time, thus, it is a fit case for suspending the sentence awarded to the convict.

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Delhi High Court sentences Veer Singh, son of Max Group founder for three months simple imprisonment for contempt of court

The Court directed the SHO, Tilak Marg to issue warrants of arrest against Veer Singh and shall also get the Look Out circular issued against him as he was not willing to comply with the orders of this Court.

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Fake Mark-Sheets for LLB Admission; Gujarat HC upholds decision of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University cancelling Student’s Result

The Court said that the student could not be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong and fraud.

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Journalist’s mobile cannot be seized simply because he got information about some crime: Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court directed the Station House Officer to file a statement with circumstances under which the journalist’s mobile phone was seized.

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Delhi High Court upholds revocation of PepsiCo India’s registration for a potato variant used in the manufacture of Lays

Delhi High Court remarked that the present case is an example of the Registrar not insisting on the compliance of the Act, the Rules and the Regulations from the applicant.

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‘Publish details of grievance officers on website for public access’; Delhi High Court directs LinkedIn

The details of the Grievance Officers in terms of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, including the physical and email address shall be published openly for public access on LinkedIn’s website.

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Allahabad HC directs JLN medical college to constitute 5-member team to examine minor rape victim for medical termination of pregnancy

In the case of sexual assault, denying a woman right to say no to medical termination of pregnancy and fasten her with responsibility of motherhood would amount to denying her human right to live with dignity as she has a right in relation to her body which includes saying Yes or No to being a mother.

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Can a wife be entitled to maintenance under S.125 CrPC if marriage is invalid? Madras HC answers

Madras High Court said that concerning the present economic scenario and the status of the parties, the fixation of the monthly maintenance at Rs. 10,000/- for the wife and daughter is very much reasonable and the same cannot be said to be excessive.