COVID-19| Delhi HC allows Delhi Govt’s decision to reconstitute SMCs through draw of lots as a stop gap arrangement
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Bom HC | No coercive action against schools for providing online classes to pupils below Class- II, similarly schools not to take action against parents unwilling to avail online classes
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and N.R. Borkar, JJ., has directed State of Maharashtra to not take any coercive
Continue readingVikas Dubey Case | All HC | PIL for constitution of Judicial Commission to probe alleged police encounter of Vikas Dubey — dismissed fo becoming infructuous
Allahabad High Court: A Division Bench of Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal and Karunesh Singh Pawar, JJ., dismissed a petition filed to seek issuance for
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Bom HC | Govt. Order for payment of full wages during lockdown not applicable where management and workmen were already engaged in industrial adjudication prior to lockdown
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Ujjal Bhuyan and Riyaz I. Chagla, JJ., rejected the relief of payment of full wages to
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Bom HC | Accused alleged to have raped repeatedly a 17 year old victim granted bail in view of confession of “consent” by victim for the act
Bombay High Court: Sandeep K. Shinde, J., granted bail to a person accused for alleged offence of committing rape repeatedly, which turned out
Continue readingDel HC | Remedy regarding service matters for members of All India Services lies only with CAT: Court while dismissing writ petition
Delhi High Court: Jyoti Singh, J., refused to entertain a writ petition filed by a member of All India Services holding that the
Continue readingTN Custodial Deaths | Madras HC appeals to Print, Visual and Social Media not to misinterpret observations made during hearings & not to conduct media trial; CBCID to file a status report in a sealed cover
Madras High Court: A Division Bench of M. Sathyanarayanan and P. Rajamanickam, JJ., while addressing the matter of Custodial Death of “Jayaraj &
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Bom HC | Prohibitory order holding admin of social media groups liable, for dissemination of false information, was in force till 8th June, 2020
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of A.A. Sayed and M.S. Karnik, JJ., addressed a Public Interest Litigation, with regard to quashing and
Continue readingM.P. HC | Provisions of Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 are applicable only against husband and not in-laws
Madhya Pradesh High Court: Shailendra Shukla, J., while addressing a anticipatory bail application, held that, “…applicability of the provisions of The Muslim Women
Continue readingDel HC | Centre to consider synchronization of work under National Capital Region Planning Board Act, 1985 & National Disaster Management Act, 2005 under a single nodal agency
Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of D.N. Patel, CJ and Prateek Jalan, J. requested Centre to consider the grievances with regard to
Continue readingDelhi HC| Reconstitution of Delhi School Management Committees postponed till next hearing
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Continue readingDel HC | Schools free to decline Online Education Facility to students whose parents fail to pay tuition fees
Delhi High Court: Jayant Nath, J., while hearing a matter with regard to parents defaulting in payment of tuition fees to schools, held
Continue readingKer HC | Rape accused freed as prosecution fails to prove act committed without victim’s consent
Kerala High Court: P.B. Suresh Kumar, J., overturned the conviction of a rape accused by giving him benefit of doubt. Case of the
Continue readingKar HC | Court directs RBI to monitor implementation of the Circular relating to regulatory package during COVID times
Karnataka High Court: Suraj Govindaraj, J., dealt with a petition which was filed in order to enforce the regulatory package announced by
Continue readingKer HC | Arts. 21 and 51-A places an onerous duty on State to ensure the well being, life and liberty of every citizen, which includes migrant workers
Kerala High Court: A Division Bench of S. Manikumar, CJ, and Shaji P. Chaly, J., while reviewing reports on conditions of migrant
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Bom HC | “If SOP encourages e-learning, any citizen questioning its intentions would only be acting against interest of his own country”
Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Sunil B. Shukre and S.M. Modak, JJ., while addressing a matter with regard to Standard Operating
Continue readingKer HC | If consent given out of love and passion on a promise of marriage, sexual intercourse is not rape: Court while granting pre-arrest bail to rape accused
Kerala High Court: Raja Vijayaraghavan V, J., allowed pre-arrest bail to the applicant accused of raping a women whom he allegedly met on
Continue readingTri HC | “Woman who lived like wife, cannot be deprived of maintenance”: Court grants maintenance to woman who “lived like wife” for 10 yrs
Tripura High Court: S. Talapatra, J., while addressing a matter with regard to provision of maintenance, observed that, When one statute ensures maintenance for
Continue readingDel HC berates lethargy of DU administration in not issuing degree certificate for “lack of paper”: DU to streamline process of issuing degree with fixed timeline
Delhi High Court: Pratibha M. Singh, J., noted that the present matter of non-issuance of degree certificates from Delhi University shows that there
Continue readingDel HC | Holistic reading of Ss. 306 and 308 CrPC reveals an “inexorable sequence” in which most mandatory step is examination of approver as a witness under S. 306 (4)
Delhi High Court: While deciding the instant matter which revolved around the interplay and interpretation of Sections 306 and 308 of the
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