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Del HC | ‘Permanency’ as an element of ‘Shared Household’ concept under Domestic Violence Act: Can old-aged parents-in-law be restrained from selling their house in light of shared household consequences? Read Court’s proposition

Delhi High Court: Suresh Kumar Kait, J., dealt with the provisions in regard to the concept of the shared household while referring

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

NCLAT | ‘Balance and Security Confirmation Letter’ is sufficient ‘acknowledgement of debt’ so as to extend limitation period for initiating insolvency proceedings under S. 7 IBC

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT): A Division Bench of Justice Venugopal M. (Judicial Member) and V.P. Singh (Technical Member) dismissed an

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | What is proper procedure for executing a search warrant in a jurisdiction outside of issuing court? HC decides whether Ss. 101 and 105 CrPC are directory or mandatory

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of Sunil B. Shukre and Avinash G. Gharote, JJ. addressed a very pertinent issue of what

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Delhi Police should immediately release the seized Remdesivir or other Drug used for treating COVID-19 or any Oxygen Cylinders seized from the possession of patients or their attendants || Detailed Order on COVID-19 concerns

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., addressed the issues with regard to position of Non-ICU

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Hoarding of medicines or Oxygen cylinders/ flow metres leads to artificial scarcity, to an extent which may not be there || Detailed Order of COVID-19 Crisis

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., while addressing concerns with regard to COVID-19, expressed that

Case Briefs

HP HC | Can bail be granted in cases where an accused is a foreign national and cannot furnish local surety in terms of S. 439 Cr PC? HC explains

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Anoop Chitkara, J., granted bail and held that the law under Section 439 CrPC is very clear and

Case Briefs High Courts

[COVID-19] Madras HC | States’ failure in filing status report: HC remarks State’s indolence knows no bounds to use pandemic as excuse for acting in flagrant breach of Court orders

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., while addressing the State’s failure in filing the

Case Briefs High Courts

J&K HC | [Jamat-i-Islami] HC quashes preventive detention order holding opportunity to effective representation an essential pre-requisite

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Sanjeev Kumar, J., heard the instant petition presented by the wife of the Petitioner to assail his

Case Briefs High Courts

[COVID-19] Utt HC | State to establish Real Time Portals for informing public about availability of beds, oxygen cylinders and flow-meters; HC lays down directions

Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench of Sri Raghvendra Singh Chauhan, CJ and Alok Kumar Verma, J., while addressing the present matter

Appointments & Transfers News

Chhattisgarh HC | Justice Sharad Kumar Gupta tenders resignation

Orders of Resignation Justice Sharad Kumar Gupta tendered his resignation from the office of Judge, Chhattisgarh High Court with effect from 31-03-2021.

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | ‘We made no request for any hotel, much less Ashoka Hotel’: Notice issued to Delhi Govt. after it reserved 100 rooms in 5-star hotel as Covid facility for Judges, judicial officers, families

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., took suo motu cognizance of media reports stating that

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Scope of Or. 9 R. 13 CPC application: Whether summons duly served and/or whether defendant was prevented by ‘sufficient cause’ from appearing? Explained

Delhi High Court: Manoj Kumar Ohri, J., expressed that “Sufficient Cause” is an elastic expression and no hard and fast guidelines are

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7th Episode of SCC Online Weekly Rewind featuring Bhumika Indulia, Associate Editor bringing you the most important and interesting stories from the

Appointments & Transfers News

Justice Rajesh Bindal, Senior-most Judge of Calcutta High Court to perform duties of Chief Justice of Cal HC

Order of Appointment President appoints Justice Rajesh Bindal, Senior-Most Judge of Calcutta High Court to perform the duties of the office of

Case Briefs High Courts

Telangana HC | Accused under NDPS Act granted bail in view of peculiar situation of COVID-19 Pandemic

Telangana High Court: G Sri Devi, J. addressed a petition filed under Sections 437 and 439 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 to

Case Briefs High Courts

[Supply of Medical Oxygen] Del HC | Stoppage of tankers by one State would have snow balling effect: HC hopeful that with infrastructure for transportation of liquid Oxygen been augmented, the supplies to Delhi would considerably improve

Delhi High Court: The Division Bench of Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, JJ., expressed that It serves no purpose for anyone to

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | Service of summons through Whatsapp; Is it valid in law? HC clarifies

Kerala High Court: V.G. Arun, J., addressed an interesting question regarding the validity of summons served through Whatsapp. The Bench stated, No

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | An economic offence is committed with cool calculation and deliberate design with an eye on personal profit regardless of the consequence to the Community; Bail rejected

Orissa High Court: S. K. Sahoo, J. rejected bail being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such that one

Case Briefs High Courts

[Will] HP HC | Where the document is written by one person and signed by another, the handwriting of the former and the signature of the later have both to be proved in view of S. 67 of the Evidence Act

Himachal Pradesh High Court: Tarlok Singh Chauhan, J. dismissed the appeal being devoid of merits. The facts of the case are such