HIGH COURT WEEKLY ROUNDUP [27th October — 2nd November] | Stories on False Allegations Against Spouse; Crypto Currency As Property; Skechers Trade Mark; and more
A quick legal roundup to cover important stories from all High Courts this week.
Sex Determination
Each instance of sex determination undermines value of female life, endangers pregnant women to unsafe medical procedures: Delhi High Court
“Beyond the immediate family, such acts corrode social conscience, and strike at the hope of a society to be free from discrimination. If such practices are allowed to continue, it would send a message that human life has little value.”
Chairman or any other Member acting alone, cannot authorise Search under Section 30(1) of PNDT Act: Supreme Court
Pointing out that if the law requires a particular thing to be done in a particular manner, the same shall be done in that manner only, the Court held that decision to authorise search must be a decision of the Appropriate Authority as a whole.
Delhi High Court | Courts must prioritise purpose of a statute over technicalities while deciding condonation of delay applications
The primary intent of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 Act is to safeguard the rights of the unborn girl child and promote gender equality by curbing the misuse of diagnostic techniques for sex determination. Therefore, while deciding applications seeking condonation of delay, Courts should prioritize the Act’s underlying purpose over technicalities.
Can Court take cognizance of complaint filed by single-member Appropriate Authority for offences under PC&PNDT Act, 1994? Del HC elaborates
Delhi High Court: Mukta Gupta, J., held that, the Metropolitan Magistrate/ Judicial Magistrate of the first class is competent to take cognizance
Utt HC | Investigating Officer pulled up for disregarding NALSA judgment, and lodging petitioner’s rape complaint as an unnatural offence under S. 377 IPC
Uttarakhand High Court: Ravindra Maithani, J. has asked the State of Uttarakhand whether an Investigating Officer, by conducting DNA tests, has the