Setting aside an order branding a man a ‘Goonda’ on the strength of two criminal cases three years apart, the Allahabad High Court held that the UP Control of Goondas Act is being used as a tool of oppression by the bureaucracy, and awarded Rs 50,000 in damages, giving the State liberty to recover the sum from the salaries of the officers responsible.
Defending the Election Commission’s recognition of the Shinde faction, Senior Advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul argued in the Supreme Court that the Commission’s power under Article 324 lets it look past a party constitution on paper to how the organisation actually functions, and that an organisational majority resting on ad hoc appointees may not reflect the will of the cadre. The submissions are his; nothing has been decided.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has given the CBI a week to respond to the regular bail application of former district judge Giribala Singh in the Twisha Sharma dowry death case. Singh, mother-in-law of the deceased, denies the allegations. The matter is listed for September 21 and nothing has been established at trial.
A UP distribution company demanded over Rs 57 lakh in minimum consumption charges in 2007 for an additional load it had offered, but never released, back in 1998. The Supreme Court dismissed the discom’s appeal, holding that electricity charges become ‘first due’ only when a bill is issued, and that a demand raised nine years later was barred by limitation.
The Madras High Court quashed an animal-cruelty case against a man accused of pelting a stone at a neighbour’s pet dog, holding that the offence is non-cognizable and carries a maximum fine of Rs 50, so the police were required to obtain the Magistrate’s prior permission before registering the FIR, and had not. Chennai: The […]
Instead of sending a payment aggregator’s suit for pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, the Delhi High Court requested the Reserve Bank of India to depute a senior officer to mediate within thirty days, and froze all interchange-related deductions from the plaintiff’s escrow account in the meantime.
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
Speaking at the 6th Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture, Senior Advocate Harish Salve asked why no criminal case was registered after burnt cash was found at a judge’s residence, and argued that judicial independence cannot mean immunity from accountability. Justice Varma denies wrongdoing and no criminal charge has ever been brought.
Six years after Disha Salian’s death was closed as an accidental death, the CBI has registered an FIR on the Bombay High Court’s direction. The Court directed a fresh investigation while expressly protecting persons whose names have surfaced, holding that nobody is to be treated as an accused on that basis alone. Nothing has been established.