Promoted on an ad-hoc basis in 2006, kept on for six years, then reverted, a group of MCD junior engineers spent two decades litigating for regularisation. The Supreme Court, deprecating the Corporation’s apathy, held that once the Lieutenant Governor approved the rule relaxation the approval related back to 2006, and ordered regularisation and consequential benefits from the date they were first promoted.
A woman sought a direction to the Family Court to decide her maintenance execution case quickly. The Allahabad High Court declined, observing that she was pursuing maintenance across multiple forums without seeking divorce or restitution, and that multiplying non-compulsive litigation adds to the burden on overstretched Family Courts.
The former NSE Managing Director argued that officers of a private company cannot be public servants under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Supreme Court declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court’s rejection of that argument, holding that whether she was discharging a public duty is a question she can raise at trial.
With 40 of 120 witnesses examined and the appellant in custody since December 2018, the Delhi High Court granted bail in an NIA case, holding that a High Court must decide on the law as it stands even though the interplay between Article 21 and Section 43D(5) of the UAPA has been referred to a larger Bench.
The judiciary cannot place itself beyond scrutiny, and fair, informed criticism of judicial functioning is a legitimate and necessary feature of a constitutional democracy, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said, adding that public trust is “the only currency that authority is ever paid in.” New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has […]
The Allahabad High Court accepted that conversion does not automatically extinguish Scheduled Tribe status, which remains a question of fact, but dismissed a woman’s petitions after finding she had not produced material showing continuing Bhuiyan customs, community participation and acceptance on the dates of three land purchases.
An independent MLA in Haryana switching sides three times gave Indian politics a phrase in 1967. Nearly sixty years, two failed Bills, one constitutional amendment and one repeal later, the same question is back before the Supreme Court. A look at how the Tenth Schedule was built and why each reform produced the next workaround.
The Bombay High Court declined to hand interim custody of a girl to her biological parents from a neighbour couple who had raised her since infancy, holding that the welfare of the child, not the rights of the rival claimants, is paramount, and that uprooting a settled ten-year-old from the only home she has known […]