From a 2008 advertisement to a daily wage of Rs 1,200: the Tripura High Court orders regularisation of a contractual Tripura University employee after 15 years and calls both the 2016 re-designation and the 2022 order arbitrary. Reinstatement is due within a month, with regularisation from February 2, 2016. Agartala: Setting aside a Single Judge’s […]
Should the Election Commission’s own working be examined from outside? A Supreme Court PIL seeks former CJI-led expert committee scrutiny of the Commission’s functioning and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, resting on written objections by two Election Commissioners, at least 14 in ten months according to a media report; the contentions are […]
When both WhatsApp numbers came back, the Bar Association President’s plea had nothing left to decide: the Madhya Pradesh High Court closed it without any further directions. Jabalpur: Counsel for WhatsApp told the Madhya Pradesh High Court that both numbers of the President of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association, whose WhatsApp accounts he […]
The Gujarat High Court has called the Surat Corporation’s reversal on housing for demolition victims prima facie criminal contempt and has summoned the Municipal Commissioner and the Standing Committee Chairman to explain it in person. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Friday (October 23) said that the “change of stand” by the Commissioner of the […]
Misconduct upheld, removal undone: the Allahabad High Court has found the removal of a court employee over a single incident outside working hours, after more than two decades of service, shockingly disproportionate, and has set aside the penalty while leaving the findings of misconduct undisturbed. Lucknow: Setting aside the removal from service of a Deputy […]
Timing alone does not prove mala fides, the Central Administrative Tribunal has held in refusing to quash disciplinary proceedings against an IPS officer accused of involvement in a plot to impersonate a former Patna High Court Chief Justice. The State has been asked to try to finish the inquiry within six months. Patna: A charge […]
Seven FIRs over one incident, and a news report reposted on X: the Karnataka High Court has issued six guidelines against mechanical arrests and repeat FIRs over social media posts, saying that registration of a crime must not automatically lead to arrest, and has quashed the Puttur case against the account’s administrator. Bengaluru: Crime No. […]
Police cannot compel adult woman to return home, and neither can her parents: that is the Kerala High Court’s holding, which still lets the police record her presence in a missing person case. Ernakulam: A missing person complaint filed by a mother had led to a registered crime, and the Kerala High Court has ruled […]