A Compassionate Appointment Claim by a work-charged employee’s son cannot be rejected on the 2014 exclusion alone without examining the 2016 circular, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held.
About eight years: that is how long a contractor waited before asking a writ court to help him recover time-barred dues, and a Division Bench of the Patna High Court has held that the wait was far too long. Patna: The Patna High Court has dismissed a Letters Patent Appeal by a Rohtas contractor seeking […]
Offering a bank draft under a One Time Settlement scheme does not buy back a unit that has already been sold, the Patna High Court has held, giving a defaulting borrower no enforceable right to restoration of his auctioned factory. Patna: The Patna High Court has dismissed a writ petition by the proprietor of a […]
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Thanjavur District Collector to safely shift a Periyar statue standing near the Brahmasirakandeeswarar Temple at Kandiyur to another location within four weeks.
The Delhi High Court partly allowed Vishnu Prasad’s appeal, retaining a five-year sentence for aggravated sexual assault while setting aside the penetrative-offence convictions. The child’s compensation remains unchanged.
Who may try a juvenile directed to be tried as an adult? Not a Special CBI Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled: the Gurugram school murder trial will stay with the Children’s Court at Gurugram. Chandigarh: Dismissing a petition that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed in 2018, the Punjab and […]
The Kerala High Court has struck down the Vizhinjam Coastal Erosion Expert Committee over members’ prior links to the port project, held its no-erosion report shall not be acted upon, and ordered a fresh independent panel.
A non-party can appeal consent decree with leave of the appellate court if it prejudicially affects a legally cognisable interest, the Supreme Court has held, explaining that the estoppel of a compromise binds only those who agreed to it. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, October 30, upheld a Gujarat High Court order granting […]
The Delhi High Court remanded Adit Buildwell’s service-tax case after finding that its request for more time to produce documents was neither considered nor rejected.
The CBI has told the Supreme Court it supports the Twisha Sharma trial transfer from Bhopal to Delhi, alleging that accused former judge Giribala Singh and her son Samarth Singh may influence the trial and intimidate witnesses. The allegations are untested.
