The Kerala High Court has restored the elected managing committee of the Thiruvananthapuram Regional Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union after finding no justification for removing it without the statutory hearing and consultation process. An inquiry report obtained through RTI showed that the authorities already had the relevant material, undermining the fear that the committee would destroy […]
On CJP protest police excesses, the Supreme Court has told the Justice R Subhash Reddy-led High-Powered Enquiry Committee to give its first fact-finding report within a month, and to consider material filed by petitioners on behalf of victims as well. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the High-Powered Enquiry Committee (HPEC), set up […]
Can a later building plan with extra development rights shrink a housing society’s recreation-ground share? Not once the entitlement has crystallised, the Bombay High Court has held. Devendra Co-operative Housing Society gets 463.38 square metres of a common recreation ground, and the Court found that delay did not defeat its claim to full conveyance. Mumbai: […]
One respondent was spared and the rest were told to take content down: the Bombay High Court has granted ad-interim relief in the Rupali Ganguly personality rights suit against AI-generated, deepfake and other objectionable material that, the television actor says, uses her name and image without her consent. Mumbai: Huts and Looms Pvt. Ltd. is […]
“Your argument may have some substance, but we don’t want to express any opinion,” the Chief Justice said in oral remarks as the Supreme Court declined to examine the Azam Khan ED arrest itself and transferred his writ petition to the Allahabad High Court, with records to reach it within two days and a Division […]
Rs.17,627 out of a basic salary of Rs.26,000 was deducted from a retired Lieutenant General appointed Chairman of the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission, and the Supreme Court has now upheld the ‘Pay Minus Pension’ rule behind it. Allowing the State’s appeals, it held that withholding pension during the new tenure is not withdrawal of the […]
Is insubordination an integrity issue? In oral remarks, the Supreme Court said it is a question of temperament, and declined to entertain the Allahabad High Court’s challenge, leaving a ‘Doubtful Integrity’ ACR Remark against a woman judicial officer in Uttar Pradesh expunged. New Delhi: A challenge by the Allahabad High Court to the removal of […]
Decades of litigation wash away the technical impediments that once stood in a landlord’s way: the Supreme Court has held that a Landlord’s Bona Fide Need cannot be defeated by the passage of time, restored the eviction order and given the tenant thirty days to leave. New Delhi: A neurosurgeon who wanted to set up […]
Merely showing circulars and a press release that permit holding gold to a certain extent does not amount to accounting for the assets, the Supreme Court has held, restoring a Disproportionate Assets Case against a Bihar public servant that the Patna High Court had quashed on that ground. New Delhi: A Patna High Court order […]