The West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services had directed the All India Trinamool Congress to vacate two floors of its Camac Street office in Kolkata over fire-safety lapses. The Calcutta High Court set the order aside, finding that the authority passed it a day after the party’s reply without considering that reply, without a fresh inspection, and without even serving the order on the party. It ordered fresh consideration.
Dismissing a first appeal, the Gujarat High Court upheld concurrent findings of the Waqf Board and the Waqf Tribunal on the character and management of a disputed dargah waqf in Patan district. It held that an inquiry under Section 40 of the Waqf Act is not a full-fledged trial, and that the appellants had shown no real prejudice from the denial of a separate hearing on their preliminary objections.
The Allahabad High Court quashed a “Goonda” declaration and six-month externment, holding that a single pending case cannot establish the “habitual” criminality the law requires, that the police “deliberately portrayed a false picture” by relying on a case in which the man had been acquitted years earlier, and calling it “a glaring example of the […]
The Patna High Court has quashed the State Bank of India’s decision treating a long-serving officer as having “voluntarily resigned” for staying away on medical grounds, holding that absence compelled by illness is not wilful abandonment and that the Bank acted arbitrarily and in breach of natural justice. Patna: The Patna High Court has set […]
CJI Surya Kant said the allegations raised by Justice Sandeep Mehta against Rajasthan HC acting CJ SP Sharma are being examined institutionally, cannot be treated as proven, and won’t be decided in the media. New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said that the concerns raised by Supreme Court judge Justice Sandeep Mehta […]
The Supreme Court directed the Allahabad HC to defer proceedings in the disproportionate assets case against Rahul Gandhi and barred the CBI from filing any report, questioning the lack of a hearing. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Allahabad High Court to defer the proceedings before it in a petition alleging that […]
