Month: December 2019

Provide Facilities to Prisoners as per SC Directions: High Court Asks J&K, Ladakh Govt.

Source – news18.com Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday asked the J&K government to provide all facilities to prisoners in Union territories of J&K and Ladakh in accordance with the Supreme Court directions. A bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Sindhu Sharma also emphasised upon the need to take disability audits

Fill food safety officers’ posts in 2 months: Telangana High Court.

Source – newindianexpress.com HYDERABAD: Making it clear that the people’s health should be of grave concern for the government, a division bench of Telangana High Court on Wednesday directed the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) to fill up 36 vacant posts of food safety officers (FSOs), six posts of food inspectors and one post

Gujarat HC upholds death sentence to man for rape and murder of 3-year-old in Surat.

Source – english.jagran.com Surat Jagran News Desk: The Gujarat High Court on Friday sentenced death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in Surat.  The accused, Anila Yadav, hails from Bihar and is in his early twenties. Yadav had committed the crime on October 14, 2018. He was convicted for rape, murder

Calcutta High Court Stays Deportation of Rohingya Couple ‘in Spirit of Humanity’.

Source – news18.com Kolkata: In a crucial judgment, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stayed the deportation of a Rohingya couple. During the hearing, the couple’s lawyer Indrajeet Dey had argued that their expatriation to Myanmar “would be tantamount to a death sentence”. Abdur Sukur and Anowara Begum had illegally entered India from Bangladesh in 2017.

Upload list of Urdu, Persian words in FIRs with meanings: Delhi HC.

Source – indianexpress.com Observing that the usage of common Urdu words such as kitaab, ilzaam and hawaalat may be permissible, but “obscure and archaic expressions can find no place in an FIR”, the Delhi High Court Thursday directed Delhi Police to upload on its website the list of archaic Urdu and Persian words which are used in registering FIRs.