Month: November 2019

Source – thehindu.com The government is learnt to have cleared the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation to appoint Justice A.A. Kureshi as the Chief Justice of Tripura High Court. The Collegium had initially in May recommended Justice Kureshi for appointment as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. But the government, in back-to-back letters on August

Source – livemint.com High courts of Patna, Delhi and Kerala rank the highest on their compliance of the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005 according to a recent study by think tank Vidhi Centre for Legal policy. The think tank developed a ‘Convenience Index’ which evaluates the extent to which the RTI Rules framed by

Source – scroll.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a plea filed by the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking a clarification on the court’s November 3 order on the clash between police personnel and lawyers at the Tis Hazari court complex in New Delhi, ANI reported. The High Court had on November 3 ordered that no

Source – indiatoday.in The family members of the Shahjahanpur rape survivor have filed a 15-page affidavit before the Allahabad High Court accusing the Special Investing Team (SIT) of physically abusing them. The family has also expressed lack of faith and trust in the probe team. The affidavit, filed by the brother of the rape survivor,

Source – outlookindia.com The Uttarakhand High Court has reprimanded the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Ltd for charging a nominal sum per month from its General Manager as electricity bill even though he owes the corporation dues worth lakhs of rupees.  Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Alok Kumar on Wednesday sought a clarification from the UPCL on

Source – deccanchronicle.com Hyderabad: It was not a good day in court for some of the top officials and bureaucrats of the Telangana state government on Thursday, with the two-Justice Bench showing the top bureaucrats of K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s government their place. The higher echelons of the TS bureaucracy, including the chief secretary, had to face

Source – indianexpress.com The Supreme Court will hear on Friday the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea against a Bombay High Court order granting stay on the proceedings against Lawyers Collective, a non-profit run by former Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising and senior advocate Anand Grover. The CBI has also sought the court’s permission to arrest

Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Sunday constituted a judicial committee to conduct an enquiry within six weeks into Saturday’s violence between policemen and lawyers at the Tis Hazari Court complex. Retired Justice SP Garg will the head the committee. He will be assisted by Director (Intelligence Bureau), Director (Central Bureau of Investigation)

Source – telanganatoday.com Hyderabad: The High Court on Wednesday passed orders allowing the Rachakonda Police to summon IPS trainee K Venkata Maheswara Reddy for questioning in connection with a dowry harassment case filed against him by his wife. The Rachakonda Police have also written to the Lal Bahadur Shastry National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, regarding the

Source – news18.com Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to preserve until further orders the bodies of two Maoists who were killed in an encounter in the Agali forests last week, after their relatives filed a plea against a court order permitting their cremation. It also directed the government to keep