Source – hindustantimes.com The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the jail authorities to decide in a week the plea of Jessica Lal murder convict Manu Sharma, who has spent about 17 years in jail, seeking eight-week parole to look after family needs. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar was informed by the counsel for Sharma that his

Source – hindustantimes.com MDMK General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko on Wednesday raised the long-standing demand in the Upper House of Parliament of setting up a bench of the Supreme Court in South India for the convenience of litigants. Raising the issue in Zero Hour, Vaiko said a bench of the Supreme Court in

Source – hindustantimes.com The Bombay high court on Wednesday raised security concerns about the use of Shivaji Park for swearing-in ceremony of Shiva Sena boss Uddhav Thackeray as Maharashtra chief minister. “Just imagine what will happen at the ground and the by lanes around, if there is a gathering of 4 to 5 lakh people

Source – odishabytes.com The Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha government has once again clarified that it has “no plans” to open the locks — neither for audit nor for the inventory — of the Ratna Bhandar at the Lord Jagannath Temple in Puri. The last time the government opened the locks of the treasury was way back

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has stayed the execution of a warrant issued by a Mahila Court in Coimbatore on Monday for hanging to death R. Manoharan, convicted for abduction, rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl apart from the murder of her seven-year-old brother, after subjecting him to sodomy, in Coimbatore on

Source – thehindu.com The Madras High Court has summoned Home Secretary Niranjan Mardi to explain the delay in releasing five life convicts despite specific orders passed by a Division Bench of the court between December 7, 2018 and January 25 to release them forthwith by according the benefit of premature release granted to many other

Source – thehindu.com The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the recently released 13 life convicts in the Melavalavu massacre case to stay in Vellore district and not enter the region in Madurai district, till the disposal of the writ petition. The life convicts were recently released by the government on account of

Source – newindianexpress.com AHMEDABAD: Gujarat High Court on Tuesday, in response to a habeas corpus filed by the father of two women missing from the Ahmedabad ashram of self-styled godman Nithyananda, directed police to use all available mechanism to trace the duo. A division bench of Justices S R Brahmbhatt and AP Thaker directed the

Source – indiatoday.in The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to immediately shut down 4,774 industrial units running in residential areas. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel passed the order after perusing a report filed by an Oversight Committee, headed by former judge Justice Pratibha Rani, which said that

Source – theprint.in New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has called for 100 FIR copies to ascertain whether a recent police circular to its stations to stop the use of 383 urdu or persian words while registering complaints was being complied with, saying FIRs “should be in a simple language”. A bench of Chief Justice D