Source: indianexpress The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed a real estate firm to give compensation of Rs 4.5 lakh to three complainants in three separate cases. The commission has asked Puma Realtors to give a compensation of Rs 1 lakh and refund Rs 60 lakh to Satinder Kaur Sehgal, a resident of Jalandhar.

Source: ndtv KOLKATA:  In a curious fallout of the demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes, a 70-year-old man was today sent to jail for a month by a family court which refused to accept payment of alimony of Rs. 2.25 lakh to his former wife in the now-defunct notes. Additional judge Shyamal Kumar

Source: indianexpress The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in the 2012 murder case of Sheena Bora, his wife Indrani’s daughter from an earlier relationship. Justice N W Sambre, while rejecting the bail, said he would pass a reasoned order on Wednesday. Peter, who was

Source: ndtv NEW DELHI:  Delhi High Court today sought the response of the Centre on a plea seeking a direction to restrain media houses from using the word ‘Dalit’ in news articles, alleging it creates “inequality” in the society. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal issued notice to the

Source: timesofindia LUCKNOW: Sworn in as judge in the Allahabad high court on Tuesday, Justice Rekha Dixit had created history in 1988 when as magistrate in a lower court she delivered the first judgment of the country in favour of a Muslim woman, granting her right to maintenance after talaq (divorce) by a Navy officer.

Source: livelaw Arepalli Naga Babu, a visually-challenged IDIA scholar from Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, has yet again strengthened the well-known belief that the only disability in life is lack of will and fortitude. Acting on his petition, the Hyderabad High Court has directed the authorities to accept his application and permit him to write the

Source: huffingtonpost The Bombay High Court today issued notices to eight persons who were discharged earlier this year from the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, seeking response to a petition filed by the Maharashtra government against their discharge. The state has moved the high court in appeal against the order of sessions court discharging the

Source: newindianexpress NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to accept rejection of 43 names by Centre recommended by its Collegium for appointment of High Court judges. The Centre had informed the apex court on November 11 that it has returned over half the names recommended to it for appointment as high court judges

Source: thehindu The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan to unconditionally apologise for his controversial remarks about the Bulandshahr gang-rape case. He had allegedly said that the case was a “political conspiracy” against his ruling Samajwadi Party. Noting that “words once spoken cannot be re-called,” a Bench led by Justice Dipak

Source: indialivetoday Shivpuri (Madhya Pradesh), Nov 18 (IANS) The woman head of a Bal Ashram (children’s home) in Madhya Pradesh has been taken into custody over allegations that her father, now on the run, was drugging and sexually molesting the minor girls, police said on Friday. The centre, Madhav Bal Ashram, is run by a