Tag: HC

Petitioner to pay fine for disobeying Madras HC order

Source:-deccanchronicle.com Chennai: The Madras high court has imposed  costs of Rs 10,000 each on a person (petitioner) for repeatedly filing petitions for the same relief and the Director of Collegiate Education for willfully disobeying the order of the court. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana dismissed the petition filed by A.Nabeela, which sought a direction to the Director of

Supreme Court to hear government’s petition on black money law today

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear the Centre’s plea against Delhi high court’s recent order that put on hold a government notification to make the 2016 black money law operational with retrospective effect from July 2015 to book and probe offenders. The appeal has also questioned the HC’s interim order that stops the

Hyderabad HC Permits Visually-Challenged IDIA Scholar Naga Babu To Take Judicial Service Exam

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

Delhi HC sets free two men accused of raping colleague

Source: ptinews Delhi High Court has set free two men of the charge of raping their colleague, saying there was “inconsistency” in the woman’s version about the incident. Holding that the two convicts, who have been in custody since June 2009, “deserve the benefit of doubt”, Justice S P Garg directed their release from jail

HC says ridiculing wife’s cooking is not cruelty: Here are some of the other cruel observations

Source:- firstpost.com Taunting a wife and ridiculing her lack of English speaking skills don’t amount to cruelty under the law, says a recent Bombay High Court ruling granting bail to a man charged with the abetment of suicide and showing cruelty to his wife. The Free Press Journal reported the court’s observations: “According to the

Bombay HC rejects bail of teacher who allegedly sexually harassed 10-year-old girl while taking selfie

Source:- dnaindia.com The Bombay High Court has rejected the bail application of a primary school teacher who was charged with molesting a 10-year-old girl. Justice Mridula Bhatkar rejected the bail plea of Sagar Mohite, saying: “This offence cannot be justified in any manner as the applicant/accused is a teacher, who is in a position of