Tag: Kerala High Court

Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Central Government on Thursday submitted before the Kerala High Court that the implementation of the Attappadi Comprehensive Tribal and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Development project formulated by Union Ministry of Rural Development is facing severe resistance from local politicians in Attappady. The Centre made the submission in response to a petition filed

Source: deccanchronicle.com KOCHI: The High Court on Tuesday came down on the state government for issuing an order preventing officials from providing any information on inter-state river disputes under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A single bench, taking exception to the wordings of the government order, stated: “I must say that I fail to

Source: newindianexpress.com KANNUR/KOCHI: Ten days have passed since NRI businessman Sajan Parayil committed suicide, but the investigation into the case has made little progress with the police not pressing charges against anyone so far though four officials of Anthoor Municipality have been suspended by the state government. Even an anticipatory bail petition filed by suspended

Source: dnaindia.com The ruling CPI(M)’s state secretary, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Monday said nobody attempted to settle the rape allegation levelled against his son Binoy Kodiyeri by a Mumbai-based woman. Balakrishnan, who addressed the media after a meeting of the party’s state committee, said he came to know about the complaint only after a court sent a

Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Kerala High Court, which on Friday expressed shock at the suicide of the foreign-returned businessman in Anthoor, observed it was unfortunate to see an investor being pushed to the brink by the insensitive attitude of the regulatory authorities. The court asked for an investigation at the government level into the incident.

Source: telegraphindia.com A Kerala woman has chopped off her tresses in symbolic protest against the state electricity board shaving the crowns off several trees in her grove to erect a transmission tower. Former journalist Meena Menon, 48, had fought six years to protect her biodiversity-rich, 2-acre patch of mini-tropical vegetation, Shantivanam (Forest of Peace), from

Source – newindianexpress.com KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by the Kerala Private Hospitals Association (KPHA) challenging the order of single judge declining to stay the government order on the revision of minimum wages of nurses. While declining the plea to stay the notification fixing the minimum

Source:- deccanchronicle.com Kochi: Former Indian Test player S. Sreesanth on Wednesday moved the Kerala High Court seeking a directive to the  Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to lift the life ban imposed on him by the disciplinary committee of the board. The BCCI had refused to consider a legal notice sent by

Source – intoday.in In an unusual case of alleged conversion and marriage at the behest of the Islamic State, a division bench of the Kerala High Court declared the wedding of a 24-year-old Hindu woman with a Muslim man as void. The case took a curious turn with allegations that the woman was forcibly converted to

Source – indianexpress.com Parents of the Muslim woman convert, whose marriage the Kerala High Court nullified two days ago, forcibly took her home on Friday after she refused to go with them. The court had given the custody of Akhila alias Hadiya to her father, K M Ashokan, while nullifying her marriage with Shefin Jahan