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New Delhi, June 8: The Delhi High Court has held that encroachers cannot claim a right to continue occupying public land till their rehabilitation claims are not resolved, as this would unduly impede public projects. The high court made the observation while granting liberty to the DDA to proceed with the demolition action at Bhoomiheen Camp in South Delhi's Kalkaji in accordance with law. Justice Dharmesh Sharma said the writ petitions were not only flawed due to the misjoinder of multiple par ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Revenue minister Suresh Pujari on Saturday said Odisha would not be allowed to follow the lawless path in sand operations like it is in Bihar and West Bengal, while responding to the recent assault of an additional tehsildar in Kaptipada block, Mayurbhanj district, by the sand mafia. He promised stringent action against the sand mafia regardless of their connections, while speaking to mediapersons here on Saturday."The Kaptipada incident represents a serious escalation in conflict b ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana high court dismissed the Punjab govt's plea to modify its May 6 order, directing the state to comply with the May 2 decision of the meeting -- chaired by the Union home secretary -- to release additional water to Haryana from the Bhakra Dams. However, the court said Punjab could refer the matter to the central govt for further consideration."The state of Punjab is not left remediless, since it can always make a reference to the central govt in terms of Explanation ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The high court has refused to quash proceedings in a rare "reverse trap" bribery case, where a govt officer was caught allegedly returning a bribe to the complainant.Justice M Nagaprasanna dismissed the petition filed by AB Vijaya Kumar, former special land acquisition officer-II of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) and currently a joint director in the department of municipal administration.The case pertains to a complaint filed by one Bhagath Singh Arun, who a ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has ruled on the suo motu revision powers of high courts. High courts cannot enhance sentences without appeals from victims. This applies to convictions on other charges too. The ruling came in a case involving Nagarajan. He was convicted by the Madras High Court. The Supreme Court set aside part of the high court's order.The Supreme Court on Wednesday held high courts cannot exercise suo motu revision powers either to enhance the sentence or to convict an accused on any other ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Pune teen student, arrested for her social media post criticizing the Indian government over Operation Sindoor and later released on bail, has appeared for her semester examination under requisite security, her lawyer told the Bombay High Court on Thursday. The high court had on Tuesday slammed the Maharashtra government for its "absolutely shocking" and "radical" reaction to the engineering student's post and for arresting her. The court ordered immediate release of the 19-year-ol ...Read More >
Kolkata, Feb 7 (VOICE) The Calcutta High Court on Friday said that the counsels of the accused in the case of multi-crore financial irregularities at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata will be getting ample time to study the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the matter after collecting it from the central agency office by the weekend.A division bench, headed by Justice Joymalya Bagchi, said that the counsel of the five accused in the case co ...Read More >
A bench of Justices Vibha Kankanwadi and Rohit Joshi at Aurangabad noted in its order of December 11 that the woman's daughter, only four years old, is being kept away from her despite a lower court's order. Such behaviour amounts to 'cruelty' as defined under section 498-A of the IPC. (Representational) Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that not letting a child meet her mother amounts to 'cruelty' under the Indian Penal Code, and refused to quash a First Information Report registered ag ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Dec 11 (Maxim News): As per the directions of the National Legal Services Authority, National Lok Adalat will be conducted on December 14 in the State of Telangana at all levels from the High Court, for the State of Telangana to Taluq level for settlement of all kinds of Civil cases and Compoundable Criminal cases (both pre-litigation and pending litigation cases). Click Here To Join Us On WhatsApp Under the guidance of the Chief Justice and Patron-in-Chief and the Executive Chairma ...Read More >
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