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Thane, Apr 9 (PTI) The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal in Maharashtra's Thane has awarded a compensation of Rs 29.79 lakh to a 35-year-old man who sustained grievous injuries after a speeding private bus rammed into him in Mumbai in 2022. In an order dated April 6, a copy of which was made available on Wednesday, MACT Member R V Mohite held that the accident occurred due to the rash and negligent driving of the bus driver and fixed joint and several liability on the vehicle owner and insurer. A ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) A Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded Rs 2.72 crore as compensation to a 19-year-old man left paralysed in a road accident in 2023. Presiding Officer Ruchika Singla was hearing a claim petition filed by the paralysed man, Khushwant Kapoor, against the driver of the offending vehicle, Harish Madan, its owner Mohan Lal Madan and its insurer. According to the prosecution, in the early hours of April 26, 2023, Kapoor was going home on his motorcycle, when ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has released the 12th and final supplementary list, revealing that over 90 lakh (9,083,345) names have been deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls, raising concerns over the reduction of the state's voter base. On Monday night, the Commission published the complete list of voters who had earlier been placed in the "adjudication" category. For the first time, the report provides district-wise data identifying voters as eligible or ineligible. Over 60 La ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 6 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Monday appointed IAS officer Vibhu Goel as the additional CEO with immediate effect, entrusting him with crucial coordination responsibilities related to the SIR exercise, an official order said. Goel will serve in his new role until further orders, according to the directive by CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal. In his capacity as additional CEO, Goel will act as the single point of contact between the EC, the appellate tribunals headed ...Read More >
The 19 tribunals -- which were set up to hear the appeals of the people rejected by judicial officers during the adjudication process -- are yet to become fully operational. The two Muslim-majority districts of Murshidabad and Malda have the highest number of voters under adjudication. The Supreme Court has refused to give a deadline to the tribunals. "Judicial officers, appointed by the Calcutta high court, would dispose of all the six million cases, which had come under adjudication, by Monda ...Read More >
The green body was hearing a matter where it had initiated suo motu proceedings based on a newspaper report regarding the NHAI constructing a highway at protected pond sites. The report alleged that the alleviated Urban Extension Road-II over the pond in Goyla Khurd village passed through the village pond, which had been designated as a natural wetland. A bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel said, "The core issues which arise for consideration ar ...Read More >
In a significant pre-poll development in West Bengal, a tribunal headed by former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court TS Sivagnanam has ordered the reinstatement of Congress candidate Motab Sheikh in the electoral roll, resolving a "deletion" dispute that had briefly blocked his nomination process. Sheikh, the Congress nominee from Farakka in Murshidabad district, expressed relief after the ruling, saying the order had restored both his voting and political rights. "Justice has finally be ...Read More >
The Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited, or K-RIDE, has successfully encashed performance bank guarantees worth Rs 57 crore issued by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) through YES Bank, following an arbitration tribunal's rejection of L&T's plea to block the move. The guarantees were linked to civil works under Corridors 2 and 4 of the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP). K-RIDE completed the encashment on Saturday (April 4), after the tribunal upheld its position that L&T had de ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the monitoring committee or any concerned stakeholder from taking any major policy decision regarding the implementation of the resolution plan for the takeover of bankrupt Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) without prior approval of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also requested the NCLAT to hear Vedanta's plea on ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the monitoring committee or any concerned stakeholder from taking any major policy decision regarding the implementation of the resolution plan for the takeover of bankrupt Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) without prior approval of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also requested the NCLAT to hear Vedanta's plea on ...Read More >
The Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited, or K-RIDE, has successfully encashed performance bank guarantees worth Rs 57 crore issued by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) through YES Bank, following an arbitration tribunal's rejection of L&T's plea to block the move. The guarantees were linked to civil works under Corridors 2 and 4 of the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project (BSRP). K-RIDE completed the encashment on Saturday (April 4), after the tribunal upheld its position that L&T had de ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 5 (PTI) Congress candidate Mohtab Sheikh, whose name was earlier put under the adjudication cases column of the final electoral roll on February 28, was a happy man Sunday evening after a tribunal ordered that his name be reinstated. A relieved Sheikh told mediapersons, "Justice has finally been delivered. My name has been cleared and restored, and I can now proceed with filing my nomination." This was apparently the first such ruling by any tribunal involving a candidate to reso ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The fate of more than 23 lakh voters excluded from the electoral rolls post-SIR in Bengal hangs in balance as the tribunals for adjudication of appeals remained non-functional till Saturday. Monday is the last day for adjudication for voters of the 152 constituencies going to polls in the first phase. For these voters, tribunals are the last hope after their first appeals were rejected during the judicial review process.The first phase of the elections is scheduled for April 23, for whi ...Read More >
Guwahati: Even as the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has put an immediate stay on the Assam government's decision to deploy over 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel for election duty, the state's forest department appears to be preparing for a legal pushback instead of compliance -- raising serious questions over intent and priorities. A two-member bench of the NGT's Eastern Zone, comprising Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and Expert Member Ishwar Singh, on Thursday stayed the March 19 ...Read More >
The countdown having begun for the West Bengal electoral rolls to be frozen, all roads for those "rejected" lead to the gates of a stark grey steel-and-cement building in Joka, located 16 km from the heart of Kolkata. On Thursday, the day 19 tribunals were expected to begin hearings for the lakhs whose names remain deleted from the electoral rolls, the gates of the building - the Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation - remained firmly closed. Advertisement A steady ...Read More >
The man was awarded a compensation of Rs 7,76,590, including for medical expenses, loss of income ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Motor Accident Claims Tribunal awarded Rs 7.76 lakh to a man injured in a 2015 roadside accident * The petitioner was injured when a school bus rammed a tempo, which then overturned on him * The tribunal rejected insurer's claim of petitioner's contributory negligence due to lack of evidence Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Swi ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 2: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Mumbai has awarded compensation of Rs 44.86 lakh to the Kalachowki-based family of a 49-year-old man who died after being hit by a BEST bus near Sion in June 2023. The tribunal held the driver of the bus responsible for rash and negligent driving that led to the fatal accident. The tribunal, meanwhile, deciding on the compensation part, maintained that while monetary compensation cannot replace the loss of a loved one, it is essentia ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted an aspiring candidate of the Congress to approach the newly constituted appellate tribunal in Kolkata against the deletion of his name from the electoral roll following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was hearing the plea of Motab Shaikh, a probable Congress candidate, challenging his inclusion in the "adjudication deletion l ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the progress of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, noting that around 47.4 lakh objections out of 60 lakh had been disposed of as of March 31. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, along with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, said, "We are quite happy and very optimistic about the facts and figures." The court noted that nearly 1.75 lakh to 2 lakh ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 1 (PTI) With less than six days left for deleted voters to get eligibility to cast votes in the first phase of West Bengal polls, the EC faces fresh hurdles in setting up specially constituted tribunals, the final recourse for such electors to dispose of their cases, a well-placed source in the poll body said. The official said infrastructure constraints may prevent the tribunals from starting operations on Thursday, the day the Election Commission (EC) had previously scheduled for ...Read More >
New Delhi: Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sk Hasina, who has been in exile in India since the ouster of her government in August 2024, has sent a legal notice to Dhaka, seeking that her death sentence be set aside as "legally void". Any further proceedings against her are to be conducted in compliance with international fair trial standards, she has said. In 2025, a tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced Hasina to death, after accusing her of being involved in the deaths of students who were ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The Opposition in the Rajya Sabha criticised the government on Wednesday for frequent amendments to the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, significant haircuts, alleged favouritism towards large corporate defaulters, and ongoing infrastructure issues at the NCLT, alongside increasing backlogs before the tribunal. The Rajya Sabha was debating the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2026. The bill has proposed 12 amendments to the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) Nineteen appellate tribunals headed by former chief justices and high court judges will decide on the pleas of those excluded from the voter list during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday. The court said the tribunals will also adjudicate upon the pleas of Election Commission (EC) officials, who may be aggrieved by the inclusion of persons in the voter list by adjudicating authorities, ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed optimism over the progress of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, noting that approximately 47.4 lakh objections out of a total of 60 lakh have been disposed of as on March 31. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, took note of two communications received from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court updating the progress of the exercis ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal, noting that a substantial number of objections have already been adjudicated and the remaining are likely to be decided by April 7. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant took on record communications received from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, indicating that more than 47 lakh obj ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed optimism over the progress of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, noting that approximately 47.4 lakh objections out of a total of 60 lakh have been disposed of as on March 31. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi, took note of two communications received from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court updating the progress of the exercise. "We are ...Read More >
Thane, Mar 31 (PTI) The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Maharashtra's Thane has granted a compensation of Rs 21.19 lakh to the family of a 36-year-old man, who was crushed to death by a concrete mixer at a construction site in Mumbai in 2016. Tribunal member R V Mohite directed the owner of the ready-mix concrete (RMC) mixer vehicle and the insurer, Universal Sompo General Insurance Co. Ltd., to pay the compensation jointly and severally, with 9 per cent interest per annum from the dat ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, March 30 (Reuters) - India has proposed an overhaul of its bankruptcy law, including allowing financial creditors to initiate insolvency proceedings and tightening deadlines, in a bid to speed up resolutions and promote ease of doing business. Resolutions of stressed assets in India have been delayed despite a mandated 330-day timeline under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, introduced in 2016, largely due to procedural and legal hurdles. Cases often pile up for admission at the Na ...Read More >
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