Tag: High Court

Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad who is lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail here after his conviction in a fodder scam case. Justice Apresh Kumar Singh rejected Lalu Prasad’s bail plea after going through documents pertaining to his […]

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday said it has set up an inquiry commission headed by retired High Court Justice A. Arumugaswamy to go into the death of late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. Chief Minister K. Palaniswami had announced the government’s decision to set up an inquiry commission to be headed by a retired […]

Melbourne: Australia’s High Court on Thursday ruled that a national postal vote on same-sex marriage will go ahead, after a challenge by marriage equality advocates failed, the media reported. Same-sex marriage advocates had taken the government to court over the postal vote which they argued was both unnecessary and an illegal use of public funds, […]

Cuttack: Disposing of a PIL on the formation of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the petitioner to approach the state home secretary with a representation in this regard.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held Calcutta High Court’s Justice C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt and ordered that he be jailed for six months. The court ordered the Director General of West Bengal Police to constitute a team for the implementation of its order “forthwith”. Holding Karnan guilty of contempt for his utterances […]

The Orissa High Court on Friday launched a new time schedule specifying the working duration of subordinate courts under different zones.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today decriminalized begging in the national capital, saying provisions penalizing the act were unconstitutional and deserved to be struck down. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said the inevitable consequence of this decision would be that prosecution under the Bombay Prevention of […]

New Delhi: Supreme Court and high court judges have got a nearly two-fold salary hike with President Ram Nath Kovind giving nod to a bill passed by Parliament in this regard. The Chief Justice of India will now get a monthly salary of Rs 2.80 lakh, up from the present Rs one lakh. Similarly, judges […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought the response of Facebook, Google and Yahoo on a plea to direct them to take down the links of Blue Whale challenge, an internet-based suicide game that has been allegedly linked to several deaths of children worldwide. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Thursday heard partly the prosecution counsel arguments against the bail plea of industrialist Mahimananda Mishra, arrested for his alleged role in the murder of a Paradeep firm manager. The prosecution counsel argument remained inconclusive as Public Prosecutor Janmejaya Katakia sought some more time to file a document in the […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 12,17,328 cases were pending for disposal in different courts of Odisha including 1,68,003 cases in the High Court, the Assembly was informed on Tuesday. This was stated by Law Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo while replying to a written question of BJP member Dilip Ray. Of the 1,68,003 cases in the High […]

Cuttack: Former Odisha Youth Congress chief Rajat Choudhury, arrested by CBI in connection with the multi-crore chit fund scam, was today granted conditional bail by the Orissa High Court. Choudhury was arrested in July for his alleged role in the scam and illegal collection of public money by Arthatatwa (AT) Group of Companies. Also Read:  Special […]

Cuttack: In the wake of the deadly fire tragedy in a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, an activist today moved the Orissa High Court, seeking judicial intervention for fire safety audit in all high-rise commercial establishments in the state. “The petitioner has urged that the respondents should ensure that proper fire fighting measures are in place […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today asked the standing counsel of the state and the Centre to get instructions from their respective governments within ten days on a case filed along with a PIL over the recent Mahanadi river dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Seeking judicial intervention into the dispute, Mahanadi Bachao Manch, which filed […]

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court today issued notice to the state government to file counter on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of a legislation that arms the state to initiate punitive action against those embezzling public money by floating shady financial firms and subsequent rules framed on it in 2013. A Division Bench headed […]