The case at hand was adjudicated by a Single Judge Bench of the Hon’ble Kerala High Court. Agitations were going on in the college in which all the 10 petitioners were studying. When some professors volunteered to remove the posters pasted by students on college buses, some students allegedly misbehaved with the professors, abused them and posed their acts on social media. The petitioners have approached this Court contending that they are absolutely innocent and they have been wrongly implicated and that the case has affected their career. The first allegation against the petitioners was that certain students misbehaved towards the professor…
Author: Gunjeet Singh
The present case was adjudicated by a Division Bench of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India comprising of Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar on 11th July 2018. The wife of the appellant purchased a fully automatic Biochemistry Analyser in 2006 worth Rs. 7 lakhs and having maintenance charges of Rs. 20000/- per annum. The said machine was showing inaccurate results due to manufacturing defect and after various visits to the manufacturer, the machine got repaired. As the problem persisted, the machine got replaced with another one worth 11 lakhs and double the maintenance costs upon the recommendation of…
Appellant-plaintiff claims to have been using the mark “MALABAR” for selling Biryani Rice since 2001. The appellant had contended that there was an infringement of trademark by passing off special Biryani Rice under the mark “MALABAR GOLD” which is identical with and/or deceptively similar to the appellant’s trade mark “MALABAR”. The present case was adjudicated by a Division Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court Of India comprising of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R. Banumathi on 12th July 2018. The appellant-plaintiff is granted registration in Class-30 for its products. Class-30 of the classification of goods and services under the statute…
The petitioner, a student of Class VIII Delhi Public School, Durg, was not allowed to appear in the examination of the said class by the school authorities. Upon the order of the District Education Officer he was allowed to appear in the examination, however, he only appeared in four papers and he remained absent in two papers. Consequently he was not promoted to class IX by the school authorities and hence the present case. The present case was adjudicated by a Single Judge Bench of Chhattisgarh High Court comprising of Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal. It was argued from the petitioner’s…
Swati Bidhan Baruah, who has been a transgender activist for years and hails from Guwahati, has made headlines recently for she has become first transgender judge in Assam and the third one in India. She would deal with settlement of matters outside the court of law through arbitration, conciliation and mediation in the Lok Adalat. “My appointment as a judge in the lok adalat is a very positive message for the society and will help create awareness on discrimination against transgenders” “We, the transgenders, are often booed and taunted by some people in public but we are like any other…
A Division Bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India comprising of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta criticized the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi Mr. Anil Baijal for not doing enough for proper garbage disposal in Delhi in lieu of rising volume of garbage at the dumping sites. The court took a dig at the Lieutenant-Governor by comparing the height of the Mountain of garbage at Ghaziabad with the height of Qutb Minar. L-G has the responsibility of maintaining sanitation, public health and garbage management as a part of its municipal functions. The height of garbage in Delhi has…
The petitioner’s shop in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh was sealed after serving a notice to him upon the suspicion that some cognizable offence has been committed and the commodities inside the shop could not be conveniently transported for custody. It was argued from the petitioner’s side that the act of the police officer was ultra vires. Section 102 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 empowers any police officer to seize any property which may be alleged or suspected to have been stolen or which creates suspicion of commission of any offence. The issue before the court was that whether…
India’s Hon’ble Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu had promised soon after assuming office that necessary measures would be taken to enable members of the Rajya Sabha to speak in any of the 22 scheduled languages listed in the 8th schedule of the Constitution Of India. “I have always felt that mother tongue is the natural medium to convey our feelings and thoughts without any retention. In a multilingual city such as the Parliament, members must not feel handicapped or inferior to others due to language constraints.” remarked the Vice-President. The promise is set become a…
Certain mandatory directions were issued by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma of the Hon’ble Uttarakhand High Court on 6th July 2018: A) The Transport Secretary to the state of Uttarakhand was directed to undertake a ‘road-safety audit’ of the entire State within a period of one month from the date of judgement and take remedial measures thereafter. B) 73 enforcement teams for each Tehsil are to be established within the state to undertake the enforcement and implementation of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the rules framed thereunder. C) Further, the Transport Secretary is to install speed governors…
As per Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the commission of the said offence shall be punished with a simple imprisonment for a term extending to one year or fine or both. No partial attempt to commit suicide is punishable. For Example- Where a woman with the intention of committing suicide by throwing herself into the well, actually ran towards it, when she was seized by a person, she did not make any further attempt, it would be held that she might have changed her mind and she was…
“As justice becomes conceived less as an act of state authority and more as a public service, so the demands for accountability for the system grow” says the legal scholar John Bell. The live streaming of Supreme Court of India Proceedings in matters of national importance could certainly be effected in the near future with the Top Court giving a green signal to the proposal and asking the Attorney General Mr. K.K. Venugopal to frame guidelines in this regard. The Attorney General is to make his next submissions on the issue on 23rd July 2018 which is the next date…
2 batches of B.A.LL.B students at Hidayatullah National Law University are to receive free laptops from the State Government of Chhattisgarh this year between 3 July 2018 to 13th July 2018 in the University Campus itself. A self attested University ID Card is suffice for the purpose of obtaining the laptops. This initiative of the State Government of Chhattisgarh to provide free laptops in the State Universities and Colleges is a part of a welfare scheme “Chhattisgarh Yuva Suchna Kranti Yojana”. This initiative was announced in the 2017 budget of the state of Chhattisgarh for the welfare of women and…
An Indian citizen belonging to the Hindu Community solemnized a marriage with a Filipina citizen as per the local customs of the Indian after the latter converted to Hinduism. The marriage registrar refused to register the said marriage for he had a doubt regarding the validity of the marriage in accordance with the Hindu Marriage Act despite a self declaration from the couple. A Writ Petition was filed by the couple in regards to the aforementioned matter in the Hon’ble Kerala High Court which was adjudicated by a Single Judge Bench comprising of Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque. Relying upon the…
“Simple self-serving statement that the petitioners are social workers is not sufficient…unless the petitioners are able to produce on record …such social work in last couple of years…in respect of which the public interest writ petition is invoked…public interest litigation is now tending to become publicity interest litigation or private interest litigation and has a tendency to be counter-productive.” observed the Hon’ble Madhya Pradesh High Court. A Division Bench of the Hon’ble Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla ruled that the practice of stating in the petition that one is a social…
Kumari Ganga Sen, aged 15 years old, was a Class 10 student in Madhya Pradesh who committed suicide on 14th November 2017. She was accosted on the said date by the principal of her school besides being scolded, slapped and intimidated on leaving the school in afternoon. The judgement was delivered by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan. Further the deceased was taken back to her school in the afternoon and further beaten and humiliated there in front of other students. It was alleged that the deceased committed suicide in her house on account of the scolding and…
