civil law

SC Orders Status Quo In Residential Areas Of Aravalli Hills 2/14/2009 The Supreme Court ordered status quo in the residential areas of Aravalli Hills in Faridabad, Haryana. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia ordered the parties to maintain status quo till further order. With today’s order there would be no demolition or fresh c..

Kapil Dev Deposes In Delhi HC 2/14/2009 Legendary cricketer Kapil Dev, who is batting for the cause of cricketer’s pension from BCCI, deposed before the Delhi High Court. The ‘Haryana hurricane’ has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court and urged that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) be directed to release the pension due to him and other players, who joined the rebel..

National Human Rights Commission has recommended that the Orissa government should pay a monetary relief of Rs 5 lakh to a victim of medical negligence four years ago which made her unable to bear children. The Commission has also asked the state government to submit a report on the action taken. "NHRC has recommended a monitory relief of Rs 5 lakh to Binapani Khatua in Orissa in a case of..

Allahabad HC Penalise UP Board For Awarding Less Marks To Deserving Girl 12 Feb 2009, 1902 hrs IST, PTI Text: ALLAHABAD: Taking a strong view of a girl student awarded less marks than she deserved in her Class X exams, the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board to pay her over Rs 5000 in compensation, besides asking the authorities to ensur..

Stolen Car Sold To Man, Court Awards Compensation 12 Feb 2009, 1808 hrs IST, PTI Text: NEW DELHI: A Mitsubishi Lancer car owner, who was sold a vehicle involved in a theft case, has been awarded a compensation of over 3.5 lakh by the Delhi Consumer Commission which pulled up a car dealer for not verifying that the police were hunting for it. "Sidharth Gaind should be awarde..

HC Notice To Delhi Govt On Plastic Ban 11 Feb 2009, 1722 hrs IST, TNN Text: NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Delhi government on a petition challenging the ban on plastics in the city. The petitioners, All India Plastic Association and Rainbow Polymer, have said that the court order specifies that the ban spares plastic bags of a certain thickness (40 ..

HC Questions BJP Hoardings 10 Feb 2009, 0104 hrs IST, TNN Text: NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Monday asked the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had taken permission to erect decorative arches, hoardings and glittering festoons on roads across the city, which disrupted the smooth functioning of traffic. The party..

SC Gives Time For Kalka Structures 10 Feb 2009, 0401 hrs IST, TNN Text: PANCHKULA: People owning buildings adjacent to national highway 22 in Kalka received another breather from Supreme Court, which ordered on Monday that status quo should be maintained with regard to demolition of alleged illegal constructions there. SC told Haryana government to file its reply to the spe..

HC Asks Army For Maidan Report 10 Feb 2009, 0336 hrs IST, TNN Text: KOLKATA: Calcutta High Court on Monday wanted to know from the army the extent of the damage caused to the Maidan during Left Front's rally on Sunday and the one by CPM's youth wing, DYFI, on December 20 last year. This, while taking cognizance of an appeal filed by environment activist Subhas Datta on the viol..

New Delhi, Feb 9 (PTI) Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar, who headed a panel to look into the condition of minorities, today said the right to adoption, which has no legal sanctity under Muslim personal law, should not be linked to religion but looked at from a human angle. "In my view, right of adoption should not be associated with religion. If the issue is discussed in resp..

Air India asked to pay Rs 1.4 lakh to woman for denying her seat Air India has been directed by the State Consumer Commission to pay Rs 1.4 lakh to a passenger for refusing to let her board a flight despite a confirmed ticket. Penalising the airlines for a "deficiency in service", the Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has asked Air India to not only refund Rs 40,000 towards the c..

The Supreme Court stayed the operation of the orders of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) holding that charging of interest beyond 30 per cent on credit cards amounts to unfair trade practice.A bench comprising Justices B N Agarwal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam stayed the operations of the two impugned orders dated July 7 and December 19, 2008.Citibank, HSBC and Standard Charte..

The Supreme Court has issued notice to salt manufacturers' body and others on the Centre's plea seeking transfer of petitions challenging a government notification that banned sale and consumption of non-iodised salt (common salt). A bench headed by Justice S B Sinha sought reply from the Gujarat Foundation for Development Alternatives and Gandhi Irwin Salt Manufacturers Association, the peti..

Madras High Court has ordered the arrest of a Korean ship flying the Panama flag for its failure to pay wages and maintenance arrears to its 19 crew members. The ship had declared bankrupt and expressed its inability to pay up dues. Justice M Jeyapaul issued the arrest orders yesterday after sailors' counsel S Vasudevan submitted the crew had not been paid wages since September 2008. They..

Madras High Court has declared as null and void, various sections of the Tamil Nadu Government Act, which provided for establishment of Siddha Medical Institutions, among other things, without the approval of the Centre. Disposing of the writ petitions filed by the Indian Siddha Medical Association and two others, Justice K Chandru, however, held as valid, sections of the Tamil Nadu Siddha Syst..