constitutional law

SCs, STs and OBCs cannot claim the benefits of reservation if they migrate from one state to another if the caste/tribe to which they belong are not recognized as a reserved community in the adopted state, the Supreme Court has ruled. Further, a migrant SC or ST also cannot claim a reserved status in OBC quota in another state, the apex court said. "Persons belonging to a particular caste ..

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has held that the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) was vicariously liable for the electrocution of a six-year-old girl in a case of electricity theft and recommended to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to her mother. The Board..

The Allahabad High Court Bar Association (HCBA) has rejected the demand for a separate bench of the Allahabad High Court in western UP. ‘ Constitution does not provide more than one High Court in a state as mandated under Article 214 (2), instead it provides one High Court for several states as is in case of Assam, Punjab and Haryana,’ claimed Allahabad High Cour..

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal called for a drastic joint initiative by governments and the judiciary for meaningful legal and constitutional streamlining of the judicial system to ensure that justice was brought within the reach of the poor and the downtrodden and cumbersome procedur..

Another attempt to get a stay against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising gay sex between two consenting adults drew a blank as the Supreme Court today declined to stay the High Court judgment dated July two this year. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Bal..

The Madras High Court has directed a private bank to sanction educational loan to a Scheduled Caste (SC) applicant within a month to meet his expenses for MBA course. Allowing a plea by the student, Justice K Suguna said educational loans were welfare measures to enabl..

The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Centre on petitions filed by a Christian body and a disciple of Yoga guru Ramdev, seeking a stay on the Delhi High Court verdict legalising gay sex...

 The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the State Government to take all preventive measures to check the outbreak of A(H1N1) by providing medicines and testing kits. The court also directed the State to take the cooperation of private hospitals to tackle the spread of the virus. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran and Justice V.G. Sabhahit, passe..

A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice G. Raghuram and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan on Monday directed officers of the Education Department to close down all the schools in Visakhapatnam district that are not authorised within three days. The Bench was dealing with a writ petition filed by Srisailam Ramesh of Visakhapatnam, who said that hundreds of schools are running with..

 The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed an appeal preferred by the Makkal Manadu Katchi, challenging an order of a single judge, who had said that the party did not have any locus standi to seek a direction to election officials for accepting its candidate’s nomination in the Ilayankudi Assembly by-election scheduled for Tuesday. In its order on the appeal, a Division Benc..

 The National Human Rights Commission has summoned the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and four other senior officials to appear before it in person here on August 25 following non-compliance of the Commission’s earlier directive for closure of an illegal abattoir and about 250 furnaces in use for extraction of animal bone fat in Meerut city. The others who have been summoned a..

 The Karnataka High Court took a dim view of a delay of four years by the State Government in filing an appeal and asked the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary, Transport, to be present in court. A Bench headed by Justice K.L. Manjunath, hearing an appeal by the State Government relating to the Department of Transport, expressed amazement when told that there is a delay of over 1,400..

In a major blow to Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE), the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed the move to dispossess farmers of nearly 600 acres of land for construction of the first of the seven townships near Kengeri under the contentious Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project (BMICP). In a related development, the court ordered status quo/em..

The Makkal Manadu Katchi (MMK) has moved the Madras High Court challenging the orders of a single judge dismissing its petition on the ground that the MMK had no locus standi to file a petition on behalf of its candidate. The MMK, which had fielded its candidate Kalaim..

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Government to sanction freedom fighters pension to an 86-year-old man, from the date of his application within eight weeks. Setting aside an order of the Dharmapuri Collector in March 2002 rejecting the claim, Justice N..