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The much awaited results of the Rajasthan High Court Bar Association Jaipur are over. Madhav Mitra has been declared President with a huge margin And first time in the history of High Court Bar a candidate has won the consicutive elections. No doubt the work done in the Bar really paid a good reward to Mr. Madhav Mitra. Mr. Manish Kumawat has been elected as General Secratory and Mr. Brij Bihar..

The Delhi High Court has held that information stored in Electronic Voting Machine(EVM) cannot be made public under the RTI Act. Justice Sanjiv Khanna set aside the order of the Central Information Commission which had asked the Election Commission to reveal information in EVM to an information seeker under the transparency law. "Right to information is an important right. At the same time, mainta..

The Gujarat High Court (HC) on Thursday upheld the Gujarat University Syndicate’s decision to cancel fee hike in Self-Financed Institutions (SFIs) offering BBA, BCA and B Com degree courses. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice A S Dave turned down a plea by the SFIs against the university’s decision taken on October 11. The Syndicate members had qu..

For years, there has been loud debate and even orders from courts to do away with or, at least, amend Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with the offence of matrimonial cruelty. This clause is considered to be rampantly abused, with several examples of husbands and their families being arrested without a preliminary inquiry on allegations of harassing their wives for a range..

he Supreme Court today frowned upon the practice of adopting summary court martial proceedings to sack lower rank army personnel and directed the Chief of the Army Staff Gen Deepak Kapoor to explain if there are any guidelines to prevent its abuse. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and H L Dattu at one stage threatened to summon the Army chief to the court as the union government failed ..

With Lucknow West assembly by-election taking communal and sectarian turn, a group of Shia Muslims, owing allegiance to ruling BSP on Friday lodged FIR against Samajawadi Party general secretary Amar Singh for hurting the community's religious sentiments. The FIR was lodged under section 153 A of Indian Penal Code for doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony. This move is presumably ..

The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the DDA to go ahead with the allotment process of over 5,280 flats to the people who were successful in lucky draw in December last year, an exercise which was mired in controversy following charges of irregularity. Justice G S Sistani passed the order after the Economic Offence Wing of the Delhi Police submitted a report in the court giving clean chit to ..

Noted social activist Anna Hazare has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict rejecting anticipatory bail to suspended NCP leader Padamsinh Patil. "This will strengthen people's faith in judiciary," Hazare told PTI. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Patil in connection with a complaint lodged against him by social activist Anna Hazare. Patil had approa..

The alleged swindling of over Rs 4,000 crore of public money by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda on Friday figured in the Supreme Court which wryly suggested CBI go after big fish rather than small ones. The remarks made in a ligher vein by Justice Markandeya Katju sent the packed court hall into peals of laughter. "Bhai pakadna hai to badey machli kho pakdo, Madhu Koda Chaar Hazar..

wo years after a special court acquitted underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar in the Sara Sahara case, the Bombay high court reopened the case on Thursday. Facing the heat this time are three senior BMC officers-assistant commissioner Rajendra Vale, executive engineer Devnath Kurmi and assistant engineer D G Tambulwadkar-for allegedly allowing the illegal construction of ..

Uttar Pradheh chief minister Mayawati on Friday challenged in the Supreme Court the decision of the Allahabad High Court to issue her notice for resumption of criminal proceedings against her in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam. Mayawati's petition was mentioned before a bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and B Sudershan Reddy which decided to hear it on November 16. The BSP ch..

A Delhi court on Friday deferred pronouncement of its order by five months on a plea of a lawyer objecting to CBI's move to withdraw the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi. Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja, who was to deliver the order on Friday, adjourned the matter till March 31, 2010, saying the court did not have the origin..

A special court hearing the 26/11 attack case on Monday issued summons to a top external affairs ministry official to throw light on a dossier sent by Pakistan on Faheem Ansari, who is facing trial along with captured gunman Ajmal Kasab. The summons, returnable on November 17, was issued to MEA joint secretary Manpreet Vora on an application by special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. ..

Advocates in the city will boycott all court proceedings on November 9. They have demanded that Chief Justice P D Dinakaran not sit through any proceedings. This, until the collegium clears him of all corruption charges against him. A resolution was taken at a general body meeting of the Bangalore Advocates Association on Wednesday, which saw acrimony between pro and anti-Dinakaran cam..