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The Delhi High Court constituted a four-member committee to monitor the welfare programmes being initiated by the Government in the Capital’s Juvenile homes. A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Manmohan formed the committee headed by Chairman, NCPCR with four members--joint director (technical) from the Social Welfare Department’s women and chi..

Justice Augustine George Masih of Punjab and Haryana High Court granted bail to Dheertaj Setia, a DSP in Haryana police and accused in the rape and subsequent suicide by Sarita, a Rohtak-based married woman who was allegedly raped by some police personnel inside a police station.  Sarita had committed suicide in June last year at Haryana police headquarters at Panchkul..

Allahabad High Court dismissed an application filed by Samajwadi Party MLA Abdul Samad Ansari and Corporator Manoj Rai, accused in senior Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer manhandling case.  Both the petitioners have been made accused in manhandling of a senior PCS officer posted in Varanasi as Additional District Magistrate (protocol) in his office, when they app..

Gujarat Bar Council has suspended local advocate Iqbal M Khan from practicing as an advocate for two years. The council’s disciplinary committee took a decision in this regard on a complaint from local resident Asifkhan I Pathan. Similarly, the Bar Council also suspended another advocate Hansmukhbhai Chandubhai Patel from practicing for three year..

Coming down heavily on the Chairman of Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Delhi for not complying with court orders relating to the completion of an inquiry of an associate professor of the Institute within the stipulated time frame, the Delhi High Court has said it will initiate contempt proceedings against the institute if the professor’s results are not declared by August 21. /..

The Madras High Court has allowed a petition by Asan Memorial Association to prohibit the official authorities from insisting on the Association to seek a declaration of minority character every year for the Asan Memorial Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology.  The petitioner submitted that once the character of the institution was verified and declared..

The Punjab Government would spent Rs 146 crore on constructing 22 new judicial court complex buildings. PWD Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa informed as most of the court complex buildings were old and unsafe, the government had decided to construct new judicial complexes.  He further said construction work of court complexes at Nabha, Rajpura, Dhu..

The Madras High Court has granted conditional bail to R Sekar, Protector of Emigrants, who was arrested by the CBI on charges of demanding and accepting bribe nearly a month ago. In his order on a bail petition by Sekar, Justice K N Basha said the official should be released on bail on his executing a bond for Rs 25,000 with two sureties each for a like sum to the satisfact..

The Patna High Court on Wednesday directed the East Central Railway to hold an inquiry into the supply of substandard medicines to the railway hospitals under its jurisdiction and take action against the culprits.  A division bench comprising Chief Justice P K Misra and Justice Shivakirti Singh..

The government has proposed to set up village courts to settle civil disputes.  This, in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's suggestion at the chief ministers' conference in New Delhi to speedily dispose of cases. Home minister V S Acharya Wednesday said village courts will be set up at..

Taking a note of the alleged sexual abuse and harassment of children inside juvenile homes, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday constituted a four-member committee to look into the matter.  Setting up the committee, a division bench headed by chief justice Ajit Prakash Shah and justice Manmohan s..

 Taking a tough stand on violations committed by Delhi hospitals by not following the guidelines to provide free medical aid to the poor, the High Court directed the Apollo hospital to furnish details of the aid being provided to the poor patients so far. A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Manmohan directed Mr Lalit Bhasin, lawyer for Apollo hospital..

The Kerala High Court directed the state government to ensure that the school elections in the state were held completely on apolitical lines. Single Bench Judge Justice V Giri also held that no representative of any political party should be permitted to enter the school campuses on the election day.  The court directed that appropriate steps shou..

The Allahabad High Court directed Shaheen, the daughter of a Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh to deposit Rs one lakh in the Court as fine for influencing the district administration for granting licence in her favour.  The order was passed by Justice Devi Prasad Singh on a writ petition filed by Niyamat Jahan of village Afzalpur in Moradabad, whose fair price shop was..

Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy submitted his written arguments in the Madras High Court in a matter relating to an appeal in the Chidhambaram Natarajan temple case. As per the direction of the Division Bench of the court, Swamy’s counsel Venkataraman had filed the written arguments. Dr Swamy said the ancient temple was maintained by t..