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High Court remarks dubbing blackmailer a man who sued top officials for non-performance of duty after he was overcharged and slapped by a telephone booth attendant, have been set aside. ‘The comments made personally against the appellant in the impugned order... are set aside,’ a two-Judge bench of the Delhi High Court has written in a judgement now on the web...

 Central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has given a new `mantra' to his counterparts across the country for speedy disposal of applications filed under the Right to Information Act.  Before drafting a comprehensive action plan for his colleagues, Gandhi has ensured that he himsel..

 The Bombay high court on Thursday heard a petition filed by IL&FS, one of the private developers whose bid for the Rs 813-crore Mantralaya redevelopment plan was rejected as "late''.  A bench, headed by the Chief Justice, while reserving its judgment on the petition seeking direc..

The Mumbai police got a dressing down in the Bombay high court on Thursday.  Rapping the MIDC police for illegally detaining two activists a day before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the city, the HC said the police "must not act like nawabs. This is a democratic country and..

 The Madras High Court has allowed an application in a civil suit seeking an order of attachment before judgment of the immovable property in the names of the legal heirs of the late K Kalimuthu, former Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.  The application was filed by Krishna Ponnuswamy and her son, Nirmal Kumar, a software engineer and consultant. The..

 A two-judge bench of Calcutta High Court stayed an order asking to shut down all computer training centres of the state youth welfare department. The bench, headed by Bishwanath Samaddar, issued the ruling on a petition challenging a single-bench. The single-bench issued the ruling after a city resident alleged that all computer training centres w..

Governor Debanand Konwar on Wednesday administered oath of office to the new Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra, at a simple function at the Rajbhawan here.  Chief minister Nitish Kumar, Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, Legislative Council chairman Tar..

Early Wednesday morning, a battery of lawyers called for a strike in district courts and headed towards the consumer court in Sector 19. Alleging that Jagroop Singh Mahal, president of District Consumer Forum-I, didn’t give them a fair chance to present their cases, members of the district bar associa..

The Allahabad High Court has asked the UP government to file a counter affidavit within three weeks explaining what steps it has taken with regard to the construction of a three-storeyed building of lawyers in high court premises.  The order was passed by a division bench comprising Justices As..

Appointments by the high court, by way of a notification in 2008, to the posts of second division assistants have been challenged.  Ramesha had filed an application pursuant to the June 23, 2008, notification. He has, however, claimed in his petition that persons who have not filed the applicat..

The next time you think of feeding stray dogs in your locality, take care. Some irate residents have now taken upon themselves to assault and abuse neighbours who feed stray canines.  The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came across seven such complaints, including one filed by a lawyer, from diff..

 Supporting the government in its efforts to tackle Swine flu, Delhi High court on Wednesday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought court's directions to the government to take effective measures to deal with the epidemic.  Stating that the government was doing..

Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra, a senior Judge of the Madras High Court, has been elevated and posted as the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.  Justice Misra was accorded a farewell here yesterday.  Madras High Court Chief Justice H L Gokhale and other judges, among others, were present on the occasion. With Justice Mis..

The Allahabad High Court in an important judicial verdict held that entry given to a gazetted officer by the District Magistrate (DM) in his service book would be treated as the final entry awarded to officer, in case reviewing and accepting authority were not available on account of their recruitment or resignation. Passing this order, a Division Bench comprising Justices ..

 An intervener petition was filed against former Chief Minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha supremo Shibu Soren in the Jharkhand High Court regarding alleged amassing huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income. The application was filed in the PIL. The PIL was filed by one Durga Oroan in which top politicians of the state includin..