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A petition alleging high level corruption to evade income tax by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has been filed in the Delhi High Court today. Justice Rajiv Shakdher transferred the petition to the bench of Chief Justice who hears the regular PILs (Public Interest Litigation). The matter would come up on September 7 before the Chief Justice A P Shah. ..

Calcutta High Court today rejected an appeal of auto (three-wheeler) operators seeking an order to turn two-stroke three-wheelers into four-stroke vehicles. A section of the auto operators last week moved an appeal before the Court saying that it had earlier ordered to change the technology of the two-stroke auto and switch it over to four-stroke, but it did not ban the two..

The Supreme Court today cleared the decks for phasing out 16-year-old commercial vehicles in West Bengal when the apex court refused to stay a High Court order upholding the decision of the state government to that effect. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S Chauhan, however, issued notices to the state of West Bengal and other respondents to r..

The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for calling the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi a ‘naatakbaaz.’. The petitioner had sought directions to the Union government to lay down some guidelines in order to protect the honour of Mahatma Gandhi and other national leaders, martyrs and freedom fighters. /b..

Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj expressed displeasure over the tardy progress in the implementation of free legal aid to help poor and working class in the country. ‘The legal aid has not reached the needy. When there is right to equality under the Constitution, why the poor has to suffer,’ he said.  Mr Bhardwaj was speaking as chief gu..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has asked the Deans of four medical colleges in the state why the trainee PG doctors were denied mandatory training of advance diagnosis and treatment at fully equipped medical centres. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal, while heraing a PIL from Dr Bharti and others asked the Deans of four ..

Mr Justice Jagdish Bhalla assumed office as Chief Justice in the Rajasthan High Court today. Governor Shilendra Kumar Singh administered the oath of the office to Justice Bhalla at a brief ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Leader of the Opposition Vasundhara Raje, Rajasthan High Court acting Chief Justice R C Gandhi and ..

The Madras High Court directed the registry to post before some other bench the pending case against police officials following a clash between advocates and police personnel at the court premises on February 19.  When the petitions filed by senior advocates, Madras High Court Advocates Association and other lawyers associations came up before a division bench comprisi..

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Justice R B Mishra has been appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. Justice Mishra is the senior most judge of the High Court. The top High Court post fell vacant following the transfer of Chief Justice Jagdish Bahalla to the Rajasthan High Court. Justice Mishra would formerly assume the charge tomorrow..

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a petition seeking prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for calling Mahatma Gandhi ‘naatakbaaz’. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan is scheduled to hear the petition filed by advocate Ravikant who has also sought directions to the government for making any derogatory reference to the Father of th..

Madhya Pradesh High Court stayed the order of a fast track court and additional district court for imposing ban on the publication, printing, distribution and sale of Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, a book based on Bhopal gas tragedy written by French writers Dominic Lapierre and Javier Moro. The writers challenged the order of the lower court and said that there was nothing ..

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena and the Chief Electoral Officer in a petition filed by BJP nominee Col Kirori Singh Bainsla for declaring Mr Meena’s election to the Lok Sabha as "null and void". A single bench of the High Court comprising Justice Dilip Singh issued notices yesterday. ..

Madras High Court has set aside an order of authorities rejecting the claim of a lottery ticket winner, and directed them to pay the prize money of Rs 1 lakh with nine per cent interest from April 2001. In his petition, S Krishna Kumar stated that he had won the first prize in the draw held in February 2001. He had deposited the ticket with the Directorate of Raffles in Mar..

Strongly disapproving the attempt of Andhra Pradesh government to shield an MLA and his associates accused of submitting bogus medical bills for illegal pecuniary gains, the Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the state government directing it to deposit the same with the AP State Legal Services Authority within four weeks. A bench comprising Justices S K Sinha..