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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..

The Madras high court on Tuesday asked the government to pay pension to an 86-year-old freedom fighter who was denied the benefit over a dispute over his date of birth.  While HR Balaraman claimed that he was born on October 4, 1922, the Dharmapuri district authorities claimed his date of birth..

Even as more and more people are being diagnosed with swine flu in the nation capital region, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking its directions to the government to take appropriate measures to tackle the pandemic.  The HC admitted the PIL that cha..

Haryana government has decided to invoke the Epidemic Disease Act of 1897 to tackle the spread of swine flu in the state. Regulations under this Act will remain in force up to one year. These regulations will be called Haryana Epidemic Disease, A H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Regulations 2009. "Under these regulations, it will be mandatory on the part of private hospitals to inform the govern..

 Expressing serious concern over the drought situation prevailing in several parts of the country, the Supreme Court today directed the Centre, States and Union Territories to provide all assistance to the Expert Committee headed by Mr T Ramaswamy to enable it to find a short term solution to the acute shortage of water in the country. A bench comprising Justices Marka..

 The Supreme Court informed the Delhi High Court that it would provide the information sought by an RTI aspirant under the ‘Transparency Act’ and not under the ‘Right to Information Act’ (RTI Act) Attorney General Ghulam E Vahanvati, appearing for Supreme Court registry had apprised the High Court of the difficulties they faced in following the Central Information C..

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgment in the PILs challenging release of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and Minister Nassimuddin Siddiqui due to lack of prosecution sanction in the multi-crore Taj Corridor Scam case. The Bench comprising Justices Pradeep Kant and Sabihul Hassnan today passed the order after hearing three PILs joint..