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The Madras High Court has directed the Director-General of Police to immediately issue instructions to officers in the districts that if the police suspect that mentally ill persons were roaming in and around the town, city or village, they should be dealt with in accordance with the Mental Health Act. Passing orders on a writ petition seeking a direction to the official au..

 Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has issued a notice to Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on a petition challenging his election from Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha constituency recently. A single bench of Justice Ambadas Joshi issued the notice to Mr Patel, asking him to file a reply by September 18, in response to a petition filed by Shishupal Patle, a BJP candid..

 With the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani recently questioning the accuracy of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), a PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the government to appoint a committee of technical experts to ascertain whether EVMs can be tempered with or not to rig an election. The petition, filed yesterday by a ..

 Close on the heels of allegations of a Union Minister from Tamil Nadu selling seats in medical science courses for Rs 20-40 lakh each, the Supreme court has observed that the TN government was colluding with the managements of private unaided educational institutions, thereby permitting the managements to usurp the seats of the state quota. The sharp reaction came fro..

Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has admitted two separate appeals from the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI) for enhancing to capital punishment the life sentence of two accused in the case pertaining to killing of four members of a Dalit family of Bhandara district in 2007. A trial court in Bhandara had, in September last, sentenced six accused to death and two o..

Madras High Court celebrated its 117th birthday today.  Located near Chennai port in one of the important central business districts in the growing metropolis, the High Court, which is one of the popular landmarks, is also believed to be the second largest judicial complex in the world.  Madras High Court was established on June 26, 1862 as on..

Ayodhya’s disputed structure 1949 missing documents case would be heard by a special full bench at Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on July 14. The case could not be heard in the court due to the lawyers strike in the state capital against the proposal of levy of service tax today. The special full bench comprising of Justice Saiyed Rafat..

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court directed the state government to furnish details by Monday on the action it has proposed to initiate against striking doctors of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) in accordance with government’s undertaking before the same court, a few years ago. Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Jan Ma..

The Madras High Court has said the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board(TNEB) is bound to pay Rs 1.75 lakh (balance amount) as compensation to the family of a woman who died of electric shock nine years ago. In his order on a writ petition seeking a direction to the Chairman of the board, Chief Engineer(Personnel) and the Superintending Engineer, Gobi Electricity Distribution Circl..

The Law Commission has, inter alia, suggested in its 214th Report that the primacy of the Chief Justice of India and the power of the executive to make appointment of Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts should be restored. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee had also recommended restoration of pre-1993 position wherein the executive and the judiciary both were in..

The erstwhile National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (NCSCST) submitted its last report (7th Annual Report) on 19.02.2004. After bifurcation of NCSCST into two Commissions namely the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), NCSC submitted its first Annual Report for the year 2004-05 on 17.7.2006, while the Na..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the state and Union Government to submit a detailed report on the protection of the tigers and other wildlife animals facing extinction. The court also directed to take action in compliance of the Central Steering Committee and th..

Upholding the judgment of the Divisional Forum, Jammu and Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), has directed the government to pay Rs 50,000 to a consumer for disconnecting his water connection. Rejecting the appeal of the public health engineer..

DelhiThe Supreme Court on Friday declined to intervene in the Uttar Pradesh government’s drive of installing statues of chief minister Mayawati, Dalit leaders and the BSP elephant symbol, presently on in Noida near Delhi. “If a democratically elected government decides to do something without misappropriating public money, there is little co..

 The Uttar Pradesh government has filed an FIR in connection with missing files relating to the Ayodhya title case. The missing documents include letters and correspondence between the then DC of Faizabad and the state go..