legal-updates

UC HC: EVICT AND COLLECT PENAL RENT FROM EMPLOYEES UNAUTHORISEDLY OCCUPYING GOVT ACCOMMODATION – While ordering the eviction of retired or transferred government employees who are using government properties without authorization, the Uttarakhand (UC) High Court further ordered the State to determine and collect penal rents from such personnel. Sunil Prasad Bhatt v. State of […]

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Paying back a 102-year-old freedom fighter’s pension is a request from KAR. HC to MHA. – The Ministry of Home Affairs has been ordered by the Karnataka High Court to pay the 102-year-old Freedom Fighter’s pension arrears, which were withheld for a year because he was unable to provide the bank with the Life Certificate.

HC: CONVICTION IS NOT MAINTAINABLE UNDER SECTION 482 CRPC AFTER PETITION TO QUASH S. 138 OF NI ACT – A plea under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) seeking to overturn a conviction imposed on an accused under the Negotiable Instruments Act was deemed unmaintainable by the Karnataka High Court. Vuppalapti Satish Kumar

HC: DIFFERENT ERROR THAN LACUNA – The Kerala High Court has stated that a court cannot prevent a fair trial by denying any party a chance to correct these errors, even though it has been noted that an error or omission on the part of a party to a trial is not to be confused

HC REFUSES TO SUSPEND THE SENTENCE OF A MAN WHO WAS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO TRAVEL TO SYRIA TO JOIN ISIS – Observing that it is unsafe to release the applicants on bail even though they have already served the majority of their sentence, the Kerala High Court rejected requests for the suspension of the

MEGHALAYA HC ORDERES DELIVERING CENTRAL ARMED FORCES TO PREVENT ILLEGAL COAL MINING – The Meghalaya High Court has ordered the deployment of the CISF or CRPF to stop illegal coal mining after noting that local officials are engaged in manipulation and illegal coal mining and sounding the alarm about the likely consequences of such unscientific

PATNA HC’s directive to the government is to shut down 49 brick kilns for failing to switch to cleaner technology. – In spite of a deadline set by the Bihar State Pollution Control Board, the Patna High Court has ordered the government to close 49 brick kilns that were not able to switch to cleaner

SC: Encroacher is not entitled to the benefits of Section 51 of the Transfer of Property Act. – The Supreme Court has ruled that where an owner has established his title, denying recovery of possession would be equivalent to allowing an encroacher to buy a man’s property against his will, despite the fact that an