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Mar 31, 2023

Allahabad High Court Says Provisions of JJ Act do not Give Power to Decide Disputed Matters, Allo...

The Allahabad High Court while allowing the petition said that the Provisions of JJ Act does not give power to decide contested and disputed matters pertaining to custody, while it can only as an interim measure, pass appropriate orders in the welfare of children.
A single Bench of Justice Alok Mathur passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Smt Shivani Singh.

Mar 28, 2023

Madhya Pradesh High Court Orders Contempt of Court Case against State Bar Council Chairman and Me...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued a show cause notice to the chairman, Prem Singh Bhadoria, of the State Bar Council and all the other elected member of the State Bar Council asking for an explanation why should there be no criminal contempt of court proceedings against them for compelling lawyers to abstain from judicial work.
The single-judge Justice Atul Sreedharan said that the strike which was called by the chairman and the elected members of the State Bar Council was violation and defiance of the order passed by the High Court on March 24 in a suo motu case initiated by the Court in wake of the strike.

Mar 27, 2023

The Central Government Clears the Appointment of New Chief Justices

The Central Government cleared the names of new Chief Justices.The names were confirmed cleared for the appointment of Chief Justices to Allahabad, Chhattisgarh and Patna High Courts.
The new Chief Justices were Justice Pritinker Diwaker for Allahabad High Court, Justice Ramesh Sinha for Chhattisgarh High Court and Justice Vinod Chandran for Patna High Court.
The appointment of Justice Diwakar as Chief Justice of Allahabad and Justice Ramesh Sinha as Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court was recommended by Supreme Court Collegium in February.
Justice Chandran was initially recommended by the Collegium in December 2022 to be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court.
The Collegium in February, however, recalled that recommendation and instead recommended that he be made Chief Justice of Patna High Court.

Parole Days cannot be Counted as Part of Sentence Period

The Supreme Court held that the period of parole granted to convicts during the Covid-19 pandemic to prevent overcrowding in prisons and avoid the risk of spread of infection, cannot be counted as part of their actual sentence period and has to be excluded from it.
"All those undertrial prisoners and convicts who were released on emergency parole or interim bail pursuant to the recommendations of the High Powered Committee in compliance with the orders passed by this court have to surrender before the concerned prison authorities within 15 days," a bench of Justices M. R. Shah and C. T. Ravikumar directed while clarifying that they would still be allowed to apply suspension of their sentence before the concerned court.

Mar 25, 2023

Supreme Court States Citizens Cannot Claim Right to Directly Petition Parliament to Discuss Impor...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that was looking forward to a declaration that citizens have a fundamental right to directly petition Parliament and invite deliberation on important issues of public interest.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D. Y. Chandrachud with Justices P. S. Narasimha and J. B. Pardiwala said that a citizen cannot ask for right to stand up in Parliament.
As per the bench, one should go and talk outside Parliament, and that a citizen cannot seek a right to stand up in Parliament.
The Court noted that the relief laid within the domain of Parliament and state legislatures, which does not allow making any decisions in a PIL.

Mar 24, 2023

Gujarat Court Convicts Rahul Gandhi in Defamation Suit over Remarks against PM Modi

A local court in Surat, Gujarat convicted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case for his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April 2019.
The Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate H. H. Varma sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs. 15,000 after finding him guilty under Sections 499 (Defamation) and 500 (punishment for Defamation) IPC.
He has also secured bail in the case. The court granted a month's time to the Wayanad MP, so that he could file an appeal against the order.
Gandhi's conviction under Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), both of which warrant a maximum sentence of two years, may lead to his disqualification from the Parliament, as per a Supreme Court order of 2013.
During a rally at Kolar in Karnataka ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul had allegedly said, "Nirav Modi, Lalit Modi, Narendra Modi. How come all the thieves have Modi as the common surname?"
BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Purnesh Ishvarbhai Modi had filed a defamation suit against Gandhi in Surat, alleging the remark had defamed the entire Modi community. On the basis of his complaint, a case was registered against Gandhi at Adajan Police Station in Surat district.

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