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LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS - June 2022

Jun 2022

Jan 03, 2023

Telangana High Court Promotes 36 Lawyers as Senior Advocates, Including 3 Women

The High Court of Telangana conferred senior designation to 36 advocates, which included three women.
The decision was taken by the High Court in exercise of its powers conferred under Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act read with guideline No 5 (viii) and 8 – Guidelines for Designation of Advocates as Senior Advocates.

Jan 02, 2023

Bombay High Court Makes E-mechanism Mandatory for Filing of Pleas related to Criminal and Commerc...

The Bombay High Court made it compulsory to use the e-filing mechanism for filing petitions pertaining to criminal and commercial cases.
The Notifications to this effect were released by both the original and appellate sides of the Court.
E-filing was also made compulsory in matters pertaining to all cases concerning Direct, Indirect tax; and non-commercial arbitration cases.

Justice B. V. Nagarathna Terms Demonetisation Unlawful, Gives Dissenting Verdict

The Supreme Court upheld demonetisation by 4:1 majority, with most of the justices holding the decision to be legal.
The five-Judge Constitution Bench headed by Justice S. Abdul Nazeer rejected the 58 petitions challenging the Union government's 2016 decision to demonetise Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes, while observing that the decision, which was taken by the Executive's Economic Policy, cannot be reversed now.
Justice B.R. Gavai, Justice A.S. Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramanian agreed to the verdict. However, Justice B.V. Nagarathna dissented to hold that the November 8, 2016 notification was unlawful.
As per Justice Nagarathna, "Legislation made in secrecy is an ordinance. The Centre's powers are vast for the demonetisation of all currency and must be exercised only through plenary legislation and not just a gazette notification."

Dec 27, 2022

Allahabad High Court Directs Uttar Pradesh Government to Hold Municipal Elections without OBC Res...

The Allahabad High Court, while observing that Uttar Pradesh was yet to fulfil the Triple Test Formality, as laid down by the Supreme Court, directed the state government to conduct the Municipal Elections without OBC reservation.
The Division Bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Saurabh Lavania passed this judgement on the bunch of petitions raising alleged grievance arising out of a notification dated 05.12.2022 issued by the State Government in the Department of Urban Development which is a draft order in terms of section 9-A (5)(3) of Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916, inviting objections to the proposed determination of number of offices of the Chairpersons of different Municipal Bodies to be reserved for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Women.
Challenge, however, is confined to the proposed determination for providing reservation to the Backward Class of citizens in respect of seats and offices of Chairpersons of these bodies.

Dec 26, 2022

Qutub Minar Ownership Rights: Saket Court Rejects Review Petition

A local court in the national capital rejected a review petition (IA) claiming ownership rights over the Qutub Minar complex, while posting the application seeking worship rights for Hindus and Jains inside the complex to January 27 for hearing.
The Saket Court had earlier disposed of a plea filed by Kunwar Mahendra Dhawaj Prasad Singh, claiming the ownership of the Qutub Minar complex. He then again filed a review petition, which also got rejected today.
Claiming himself to be an heir of the United Provinces of Agra, Kunwar Mahendra said that the property of Qutub Minar, including the minaret and the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, should be given to him, since it belonged to him.

Dec 24, 2022

Allahabad High Court Directs Registrar General to Identify Unruly Advocates

The Allahabad High Court directed the Registrar General to conduct a discreet inquiry and submit a report identifying the unruly advocates.
The Division Bench of Justice Suneet Kumar and Justice Syed Waiz Mian dismissed a petition filed by a practising advocate seeking the transfer of a case on the ground of an unfair investigation being conducted by the police.
Additional General Advocate, at the outset makes a statement before the High Court that the relief claimed by the petitioner with regard to transfer of the investigation, the Commissioner of Police, has transferred the investigation to the Crime Branch. He further submitted that on the allegations made by the petitioner with regard to the unfair investigation, an inquiry has been set up on the administrative side on the alleged conduct of the police officials.

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