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LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS - December 2023

Dec 2023

Feb 05, 2024

Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia is Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court

The Central government notified the appointment of Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia as Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The development followed the appointment of former Acting Chief Justice Ritu Bahri as Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court.
Justice Singh was elevated to the bench in September 2011 as an additional judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and was made permanent in January 2014.

Law Commission of India Submits its Report titled 'Revisiting the Law on Prevention of Damage to ...

The 22nd Law Commission of India submitted its Report No. 284 titled 'Revisiting the Law on Prevention of Damage to Public Property' to the Government of India. The destruction of public property has continued undiminished causing gargantuan losses to the public exchequer and inconvenience to the general public.
Bearing in mind the gravity of the issue and the loss being borne by the state exchequer, the 22nd Law Commission suo motu undertook to prepare this Report.
In pursuance of the same, the Commission undertook an extensive study of the subject, analysing the various relevant constitutional and statutory provisions, the numerous judicial pronouncements by the courts across the country, and the incidents involving large scale destruction of public property.
The 22nd Law Commission recommended several key changes to tackle damage to public property more effectively. These include:
Reversing the burden of proof so that the accused has to prove they are innocent
Introducing fines equal to the market value of damaged public property
Making offenders deposit estimated value of damaged property for bail
Enacting new laws to address willful obstruction of public property

Feb 03, 2024

Six HCs Get New Chief Justices

The Centre notified the appointment of new Chief Justices for six High Courts.
Those whose appointments were notified are Justice Ritu Bahri of Punjab and Haryana HC as CJ of Uttarakhand HC, Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava of Rajasthan HC as CJ of the HC, Justice S. Vaidyanathan of Madras HC as CJ of Meghalaya HC, Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh of Patna HC as CJ of Orissa HC, Justice Vijay Bishnoi of the Rajasthan HC as CJ of the Gauhati HC and Justice Arun Bhansali of Rajasthan HC as CJ of Allahabad HC.

Feb 01, 2024

Justice P. S. Dinesh Kumar is Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court

The Central government notified the appointment of Justice P. S. Dinesh Kumar as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court.
The Supreme Court Collegium in January had recommended the appointment of Justice Kumar as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court.

Jan 31, 2024

Justice P. S. Dinesh Kumar is Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court

The Central government notified the appointment of Justice P. S. Dinesh Kumar as Acting Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court.
The development came subsequent to the elevation of Justice Prasanna B. Varale to the Supreme Court.
Justice Kumar has been a judge of the Karnataka High Court since 2015.
Before his elevation to the bench in 2015, Justice Kumar had been in practice as a lawyer since 1990 and appeared in several important cases in different High Courts and the Supreme Court.

Central Notifies Appointment of Four Calcutta High Court Additional Judges as Permanent Judges

The Central government cleared the appointment of four additional judges of the Calcutta High Court as permanent judges.
The following are the additional judges who were made permanent: Justice Ananya Bandyopadhyay, Justice Rai Chattopadhyay, Justice Shampa Dutt (Paul) and Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury.

SC Scraps Allahabad High Court Order Staying Education Tribunals

The Supreme Court set aside an order of the Allahabad High Court restraining the state government from constituting tribunals under a proposed law, the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Tribunal Bill, 2021, which proposes to constitute two benches of the tribunal in Lucknow and Allahabad.

Jan 30, 2024

Senior Advocate Abhinav Mukerji is Additional Advocate General for Bihar in Supreme Court

Senior Advocate Abhinav Mukerji was appointed as an Additional Advocate General (AAG) for the state of Bihar to conduct cases before the Supreme Court.
Notably, Mukerji is the first ever AAG for Bihar in the apex court.
Mukerji, who is a first generation advocate, was designated a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. He is a gold medalist in the Advocate-on-Record (AoR) examination by the Supreme Court of India and has served as the Standing Counsel for State of Bihar and the Additional Advocate General for the State of Himachal Pradesh in the Supreme Court.

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