Two petitioners from Rohingya’s community have said in a rejoinder affidavit filed before the Supreme Court that Rohingyas are not illegal immigrants but refugees and have no connection with any criminal activity. In the affidavit before the Supreme Court, the Centre had said that it has intelligence inputs that some Rohingya Muslim refugees have links with terror groups operating out
Bombay High Court quashed and set aside an order of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) which directed a probe into the ‘cartelisation’ charge levelled against them by new market player Reliance Jio. Bombay High Court stated that the order by CCI and consequential notices issued by Director General as illegal and perverse. Bombay High Court also noted
West Bengal State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBSCPCR) has moved to the Supreme Court, to become a party in the matter to be heard on October 3. The plea has challenged the notification of the central government asking for identification and deportation of all Rohingyas to Myanmar. WBSCPCR has said that “Rohingyas are being systematically tortured and killed
The Bombay High Court recently allowed a Habeas Corpus petition challenging an order passed by the Commissioner of Police, Solapur, sanctioning preventive arrest of Taufiq Ismail Shaikh under Section 3(1). A bench of Justice A.S Oka and Justice Riyaz Chagla held that since the detaining authority did not draft the grounds for detention and yet recorded a satisfaction
The Delhi High Court directs Jawaharlal Nehru University to maintain Status Quo on the sealing of their Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH). The Petition seeks quashing the decision rendered by the administration in its 269th Executive Council meeting. Through this order, the GCASH has been replaced with immediate effect with an Internal Complaints Committee as per
The Jharkhand High Court disposed of over 1,250 bail applications in a special drive during the last two days. Secretary of High Court Bar Association Hemant Shikarwar approached the HC Acting Chief Justice D.N Patel with the request to constitute special benches for bail in view of the long pend-ency of bail applications so that the cases are
A PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court demanding a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take appropriate steps to use Common Electoral Rolls for Parliament, State Assembly and Local Body Elections. The petition was filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay due to lack of a uniform law or procedure for State election
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has asked the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to frame recruitment rules for Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre which was opened particularly to provide super-specialty care to the victims of bhopal gas tragedy, by the next date of hearing or else it will be constrained to summon the Secretary of the
An F.I.R. is lodged against the Central Bureau Of Investigation in the cantonment Police Station. A raid was conducted by the CBI at the house of Orissa High Court Judge, Justice C.R. Dash instead of retired justice I.M. Quddusi who has been charged for a case of settling the matter concerning debarment of Prasad Institute of Medical Science, Lucknow.
In an appeal filed by Mate Mahadevi’s in the Supreme Court against the Karnataka High Court’s Judgement, delivered in 2003, Supreme Court upholds the State Government’s 1998 ban on her edited book, ‘Basava Vachana Deep’. Supreme Court concluded that in the absence of a reasoned order, one can only infer from the oral arguments before the bench that the state’s subjective
