The Supreme Court appointed senior counsel, Sidharth Luthra and R.Basant, as amicus curiae in the Suo Moto Writ Petition (Criminal) No.1 of 2017, In Re: To Issue Certain Guidelines Regarding inadequencies and deficiencies in Crimininal Trials Vs the State of Andhra Pradesh and Others. All the respondents in the case have been ordered to furnish copies of their respective reply affidavits
The Bombay High Court stated that there is no permission required for leading a secondary evidence before any court under the Evidence Act. This observation was made while hearing a writ petition against an order of a trial court wherein an early application under Section 65 of the Evidence Act was filed seeking ‘permission’ for proving contents of a lease deed
The Allahabad High Court has rejected a writ petition filed by LED bulb manufacturing firm, M/S Kanika Swami of Meerut, challenging the recovery proceedings justifying the it suffered a huge loss because of demonetisation and enforcement of GST due to which it couldn’t repay the bank loan. HC Stated that the petition cannot be considered as there was an optional solution
A Writ Petition challenging the Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, has been launched in the Rajasthan High Court. It is mandatory to obtain a Government sanction before the investigation and a time limit of 180 days has been provided to the authorities to consider a sanction request. If no decision is taken within the time limit, the sanction would be
The Bombay High Court on hearing a writ petition challenging an order of the family court wherein an interim maintenance amount of Rs. 5,000 each was awarded to the petitioner and her two minor children stated that the respondent husband made every attempt to conceal his income in order to avoid paying maintenance. Thus the court allowed the petition
