[ad_1] While hearing writ petitions challenging the functioning of administrators of urban local bodies (ULBs) beyond the prescribed period of six months, the Patna high court sought response from principal secretary of the state’s urban development and housing department (UDHD) on Thursday. Petitioner’s counsel Abhinav Shrivastav submitted that even after...
Plea in HC seeks to disqualify Tamil Nadu governor, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi shall be disqualified from holding the constitutional post, as he is the chairperson of Auroville Foundation, which is a public office from which he has been drawing salaries and allowances, alleged a quo warranto petition filed in Madras high court.The plea, filed by...
‘Initiate contempt against information commissioner for remarks on SC’, lawyer writes to AG, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] A lawyer has written to the Attorney General of India, R. Venkataramani, seeking his consent to initiate criminal contempt of court proceedings against an information commissioner for making 'scandalous' observations against the Supreme Court.The letter written by advocate-on-record Aldanish Rein alleges that information commissioner Uday Mahurkar of the Central...
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[ad_1] The Supreme Court observed on Monday a person making a "false statement" about malfunctioning of EVMs "must know the consequence" as it leads to stalling the electoral process. It was hearing a plea against an election rule relating to the malfunctioning of an EVM which the petitioner claimed was...
Cannot Permit Burial Of Bodies On Land Belonging To Temples, Says High Court, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Burial of dead bodies cannot be allowed on temple land, the Madras high court has observed while disposing of a plea which sought to prevent it on land belonging to Subramaniya Swamy temple at Tiruchendur in Tuticorin district. A division bench of Justice R Mahadevan and Justice J Sathya...
Government should stop overloading SC with endless statutory appeals, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Attorney General (AG) of India R Venkataramani on Saturday said it is important that the government stops overloading the Supreme Court with endless statutory appeals.The AG, speaking at the Constitution Day celebrations held at the Supreme Court, said: "It is important that the government stops overloading the Supreme Court...
Information commissioner, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] The Central Information Commission has said the 1993 Supreme Court order allowing remuneration to imams in mosques was in "violation of the Constitution" and besides setting a "wrong precedent", has become a point of unnecessary political slugfest and social disharmony. Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar, while hearing an RTI application...
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[ad_1] The Chief Justice of India (CJI), D.Y. Chandrachud, said on Saturday that no institution in a Constitutional democracy, including the collegium, is perfect and within the existing system, a solution has to be worked out, emphasising that judges are faithful soldiers who implement the Constitution.Speaking at the Constitution Day...
Madras HC flays nepotism in Puducherry; says fill govt jobs through tests or exchanges, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] Decrying nepotism and backdoor appointments to government jobs in Puducherry, the Madras high court has directed the administration to fill regular vacancies by tests or through employment exchanges, but only after giving it wide publicity.Justice S M Subramaniam, noting that it is the worst form of unconstitutionality for the...
SC agrees to list in February plea against jury system for Parsi matrimonial disputes, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms
[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list a plea challenging several provisions of the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936, which provides for a system of jury comprising community members to decide matrimonial disputes.A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli said it...