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Single Bench had asked State not to interfere with sale of tickets of Nagaland The government will move the Division Bench of the High Court on Monday against a Single Bench order that restrained the State from interfering with the marketing and sale of lottery tickets of the State of Nagaland. The government will file appeal on Monday and utilise the services of senior lawyers to present its stance, Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac told a press conference on Thursday. Justice A. Muhamed Mus...

J&K Housing Board retrieves prime land worth Rs 100 cr in Gandhi Nagar Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Dec 27: Prime land worth over Rs 100 crores at posh Gole Market area of Gandhi Nagar was retrived by the Jammu & Kashmir Housing Board officials with the assistance of strong police contingent in violence free operation during last night. Official sources said that the anti-encroachment operation which was launched at around 11 pm last night directly under the command of Managing Director of J&...

A Division Bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee observed that a High Court in its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has the power to grant bail in a suitable case. "In an application under Article 226, the High Court must be circumspect in exercising its powers [to grant bail] on the basis of the facts of each case. However, the High Court should not foreclose itself from the exercise of the power when a citizen has been arbitrarily dep...

The Delhi High Court in a progressive judgment delivered on a writ petition by a female employee of Punjab National Bank has held that the jurisdiction of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) established under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, is limited to allegations of sexual harassment and whether a complaint is made out or not, to that effect. The ICC "cannot make comments on the personal conduct of the parties", the court has h...

Noting that " no bias or any sort of partiality or unfairness can be imputed on the part of the State Government as it has tried to strike the balance between the schools management and the parents", the Rajasthan High Court on Friday (18 th December) ordered the schools to take their fees as per the recommendations of the Government made on October 28. The Bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Satish Kumar Sharma, which was hearing Special Appeal Writs, which were filed ...

It also concluded that the other incidents could not be established in the absence of substantive evidence as there were no direct witnesses. Therefore, the Complaints Committee Appellants contentions According to the appellant, the aforesaid decision was not communicated to her and it was only on 3rd July, 2013 in response to an RTI query that she learnt of the decision. She filed an appeal but was also not again communicated the result of that appeal. In the meanwhile, respondent ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the special leave petition filed by former Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ashok Arora against the Delhi High Court order wherein his ...