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Currently, the number of judges at the Kerala High Court is 42 judges, as against its sanctioned strength of 47. With Justice Snehalatha's appointment, the total number of women judges in the High Court has risen to 5.
Justice PG Ajithkumar noted that while the ITP Act does not define the word "procure", Section 5 of the Act penalises "procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of prostitution".
The father argued that the allegations arose primarily because he had objected to his daughter following Korean pop group BTS which, according to him, was un-Islamic.
Chandrasekhar has moved the High Court to quash the FIR against him for his communally coloured posts on social media in the wake of the Kalamassery bombing.
"The conduct of political defection betrays not only the party under whose ticket the candidate contested the elections but also the will of the people who elected the candidate", the Court said.
The issue is with the court itself, Justice A Muhamed Mustaque opined, highlighting a case in which a man, who is now 80 years old, had his sentence suspended 25 years ago and has spent none of that time behind bars.
The Court noted that there are no special provisions in the PC Act of the DSPE Act excluding the State police or special agencies of the State from investigating corruption cases against Central government employees.