Author: Shabnam Jahan

A plea filed by a prisoner who wanted to be transferred from the Nashik jail in 2020 was dismissed by the Bombay High Court. The court determined that the grounds supplied by the petitioner and the reasons offered by the authorities for the transfer were entirely different, thus it freed the convict to file another petition if he disagreed with the transfer decision. However, the convict has already requested transfer once more. Mohammed Zubair Kasam Shaikh, who is serving a life sentence at the Nashik Central Prison, submitted a plea that was being heard by the justices PB Varale and…

The residential building belonged to a business controlled by the family of Union minister Narayan Rane, and the Bombay High Court ordered the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to tear down the unlawful parts of the building within two weeks. The court found that the bungalow had broken both the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and Floor Space Index (FSI) regulations. While dismissing the plea asking for orders to the BMC to examine the second regularisation application, the bench of Justices RD Dhanuka and Kamal Khata also imposed a fee of Rs. 10 lakhs. Within two weeks, this sum must be submitted…

The State Police Chief was recently ordered by the Kerala High Court to investigate and report back on how the accused in the case [Fasalu Rahman v. Union of India] got to possess a letter from the State Police Chief to a District Police Chief designated “top secret.” It’s interesting to note that the accused mistakenly gave it to the division bench of Justices Anil K. Narendran and PG Ajith Kumar when it was debating his request to have a preventative detention order against him quashed. Even though the petitioner-accused eventually dropped the complaint with the court’s approval, the court…

Sanjeev Aggarwal, one of the defendants in the 2017 Chhattisgarh coal allocation fraud case, had his bail revoked by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday because he approached a witness. AES Chhattisgarh Energy Pvt Ltd. v. CBI The accused broke the primary bail condition, which forbade him from approaching the prosecution witnesses in any way, according to Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj. “The court is only made aware of a very tiny percentage of instances where witnesses are coerced or intimidated into testifying. Hostile witnesses frequently cause charges to fail. The court should not hesitate to take…

When there are no burial sites in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court questioned the Maharashtra government on the rationale of providing permission for the building of skyscrapers. Bombay High Court hearing An individual named Mohammed Furqan Qureshi filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) asking for a separate burial place for Sunni Muslims. The PIL was being heard by the bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar. Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, the advocate general for Maharashtra, said the court at the hearing on Monday that the Chief Minister has decided to grant Hindus, Muslims, and Christians access to 3,000 square…

In response to a complaint by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) against the Chhattisgarh police investigation into an FIR filed in 2020 alleging a larger conspiracy in the 2013 Maoist attack in the state that claimed the lives of several top Congress leaders, the Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice. A fresh FIR was filed by the Chhattisgarh police alleging a massive plot to murder prominent Congress officials as well as the involvement of other people in addition to the Naxal groups while the National Investigating Agency was already looking into the 2013 attack. The High Court ruling upholding…

The Supreme Court stated that it is not required to provide a potential accuser with a hearing chance prior to filing a complaint under Section 195/340 CrPC. Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abhay S. Oka, and Vikram Nath were part of the Three Judges Bench that was responding to a request for information from a two-judge bench. The questions were: 1) Does Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 require a preliminary investigation and an opportunity for the potential accuser to be heard before a court files a complaint under Section 195 of the Code? (ii) What are the…

The Delhi High Court has stated that it anticipates the Delhi Government’s health information management system to be established as quickly as feasible in order to give an end-to-end solution for all information linked to health institutions. A division bench led by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice submitted arguments in relation to the city’s handling of the COVID-19 incident. Thus, Subramonium Prasad concluded a number of complaints made about the handling of the COVID-19 issue in the city. The Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and Guru Govind Singh Hospital, as well as allied medical institutions, will have a complete…

In the three FIRS filed against him in connection with the 2020 riots, the Delhi High Court declined to halt the criminal proceedings against former Aam Aadmi Party councilor Tahir Hussain. The change occurred as a result of Tahir Hussain petitioning the High Court to have three FIRS against him, 116/2020 filed at Khajuri Khas Police Station and 91, 92/2020 filed at Dayalpur Police Station, quashed. Under different sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act, the FIRS are registered. As an alternative, Hussain has asked that the investigation into the three FIRS be combined with FIR 59/2020,…

Senior Attorney Rebecca John has been selected by the Delhi High Court as an amicus curiae in a PIL that calls for action against certain media outlets for disclosing the identities of the rape victim and the accused in the Hyderabad case. a division bench made up of Justice and Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma Subramonium Prasad ordered that John should get the order and the whole set of documents within four weeks. The Court posted the case for hearing on January 12, 2024, saying, “The matter needs to be considered on merits, and, therefore, to help this Court Ms.…