HC stays lawyer body’s notice on different dress code for interns, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed a circular issued by the Shahdara Bar Association prescribing a different dress code for law interns to distinguish them from advocates, and asked the Bar Council of Delhi to meet all bar associations and consensually derive a uniform dress code for interns.The court said...

HC restrains Maharashtra government from giving appointment letters to 111 under EWS quota, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

In a disappointment for the Shinde-Fadnavis government, the Bombay high court on Thursday restrained the state from giving appointment letters to 111 candidates under the EWS quota but allowed it to proceed with appointing others selected by the MPSC. While the government had planned a major event to distribute the...

Pil In Hc Says Govt Not Setting Up Old Age Homes In Districts, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The Andhra Pradesh high court on Thursday directed the state government to explain the steps taken to establish at least one old age home in every district in accordance with Parents and Senior Citizens Maintenance (PSCM) Act.The high court observed that according to law, the state government must establish old...

Hc Seeks Govt Replyon Functioning Ofulb Administrators, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

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 the...

National Institute of Design appeals against Gujarat HC order to admit student, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The National Institute of Design (NID) has approached the division bench of the Gujarat high court, challenging a single-judge bench's order to the institute to grant admission to the candidate who topped its entrance exams for master's degree course. NID filed the appeal as the student filed a contempt of...

Try For Subires, Manik Custody Outside Bengal, Hc Tells Cbi, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Calcutta High Court judge Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay told the CBI to make a plea in an appropriate court to question Subires Bhattacharyya outside the state if the former SSC chairman wasn’t cooperating with the investigation in the illegal recruitment case.“He must open up. These people are putting the state government...

Police to Kerala HC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The Kerala Police have filed an affidavit in the High Court on Thursday stating that priests too have a role in the Vizhinjam violence, including the attack on the police station over the weekened.According to an affidavit submitted in the High Court by the police, the priests also played a...

Rathore Files Pil In Hc Over Resignation Of Cong Mlas, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Deputy leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore filed a PIL in the high court seeking a direction to the speaker to decide on the resignations of 91 MLAs.He said, either the speaker accepts the resignation or spells out the reasons for not accepting it.The petition prayed for directing the assembly secretary...

Supreme Court gets an all-woman bench for the third time in history, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud has constituted an all-woman bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M Trivedi to hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters, news agency PTI reported. This is the third time ever that an all-woman bench has been constituted in the...

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CBI’s probe into the death of Malabar Cements whistleblower V Saseendran tarnishes its reputation as a premier investigating agency, the high court said in a judgment while ordering a new probe by the agency.After considering two petitions challenging the CBI’s finding that the whistleblower and his two minor sons committed...