The Rs 100-crore defamation suit filed by BCCL pertains to two videos published by @newslaundry , "Toadies Banega Tu: TV Newsance Episode 107," and "Explained: How to Rig TRPs," published in October, 2020 and December 1, 2020 respectively.
The suit is filed against @newslaundry, its directors @sareen_prashant and @RoopakKapoor, scriptwriter @Memeghnad S, producer-director Aditya Varier, assistant producer Jude Weston, editor Samrendra Dash, researcher Sughosh Joshi and @MnshaP
News Laundry in its reply the Bombay High Court that no one should be above scrutiny, especially the media
Adv Devyani Kulkarni for Times Now/ BCCL says the advocate suddenly fell ill. And she doesn't have instructions regarding the counsel.
Senior Adv Nikhil Sakhardande for Newslaundry says the matter should be heard. Submits that BCCL clearly doesn't seem to have any urgency as the alleged defamatory video was uploaded in October.
Bombay High Court is hearing a petition filed by Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit challenging the cognizance taken by the Special NIA Court against him in the 2008 Malegaon Blast Case in the absence of a sanction to prosecute.
Advocate Shrikant Shivade is appearing on behalf of Purohit, submits a list of judgements.
Purohit has claimed that he attended the controversial Abhinav Bharat meetings as part of his official duty.
Shivade - I had a very unconventional method of infiltrating into organizations.
Makhija informing the bench about the suggestions of the expert committee.
First suggestion is to have a single window system.
Bench: We think there is a lot that you have put on the plate as it were. We would like to see what we could directly implement. Tell us what can be done immediately as a short term measure, and the long term measure.
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Preserving the purity of the process of dissemination of justice is a collective responsibility which rests both on the Court and counsels, advocates-on-record and instructing attorneys who act as officers of the Court on behalf of the parties.
"An undertaking given by a litigant to a Court with any form of assurance may be construed in a totally different light at a subsequent stage of the proceedings depending on the twists and turns of the litigation itself.
Hearing a case on the death of a 23-yo undertrial lodged in Tihar jail since 19.09.2019, the Delhi High Court says, "It's a very serious matter." Directions issued for status report within 3 days, court asks if any FIR lodged and whether chargesheet has been filed.
The court asks for CCTV footage, says that on the day that he passed away CCTV footage should've been confiscated.
Justice Singh: I had visited the Tihar jail once, and they have a very small time limit for which they preserve the CCTV footage. Nowadays we have cloud servers, so the issue with storage space is not there anymore. We should increase the time for storage.
The Delhi High Court is hearing a plea seeking compensation for destruction of shops, demolished during the '75 #Emergency.
The plea has been moved by a 90 year old petitioner.
The court says it doesn't want to waste a minute more on the petition. The court dictates order, "The petitioner is seeking compensation for shops destroyed in the Anaaz Mandi during the Emergency."
[Facebook India VP’s Challenge against Delhi Assembly Summons]
#SupremeCourt bench headed by Justice SK Kaul will continue to hear Facebook India Vice President, Ajit Mohan’s plea challenging the summons issued to him by Delhi Assembly’s Committee on Peace and Harmony.
In the previous hearing, SGI Tushar Mehta informed the Court that State Assemblies cannot deal with issues demanding a “national response.”