Delhi High Court to hear shortly a plea by a group of students seeking relaxation of “two attempts in two consecutive years” criteria for candidates who did not appear for JEE Advanced twice, or even once in 2021 and 2022.
Court is informed that a reply has been filed by the government.
Court notes that the reply is not on record. Court gives the petitioner a week's time to file their response and directs that the reply be placed on record.
Matter to be heard on April 16.
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#SupremeCourt to shortly deliver judgment on whether mere membership of an 'unlawful association' is sufficient to constitute an offence under the #UAPA, or some overt act, over and above the membership, is a prerequisite to attract the penal provisions of UAPA
The verdict to be delivered by a bench of Justices MR Shah, CT Ravikumar and Sanjay Karol #SupremeCourtOfIndia
Justice Shah: present case is for reference to larger bench. Short issue before bench is whether Arup bhyan case and raneef case is correctly decided... whether mere membership of an 'unlawful association' is sufficient to constitute an offence under the #UAPA, or some overt act,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A Delhi Court has framed murder charges against former #AAP councillor #TahirHussain in relation to death of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Officer Ankit Sharma during the Delhi riots.
In an order pronounced today, the court framed charges against Hussain and ten others.
The court said that they are liable to be tried for offences under Sections 147, 148, 153A, 302 read with 120B of IPC.
Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala has said that as per evidence, Tahir Hussain played the role of instigator to kill Hindus and he exhorted the mob to "not spare Hindus".
J Gopi: I have seen this practice especially in Ahmedabad... poor litigants come from far off places but they aren't treated well by advocates. Forget tea, coffee they aren't even called inside the chambers of the lawyers. But now situation will change.
J Gopi: With lawyers from other countries coming to India, now there will be a huge competition for you all (Indian Advocates). Then I am sure, you will call litigants to your offices, offer not only tea but even food. You will do much more things due to the competitions… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#DelhiHighCourt orders Income Tax Authorities to 'stay their hand' in relation to the income tax notices issued to former union minister and Rajya Sabha MP @KapilSibal
The IT Department had issued a show cause notice to Sibal on March 11. #IncomeTax#kapilsibal
The IT authorities had issued notice to Sibal in relation to assesment of his income starting from the year 2013-14.
Sr Advocat P Chidambaram appeared for Sibal today and stated that the income tax proceedings were in violation of principle of natural justice.
The court was also informed that the proceedings were without jurisdiction.
Delhi High Court to hear shortly Delhi Police's appeal against a trial court order discharging Sharjeel Imam, Asif Iqbal Tanha, Safoora Zargar and eight others in the 2019 Jamia Violence Case. #DelhiHughCourt#SharjeelImam#JamiaViolence#DelhiPolice
While discharging the accused, the trial court had pulled up the Delhi Police for its investigation into the violence and said the Imma and others were made scapegoats.
Read the detailed story on the trial court order here.
Kerala High Court will soon hear the bail plea moved by M Sivasankar, CM Pinarayi Vijayan's former Principal Secretary, who was arrested by the ED over money laundering charges in connection with the LIFE Mission case