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Madras HC upholds order of single bench to light deepam at the deepathoon atop Thiruparankundram hill MADURAI: Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld the order passed by the single Judge (Justice G R Swaminathan), directing the Subramaniya Swamy temple management to light Karthigai deepam at the deepathoon (stone pillar) on one of the peaks of…
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh high court has refused to interfere with the judgment of a Pocso court in Narmadapuram district awarding 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a person accused of having sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, whom he married later. The couple now has a child.A division bench of Justices Vivek Agarwal and R…
Says Testator’s Wish Assumes Pre-Eminence NEW DELHI: The string of landmark judgments on gender equality could not help Shyla Joseph get an equitable 1/9th share of the property of her father N S Sreedharan, who had nine children but in his will disinherited her for marrying outside the community.A Supreme Court bench of Justices Ahsanuddin…
15 yrs on, techie who cut wife into 72 pieces gets life in jail DEHRADUN: Fifteen years after a US-returned software engineer murdered his wife, chopped her body into 72 pieces and disposed of them across the city to erase evidence of the crime, Uttarakhand high court (HC) on Wednesday upheld his life imprisonment.The case…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday approved the decision of the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court directing Maharashtra State Election Commission to declare results of all civic body elections on completion of next round of voting on Dec 20, and clarified that announcement of the results would not be postponed further due to pendency…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed an order of Securities Appellate Tribunal that had upheld SEBI’s Rs 30-lakh fine against Reliance Industries (RIL) and its compliance officers for failing to make prompt disclosures on the Rs 43,000-cr Reliance Jio-Facebook deal in 2020 despite it being reported in media.A bench of CJI Surya Kant…
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ruled that expatriates working in Indian companies must become members of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and contribute to the fund regardless of their income levels.The court upheld amendments to the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, as well as the Centre’s 2008 and 2010 notifications…
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has ruled that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) does not have the power to investigate disputes related to patented products, holding that the Patent Act takes precedence over the Competition Act in such cases, PTI reported.Dismissing an appeal against a CCI order that had closed a complaint…
SHIMLA: The district court in Shimla on Thursday upheld the municipal commissioner court’s order to demolish the entire structure of the Sanjauli mosque, dismissing petitions filed by the Himachal Pradesh Waqf Board and the Sanjauli Mosque Committee, reported PTI.The Sanjauli Mosque Committee had challenged the May 3 order of the commissioner’s court, which directed the…
