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The Madras High Court on April 1, 2022  had the sanctioned strength of 75 judges,of which 60 judges were working and 15 vacancies   The Central Government has thus notified the appointment of nine additional judges of Madras High Court as permanent judges of that Court. The following are the additional judges who have been made permanent: – Justice Govindarajulu Chandrasekharan – Justice Veerasamy Sivagnanam – Justice Ganesan Ilangovan – Justice Ananthi Subramanian – Justice Kannammal Shanmuga Sundaram – Justice Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup – Justice Murali Shankar Kuppuraju – Justice Manjula Ramaraju Nalliah – Justice Thamilselvi T Valayapalayam. The Central Government has notified the appointment of nine additional judges of Madras High Court as permanent judges of that Court. After the recommendation made by the Supreme Court Collegium,  the Central government took the decision on May 10, 2022 to make the nine judges permanent. The post Central Government appoint

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The Uttarakhand High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation filed alleging that certain unscrupulous persons have encroached and diverted the irrigation channel, due to which petitioner is unable to irrigate his agricultural land. The Petitioner is a resident of Village Bhawanpur Talla, Haldwani, District Nainital. The relief sought in this writ petition are as under:-  (a) Issue a writ order or direction in the nature of Mandamus directing the respondent authorities to take immediate action for removing the encroachment from the illegal water channel from private respondents  and to release water as it was continuing earlier in the channels as notified in the revenue map and further suitable action be taken against the encroacher.  (a)(i) Issue a writ order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding and directing the respondent authorities  to take immediate action for removal of encroachment from the water canals (gools) which are being notified in the revenue map

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The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Police to share the status report on the investigation into the alleged attack and vandalization at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence with the CM’s Secretariat. The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Sachin Datta is seized of a plea filed by a member of the Aam Aadmi Party in the capital seeking an SIT probe into the vandalism at the official residence of the CM on March 30. During the hearing today, the Delhi Police handed over to the Court its status report in a sealed cover disclosing the steps taken to beef up security arrangements outside CM’s residence, including the decision to curtail protests near the Civil Lines Metro Station. Senior Advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Rahul Mehra, appearing on behalf of AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj, the petitioner, urged the Bench that a copy of the status report be shared with the petitioner. However, the Bench was disinclined for the same on the g

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The Allahabad High Court has put a stay on the recovery action being taken by the state government from the shopkeepers for the spoilage of thousands of tonnes of maize kept in the government shops. A Single Bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Anil Kumar Tiwari. The Court noted that, Submission of the counsel for the petitioner is, it is established from the impugned communication dated 25.1.2022 itself that the petitioner had not indulged in any malpractice or sale of essential commodity, here maize, except in accordance with law. Therefore, no demand could be made from the petitioner for admitted loss of value suffered by the surplus/unsold stock of maize that remained available to the petitioner because the beneficiaries did not lift the same. Once, it is admitted that the stock of the maize was available with the petitioner, the petitioner is not liable to compensate for loss of its quality and value because the beneficiar

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A fast-track court of Varanasi will be hearing the two fresh petitions on Monday, which were transferred to the fast track court seeking a ban on the entry of Muslims in the Gyanvapi mosque area. The petition was filed by Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey which states that the property belongs to the official deity and no amount of namaz or illegal possession can take its place. The petition, filed by the Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh, was taken up by Civil Judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who had also heard the Gyanvapi mosque case before it was transferred to District Judge Ajay Kumar Vishevesh by the Supreme Court on Friday after understanding the complexity of the issue. The petition seeks permission for the worship of Shivling that was founds the mosque complex . It also requests that the Adi Vishveshwara should be declares as the official owner of Gyanvapi mosque.The right for pray should also be granted to the Hindus. District Judge A.K. Vishevesh

The Gauhati High court recently directed all concerned authorities to go ahead with the construction of the road from Kigwema to the Border of Nagaland on the existing road and continue with the expansion after the RoW (Right Of Way) issue is resolved. The Kohima Bench of Justice Songkhupchung Serto and Justice Kakheto Sema heard a Suo Moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on the issue of incompletion of the National Highway 02 between Dimapur and Imphal. In the report submitted by A. Zhimomi, the  Amicus Curiae it is stated as follows: ”1. The contract has been split into two parts. The first part is the overlay section from Lerie to Kigwema and the reconstruction section is from Kigwema to Mao.  2. The overlay section is yet to be fully completed. In some portions the bituminous concrete is yet to be laid. In this stretch, though work has been done by the Contractor, many potholes are beginning to appear.  3. From Kigwema up to Mao, the existing road is in pitiable condition. P

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The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday, disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed assailing the action of the respondents in constructing the Vikas Path (Road) through the agriculture land of the village Tinwari. The PIL has been filed by one Vijay Kumar Goyal. Kuldeep Mathur, the senior Counsel submitted  that as per the proposal dated 3.10.2019, the Vikas Path (Road) was required to be constructed on land entered as ‘Abadi’ in the revenue record and thus, the respondents have flouted the said order by constructing the road on agricultural khasras. To this submission, the Additional Advocate General  K.S.Rajpurohit, submitted  that it was consciously decided on 3.10.2019, that the road shall be constructed in the area which has been inhabited by population and not on land which has been designated to be Abadi land in the revenue record. This fact is affirmed from the perusal of Clause No.9 (III) of the order dated 3.10.2019. The road in question has already been construc

The Government of Uttarakhand has made a 5-member panel, led by  retired Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai which shall examine the relevant laws pertaining to the implementation the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The committee is comprised of very learned people who have been in the social circles for very long now.. The other members of the committee comprise of  retired High Court judge Justice Permod Kohli, the social activist Manu Gaur, the retired IAS officer Shatrughan Singh, and Doon University Vice-Chancellor Surekha Dangwal along with Justice Ranjana Prasad The Central government had told the Delhi high court in January this year, that the Uniform civil code can only be introduced after an in-depth study is done in the personal laws that govern the communities Taking everything into consideration, the writ petition filed by the BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay has been dismissed which had sought drafting of UCC within a frame of 3 months. The Allahabad court,

The Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant on Saturday in a lecture on Saturday ,talked about  the life of  Justice VR Krishna Iyer ,on  his  immense contributions to the jurisprudence of social justice, his idea of  legal aid and his reforms on the prisoners rights. Delivering a lecture on Justice Krishna  lecture series organised by the Himachal Pradesh Law University Shimla here, Justice Surya Kant said that Justice Iyer was a pioneer in evolution of prison system as a mechanism of punishment and eventually, the contemporary context of prisons in the nature of reformative and corrective institutions. He quoted Justice Iyer, who once said, “Inmates are the guests in prisons and jailors are the hosts”. The Supreme Court had then come up with a great and novel system of prison administration which was called  ‘break-up and weekend prison,’ in which the prison inmate could be permitted to move out of prison with some conditions off course,on weekdays but had to return on weekends.This wa

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The Sikkim High Court recently directed the state to  inform as to when would a Nodal Agency comprising of experts shall be constituted in order to study the situation at ground level regarding the depletion of ground water within the areas where the pharmaceutical companies are carrying out their manufacturing activities. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Biswanath Somadder and Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai  heard a Suo Moto Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the matter of discharge of Effluents by Pharma Companies situated a Singtam.  At the time of the hearing, the Court was taken through various pleadings including the preliminary report of the amicus curiae dated 26th February, 2022, wherefrom the Bench noted that the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department, in a letter dated 7th February, 2022, has mentioned that it has responsibility to supply water only in the urban areas of the State and since all pharmaceutical companies fall under rural areas, the authorities under

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A notice has been sent to the UP Chief Secretary, MOEF&CC, Noida and Greater Noida Authorities, DM, District Ground Water Management Council and the RWAs about the major intervention by the NGT where it has completely halted the concretization of roadsides and road berms in Noida & Greater Noida. The order was passed by the bench comprising of Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and an Expert Member, Dr. Afroz Ahmad, on the petition of environment activist Vikrant Tongad and Consultant Dermatologist, Dr. Supriya Mahajan, who had mentioned in their petition that the concretizing by the Noida and Greater Noida Authorities on the entire roadsides and green/vegetated roadberms in the two cities, is flagrant violation of the Orders of the Tribunal, the Government Orders issued by the state government and the Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. In the petition it was mentioned that the concretization of ground obstructs groundwater recharge, causes u

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The Chhattisgarh High Court recently on Monday, dismissed a Petition that challenged a notice dated 10.5.2022 issued by the Collector, Bemetara (CG) regarding no confidence motion. The Petition has been filed by President Nagar Panchayat of Bemetara District. The counsel for the petitioner submitted  that the impugned notice is arbitrary, illegal and contrary to law. The notice does not mention the names of the persons against whom, no confidence motion has been passed and the Collector has not made any enquiry before fixation of the date of no confidence motion, therefore, the impugned notice is unconstitutional. The Counsel for the respondents strongly opposes the submissions and submitted that as per the provisions contained under Section 43-A(2) (ii) of the Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act, 1961, notice of such a meeting specifying the date, time and place shall be dispatched to the President and every Councillor ten clear days before the Meeting and the said provision has been

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A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that Section 2, 3, 4 of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 is void and unconstitutional for being violative of Articles 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, 29 of the Constitution, in so far as it legalizes ‘the ancient historical and puranic places of worship and pilgrimage’, illegally occupied by barbaric foreign invaders. The PIL has been filed by Swami Jeetendranand Saraswatee through Advocate Bijan Kr. Ghosh. According to the Petition, Sections 2, 3, 4 has, without resolution of the disputes through process of the law, abated the suit/proceedings, which is ‘per se’ unconstitutional and beyond its law-making power. Moreover, impugned provisions cannot be forced with retrospective effect and the judicial remedy of dispute pending, arisen or arising cannot be barred. The Centre neither can close the doors of Courts of First Instance, Appellate Courts, Constitutional Courts for aggrieved Hindus,

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The President of India has been pleased to appoint Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena to be the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office. The resignation of Shri Anil Baijal who was the Lt. Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi earlier has been accepted by the President of India. Anil Baijal had put down his paper due to some personal reasons last week. The Lieutenant Governor is the centre’s representative to Delhi. The state government of Delhi(AAP) and Anil Baijal were not in best of official relations and often clashed over policy issues until a Supreme Court judgement in 2018 spelled out the powers of the LG and the state government. Born on March 23, 1958, Saxena is currently the chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC). He was appointed in the post in 2015. Shri Vinay Saxena is an alumni of Kanpur University.He also hold a with a pilot’s licence. Vinay Saxena was also a part of the natio

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Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Monday sought advice from fellow Supreme Court Judge, Justice J.K. Maheshwari, regarding the elevation of two Judges from one High Court to another. Usually the Supreme Court Collegium, headed by the Chief Justice of India and mostly comprising four other senior-most Judges of the Apex Court, which recommend the elevation of judges. The current collegium includes CJI N.V. Ramana, Justice U.U. Lalit, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Nageswara Rao (who is bound to retire on June 7). Thanking Justice Ramana for the ‘rare honour,’ Justice Maheshwari said, “I thank you for seeking my views on the proposal mentioned in the letter under reference. “I agree with the proposal to repatriate, for better administration of justice, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah from Andhra Pradesh High Court to Patna High Court. “I agree with the proposal to transfer, for better administration of justice, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav from

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An application has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking impleadment for appropriate appreciation of the facts-circumstances in the case related to Gyanvapi mosque dispute. The application has been filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who had earlier filed a public interest litigation before the Apex Court, challenging the Constitutional validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 seeks to protect the status of all religious structures, as it stood on the date of independence by barring courts from entertaining cases, which raises dispute over the character of such places of worship. As per the law, such cases already pending in courts would stand abated. However, the Act provided exception for Ram-Janambhoomi site, which was the basis for courts, including the matter pending before both the High Court and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had invoked this Act in 2019, while awardi

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The hearing in the Gyanvapi case begins today under the District and Sessions Judge of Varanasi, Justice Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha. The case involves the claim by the Hindu devotees who have filed a civil suit for getting the Right to worship inside the premises of Gyanvapi Mosque claiming it was a Hindu temple earlier and still has Hindu deities. On Friday ,Supreme Court bench of Justice D.Y Chandrachud, Justice Surya Kant and Justice PS Narasimha  had passed an order  to  transfer civil suit in Gyanvapi mosque case from the court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) to Varanasi District Judge. The Apex court had instructed that suit should be given the priority before any other matter. Ten individuals have filed a plaint acting as next friends of deities claiming that the Gyanvapi mosque is an ancient temple residing one of the Jyotirlingam that was destroyed in year 1669 by the then emperor Aurangzeb .They also claim that the temple housed Lord Ganesha and Ma Shringar Gauri which s

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In a full court meeting held on May 20, the Supreme Court of India has conferred the position of Senior Advocate to the retired High Court judges The names of the Justices who have been offered the position of senior advocates are: Govind Mathudesir Ravi K Deshpande  Dama Seshadri Naidu Vineet Kothari and ZA Haq among others. The decision was taken by the apex court at a full court meeting which was held this Friday,under section 16(2) of the Advocates Act 1961, read with rule  2(a) of order IV, Supreme Court. The position of senior advocates was offered to: Justice Govind Mathu r who served as judge of Rajasthan High Court and as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. Justice Ravi K Deshpande  who served as judge of the Bombay High Court where he served for 11 years before demitting office in November 2020. Justice ZA Haq  who served as Judge of Bombay High Court from 2013 to 2021. Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu  who belongs to Andhra Pradesh (AP) and was elevated as judge

The Gauhati High Court recently closed off a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed pertaining  to certain restrictions placed on non-vaccinated people in the State of Assam. The PIL has been filed by Jyotimoy Kalita and others. It has been submitted by D. Upamanyu ,  Standing Counsel, Health Department that as of now, there are no such restrictions put in place relating to Covid in the State of Assam. However, as and when the situation demands, the authorities will promulgate necessary protocol. While considering the PIL , the Division  Bench of Chief Justice (Acting) N. Kotiswar Singh and Justice Soumitra Saikia is of the view that because of the improved Covid situation, the matter may not be of much public importance at this stage, though certain issue of great importance of individual freedom is involved. Under the circumstances, the Court is of the view that though the issue raised is of paramount importance relating to individual rights and liberties, the matter may be reag

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The Supreme Court on Friday had issued notice in the writ petition that challenged the changed examination pattern in the NEET SS 2022, which would now consist of 150 questions from the general category of the primary feeder broad specialty subject and from all sub- specialty/systems/component of that primary feeder broad specialty subject. The writ was preferred by MD Radiation Oncologists and MD Anaesthesiologists NEET SS 2022 aspirant  who had challenged the changed examination pattern. What was also making the aspirants aggrieved was the draft Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2021 published by National Medical Commission which had proposed deletion of  MD radiation oncology/radiotherapy as an eligible feeder specialty qualification for the super specialty course of DM Medical Oncology The petition was listed before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and PS Narasimha. Doctors were represented by Advocate Shyam Divan  who referred to one of the orders passed in a wri