03/12/2021
Daily legal updates
12.03.21
1.Actor Kangana Ranaut has approached City Civil and Sessions The court, at Dindoshi, challenging the issuance of process by a Metropolitan Magistrate Court against her, in the criminal defamation case by lyricist Javed Akhtar for her remarks against him in an interview with Arnab Goswami.
2.The Bombay High (Aurangabad Bench) recently pulled up an Additional Sessions Judge and expressed its displeasure as the Judge used slang language and foul words 'utterly disrespectful to women' while recording r**e survivor's testimony and later in the Judgment authored by him.
3.Ruling that time has come to initiate action against persons who file frivolous complaints under Sections 354, 354A, 354B, 354C, 354D IPC etc. only for an ulterior purpose, the Delhi High Court recently imposed a cost of Rs.30,000 on the petitioners with a warning not to file false and frivolous cases.
4.The Karnataka High Court has directed State Authorities not to take any coercive steps against members of the Association of India Schools, affiliated to the CBSE and the ICSE for any breaches of the the government order by which it asked only for the Academic Year 2020-21 to collect only 70% Tuition Fees from the parents as collected for the academic year 2019-20 and other charges are not be collected.
5.Underlining that even if the wife of a Judge is distantly related to one of the petitioners, this nowhere implies that such Judge is prejudiced, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Monday (08th March) dismissed a plea seeking a declaration of a sitting Judge's dissenting view as Coram non-judice and non est in the eyes of law.
6.In another development in the toolkit case, Goa based environmental activist Subham Kar Chaudhuri has moved Patiala House Court in New Delhi for grant of anticipatory bail on the expiry of his transit anticipatory bail granted to him by the Bombay High Court. Chaudhuri, member of the organization "extinction rebellion" is apprehending arrest in connection with the Toolkit case.
7.Supreme Court of India will on Friday hear a plea challenging the legislative competence of diverse State Assemblies in adopting 'Resolutions' against central statutes like CAA and farm laws which fall under the Union List of the Seventh Schedule.