Court News Updates

The Delhi High Court on Monday has issued notice in a plea filed by NGO Shree Swaminarayan Mandir seeking directions to the Centre to allow it to fill and upload the Form FC-04 on the government portal so as to enable it to file their annual returns for 2019-20, as the same could not be filed earlier due to technical glitch in the portal.

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted further six weeks time to the Registrar of High Court of Delhi and the Delhi Government to file a status report on a plea seeking directions to make rules/regulations for the Courts/tribunals which are subordinate to the High Court of Delhi under the aegis of Article 227 of the Constitution of India, Code of Civil Procedure 1908 and or Code of Criminal Procedure 1973.

A Supreme Court bench has issued a notice in the matter filed by the Caste Tribe Mahsool Karmachari Sanghatna, challenging the Government notification whereby the State of Maharashtra has withheld the promotions of the officers/employees of the said State Government despite the order of this Court.

The Allahabad High Court has recently appointed two Advocate Commissioners in Prayagraj to inspect the encroachment in Indira Bhawan located at Civil Lines and submit a report.

The Supreme Court today listed the petition for final hearing filed by Kavitha Lankesh, sister of journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead outside her home, challenging the judgment passed by the Karnataka High Court, which had quashed the charges under Karnataka Control of Organized Crime Act 2000 against accused Mohan Nayak.

The Supreme Court has granted another 4 weeks' time for the Centre to comply with the judgment and frame guidelines in the plea seeking ex-gratia assistance to the families of people who died due to Covid-19.

A man and a woman set themselves on fire just outside the Supreme Court, near its Gate Number D on Monday.

The Delhi High Court on Monday has directed the Centre to file its reply on a plea filed by a woman seeking directions to know the whereabouts of her husband who went to Saudi Arabia as a labourer and has been missing since 2020.

The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to a man convicted to life imprisonment in a double murder case on the basis of parity.

The Supreme Court on Monday continued its hearing on a batch of petitions seeking SIT/judicial probe into the reports of snooping using the Israel spyware Pegasus.