The Patna High Court on Monday held that a vacation bench of the High Court cannot decide and dispose of any case, other than bail application, on merits.
The Court will be failing in its duty if necessary orders are not passed befitting the present situation, in the larger public interest, to ensure the protection of the right to life of the people in the State of Bihar.
The order was passed by the High Court in a plea seeking a direction to the state government to hearing a PIL urging that the state government to declare all temple properties public.
India is waking up to transgenders and their rights with various states absorbing them in the police and other jobs. But until societal mindsets change, their total integration will be slow.
Supreme court's tough stand in a sexual harassment case against Madhya Pradesh judge, said, cannot say sexual harassment cases are suppressed, no intervention in disciplinary proceedings.
The Patna High Court has directed the Bihar government to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation within four weeks in the case of a passerby who was killed during a police encounter.
The Patna High Court has granted relief to 18 foreign nationals of Tablighi Jamaat and quashed the criminal case against them. The judge also directed the authorities to send them to their respective countries.
Alakh Alok Srivastava, a senior Supreme Court lawyer has filed the PIL which states that two months have passed but nothing has happened so far to bring justice to the mother of Anurag Kumar (18).
Kerala government challenges the High Court order of raising the number of daily permissible pilgrims to Sabrimala, the government cites Covid restrictions to reduce numbers.
The girl went missing from the Pataliputra police station area on June 22. The father filed a case against Sinku Yadav, the driver of a former IAS officer, at the police station on 1 August