Bombay High Court Directs Lower Courts To Comply With SC, HC Orders & Processes Based On E-Copies; Amends Civil & Criminal Manual
2 years, 5 months ago

Bombay High Court Directs Lower Courts To Comply With SC, HC Orders & Processes Based On E-Copies; Amends Civil & Criminal Manual

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The Bombay High Court amended the Civil Manual, 1986 and Criminal Manual 1980 directing compliance of Supreme Court and Bombay High court orders based on the e-copies without insisting on a hard copy of the same. Paragraph 675 states that the receiving Court should ensure compliance of Supreme Court and High Court orders when e-authenticated copies are communicated through the Fast And Secure Transmission of Electronics Records system. The amendment provides that for all purposes in the criminal manual, copies of orders, judgements and processes of the Supreme Court and High Court communicated through the FASTER system must be accepted by everyone concerned as effective, valid and binding without demanding a hard copy. Further, the lower courts must ensure compliance with e-authenticated copies of bail orders and other processes communicated by the Supreme Court and Bombay High Court through FASTER system without insisting on a hard copy.

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Delhi High Court Expresses Concern Over Delay In Implementation Of Judicial Orders But Refuses To Order 'Compliance Cells' In Govt Departments
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Delhi High Court Expresses Concern Over Delay In Implementation Of Judicial Orders But Refuses To Order 'Compliance Cells' In Govt Departments

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that it is the exclusive executive domain of the government to evolve a robust mechanism to ensure compliance of judicial orders. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela disposed of a plea highlighting the alleged “systemic inefficiencies and bureaucratic inertia” prevalent in government departments due to …

High Court Under Article 226/227 Can Examine Validity Of Interlocutory Orders Passed By Arbitrator: Bombay High Court
3 months, 2 weeks ago

High Court Under Article 226/227 Can Examine Validity Of Interlocutory Orders Passed By Arbitrator: Bombay High Court

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The Bombay High Court bench of Justices Shailesh P. Brahme and S.G. Mehare has held that the jurisdiction of the High Court under Article 226/227 of the Constitution is not excluded from examining the validity of the interlocutory orders passed by the Arbitrator. S.B.P and Co. the Supreme Court has held that “the object of minimizing judicial intervention while the …

HC Has Duty To Maintain Accurate Records Within Its Jurisdiction To Ensure Justice Prevails In Accordance With Law: J&K High Court
4 months, 1 week ago

HC Has Duty To Maintain Accurate Records Within Its Jurisdiction To Ensure Justice Prevails In Accordance With Law: J&K High Court

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Reiterating that the High Court, as a court of record, derives its power to review judgments under Article 215 of the Constitution of India the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has emphasized its obligation and duty to maintain accurate records within its jurisdiction, ensuring justice prevails in accordance with the law. Clarifying the mandate and obligation of the …

Delhi High Court Orders Mandatory E-Filing For Civil & Criminal Cases In District Courts, Digitisation Of Records Of Decided Cases
1 year, 2 months ago

Delhi High Court Orders Mandatory E-Filing For Civil & Criminal Cases In District Courts, Digitisation Of Records Of Decided Cases

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The Delhi High Court has recently ordered that e-filing of pleadings, documents and interim applications be made mandatory in the civil jurisdictions and criminal complaint cases before all the District Courts in the national capital.Directing that the “Centralised Filing System” for filings related to ongoing and pending cases be implemented in all the District Courts, a division bench. The Delhi …

Delhi High Court Directs District Judges To Ensure Records Of Disposed Cases Are Immediately Transmitted To Record Room
1 year, 5 months ago

Delhi High Court Directs District Judges To Ensure Records Of Disposed Cases Are Immediately Transmitted To Record Room

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The Delhi High Court has directed all the District Judges in the national capital to ensure that after disposal of a case, its records are immediately transmitted to the record room. A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula was dealing with a public interest litigation concerning the lack of standardised procedure for the acknowledgment …

Being Courts Of Record, High Courts Can Invoke Article 215 To Correct And Review Their Own Orders: Calcutta High Court
1 year, 6 months ago

Being Courts Of Record, High Courts Can Invoke Article 215 To Correct And Review Their Own Orders: Calcutta High Court

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The Calcutta High Court has recently held that, as a Court of record, a High Court can review and correct its own orders by invoking its jurisdiction under Article 215 of the Constitution. Respondents also argued that Order XLVII Rule I of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 which stipulates the threshold benchmark for a Court entertaining a review application, had …

Not Sufficiently Equipped On Judicial Side To Keep Tabs On Lower Courts For Promptly Uploading Daily Orders: Calcutta High Court
1 year, 6 months ago

Not Sufficiently Equipped On Judicial Side To Keep Tabs On Lower Courts For Promptly Uploading Daily Orders: Calcutta High Court

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The Calcutta High Court has recently dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the administrative wing of the Court to ensure that daily orders of both civil and criminal courts under its supervision are promptly uploaded on its E-Courts server. "This Court, in its judicial capacity, is not sufficiently equipped to keep a tab on the uploading status of each …

Madras High Court Makes E-Filing Mandatory For District Courts Dealing With Cheque Bounce Cases
1 year, 8 months ago

Madras High Court Makes E-Filing Mandatory For District Courts Dealing With Cheque Bounce Cases

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The Madras High Court has made e-filing mandatory in District Courts dealing with cases arising under S.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. "The High Court, Madras, upon approval of the Hon’ble The Chief Justice hereby notifies that the facility of e-filing of cases is made mandatory initially to the Courts dealing with cases arising under S.138 of Negotiable Instruments Act …

Recent Important Judgments On The Inherent Powers Of High Court Under Section 482 CrPC
1 year, 10 months ago

Recent Important Judgments On The Inherent Powers Of High Court Under Section 482 CrPC

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“In the exercise of this wholesome power, the High Court is entitled to quash a proceeding if it comes to the conclusion that allowing the proceeding to continue would be an abuse of the process of the court or that the ends of justice require that the proceeding ought to be quashed. The Supreme Court held that even when the …

Judicial Order Not Justifiable In Law Does Not Automatically Imply It Was Passed For Extraneous Considerations: Patna HC Grants Relief To Retd Officer
1 year, 11 months ago

Judicial Order Not Justifiable In Law Does Not Automatically Imply It Was Passed For Extraneous Considerations: Patna HC Grants Relief To Retd Officer

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In a significant order, a division bench of the Patna High Court has quashed and set-aside a decision of the Standing Committee of the High Court wherein the committee had imposed a punishment of permanent withdrawal of the entire pension of a retired Additional District and Sessions Judge after finding that he had passed judicial orders for extraneous considerations. In …

Gujarat High Court Extends ‘Email My Case Status’ Service To Police Stations For Automatic Updates On Cases
2 years, 2 months ago

Gujarat High Court Extends ‘Email My Case Status’ Service To Police Stations For Automatic Updates On Cases

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In order to facilitate easier and quicker access to latest information of criminal cases in Gujarat, the High Court has extended the service ‘Email My Case Status’ to all the police stations in the State. With the new development and through the expansion of the service, all 763 police stations in Gujarat will start receiving automatic email updates whenever a …

CBI Director Doesn't Have Better Legal Acumen Than ASG: Calcutta HC Reiterates Proposal To Empower ASG To Give Opinion On Filing Appeals To Curb Delay
2 years, 9 months ago

CBI Director Doesn't Have Better Legal Acumen Than ASG: Calcutta HC Reiterates Proposal To Empower ASG To Give Opinion On Filing Appeals To Curb Delay

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The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday reiterated its recommendation of amending the Crime Manual, 2022 of the Central Bureau of Investigation to empower the Additional Solicitor General of the High Court to give his opinion on filing appeals challenging court orders and on the basis of such an opinion, the zonal office of the CBI may be permitted to file …

Delhi High Court Issues Practice Directions To Dispense With Physical Signatures On Daily Orders Of Judicial Cases
2 years, 10 months ago

Delhi High Court Issues Practice Directions To Dispense With Physical Signatures On Daily Orders Of Judicial Cases

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The Delhi High Court has issued practice directions in order to dispense with the physical signatures on the daily orders, which are not important or final orders and judgments, of the judicial cases, digitally signed either by the Chief Justice, Acting Chief Justice, Judges or their Private Secretary or designated officer and by officers holding courts. The Practice Directions issued …

'Problem Being Faced On A Regular Basis': Calcutta HC Directs District Registrar To Ensure Supply Of Legible Copies When Application Is Made For Certified Copies Of Registered Documents
3 years ago

'Problem Being Faced On A Regular Basis': Calcutta HC Directs District Registrar To Ensure Supply Of Legible Copies When Application Is Made For Certified Copies Of Registered Documents

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The Calcutta High Court has recently directed the District Registrar to ensure that legible copies are always provided when certified copies of a registered document is applied for otherwise the intervention of the Court will always be required for the supply of such legible copies. Subsequently, the petitioner had applied to the District Registrar to furnish a legible copy of …

E-Copies Of Bail Orders Sufficient For Release; Certified Copies Not Necessary: Telangana High Court
3 years, 4 months ago

E-Copies Of Bail Orders Sufficient For Release; Certified Copies Not Necessary: Telangana High Court

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Observing that the indefeasible fundamental right of an accused to bail is not sufficient in itself unless the bail order is furnished within reasonable time, Telangana High Court has dispensed with the requirement of certified copies of bail orders. It is also a settled law that the right of an accused to nave his bail application heard by the Court …

Failure To Write Orders In Legible Manner By Peshkars/Court Readers Could Be Treated As Misconduct: Allahabad High Court
3 years, 4 months ago

Failure To Write Orders In Legible Manner By Peshkars/Court Readers Could Be Treated As Misconduct: Allahabad High Court

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The Allahabad High Court on Friday observed that it is the bounded duty of the Peshkars/ Court Readers to write the Court order in a legible manner, failing which, it may be treated as misconduct. This assertion came from the Bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan while perusing some of the orders in a criminal case and noting that they …

'FASTER' Release Of Prisoners After Bail : Supreme Court Directs States/UTs To Accept E-Authenticated Copies Of Orders
3 years, 6 months ago

'FASTER' Release Of Prisoners After Bail : Supreme Court Directs States/UTs To Accept E-Authenticated Copies Of Orders

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While expressing concern about the plight of the jail- inmates not released despite bail orders passed due to delay in communication of such orders, the Supreme Court on Thursday approved the use of an electronic system named FASTER for transmission of e-authenticated copies of orders. The Bench has directed the Director General, National Informatics Centre, Secretary along with the Director …

Andhra Pradesh High Court Issues Guidelines For Prompt Transmission Of Bail Orders
3 years, 8 months ago

Andhra Pradesh High Court Issues Guidelines For Prompt Transmission Of Bail Orders

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While granting bail to an accused under The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, the Andhra Pradesh High Court took serious note of the significant delay in issuing the certified copies of the orders. Thereby, the Court issued 9-point guidelines as under: a. Parties/Advocates shall download the order copy from the High Court's Website along with case details which …

High Courts Weekly Roundup [June 28, 2021 To July 4, 2021]
3 years, 8 months ago

High Courts Weekly Roundup [June 28, 2021 To July 4, 2021]

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Allahabad High Court 1. "Homeless Persons Should Also Work For The Country, Everything Cannot Be Provided By The State": Bombay High Court Disposing of a public interest litigation seeking relief measures for the homeless and poor persons, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S Kulkarni orally observed they the homeless persons should also work …

'Our Conduct Unbecoming Of The Majesty High Court Commands': Sitting Calcutta HC Judge Takes Objection To Listing Of Narada Case
3 years, 10 months ago

'Our Conduct Unbecoming Of The Majesty High Court Commands': Sitting Calcutta HC Judge Takes Objection To Listing Of Narada Case

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"Our conduct is unbecoming of the majesty the High Court commands," said Justice Arindam Sinha, a Sitting Judge of the Calcutta High Court while expressing reservations on the manner in which the transfer plea filed by Central investigation agency— CBI in the Narada scam case, was listed before a Division Bench on May 17. However, the first Division Bench look …

Kerala High Court Notifies E-Filing Rules
3 years, 10 months ago

Kerala High Court Notifies E-Filing Rules

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The Kerala High Court has notified its Electronic Filing Rules For Courts, 2021 for Courts across the state. Filing to be done on the court website/dedicated court filing portal created The Rules provide that online electronic filing shall be done for the High Court at the High Court website or a portal assigned specifically for electronic filing by the Chief …

Bombay High Court Issues Notice On Plea For Directions To NCLAT For Enabling E-Filing & Doing Away With Physical Filing
4 years, 2 months ago

Bombay High Court Issues Notice On Plea For Directions To NCLAT For Enabling E-Filing & Doing Away With Physical Filing

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The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on a petition filed by an Advocate seeking directions for doing away with physical filing of proceedings and enabling e-filing before NCLAT instead, so that lawyers outside Delhi are not disadvantaged. Court was hearing the petition filed by Advocate …

BBA Writes To Bombay High Court Chief Justice Requesting Him To Reconsider Order To Resume Physical Hearing
4 years, 3 months ago

BBA Writes To Bombay High Court Chief Justice Requesting Him To Reconsider Order To Resume Physical Hearing

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Referring to the Office Order dated 27.11.2020 of the Bombay High Court, pursuant to which physical presence in the Court has been made mandatory, the Bombay Bar Association on Sunday sent a representation to the Chief Justice, High Court of Bombay to request him to modify the Office Order dated 27.11.2020. In the representation, it has been stated that Bombay …

Gujarat HC Launches E-Writ Module To Send Digitally Signed Copies Of Bail Orders To The District Courts [Read Press Release]
4 years, 5 months ago

Gujarat HC Launches E-Writ Module To Send Digitally Signed Copies Of Bail Orders To The District Courts [Read Press Release]

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The Gujarat High Court on Friday launched eWrit Module to send digitally signed copies of Bail Orders from High Court to District Courts. On recommendation of the Judges of the ICT & e-Governance Committee of the High Court, a new module to make available digitally signed Bail Orders of the High Court to the concerned District Courts across the State …

Appellate And Original Side Rules Of Bombay HC Amended; Additional Powers Given To Judges To Bar Advocates From Appearance [Read Notification]
6 years, 4 months ago

Appellate And Original Side Rules Of Bombay HC Amended; Additional Powers Given To Judges To Bar Advocates From Appearance [Read Notification]

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The Appellate side and Original side rules of the Bombay High Court were amended in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 34 of the Advocates Act, 1961. Amendments were made to Schedule VII of Chapter XXXII of the Bombay High Court Appellate Side Rules, 1960 and Appendix VI of the Bombay High Court Original Side Rules, 1980 framed under …

Police Manual Is A Public Document: Bombay HC [Read Order]
6 years, 10 months ago

Police Manual Is A Public Document: Bombay HC [Read Order]

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The Bombay High Court has ruled that the Police Manual is a public document, upholding a direction to upload the same on the Police website.The Applicant, Mr. Kaustubh Gharat of Praja Foundation had sought copies of Police Manual in English and Marathi under the Right to Information Act from the office of the Director General of Police, Maharashtra State. The …

Police Manual Is A Public Document: Bombay HC [Read Order]
6 years, 10 months ago

Police Manual Is A Public Document: Bombay HC [Read Order]

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The Bombay High Court has ruled that the Police Manual is a public document, upholding a direction to upload the same on the Police website.The Applicant, Mr. Kaustubh Gharat of Praja Foundation had sought copies of Police Manual in English and Marathi under the Right to Information Act from the office of the Director General of Police, Maharashtra State. The …

SC Order Saying I Agreed To Transfer Of Petitions From Bombay HC In Judge Loya Case Incorrect: Indira Jaising Informs SC
7 years, 2 months ago

SC Order Saying I Agreed To Transfer Of Petitions From Bombay HC In Judge Loya Case Incorrect: Indira Jaising Informs SC

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In a tweet, Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has claimed that the Supreme Court has wrongly recorded in one of its recent orders that she agreed to transfer of the Petitions in Judge Loya case from the Bombay High Court to the Apex Court.“I mentioned that this should be corrected, I pointed out that page to my request to intervene is …

SC Order Saying I Agreed To Transfer Of Petitions From Bombay HC In Judge Loya Case Incorrect: Indira Jaising Informs SC
7 years, 2 months ago

SC Order Saying I Agreed To Transfer Of Petitions From Bombay HC In Judge Loya Case Incorrect: Indira Jaising Informs SC

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In a tweet, Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has claimed that the Supreme Court has wrongly recorded in one of its recent orders that she agreed to transfer of the Petitions in Judge Loya case from the Bombay High Court to the Apex Court.“I mentioned that this should be corrected, I pointed out that page to my request to intervene is …

High Courts Weekly Round-Up
8 years, 9 months ago

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

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Bombay high CourtBombay High Court recently acquitted an Accused who challenged his conviction under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code. Bombay high Court Bombay High Court recently acquitted an Accused who challenged his conviction under Section 498A of Indian Penal Code. Delhi High Court A Division Bench of Delhi High Court adjourned Advocate SurenUppal’s Petition seeking a court-monitored investigation into …

Police can seek Custody of Accused who are arrested even after filing of Charge Sheet: Supreme Court [Read the Judgment]
9 years, 7 months ago

Police can seek Custody of Accused who are arrested even after filing of Charge Sheet: Supreme Court [Read the Judgment]

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Can remand in police custody be given to the investigating agency in respect of the absconding accused who is arrested only after filing of the charge sheet?This was the legal question that arose for consideration of the Apex Court recently in a case which related to killing of nine persons and injuries to large number of villagers of Village Netai …

Madras High Court rectifies its own order
10 years, 6 months ago

Madras High Court rectifies its own order

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Chennai: The Madras High Court yesterday rectified a portion its own order of September 18 in which it had said the person who seeks information under RTI should state the reason for doing so. On September 18, the court had quashed an order of the Central Information Commission, Delhi,directing it to give information to one B Bharathi of Puducherry on …

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