Last week, Madhya Pradesh High Court directed a plaintiff to pay the ad-valorem court fees in a suit for declaration and mandatory injunction since the court found that the injunction sought for was not consequential to the prayer of declaration made. “….the Court has rightly observed that although a declaration was claimed, but by a mandatory injunction claiming whatever amount …
The Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench has observed that a contempt proceeding would not be maintainable, if two interpretations are possible, and if the action in question is not contumacious. " " It is not in dispute that as far as directions to allow the petitioner to join services as Female Health Worker had already been complied with and further …
The Allahabad High Court has quashed the disciplinary proceedings against pilot-petitioners regarding an aircraft accident in 2008, calling it 'illegal, arbitrary and an abuse of the process of law' due to unexplainable delay and the arising apprehension of malafide therein. Background Senior Counsel Prashant Chandra, appearing for the petitioner, argued that the abrupt issue of charge-sheet after six years by …
