The Karnataka High Court has dismissed the petition filed by a private contractor seeking refund of bank guarantee encashed by the Karnataka State Police Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation for carrying out "shoddy construction" of police quarters. It is also indicative of the fact that repeated calls made to the petitioner by the Corporation have all been deliberately ignored and …
The Allahabad High Court has observed that the defect of non-filing an affidavit in support of an election petition at the stage of filing of an election petition cannot be cured by way of filing the subsequent affidavit. The Court concluded that the Election Tribunal had rightly rejected the election petition at a preliminary stage for the non-compliance of a …
The Bombay High Court has ruled that the issue whether the arbitration was invoked and the Statement of Claim was filed, by a person duly authorized by the claimant, goes to the root of the matter, with respect to which the arbitral tribunal may make a final arbitral award. Thus, the Court held that the order passed by the arbitral …
The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Centre and others to a plea filed by a girl who was denied admission in a medical course on account of a speech defect. SC notice to Centre on plea of girl with speech defect denied admission A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli issued notices to the …