Category: High Court

The Court said that since the Supreme Court had ordered Central and State governments to refrain from invoking Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code, there was no question of such provision being invoked.

The petitioner told the Court that while there are public toilets either for male or female, but there is not a single toilet in Gujarat for the transgender persons, who constitute the third gender community.

“An institute cannot be permitted to force upon the petitioner a name, identity or a gender that they have chosen to reject in preference to some other,” the High Court held.

The Court pointed out that if other witnesses depose (testify) at the time of evidence in support of the prosecution, it is possible that the accused may still be convicted and sentenced.

The Court refused to quash a case under Section 295A the against deputy district secretary of Rashtriya Hindu Vahini who had put a derogatory post on WhatsApp against Muslim community.

The Court noted that the chairperson of the corporation who sent the demolition notice was previously an advocate practicing in the sessions court in Malda.

The court asked the contemnors to be present before it on July 14 for the next hearing, when it would also hear the arguments on sentence.

Bose has accused Murthy of making defamatory and incorrect statements against her in his article published in Outlook Business Magazine.

The court said that it is necessary for the party to ensure that it does not commit any act which could be construed as violating the court order.

A bench of Justices MR Shah and Ahsanuddin Amanullah in its order noted that it was the duty of States in a welfare state to ensure that migrants are not deprived of benefits like foodgrains.