The ‘compounding charge’ paid for compounding an offence under a statute, according to the Delhi High Court, is neither a tax or levy. The court noted that a person deposits the compounding fee in order to avoid the start of coercive procedures against him and to receive closure. Therefore, it Read more…
KEYWORDS: Supreme Court, Adjournments, Delhi High Court, Appellant The Supreme Court vacated a stay order in a 16-year-old criminal appeal as it pulled up the appellant—lawyer for seeking repeated adjournments. On 19 October 2006, Gulshan Bajwa was convicted by Delhi High Court of finding him guilty of making reckless and Read more…
The Delhi High Court in its order last month in the case of Niharika Ghosh VS Shankar Ghosh. ruled that the right to residence in a matrimonial home under the provisions of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, also includes the right to safe and healthy living. Read more…
The CBI had called the Bihar Deputy Chief Minister for questioning thrice but he skipped each time. Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, filed a petition with the Delhi High Court asking that three summonses issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the land-for-jobs scam case Read more…
