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Gujarat High Court judge Justice GR Udhwani passed away on Saturday morning after battling Covid-19. Justice Udhwani, 59, was born on November 25, 1961 and was elevated as Gujarat High Court jud...

The Division Bench of Chief Justice said that it shall not be appropriate to 'multiply litigation' by entertaining the present Petitioner since the case is already pending before a Division Bench at Lucknow which took suo moto cognizance of midnight cremation of the victim's body.

Public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court against the farmers protest outside Delhi. The PIL is seeking the removal of farmers from the border areas of Delhi-NCR.

The court said that despite more than 60 days after the accused was arrested in this case, the charge sheet was not filed, hence the accused is entitled to default bail.

According to the High Court, ED's plea for revoking the approver status was not maintainable as statement under Section 306 (4) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) that requires recording of the statement of an accomplice who has been granted a pardon, had not been recorded.

During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for CBI submitted before the Court that the case needs to be heard at length and will require time.

The FIR was registered in Delhi, but has, interestingly, been challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court which seems to have no jurisdiction to entertain it. The matter should be filed in Delhi as per jurisdiction.

Bihar's "Bahubali" leader and former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi, can meet his mother, wife and other family members in police custody.

Balwant Singh Rajoana was given a death sentence for the murder of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh who died in a bomb explosion in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. In 2012, Rajoana filed a mercy petition before the President but it hasn’t been decided to date.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the practice of bigamy is unconstitutional for all religions , oppressive towards women and opposed to equality.