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The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered that all documents of all primary and upper primary school teachers in the state have to be verified within three weeks. The court has been hearing a petition which had alleged that about 3,500 teachers in the state have got jobs with fake documents.

The Uttarakhand High Court has ordered the acquittal of a person convicted for sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a two and-a-half-year-old girl, because of absence of credible evidence.

Justice Ravindra Maithani heard the bail application filed by the journalist in FIR No. 265 of 2020, under Section 420, 467, 468, 469, 471, 120-B 124-A IPC, filed at Police Station Nehru Colony, District Dehradun.

The Uttarakhand High Court has recently held that a wife causing mental cruelty to husband is a valid ground for dissolution of marriage, as mental cruelty is no less than physical cruelty.

Justice Manoj K. Tiwari observed: “It is a settled position in law that while exercising power of judicial review, this court does not enter into the domain reserved for subject experts. Which qualification would be suitable for admission, in a particular medical course, etc.”

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The Uttarakhand High Court has dismissed the bail petition of a minor (16 year-old). The petition challenged the order passed by the Juvenile Justice Board.

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Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court today (July 21) dismissed a petition by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who had claimed that the state government’s takeover of the Char Dhams and 51 other shrines through the Char Dham Devasthanam Management Board, was unlawful.

The Uttarakhand High Court has declared the Uttarakhand Former Chief Ministers Facility Act as ultra vires, as it allows the former Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand to stay in government bungalows without paying rent.