Court Justice | SilverScorpio.Com

Dipak Misra appointed new Delhi High Court Chief Justice

May 14, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 14 (ANI): Justice Dipak Misra was on Friday appointed as the new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court.

Justice Misra, who is at present the Chief Justice of Patna High Court has been directed to assume charge of the office of the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on or before May 28.

Fifty-six-year old Justice Misra enrolled as an advocate in February 1977 and practiced in constitutional, civil, criminal, revenue, service and sales tax matters in the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribunal.

He was appointed Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court in January, 1996, transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court in March, 1997 and became a permanent judge the same year in December. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: Advocate, court justice, delhi high court, Madhya Pradesh, new chief justice, New Delhi, orissa high court, sales tax, Tax Matters, tribunal

Minister defends Hine inquiry timing

May 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Tasmanian Government has defended its decision to investigate a code of conduct complaint against the Acting Police Commissioner more than five months after the allegations were made.

A retired Federal Court Justice will investigate the complaints made by a retired Commissioner Richard McCreadie.

They relate to the failed prosecution of former Commissioner Jack Johnston and the Premier David Bartlett’s aborted attempt to reinstate Mr McCreadie while the case was dealt with.

Minister Lin Thorp says the permanent position of Police Commissioner can not be be advertised until the complaints are resolved.

“I had intended to start the advertising for the permanent position of Commissioner of Police for Tasmania and, of course, Acting Commissioner Hine deserves procedural fairness,” Ms Thorp said.

“To that end I’ll wait and see what the result of this inquiry into code of conduct charges comes up.”

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: Aborted Attempt, acting, allegations, code of conduct, commissioner of police, court justice, David Bartlett, five months, hobart, Jack Johnston, Launceston, police, Police Commissioner, Procedural Fairness, prosecution, states-and-territories, TAS, tasmania, Tasmanian Government, Thorp

Union questions timing of top cop inquiry

May 5, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Tasmania’s Police Association has questioned the timing and motives of an independent inquiry into the Acting Police Commissioner.

The Premier, David Bartlett, yesterday announced code of conduct allegations against Darren Hine would be investigated by retired Federal Court Justice Peter Heerey QC.

The complaints have been made by retired Police Commissioner Richard McCreadie.

They relate to the failed prosecution of former Commissioner Jack Johnston and to the Premier’s aborted attempt to appoint Mr McCreadie as Acting Commissioner while the case was dealt with.

Mr Hine is accused of misleading the Premier about possible charges against Mr McCreadie at the time he was to be appointed Acting Commissioner.

In a statement, Mr Hine said he does not believe he has acted inappropriately but accepts the need for an investigation.

He said he acted on legal advice at all times.

“Whilst I do not believe I have acted in any way inappropriately in relation to these matters, I accept it is appropriate they be fully investigated,” he said.

The Police Association’s President Randolph Wierenga says the allegations are not new and members are surprised the inquiry has been called now.

“We’re concerned about the politicisation of the office of the Commissioner,” he said.

Mr Johnston was suspended for almost 18 months while code of conduct complaints against him were investigated and resigned in February in exchange for the dropping of the complaints.

A new Commissioner will not be chosen until the inquiry is completed.

Mr Hine will continue to act in the role during the inquiry into the complaints.

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: Aborted Attempt, allegations, code of conduct, cop, court justice, David Bartlett, hine, Independent Inquiry, Jack Johnston, legal advice, motives, Mr Johnston, New Commissioner, Police Association, Police Commissioner, prosecution, Retired Federal, retired police, Union Questions, Wierenga

Prince to pay £2M over scrapped Irish gig

March 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, March 27 (ANI): Prince has reportedly been ordered to pay 2 million pounds in damages over his decision to pull out of a 2008 concert in Ireland just days before the event.

The 51-year-old singer had landed in a legal dispute with bosses at Irish promotions company MCD after cancelling a show at Dublin”s Croke Park in June 2008.

He was said to have agreed on a settlement with MCD outside the court but allegedly failed to pay the amount following which the MCD chiefs dragged the star back to the court, The Daily Express reported.

Dublin”s High Court Justice Peter Kelly ruled against Prince, revealing the details of the agreement in a bid to force the star to follow the ruling, according to the Irish Times.

MCD’s legal team has apparently vowed to approach the European courts if Prince refuses to hand over the money. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: 2m, bid, chiefs, court justice, croke park, daily express, damages, dublin, Ireland, Irish Gig, irish times, legal dispute, london march, mcd, MONEY, Peter Kelly, prince, Promotions Company

Fiji-Indian origin man who raped strict Hindu family girls in Auckland jailed

March 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Auckland, Mar. 24 (ANI): The rape victims, who came forward to help police arrest a Fiji-Indian-origin serial sex-offender despite their strict Hindu backgrounds, were lauded by Auckland High Court Justice John Priestley.

A Fiji-Indian origin man who raped and blackmailed several young women after taking advantage of their strict South Asian upbringing will spend at least 10 years in jail.

Junior Ranga Sami Pillai, 25, was sentenced to 19-1/2 years in jail, with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years, at the High Court in Auckland on Wednesday for 48 charges.

They included 13 charges of rape, 11 charges of unlawful sexual connection, one charge of attempted sexual violation, one charge of sexual connection with a young person, three charges of unlawful detention with the intention of sexual connection, 13 charges of blackmail and six of obtaining by deception, Stuff.co.nz reports.

Most victims were between the age of 15 and 22, while one was a 12-year-old. All were of South Asian ethnic origin, mostly Indian from strict Hindu families, the report says.

Pillai contacted many of his victims via the internet and from there manipulated them into having sex with him while threatening to tell their parents.

Pillai was found guilty of 22 charges following a trial in the middle of last year. He admitted five other charges at the beginning of that trial, the paper says.

Two other trials were pending but they were subsequently called off after he admitted 21 other charges, it adds. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: auckland, blackmail, court justice, Ethnic Origin, having sex, hindu families, Hindu Family, indian origin, intention, pillai, Ranga, Rape Victims, sex offender, Sexual Connection, Sexual Violation, stuff co nz, Unlawful Detention, upbringing, young person, young women

Madras High Court says tainted armymen can be tried in criminal courts

July 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chennai, July 15 (ANI): The armed forces personnel accused of committing murder, rape and other such crimes can be tried in a criminal court and not necessarily through court martial, the Madras High Court has noted.

The bench observation came while dismissing a revision petition filed by a Lance Havildar accused of killing his wife while on leave, challenging the order of a Magistrate who refused to transfer the case to an Army court.

Justice A Selvam ruled that both the criminal court as well as the Army courts enjoyed concurrent jurisdiction to try criminal offences.

The petitioner was accused of killing his wife on Aug 25 last year during his visit to Usilampatti near here on leave.

As per Section 70 of the Army Act, a person accused of murder, culpable homicide or rape should not be tried through court martial unless the offence had been committed while he was in active service or at any place outside the country or at a frontier post.

The petitioner had submitted that he should be tried only through a court martial because casual leave comes within the purview of “active service”.

Though Justice Selvam agreed that a soldier on casual leave could be considered to be in active service, but he added that neither Army act nor the code of criminal procedure prevented a criminal court from conducting trial against servicemen. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: act, Active Service, ANI, armed forces, army, Army Act, armymen, Aug, bench, case, Chennai, code, Concurrent Jurisdiction, country, Court, court justice, crimes, Criminal Court, criminal courts, Criminal Offences, culpable homicide, frontier, Frontier Post, High, homicide, July, jurisdiction, Justice A Selvam, Justice Selvam, Lance Havildar, leave, madras, madras high court, magistrate, murder, murder rape, observation, offence, order, person, petition, petitioner, place, post, procedure, purview, rape, revision, section, Selvam, service, servicemen, soldier, trial, Usilampatti, visit, wife, year

Malay Indian mom still has to wait for custody of her three kids

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ipoh (Malaysia), May 6 (ANI): The Malaysian High Court has temporarily stayed a decision handed down by another court giving interim custody of three children to a Malay Indian mother M. Indira Gandhi.

According to The Star, High Court Justice Wan Afrah Wan Ibrahim yesterday granted an ad-interim stay on the order, pending the court’s decision on May 14 on contempt proceedings initiated by Indira Gandhi’s lawyers against her husband, K. Patmanathan.

Indira Gandhi’s counsel Augustine Anthony said the proceedings came about as Patmanathan had allegedly failed to comply with the previous court order and did not surrender his youngest daughter, one-year-old Prasana Diksa, to his wife.

The matter, heard in chambers, was raised as a preliminary objection in the hearing of Patmanathan’s application to set aside the custody order.

The husband, who was not present but was represented by counsel Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdullah, had also applied for a stay of execution on the order.

Mohamed Haniff maintained that his client did not commit contempt of court.

On April 24, High Court judicial commissioner Ridwan Ibrahim granted interim custody of Tevi Darsiny, 12, Karan Dinish, 11, and Prasana to Indira Gandhi.

Despite this, the 34-year-old Indira Gandhi, who is currently staying with her two older children, had been unable to locate her husband to retrieve her youngest child.

She has since been seeking help from the police and the public, by distributing some 5,000 posters of her husband and Prasana across the state. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: abdullah, Afrah, ANI, Anthony, application, April, April 24, Augustine, chambers, child, client, commissioner, contempt, Contempt Of Court, Contempt Proceedings, counsel, Court, court justice, custody, Darsiny, daughter, decision, Diksa, Dinish, execution, Haniff, hearing, help, High, husband, ibrahim, Indian Mother, Indira Gandhi, Interim Custody, ipoh, justice, K. Patmanathan, karan, Khatri, lawyers, M. Indira Gandhi, Malay, Malaysia, matter, May, Mohamed, mom, mother, objection, order, police, Prasana, Public, Ridwan, star, state, stay, Stay Of Execution, Tevi, three kids, Wan, wife, yesterday, youngest daughter

Striking Chennai lawyers to demonstrate on Monday

March 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Chennai, Mar 8 (ANI): Lawyers attached with the Madras High Court on Sunday announced that they would participate in a demonstration outside the court premises on Monday.

The committee has also decided to be absent from the welcome address to new Chief Justice of the High Court, Justice Hemant Laxman Gokhale.

However, to “maintain the healthy traditions of the legal fraternity of Tamil Nadu”, the State-level Joint Action Committee of Advocates (JACA) has allowed office-bearers to attend the swearing-in ceremony on Monday.

The agitating lawyers have dismissed the interim report of Justice B.N. Srikrishna, named by the Supreme Court to probe the February 19 lawyers-police clash at the Madras High Court.

Committee Chairman R.C. Paul Kanagaraj maintained that the report was “wholly without basis.”

It strongly condemned the “unwarranted comments made against the advocates and judges” in the report and criticised the Tamil Nadu Government for “protecting and shielding the DGP, the Commissioner of Police and other police officers who indulged in the brutal attack on judiciary and lawyers.”

The Supreme Court had on March 6 referred the report of Justice B. N. Srikrishna to the Madras High Court.

The report stated the provocation came from striking advocates, and in retaliation, the police used “excess force and exceeded its limits” by entering the High Court premises and chambers of advocates.
The report said the lawyers behaved like hooligans and miscreants and criticised them for their unruly behaviour.
The report also targeted the acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court for his ‘soft attitude’ towards striking. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: action committee, brutal attack, commissioner of police, court committee, court justice, court premises, DGP, Excess Force, gokhale, hooligans, legal fraternity, madras high court, miscreants, new chief justice, police clash, provocation, swearing in ceremony, Tamil Nadu government, Unruly Behaviour, welcome address

High Court allows jailed MP Pappu Yadav to attend Parliament

February 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb 10 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Pappu Yadav, accused in the Ajit Sarkar murder case, was on Tuesday allowed to participate in the coming Parliament session by the Delhi High Court.

Justice S Ravinder Bhat heard the plea of Yadav, seeking permission attend the proceedings starting from 12th February.

Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was convicted by a special CBI court in February 29,2008 for his alleged involvement in the murder of Ajit Sarkar, a trade union leader and MLA of the Communist Party of India – Marxist party.

The court has sentenced Yadav to life imprisonment in the Tihar Jail. (ANI)

Filed Under: International News Tagged With: ajit, alias, bhat, cbi court, communist party of india, communist party of india marxist, court justice, delhi high court, life imprisonment, marxist party, mla, murder case, pappu yadav, parliament session, rajesh, ranjan, Ravinder, Sarkar, tihar jail, trade union leader