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₹2.5 lakhs per annum. A division bench of the Delhi High Court revised an earlier order by a single-judge that had increased the income limit for school admissions under EWS category. The income limit was earlier increased from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakhs per annum.

Abhijit Gangopadhyay (retired) was the 'hero' of job seekers and victims of the alleged recruitment scam. He earned the moniker of people's judge for his frequent run-ins with the Trinamool Congress government and for his scathing verdicts against it. He was also involved in an unsavoury incident with fellow judges, prompting intervention from the Supreme Court. The unsavoury incident began with Gangopadhyay ordering a CBI probe on a writ petition last September by an MBBS aspirant who contended that students who did not belong to the Scheduled Tribes category were securing admissions in the state's medical colleges using fake certificates. However, a division bench of justices Soumen Sen and Uday Kumar stayed the verdict the same day, in an unusual turn of events. Justice Gangopadhyay, however, heard the matter and held the division bench's order 'illegal'. He accused justice Sen of misconduct and said he was 'acting on behalf of some political party in the state'. The SC intervened and transferred the case to itself. While becoming the first sitting judge of a higher court to join a political party by resigning from active duty, Gangopadhyay has raised questions on judicial ethics and code of conduct for judges. «Who will trust his judgements now? It makes mincemeat of the code of conduct for judges,» Supreme Court advocate Prashanth Bhushan posted on X.

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Bombay High Court has acquitted Delhi University ex-professor GN Saibaba and five others, who were convicted under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, for want of proof apart from procedural flaws. The bench held that the prosecution failed to establish legal seizure of material and could not prove anything incriminating against the accused. The case was «unsustainable in the hands of law», the court said upholding the appeals of the defendants. The bench also said the trial was vitiated by an invalid sanction to prosecute the accused. The trial violated mandatory provisions of law and amounted to failure of justice, a division bench of justices Vinay G Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes said in the verdict on Tuesday. Saibaba, 54, is wheelchair-bound and has been lodged in Nagpur central jail for years. In May 2014, the former DU professor was arrested by the anti-Naxal operations unit of the Maharashtra Police accusing him of being the 'urban contact' of banned CPI(Maoist).

Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered transfer of investigation into an attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5 from the West Bengal government to CBI. It directed that documents and custody of suspended Trinamool leader Shahjahan Sheikh should be immediately handed over to CBI. Sheikh is at present in CID's custody after he was arrested by the West Bengal Police on February 29. HC, in its order, observed that Sheikh is «an elected representative of the public, holding the highest office in a Zilla Parishad, he was fielded as the candidate at the elections held for the said post by the political party which is ruling dispensation. Thus, it has become imperative and absolutely necessary for doing complete justice and enforcing the fundamental rights of the public...» «It is beyond one's comprehension that without a pre-planned effort more than thousand people or three thousand people...could have assembled in that area armed with deadly weapons to attack ED officials and CRPF… We agree with the submissions made on behalf of the appellant ED that except for one offence all were bailable offences and the state police have underplayed the entire situation,» it said.

the custody was supposed to be handed over today at 4:30 pm as per the high court order, the West Bengal CID did not hand over custody of Sheikh Shahjahan to CBI. Before the Bengal government's action, the Calcutta High Court had directed that the CBI be handed over the case of attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali and the custody of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh, while slamming the Mamata Banerjee government for “protecting" the accused.

Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said that it has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 12.78 crore of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, in immovable properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). «ED, Kolkata has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs. 12.78 Crore in the form of 14 immovable properties in the nature of apartment, agriculture land, land for fishery, land and building[s] etc. in Gram Serberia, Sandeshkhali and Kolkata and two bank accounts under the provisions of PMLA, 2002 in the matter of Shahjahan Seikh and others,» the ED said in a statement on X. Sandeshkhali, a village in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, had seen massive protests over the allegations against TMC leader Sheikh and several of his strongmen. Many local women had accused Sheikh and his supporters of land grabbing and sexually assaulting them under coercion.

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the decision of the Bombay High Court acquitting former Delhi University professor GN Saibabab and five others in a case of alleged links to Maoists.

By Jarrett Renshaw

Calcutta High Court Judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay today announced that he is joining BJP, hours after resigning as judge of Calcutta High Court. Earlier in the day, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay announced his resignation from the Calcutta High Court, citing personal reasons. Several lawyers and litigants requested Justice Gangopadhyay to reconsider his resignation, expressing their gratitude for his judicial service. Mitali Das, a litigant from Bolpur in Birbhum district, traveled nearly 180 km to Kolkata to plead with folded hands, tears streaming down her cheeks. Das, a mother in need, recounted receiving crucial medical aid for her daughter through Justice Gangopadhyay's court orders. Witnesses described emotional scenes in the courtroom, with another woman likening Justice Gangopadhyay's courtroom to a sacred temple. Amidst heartfelt appeals, some lawyers urged him to extend his tenure until his scheduled retirement later this year.

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, has declared his decision to step down from his position, preceding his retirement later this year. Renowned for his adjudications on education-related matters, Justice Gangopadhyay revealed to a TV channel his intention to delve into politics. «I am going to resign from the post of a judge in High Court Calcutta. For the last two or more years I have been dealing with some matters, especially education matters, regarding which a huge corruption has been discovered and unearthed. A large number of important persons in the education sector of this government are now languishing in jail, under trial,» he told ANI. «Thereafter, now I am taking labour matters. There are also large scams of employers concerning provident fund gratuity, etc. I have also passed certain orders in those respects. But what I have failed while doing these matters of labour matters, labour legislation, that I have felt that my job in this duty is over. This is the call of my conscience,» Justice Gangopadhyay said.

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Supreme Court Monday chided Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for his remarks against Sanatana Dharma. A division bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna verbally remarked that Stalin had abused his rights under Articles 19(1)(a) (freedom of speech and expression) and 25 (freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion) of the Constitution by passing such remarks. Stalin had sparked a furore last year by saying that Sanatana Dharma divides people in the name of caste and religion.

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₹10 lakh on the State of Rajasthan for what it deemed as harassment of the poor litigant by dragging the case on for years and through various layers of the judiciary. This decision underscores the Supreme Court’s stance against unnecessary legal actions that burden individuals, particularly those with limited resources, and the Indian judicial system.

By David Shepardson and Aatreyee Dasgupta

Custom duties and charges shall not be levied on medicines, drugs and therapies for rare diseases, the Delhi High Court has clarified in a recent order. Justice Pratibha Singh said that whenever medicines are brought in respect of rare diseases, the custom authorities shall ensure that the same are cleared expeditiously and no unnecessary impediments are caused in ensuring that the same reach the concerned hospital. The judge also asked the HC registry to communicate the order to the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs for immediate compliance.

Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order that summoned the Ministry of Civil Aviation secretary, the Airport Authority of India (AAI), the chairmen and managing directors of GMR IGI Airport and of Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) and the Hotel Corporation of India (HCI) chairman in a case related to the termination of a lease for land given to the Hotel Corporation of India. A Bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud while issuing notice to DIAL and others on three separate appeals filed by the AAI, the ministry and the HCI stayed the HC’s February 22 order that asked the top brass to remain “personally” present in the court on March 6. Terming the HC order as «erroneous» and liable to be set aside, the ministry told the SC that it was not a party to either the lease agreement between the AAI and HCI or the agreement between the former and DIAL. It also said that the initial decision to issue termination notice was also taken solely by the authority and the ministry only acted as a “facilitator” for resolving the dispute. «In fact, the AAI only sought advice from the ministry and the opinion was given by the ministry in terms of the lease agreement between the AAI and HCL,” the appeal stated.

U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major victory on Monday as he campaigns to regain the presidency, overturning a judicial decision that had excluded him from Colorado's ballot under a constitutional provision involving insurrection for inciting and supporting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The justices unanimously reversed a Dec. 19 decision by Colorado's top court to kick Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot on Tuesday after finding that the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment disqualified him from again holding public office.

Delhi High Court has barred Natco Pharma from manufacturing and selling cancer drug Olaparib either under the brand name ‘BRACANAT’ or under other brand names till further orders. “…the defendant (Natco) is in fact exploiting the suit patent by manufacturing and selling Olaparib. It is also admitted that this exploitation has take place in the 19th year of the life of the suit patent.

Justice Uday Umesh Lalit: Justice Lalit was born on 9th November 1957, in a family of leading lawyers, in Solapur, Maharashtra. His father, Shri U.R. Lalit, was an Additional Judge at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court’s and a leading senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India.