PIL
Chief Justice DH Waghela has instructed the Comissioner of Bengaluru to ensure clearance of the footpaths and removing any encroachments to ensure a clear walking path for pedestrians. A PIL was filed at the High Court on the basis of the rights of pedestrians who asked the BBMP chief to take immediate steps in clearing [...] Continue Reading »
The Government served notice regarding KMC Amendment by a Division bench chaired by the Chief Justice D H Waghela Recently, a PIL was filed in the Karnataka High Court challenging the insertion of MLAs, MPs, MLCs and Zilla Panchayat Presidents in the MPC or Metropolitan Planning Committee claims to be unconstitutional. After hearing the case, [...] Continue Reading »
Pulling up the petitioner for levelling allegations based on newspaper reports, the Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking a CBI probe into land deals involving Robert Vadra. The PIL sought a probe into licences granted to several real estate developers in Haryana, including one allegedly associated with Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law A division [...] Continue Reading »
Taking up a number of separate PILs on unauthorised construction in the capital, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the commissioners of the three MCDs to come before the court to “assist” it in coming up with a “solution to the rampant problem”. Three different PILs regarding unauthorised construction across the city, including construction [...] Continue Reading »
The PIL petitioners against the Tata Camelot township project near Sukhna Lake today pleaded in the Delhi High Court that the company had no right to go ahead with the construction as the Punjab Cooperative House Building Society (PCHBS) had terminated its agreement with the company. The controversial project was to come up on the [...] Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court last day had asked the Punjab and Haryana High Court to adjudicate a PIL by Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) chief Kuldeep Bishnoi seeking quashing of laws enacted by Haryana and the Centre to facilitate the setting up of Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Kuldeep Bishnoi had also filed the PIL in the apex [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi government has no desire to make stilt parking mandatory if the owner of the plot has enough space to fit cars within the compound. The DDA and the urban development ministry will soon come up with guidelines related to stilt parking and other provisions that will stop people from parking vehicles in places [...] Continue Reading »
A division bench expressed satisfaction over the government’s new model of raising an army of “ward officers” to keep a tab on the constructions of their respective wards within the limits; almost a year after the PIL against illegal constructions in the city was filed in the Patna high court. A bench of Justice Navin [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi High Court will next week hear a PIL seeking a CBI probe into licences granted to several real estate developers in Haryana. The list of real estate developers include one allegedly associated with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog will hear the PIL. Advocate [...] Continue Reading »
Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd has been asked by the High Court to consider handing over possession of ready flats at its Premier Residency project at Kurla in Mumbai. The Bombay high Court suggested that the lawyers representing the developer and home buyers should try for an out of-court settlement. Aejaz Saiyed, who has bought [...] Continue Reading »
