Justice T Raja, senior-most Judge of the Madras High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court, with effect from September 22, 2022 New Delhi: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Monday notified the appointment of Justice T Raja as Acting... The post appeared first on .

Justice T Raja, senior-most Judge of the Madras High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court, with effect from September 22, 2022 New Delhi: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Monday notified the appointment of Justice T Raja as Acting... The post appeared first on .

Justice T Raja, senior-most Judge of the Madras High Court, to perform the duties of the office of the Chief Justice of that High Court, with effect from September 22, 2022 New Delhi: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Monday notified the appointment of Justice T Raja as Acting... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi Feb 23 PTI The Delhi High Court has dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of a professor in the Department of History and Culture at Jamia Millia Islamia JMI saying no case was made outJustice Yogesh Khanna noted that the authorities have shown various instances where several appointments have been made to the post of professor across universities in the country including JMI Aligarh Muslim University and Maulana Azad National Urdu UniversityIn view of the above there is no case made out for the issuance of notice to the respondent thus the petition is accordingly dismissed the court saidThe petitioner had challenged the entire decision making process culminating in the selection and appointment of Nazim Hussain Al-Jafri as a Professor in the Department of History and Culture in JMI on the ground that it was done in flagrant violation or contravention and total non-compliance of the Statute of the Jamia Millia Islamia Act read with clauses of the UGC RegulationsHussain was also assigned additional responsibilities of Registrar in JMIAdvocate M Sarwar representing petitioner Mohammad Javed Malik said the university had issued advertisement in June last year inviting applications in various departments while laying down the eligibility criteria and qualifications from applicantsHowever on January 20 this year the Vice Chancellor of the university unilaterally appointed Hussain to post of Professor in Department of History and Culture by invoking Section 113 of the Jamia Millia Islamia ActAdditional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma along with Standing Counsel Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi and Pritish Sabhrawal representing the JMI said Hussain has more than 35 years of vast experience in university administration and he has also been given the assignment to act as VC at Khwaja Moinuddin State on several occasions and served in different universities in various capacities PTI SKV SA

Prayagraj Nov 19 PTI The Allahabad High Court has ruled that marriage registrars do not have to ask interfaith couples to bring their faith conversion certificates from district authorities A bench of Justice Suneet Kumar gave the ruling also asking the district marriage registrars to register forthwith the marriages of interfaith couples The bench gave the verdict on a bunch of 17 petitions by as many interfaith couples who complained of marriage registrars refusing to register their marriages in absence of their faith conversion certificates from district magistrates The petitioners included an Uttar Pradesh resident Mayra alias Vaishnavi Vilas Shirshikar Justice Kumar gave the verdict ruling that the insistence on production of conversion certificate will amount to breaching the couples fundamental rights to life liberty and privacy The state and private respondents are restrained from interfering with the life liberty and privacy of the petitioners to live as man and woman and the police authorities of the respective districts shall ensure the safety of the petitioners and provide protection to them if demanded or needed the judge said in his order on Thursday Petitioners had claimed in their petitions that they were majors and one of the parties to the marriage had converted to the religion of his or her partner Standing Counsel appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government had argued that as conversions were for the marriage interfaith marriages cannot be registered without the district authority ascertaining if the conversion was voluntary and was not induced by coercion allurement and threat Counsel for the petitioner however had contended that even taking a case that approval of the authority was not taken before the conversion the petitioners still have the right to live together as majors PTI RAJ RAX RAX