Gauhati High Court

A senior counsel was 'decourted' from Gauhati High Court on Friday for wearing jeans to a hearing and the case has been adjourned for a week.

In a significant development, the Gauhati High Court has ordered the Assam government to resettle 100 families evicted during a drive in Dhalpur's Gorukhuti.

A committee has been formed to identify the officers responsible for bulldozing the house of a riot accused in the Nagaon district last year, the state government informed the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday.

Appropriate action will be taken against erring officials for demolishing houses of those accused of setting a police station in Nagaon district on fire, the Assam government has informed the Gauhati High Court.

The Gauhati High Court has asked the Assam government to take "appropriate action" against officials involved in irregularities in distributing benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme in the state.

The Gauhati High Court has stressed that bulldozing of a house is not provided under any criminal law, even if an agency is investigating a very serious matter.

The notice was issued on a plea challenging a Gauhati High Court judgment that observed that the madrassas being government schools wholly maintained by the state cannot be permitted to impart religious instruction.

The Gauhati High Court today upheld the life sentence of NDFB chief Ranjan Daimari in connection with serial bomb blasts of October 2008 that killed 88 and injured 540 people in Assam.

The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Centre and the Assam government on a plea filed by a woman, who was declared a foreigner and her name was excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The Gauhati High Court today asked the Tamil Nadu government to give permission to the delegation from Assam to inspect the allegedly abused elephant 'Joymala' within three days of receiving a copy of the court's interim order.

Assam government today filed a petition in Gauhati High Court after Tamil Nadu refused to return leased elephants, even as the Union Ministry of Environment stood by the Tamil Nadu government, tweeting that elephant Joymala was well looked-after

Democracy without an independent judiciary is hollow, said Gauhati High Court's Justice N Kotiswar Singh on Sunday.

The Gauhati High Court has quashed a case in a trial court relating to the alleged violation of the model code of conduct by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In a case related to killing of five men in a fake encounter in Assam 28 years ago, the Gauhati High Court has told the petitioners to get a copy of court martial proceedings of seven convicted Indian Army personnel before a decision on compensation

An appeal was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Gauhati High Court order upholding The Assam Repealing Act, 2020, under which all provincialised (government-funded) Madrassas are to be converted into general schools in Assam.

A senior counsel was 'decourted' from Gauhati High Court on Friday for wearing jeans to a hearing and the case has been adjourned for a week.

In a significant development, the Gauhati High Court has ordered the Assam government to resettle 100 families evicted during a drive in Dhalpur's Gorukhuti.

A committee has been formed to identify the officers responsible for bulldozing the house of a riot accused in the Nagaon district last year, the state government informed the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday.

Appropriate action will be taken against erring officials for demolishing houses of those accused of setting a police station in Nagaon district on fire, the Assam government has informed the Gauhati High Court.

The Gauhati High Court has asked the Assam government to take "appropriate action" against officials involved in irregularities in distributing benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme in the state.

The Gauhati High Court has stressed that bulldozing of a house is not provided under any criminal law, even if an agency is investigating a very serious matter.

The notice was issued on a plea challenging a Gauhati High Court judgment that observed that the madrassas being government schools wholly maintained by the state cannot be permitted to impart religious instruction.

The Gauhati High Court today upheld the life sentence of NDFB chief Ranjan Daimari in connection with serial bomb blasts of October 2008 that killed 88 and injured 540 people in Assam.

The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Centre and the Assam government on a plea filed by a woman, who was declared a foreigner and her name was excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The Gauhati High Court today asked the Tamil Nadu government to give permission to the delegation from Assam to inspect the allegedly abused elephant 'Joymala' within three days of receiving a copy of the court's interim order.

Assam government today filed a petition in Gauhati High Court after Tamil Nadu refused to return leased elephants, even as the Union Ministry of Environment stood by the Tamil Nadu government, tweeting that elephant Joymala was well looked-after

Democracy without an independent judiciary is hollow, said Gauhati High Court's Justice N Kotiswar Singh on Sunday.

The Gauhati High Court has quashed a case in a trial court relating to the alleged violation of the model code of conduct by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In a case related to killing of five men in a fake encounter in Assam 28 years ago, the Gauhati High Court has told the petitioners to get a copy of court martial proceedings of seven convicted Indian Army personnel before a decision on compensation

An appeal was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Gauhati High Court order upholding The Assam Repealing Act, 2020, under which all provincialised (government-funded) Madrassas are to be converted into general schools in Assam.