Remember your bond, resolve dispute amicably: Delhi High Court to sisters

Asking the sisters to ‘build a bridge of trust’, the bench sent the matter to the mediation centre for settlement. It observed that assets and properties were not worth fighting for and family ties were important. 

“Sisters never fight. We think it proper that the two sisters should forget their immediate past and remember early days of their lives when they used to stay together in the same family and try to solve the issue,” a bench of Justices B D Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar said. 

The court also observed that the two sisters, who were present during the hearing, were mature enough and wondered why they have been fighting. 

“They are sisters and have the same DNA. Why don’t they solve it. They should at least sit and give it a try. At some point of time you would have felt like sisters. You have grown up in the same family,” the bench said and asked the two women to appear before the Delhi High Court mediation centre on March 31. 

The court was hearing an appeal filed by one of the sisters against a single judge’s order in the dispute between them over a property which their mother had willed in favour of the other.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Karnataka Police to investigate the role of former Chief Ministers N Dharam Singh and H D Kumaraswamy in the iron ore mining case and file a report within three months.

The apex court, however, said that its stay on the investigation against another former Chief Minister S M Krishna will continue during the period. A bench comprising Justices P C Ghose and R F Nariman restrained all other courts including the high court from passing any order in the case. It has been alleged by one of the complainants, T J Abraham that the former chief ministers connived with several bureaucrats and others in de-registering a huge tract of forest land and allowed illegal iron ore mining on a large scale. The complainant had also referred to various reports of the then Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde indicting several politicians, bureaucrats and others. 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that ‘some more efforts’ were required to be made for improving the condition of widows living in the shelter homes in different parts of the country.

A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta asked the Ministry of Women and Child Development and National Commission for Women (NCW) to furnish a list of ‘agreed directions’ which they want the court to pass for improving the situation. “After hearing some arguments, it appears that some more efforts are required to be made for improving the condition of widows in different parts of the country,” the bench noted in its order. It had taken note of the situation of widows after a petition was filed in 2007 portraying their pathetic condition in the welfare homes at the holy city of Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh. When the court was told about the steps being taken to improve the condition, the bench said, “That is okay but more needs to be done.”