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Bombay high court in its judgement has refused to purge the names of a woman and her family from the high court record in a 4-year-old case.

A woman had approached the Bombay high court recently pleading that an order passed by the court on April 29, 2016 should be treated as confidential and that no one should be able to access it, without her permission. As an alternative, she also hoped that the court could at least block her name as part of the court recording.

The entire issue pertained to a domestic fight which had happened on 16th March 2016 in Dubai. The husband of the woman had registered an FIR in Gamdevi police station in Mumbai after that. However later, the dispute which had arisen out of a property dispute subsided and consent terms were executed between the parties. Before the division bench of Justice A. S. Oka and Justice P. D. Naik, the family appeared and said that they had decided to amicably settle the dispute and sought the quashing of the FIR. The Court had observed that the dispute is of personal nature amongst close family members which have been amicably settled.

In an effort to improve road safety and promote responsible travelling, the Delhi Police last week issued a notice, saying people will be fined for not wearing a seat belt while sitting at the rear seat of the car. This drive, which has been in effect in West Delhi since January 13, will continue till January 23.

Part of the drive, the traffic police will issue a fine of up to Rs 1,000 for not wearing rear seat belt. So far this drive is in place only in the western regions of the national capital. However, the traffic police are likely to expand the drive to other regions as well.

Apart from issuing challans for the rear seat belt, the traffic police will also fine motorists that do not have rearview mirrors on the two-wheelers.

Looking at the declining cases of coronavirus, the Punjab government on Monday decided to reopen public and private universities in the state from January 21. The decision to reopen the universities was taken during a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

Issuing an order, the state government said that the strict COVID guidelines should be followed by all students and staff on the university campus.

The move to reopen the universities comes at a time when five more COVID-19 fatalities were recorded in Punjab on Sunday which pushed the death toll to 5,504, while 240 new cases took the infection count to 1,70,605.

Rajasthan state government has ordered the Divisional Commissioner of Jodhpur to enquire into the tragic bus accident in Jalore district of Rajasthan which led to 6 people being charred to death and 6 others being critically injured. The government has also announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the kin of those who died in the accident.

"The state government has taken the decision to get the tragic incident that occurred due to bus getting burnt in Jalore on January 16 because of coming in contact with electricity cables enquired by Divisional Commissioner Jodhpur.", Mahendra Soni, Commissioner, DIPR, Rajasthan government, mentioned.

On January 16, an accident left six people dead and six others critically injured as a private bus came in contact with an electric cable in Rajasthan's Jalore district and caught fire.