PAN form to include Transgender option after amendment to Income Tax Rules
The Centre is all set to bring in changes to the Income Tax Rules, 1962 by including a transgender category to the Permanent Account Number (PAN) application form. The Ministry of Finance on April 9...
View ArticleNo person (except the Chief Justice of India) shall be a judge in his own cause
The Court of the Chief Justice of India was privy to a curious hearing on Monday this week. A public interest litigation petition titled Asok Pande v. Supreme Court of India & Ors was listed before...
View Article“Very life and existence” of Supreme Court under threat, Justice Kurian...
The “very life and existence” of the Supreme Court of India is under threat, Justice Kurian Joseph has written to Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra while urging him to act on non-appointment of...
View ArticleSave the child before it dies in womb, Read full text of letter by Kurian...
As reported earlier, Justice Kurian Joseph has written a strongly worded letter to Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra while urging him to act on non-appointment of judges by the Central government....
View ArticleSCBA Annual Day function: 300 plus Members demand General Body Meeting
Around 300 members of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) have sought a General Body Meeting to authorise the SCBA President to organise SCBA Annual Day Function at a suitable place outside the...
View ArticleThis is what Supreme Court held about Paramparya Vaidyas of Kerala [Read...
The Supreme Court today held that persons not registered under Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 cannot practice in medicine as Paramparya Vaidyas. The judgment was delivered by a Bench...
View ArticleA Coconut Oil conundrum lingers in Supreme Court [Read Split Verdict]
Would coconut oil packaged in “small containers” be classified as edible oil or hair oil for the purpose of taxation? The Supreme Court Bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumati were unable to...
View ArticleSupreme Court imposes Rs. 1 lakh costs on Central government for frivolous...
The Supreme Court of India has imposed costs of Rs. 1 lakh on Central government for filing an appeal against a former soldier, Naik Balbir Singh when similar appeals had already been dismissed earlier...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court refuses to meddle with Pension of MPs, dismisses...
The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking to scrap the lifelong pension given to former Members of Parliament (MPs). The judgment was rendered by a Bench of Justices Jasti Chelameswar and...
View ArticleSpecific Performance cannot be claimed as a matter of right, reiterates SC...
The Supreme Court has reiterated that the power to order specific performance of contract is discretionary and cannot be claimed as a matter of right. The observation was made by a Bench of Justices RK...
View ArticleWill India finally get a Lokpal? Attorney General KK Venugopal says process...
Attorney General for India, KK Venugopal today told the Supreme Court that the process for appointing Lokpal has been set in motion. He was responding to a contempt petition filed by NGO Common Cause...
View ArticleCourts should not pass unreasoned orders; SC sets aside Family Court order on...
The Supreme Court has reiterated that courts should not pass cryptic, unreasoned orders which do not contain factual narration of the case or discussion, appreciation, reasoning and findings on...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court to pronounce judgment tomorrow in plea for probe into...
The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict tomorrow in a batch of petitions seeking probe into the death of Judge Loya. The matter was heard by a Bench of Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra and...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court dismisses pleas for independent probe into Judge Loya...
The Supreme Court today dismissed the petitions filed seeking an independent investigation into the death of Judge Loya. The judgment was delivered by a three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India...
View ArticleJustice Ramendra Jain J. to continue as Additional Judge of Punjab & Haryana...
Days after the Supreme Court Collegium stood firm by its recommendation to make Justice Ramendra Jain a permanent judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Government has notified the extension...
View ArticleContempt & Conflict: What was the urgency for SC to hear Judge Loya case?
Court Reporter “Counsel after counsel expressed the fear that during the Emergency, the executive may whip and strip and starve the detenue and if this be our judgment, even shoot him down. Such...
View ArticleMe’ lords, please look at the divided house!
Pallav Shishodia The motion by Congress and rag-tag of political parties to impeach the Chief Justice of India has added to a tumult of our times. The views at the Bar are highly polarized. So you are...
View ArticleSC Collegium recommends four judicial officers, one lawyer for elevation to...
The Supreme Court Collegium on April 19 recommended the names of four judicial officers and one lawyer for elevation to Gujarat High Court. The five persons who have been recommended are Umesh Amritlal...
View ArticleFor the love of independence of judiciary, let us block appointment of judges
Yesterday, the Central government cleared the appointment of Senior advocate Indu Malhotra for Supreme Court but chose not to do the same for Justice KM Joseph whose name was recommended along with...
View ArticleA Rebuttal to Centre’s reasons for refusing Justice KM Joseph appointment
The Centre has been sitting on Justice KM Joseph’s file since January 10 this year, when the Supreme Court Collegium deemed the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court as being worthy of elevation...
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