Employees of PSUs not entitled to protection under Section 197 CrPC as...
The Supreme Court has reiterated that employees of public sector corporations are not entitled to the protection under Section 197 CrPC as ‘public servant’. A Bench of Justices Navin Sinha and AS...
View ArticleAmendments to PMLA by Finance Act 2019 – Widening the scope of the Legislation
MS Krishna Kumar In the Finance Act, 2019, which recently received the assent of President of India and became an Act with effect from August 1, some important amendments under the Prevention of Money...
View ArticleINX Media Case: Anticipatory Bail Plea by P Chidambaram likely to be heard by...
The appeal by P Chidambaram against Delhi High Court order refusing anticipatory bail in the INX Media case is likely to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 23. This comes after attempts by...
View ArticleHigh Court has power under Article 235 to take action against judicial...
In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court today held that a High Court has powers under Article 235 of the Constitution to take action against judicial officers accused of sexual harassment. The...
View ArticleFive days ago, Court 3 of the Supreme Court had granted interim relief on...
The Supreme Court was privy to a strange chain of events yesterday. A team of lawyers led by Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal was made to go from Court 3 to the Court of the Chief Justice of India back and...
View ArticleIs omission to frame charge for offence under Section 302 IPC a curable...
The Supreme Court today held that when the case of the prosecution is on the basis that the role of accused is that of conspirators but there is a failure to prove the charge of conspiracy, the...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court issues notice in challenge to criminalisation of...
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Central government in three petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, which...
View ArticleEducation Tribunal at Lucknow: Allahabad HC order challenged in Supreme Court
An advocate has challenged the Allahabad High Court order by which it was asked to explain the reasons for proposing to set up a Specialised Education Tribunal at Lucknow instead of Allahabad which is...
View ArticleCommunication blackout in Kashmir in national interest, Press Council seeks...
Press Council of India has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking intervention in the petition filed by Kashmir Times executive editor Anuradha Bhasin, which prays for relaxation of...
View ArticleHabeas Corpus petition filed by Sitaram Yechury in Supreme Court for...
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has filed a writ petition in Supreme Court seeking issuance of Habeas Corpus Writ for production of Jammu & Kashmir Party State Secretary, Mohammed Yousuf...
View ArticleArbitrary Arbitrator Fees and the Law post 2019 Amendment
Kartik Seth and Aanchal Kapoor The Supreme Court recently in the matter of National Highways Authority of India and Ors. v. Gayatri Jhansi Roadways Limited and Ors.[1] settled the position on the issue...
View ArticlePlea in Supreme Court to set up online portals to make applications under RTI...
The Supreme Court today issued notice to Central and State governments in a petition praying that web portals be set up so as to facilitate the filing of RTI applications online. The petition filed by...
View ArticleBurying ADM Jabalpur: Ten Fathoms not deep enough?
After the proclamation of Emergency in India in 1975, the Supreme Court was faced with the challenge of determining whether the rights under Article 21 of the Constitution stand suspended in the wake...
View ArticleFarewell sans podium or speeches, Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre retires
Supreme Court judge, Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre retired from office today. He served at Supreme Court for little over five years. Interestingly, Sapre J. had asked the Supreme Court Bar Association...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court Constitution Bench of 5 judges to hear challenge to...
A Constitution Bench of 5 judges of the Supreme Court will hear the challenge to abrogation to Article 370. A Bench of Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer...
View ArticleCan government exempt management seats of private colleges from ambit of...
Can the government exclude management seats in private unaided medical colleges from the purview of horizontal reservation. The Supreme Court of India will decide this issue as it issued notice in an...
View ArticleAyodhya Hearing: Can you wish away the existence of the mosque? Justice SA...
In the Ayodhya case hearing in Supreme Court Senior Advocate PN Mishra continued his submissions on day 15 on behalf of Ram Janmasthann Punaruddhar Samiti. His arguments on day 15 centered around Quran...
View ArticleAyodhya: Babur an invader, invader's rights cannot be institutionalised,...
Mughal ruler Babur is an invader and an invader’s rights cannot be institutionalised, Hindu Mahasabha argued before the Supreme Court in the Ayodhya case. Advocate Hari Shankar Jain appearing for Hindu...
View ArticleShahjahanpur incident: LLM student who had gone missing to stay in Delhi for...
The Supreme Court, after interacting with the LLM student from Shahjahanpur who had gone missing, has directed the Registry to make arrangements for her stay in Delhi for a period of four days. A Bench...
View ArticleChhattisgarh IPS Officer seeks transfer of cases against him from State...
The Supreme Court has today issued notice in a petition filed by IPS Officer from Chhattisgarh Mukesh Gupta seeking transfer of FIRs registered by Chhattisgarh Police to CBI. Gupta, who was the...
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