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Justice Yashwant Varma Case | Videos, Photos Shouldn't Have Been Published, But In-House Inquiry Not Vitiated: Supreme Court
While upholding the overall sanctity of the in-house procedure, the Supreme Court has stated that the video and pictures of cash at Justice Yashwant Varma's official residence should not have been published on the Court's website. To that extent, the Court has said that there is nothing contemplated in the in-house procedure that the incriminating evidence should be published in the...
CJI Has Authority To Recommend Removal Of Judge While Forwarding In-House Inquiry Report To President & PM : Supreme Court
While dismissing the writ petition filed by Justice Yashwant Varma against the in-house committee report which indicted him in the unaccounted cash controversy, the Supreme Court held that the Chief Justice of India has the authority to forward the report to the President and the Prime Minister recommending the removal of the Judge.The Court held that the provision (paragraph 7(ii)) in...
Supreme Court Weekly Digest July 14 - 20, 2025
Citations 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 693 to 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 730Advocates Act, 1961 - High Court of Orissa (Designation of Senior Advocate) Rules, 2019- Rule 6(9)- Suo moto power to the full court of High Court to designate an advocate as 'Senior Advocate'- the 2019 Rules were formulated in the backdrop of the Indira Jaising v Supreme Court of India (2017)- High Court held Rule 6(9) to be ultra vires...
Ex-SC Judges Say Justice Muralidhar May Have Faced Consequences For His Bold Orders In Delhi Riots Matter
Speaking at an event on the theme “Morality in Judiciary: A Paradigm or a Paradox”, former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay S Oka said that the judges who took bold decisions during the 2020 Delhi riots may have faced repercussions.The former judge was referring to the transfer of Justice (Retired) S Muralidhar, who had constituted a midnight bench during the Delhi riots to pass...
Supreme Court To Rehear Case In Which Harsh Order Was Passed Against Allahabad HC Judge
The Supreme Court will rehear the case in which it passed an unprecedented order that a Judge of the Allahabad High Court should be made to sit with a senior Judge and that criminal jurisdiction should not be allotted to him till his retirement.The matter, which was disposed of by the harsh order passed on August 4, is now seen as re-listed for tomorrow before the bench comprising Justice...
Dharmasthala Burials : Temple Dharmadhikari's Brother Approaches Supreme Court Against HC Quashing Restraint Order On YouTube Channel
The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the plea challenging the Karnataka High Court Order, which lifted the restraint order on a YouTube channel from publishing defamatory content against the Dharmasthala temple family in relation to the Dharmasthala Burial case.The petitioner, Harshendra Kumar D, who is the Secretary of the Dharmasthala Temple Institution, has filed the SLP challenging the...
Supreme Court Orders Release Of Rs.1 Crore Deposited By Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram As Pre-Condition For Foreign Travel
The Supreme Court today ordered release of Rs.1 crore amount deposited by Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram with the Court's Secretary General as a pre-condition for foreign travel in 2022.A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh passed the order, noting that pursuant to the 2022 order, Chidambaram travelled abroad and deposited his passport with the Investigating Officer...
PMLA Review Hearing : Live Updates From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing the review petitions filed against the 2022 judgment in the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary case which upheld the various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) relating to arrest, search & seizure, reverse burden of proof, non-supply of ECIR copy etc.A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice NK Singh has decided to...
'You've Been Successful In Keeping Accused In Jail Without Trial For Years' : Supreme Court Questions ED's Conviction Rate
The Supreme Court today (August 7) verbally expressed concerns over how the Enforcement Directorate has been 'successful' in sentencing the accused by keeping them as undertrials for years, even though they are not ultimately convicted. The bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justices SC Sharma and K Vinod Chandran was hearing the review against the Supreme Court's decision, which rejected the...
Electricity A Public Good; Disproportionate Increase In Regulatory Assets Must Be Avoided : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 6) while directing the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (“ERC”) to timely liquidate the regulatory assets, to avoid accumulation of rightful cost due to the DISCOMS, has issued ten points relating to regulatory assets, determination of tariff and accountability of ERCs, and powers of the APTEL to avert regulatory failure. The bench comprising...
Incestuous Sexual Violence Committed By Parent Requires Severest Punishment : Supreme Court Upholds Father's POCSO Conviction
Incestuous sexual violence cannot be condoned under any circumstances as it shakes the very foundation of the familial trust, observed the Supreme Court while upholding the conviction of a father who repeatedly raped his minor daughter aged ten years.Upholding the life sentence imposed on him for the offence of penetrative sexual assault under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from...