How Killers Knew About Hospital Visit? Why Atique Ahmad & Brother Were Made To Walk? Supreme Court Asks UP Govt

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a "comprehensive affidavit" from the Uttar Pradesh government on the steps taken to enquire into the killings of gangster-politician Atique Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed which took place on April 15 at Prayagraj when they were being taken to a hospital for medical check up in police custody. The bench has also sought information on the inquiry into...

Breaking | Jiah Khan Death: Mumbai CBI Court Acquits Actor Sooraj Pancholi In Abetment Of Suicide Case

Nearly a decade after actor Jiah Khan (26) was found dead in her Juhu apartment, a Special CBI Court in Mumbai acquitted her then beau Sooraj Pancholi, charged with. Special Judge AS Sayyad pronounced the judgement, citing "paucity of evidence" in the case. Sooraj is the son of actors Zarina Wahab and Aditya Pancholi. He was arrested on June 10, 2013, seven days after Jiah’s...

Supreme Court Quashes Forgery Case Against Former Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal & Akali Dal Leaders Over Party's Dual Constitution

The Supreme Court on Friday quashed the criminal proceedings pending against Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, his father and five-time former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and party senior vice-president Daljit Singh Cheema in an alleged forgery case over the political party’s dual constitutions.Parkash Singh Badal had passed away at the age of 95 on April...

Supreme Court Quarterly Digest On CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE 1908 [January - March 2023]

Section 24 - General power of transfer and withdrawalCode of Civil Procedure, 1908; Section 24, 25 - The power under section 24 of the CPC can be exercised by the High Court even for inter-State transfer of a suit, appeal or other proceeding, if it is the common High Court for two or more States under Article 231 of the Constitution and both the Civil Courts (transferor and transferee)...

Uphaar Fire Tragedy: Supreme Court Permits Ansal Theatres To Move Trial Court For De-Sealing Of Cinema Hall

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday allowed the Ansal Brothers, who were convicted for negligence in the Uphaar Fire Tragedy case, to move an application before the concerned trial court for de-sealing of the theatre hall and get back its custody. “If the appellant makes an application within the meaning of Section 452 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the concerned Trial...

Supreme Court Releases Draft List Of Neutral Citations Of Over 10,000 Judgments; Invites Public Suggestions

The Supreme Court on Thursday released a list of over 10,000 judgments from January 1, 2014 to March 31, 2023 with proposed neutral citations to facilitate crowdsourced checking, so that any missing or incorrect items can be addressed with the help of legal professionals and publishers.The notice has asked for inputs for the same within 15 days to be sent to the Registrar of the top...

Marriage Equality Petitions | Indian Culture Extraordinarily Inclusive, British Victorian Morality Code Was Imposed On Us: CJI DY Chandrachud

While hearing the marriage equality petitions on Thursday, CJI DY Chandrachud orally remarked that Indian culture was "extraordinarily inclusive" and it was due to the impact of the British Victorian morality that Indians had to foresake their cultural ethos and become exclusionary of queer individuals. A constitution bench comprising the Chief Justice as well as Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul,...

Bar Council Of Delhi’s Special Committee Finalizes Advocates Protection Bill

A special committee of Bar Council of Delhi has finalized the Delhi Advocates (Protection) Bill, 2023 for providing safety and security to lawyers from incidents of assaults, killings, intimidation and threats. The resolution passed today by the coordination committee of All District Courts Bar Association of Delhi states that the special committee was headed by BCD member K.C. Mittal;...

Supreme Court Issues Notice To States /UTs That Are Yet To Implement Provisions Of Right Of Persons With Disabilities Act 2016

The Union Government’s affidavit filed before the Supreme Court in a plea seeking enforcement of rights of persons with disabilities by constituting District Level Committees for each district to implement the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 [“2016 Act”], discloses that some State Governments/Union Territories are yet to formulate rules under Section 101 of the 2016 Act....

Can Same-Sex Couples Be Granted Certain Rights Without Legal Recognition As Marriage? Supreme Court Asks Centre

While hearing the marriage equality pleas on Thursday, the Supreme Court orally asked the Union Government if it was willing to grant social welfare benefits to same-sex couples, without conferring such relationships legal recognition.The Constitution bench comprising the CJI DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, S Ravindra Bhat, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha pointed out that law...

Irretrievably Broken Down Marriage Can Be Dissolved On Ground Of 'Cruelty' : Supreme Court

'A marital relationship which has only become more bitter and acrimonious over the years, does nothing but inflicts cruelty on both the sides'

Altruistic Surrogacy Should Mean Surrogacy By Outsider, 'Genetically Related' Clause In 2021 Act Defeats Logic: Karnataka High Court

The provision of Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2021 which mandates that a surrogate mother should be "genetically related" to the intending couple defeats both altruism and logic, the Karnataka High Court has observed."The words “genetically related” appearing in Section 2(1)(zg) can only mean that the child to be born through surrogacy should be genetically related to the intending...