Joshimath Crisis: PIL For High Powered Joint Committee, Rehabilitation Of Affected Residents Withdrawn From Delhi High Court

A public interest litigation moved in the backdrop of recent land sinking incidents in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath area was withdrawn from Delhi High Court on Tuesday. A division division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad dismissed as withdrawn a PIL moved by a Delhi based lawyer Rohit Dandriyal which stated that the area was affected due to climate...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest With Nominal And Subject/Statute Wise Index(Citations 68 - 82) Part 1 [February 1 – 5, 2023]

SUBJECT WISE INDEX Bail If bail bonds are not furnished within one month, Trial Courts may consider suo motu relaxing conditions. In Re Policy Strategy for Grant of Bail, 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 76 Supreme Court issues directions to avoid delay in release of prisoners after getting bail. In Re Policy Strategy for Grant of Bail, 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 76 Citizenship Centre's decision...

High Court Directs MCGM Commissioner To Decide Fate Of Proposed 'Floating Hotel' In Mumbai

The Bombay High Court recently directed the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to take a final decision regarding grant of permission for construction of a Floating Hotel (Floatel) anchoring off the Raj Bhavan.“We further direct that the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation shall take his final decision in the matter in accordance with law within a period of...

High Drama In Supreme Court Ahead Of Hearing Challenge To Victoria Gowri's Appointment As High Court Judge

There was high drama in the Supreme Court ahead of hearing of the petitions challenging the appointment of L Victoria Gowri as an additional judge of the Madras High Court.The petitioners' lawyers sought for an early hearing as the oath taking ceremony at the Madras High Court was scheduled at 10.35 AM. The petitions were originally listed as item number 38 before a bench comprising...

Delhi High Court Grants Further Time To Centre For Filing Response On Ashok Swain's Plea Against Cancellation Of OCI Card

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted further four weeks’ time to the Central Government for filing its response on a plea filed by academic Ashok Swain, who is a professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University in Sweden, against cancellation of his Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card by the Indian Embassy.Justice Prathiba M Singh clarified that no further time shall...

'Cook Fish For Bengalis' Remark| 'Speech In Gujarati, He Tendered Apology': Calcutta HC Quashes FIR Against Paresh Rawal

The Calcutta High Court on Monday quashed a first information report registered (FIR) against BJP leader and actor Paresh Rawal for alleged hate speech against the Bengali community.Justice Rajasekhar Mantha while quashing the FIR noted that the speech in question was made in Gujarati which may not be necessarily understood by the people who have objected to it. He also took into...

Victoria Gowri Takes Oath As Madras HC Judge While Supreme Court Was Hearing Petitions Against Her Appointment

Advocate L Victoria Gowri took oath as an additional judge of the Madras High Court on Tuesday, while the Supreme Court was hearing two petitions challenging her appointment.Acting Chief Justice of the Madras High Court administered the oath to Victoria Gowri, who courted controversy after her comments made about minority religions surfaced in the public domain after the Supreme Court...

BREAKING | Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against Appointment Of Adv Victoria Gowri As Madras High Court Additional Judge

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the petitions challenging the appointment of L Victoria Gowri as an additional judge of the Madras High Court.A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai said that it cannot presume that the Collegium was not aware of Gowri's political backgrounds or her controversial statements. The bench said that it cannot go into the question of...

Supreme Court Dismisses Rana Ayyub's Plea Challenging Jurisdiction Of Ghaziabad Court To Try PMLA Case Against Her

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the writ petition filed by journalist Rana Ayyub challenging the jurisdiction of a special court in Ghaziabad under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 to take cognisance of the complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate against her for alleged violations in amounts collected through crowdfunding for COVID relief.On January 31, a...

Permitting Executive To Review Or Sit Over Court's Decisions Would Tantamount To Interference With Judicial Functions: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently observed that the executive is under obligation to obey judicial orders and permitting the executive to review, revise or sit over the decisions of the Court by issuing executive orders or instructions would tantamount to interference with the exercise of judicial functions.The observations were made by the bench comprising Justices...

BREAKING: Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Against Victoria Gowri’s Appointment As Judge Of Madras High Court LIVE UPDATES

Supreme Court tto hear the petitions challenging the appointment of L Victoria Gowri as Madras HC judge at 9.15 AMA bench headed by Chief Justice Chandrachud will hear the petitions. On Monday, Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran had mentioned the matter for urgent listing. Agreeing to list the matter tomorrow, CJI DY Chandrachud disclosed that the Supreme Court collegium has taken cognizance...

Electronic Monitoring To Regulate Over-speeding : Consider Including NHAI In Deliberations, Supreme Court Tells Committee

The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala, while hearing a plea concerning road safety and prevention of accidents, suggestion including the National Highways Authority of India in the framework for implementing Section 136A, to Justice Sapre, who is the chairperson of the Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety.Section...