'Sorry State Of Affairs': Supreme Court Pulls Up Punjab National Bank For Settling With Borrower After Auction Sale Of Secured Property

The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up Punjab National Bank (PNB) for entering into a settlement with a borrower after already having auctioned the borrower's property. The court asked the bank to take a policy decision at the earliest to ensure that such instances do not recur. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and Sandeep Mehta directed PNB to issue a final sale certificate to...

Supreme Court To Hear Bail Pleas Of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam & Gulfisha Fatima In Riots Larger Conspiracy Tomorrow

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the petitions filed by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima seeking bail in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case.A bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria will hear the matter.The petition of co-accused Meeran Haider is listed before a bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran.The...

Can't Encroach Upon ECI Jurisdiction To Determine A Person's Eligibility For Inclusion In Voter List: Delhi Court In Sonia Gandhi Case

A Delhi Court on Thursday said that it cannot encroach upon the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of India by entertaining plea seeking FIR against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for purportedly getting her name added in the electoral rolls of 1980, three years before getting Indian citizenship. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya of Rouse Avenue Courts dismissed in...

Delhi Riots Larger Conspiracy Case: Umar Khalid Calls Delhi Police FIR A 'Joke', Says Evidence Fabricated To Implicate Him

Umar Khalid on Thursday told a Delhi Court that he has spent five years in custody in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case, calling it a “joke of an FIR.”The submission was made by Senior Advocate Trideep Pais before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts while opposing framing of charges against Khalid. The case relates to FIR 59 of 2020 investigated by...

Delhi Court Refuses To Order FIR Against Sonia Gandhi For Inclusion In Voter List Prior To Acquiring Indian Citizenship

A Delhi Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking FIR against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for getting her name added in the electoral rolls of 1980, three years before getting Indian citizenship, allegedly by using forged documents.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasiya of Rouse Avenue Courts pronounced the order. Detailed copy is awaited.Order was reserved by the...

'Private Defence Can't Be Weighed In Golden Scale' : Supreme Court Acquits Doctor For Killing Attacker Who Fired Pistol

The Supreme Court recently set aside the conviction and life sentence imposed on a doctor from Uttarakhand for shooting a man who had gone to his clinic armed with a pistol and fired at him, accepting his plea of private defence. A bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar relied on the judgment in Darshan Singh v. State of Punjab and Anr., which culled out 10 principles...

Presidential Reference | Centre Requests Supreme Court To Declare Tamil Nadu Governor Case Judgment Wrong

On the last day of the hearing of the Presidential Reference on the issues related to grant of assent to Bills, the Solicitor General of India, for the Union, requested the Supreme Court to declare that the two-judge bench Tamil Nadu judgment does not lay down the correct law. After 10 days of hearing, the Supreme Court today reserved its opinion in the Presidential Reference on 14...

Supreme Court Reserves Opinion In Presidential Reference On Timelines For Bills' Assent After 10-Day Hearing

The Supreme Court on Thursday (September 11) reserved its opinion in the reference made by the President of India under Article 143 raising questions related to the timelines for granting assent to Bills by the President and the Governor under Articles 200/201 of the Constitution.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, Justice Surya Kant, Justice Vikram Nath, Justice PS Narasimha...

TN MLA Jegan Moorthy Says Settlement Reached In Abduction Case; Supreme Court Extends Interim Anticipatory Bail

The Supreme Court today extended the interim order granting anticipatory bail to "Poovai" Jegan Moorthy, MLA of KV Kuppam, Tamil Nadu, in the case alleging his involvement in the abduction of a minor boy. The Bench of Justice Manoj Mishra and Justice NK Singh was hearing the challenge against the Madras High Court's order dismissing the anticipatory bail petition filed by Moorthy in...

'Strong Inference Of Evidence Planting' : Supreme Court Acquits Man Sentenced To Death In Child Rape-Murder Case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted and set aside death penalty of one Akthar Ali convicted for rape causing death of a 7-year-old girl in 2014. The Court also acquitted co-accused Prem Pal Verma who was convicted for harbouring the offender.A bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Mehta allowed the criminal appeals filed by the two accused against...

Governor Has No Power To Sit On Bills Endlessly; But Timelines Can't Be Laid Down : Centre To Supreme Court

On the last day of the hearing of the Presidential Reference, the Solicitor General of India told the Supreme Court that Governors cannot sit on Bills endlessly. SG Tushar Mehta said that since Article 200 uses the expression "as soon as possible", the Governors cannot sit on bills "perennially or for three or four years." At the same time, SG opposed the Court laying down fixed timelines as...

'Police Must Shed All Biases' : Supreme Court Criticises Maharashtra Police In Akola Riots Case, Forms SIT With Hindu & Muslim Officers

Criticizing the Maharashtra police for failing to probe an assault during the 2023 Akola Riots, the Supreme Court today directed constitution of a Special Investigation Team to investigate the allegations, which shall comprise senior officers from both the Hindu and Muslim communities.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma delivered the verdict on the plea of a person...