Employers Can't Dispute Employees' Date Of Birth At Fag End Of Their Service : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the rule that employees cannot raise a dispute relating to date of birth at the fag end of their service is equally applicable to employers as well.A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud and Aniruddha Bose set aside the decision of Hindustan Copper Ltd, a Public Sector Undertaking, to reduce the VRS benefits to an employee by altering his date of...

Supreme Court Asks BCI To Examine Amicus Suggestion To Provide Incentives To Senior Lawyers To Induct Newly Enrolled Advocates

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, asked the Bar Council of India (BCI), to consider the suggestions of the Amicus Curiae to provide incentives to Advocates who take in young lawyers as their juniors.Apart from this, the Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh also requested the High Court Judges to engage young lawyers as law clerks. It noted - "BCI has constituted a...

'Peaceful Agitation Citizen's Fundamental Right': Mumbai Court Acquits 5 Women Who Protested For Water Supply

A Mumbai court has recently held that peaceful agitation is the Fundamental Right of every citizen and acquitted five women accused of unlawfully assembling to protest against no water supply in their area. Metropolitan Magistrate R. S. Pajankar of 52nd Court, Kurla, Mumbai observed that in a democratic country peaceful protest is a fundamental right of the citizens "All ladies...

Madras HC's Case Clearance Rate 109% For 2021; Tamil Nadu Judiciary Top Performer In Case Disposal : Justice Ramasubramanian

Justice V Ramasubramanian, Judge Supreme Court of India, on Saturday spoke at an event organised at the Madras High Court to lay the foundation stone for Administrative Block of Madras High Court and inaugurate Court buildings located in Namakkal and Villupuram Districts.In his address, Justice Ramasburamanian lauded the Madras High Court, his parent High Court, for its high case...

Are Prosecutors Given Incentives For Securing Death Penalty? Supreme Court Asks MP Govt

The Supreme Court, on Friday asked the State of Madhya Pradesh to place on record whether it has adopted any policy to grant incentivises and increments to the Public Prosecution based on the volume of their cases wherein death sentence is awarded. On 29.03.2022, while hearing an application seeking permission for mitigation investigators to interview the petitioner in prison, a...

Attachment Order U/S 146 CrPC Can't Be Passed On A Mere Apprehension Of Breach Of Peace: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that on mere apprehension of breach of peace, without explaining the circumstances, an attachment order under Section 146 CrPC cannot be passed.The bench of Justice Goutam Bhaduri further asserted that a Magistrate has to satisfy himself as to whether any 'emergency exists' before he passes an order of attachment under Section 146 CrPC.It may be noted...

Reliance Cancels Rs. 24,713 Crores Worth Of Deal With Future Group

In a regulatory filing on 23.04.2022, Reliance Industries Limited has intimated to the BSE Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. that their scheme of arrangement with Future Group of companies 'cannot be implemented', as secured creditors of Future Retail Limited ("FRL") have voted against the scheme in the Shareholder's meeting held from 20th April to 23rd...

Calcutta High Court Dismisses PIL Praying To Print Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Image On Indian Currency

The Calcutta High Court recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking directions to print images of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on Indian currency notes. The plea had been moved by 94-year-old freedom fighter, one Haren Bagchi Biswas.The bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj took into account the decision of the Madras High Court in...

Default Bail- Merely Because Courts Were Closed For Holi Holidays, Prosecution Can't Get Benefit of Filing Charge-Sheet After Expiry of Stipulated Time: Rajasthan HC

The Rajasthan High Court observed that merely because the courts were closed for Holi Holidays, the prosecution cannot get the benefit of filing the charge-sheet after expiry of the period of 60 days or the stipulated period of time mandated by law. The court noted that it is a settled proposition of law that if the contraband recovered is below commercial quantity, the charge-sheet...

"Evidence Of Witness Can't Be Disbelieved On Ground Of Minor Contradictions In Testimony": Allahabad High Court Upholds Murder Conviction

The Allahabad High Court has reiterated that minor contradictions in the testimony of a witness which do not go to the root of the matter are not material contradictions and on this ground alone, the evidence of such witness cannot be brushed aside/disbelieved.Observing thus, the bench of Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Sadhna Rani (Thakur) upheld the judgment and order of Sessions...

Death Row Prisoner Kept In Solitary Confinement? Supreme Court Directs District Judge To Conduct Inspection

Upon being apprised that a death row prisoner (petitioner) had been kept in solitary confinement, the Supreme Court, on Thursday, directed the District Judge, Belgaum(Karnataka) to conduct a local inspection of the ground realities of the circumstances in which he was lodged in a separate cell. The issues to be covered by the District Judge in their report, though not exhaustively,...

Approach Bar Council If Lawyer Not Serious Towards Profession: MP HC Rejects Plea To Recall Witness For Cross-Examination Over Counsel's Absence

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, Gwalior Bench recently dismissed an application moved by Applicant/accused to recall a prosecution witness for cross-examination on the grounds that his lawyer could not cross-examine the witness as the members of the bar were abstaining from work on the date when his case was listed. Hearing the application under Section 482 CrPC, moved by the...