How Will Doorstep Ration Delivery Scheme Prevent Corruption In Public Distribution System? High Court Quizzes Delhi Govt; Judgment Reserved

The Delhi High Court has reserved its judgment in the plea filed by Delhi Sarkari Ration Dealers Sangh, opposing the State Government's scheme for door step delivery of ration.A Division Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh today quizzed the Delhi Government as to how the proposed scheme is better at preventing corruption in distribution of food grains, when compared to the...

Employees Of Autonomous Bodies Can't Claim Same Service Benefits As Government Employees : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the employees of the autonomous bodies cannot claim, as a matter of right, the same service benefits on par with the Government employees.The State Government and the Autonomous Board/Body cannot be put on par and the the employees of the latter are governed by their own Service Rules and service conditions, the bench comprising Justices MR Shah and BV...

Tripura Communal Violence: Supreme Court Grants One More Week's Time To Tripura Govt To Respond To Plea Seeking Independent Probe

The Supreme Court on Monday granted one week's time to the State of Tripura to respond to a writ petition seeking an independent investigation into the communal riots which took place in the State during November last year.When the matter was called out on Monday before the bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta prayed for one week time to be able to...

Anonymous Calls To AoRs Regarding PM's Security Breach: SCAORA Writes To SC's Secretary General Requesting Action

Complaining about the anonymous calls received by AORs taking responsibility for PM Modi's security breach, and threatening Supreme Court not to hear the related case, the Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association has written to the Secretary General of Supreme Court of India requesting action against the same.The Association has requested that immediate action be initiated as this is...

Marital Rape : Delhi High Court Continues Hearing Petitions Challenging Exception To Section 375 IPC

The Delhi High Court on Monday continued the hearing of petitions challenging the exception to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, which exempts marital rape from the offence of rape.A bench comprising Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar heard Advocate Karuna Nundy on Monday. During the hearing, the bench discussed the possible legislative reasons for the exception to Section...

S. 482 CrPC| Can't Appreciate Evidence In Quashing Petition: Karnataka High Court Reiterates

The Karnataka High Court has reiterated that a Court hearing a petition for quashing of FIR/ charge sheet under Section 482 CrPC cannot appreciate evidence as the same lies within the domain of the trial Court. Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar said,"It is a settled principle that while deciding the petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C, evidence cannot be appreciated as it lies within the...

Actor Dileep Moves Kerala High Court Seeking Anticipatory Bail In New FIR

Malayalam actor Dileep has moved the Kerala High Court with an application for anticipatory bail after a new First Information Report (FIR) was recently registered alleging a conspiracy designed to kill the investigating officers in the sensational 2017 sexual assault case. Dileep is facing trial as the alleged mastermind of the abduction and the sexual assault of a female actress in a moving...

Won't Give Effect To Google Play Billing Policy Clarification Till Oct 31 : Google Tells Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court on Monday disposed of the petition filed by Google India challenging an order of the Competition Commission of India rejecting its request for access to the identity of app developers/ start-ups allegedly suffering harm on account of Google Play store payments policy 2020. A single-judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit took on record the joint memo filed by...

ICICI-Videocon Scam: Supreme Court Dismisses ED's Plea Against Bombay HC's Order Granting Bail To Deepak Kochhar

The Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed Enforcement Directorate's plea against Bombay High Court's order granting bail to Deepak Kochhar, husband of ex-ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, an accused in the multi-crore ICICI Bank-Videocon money laundering case.A Bench comprising CJI NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli dismissed the special leave petition but kept the...

Rs. 6208.03 Crores Funds Lying In Various Banks: DMRC Tells Delhi High Court

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) has disclosed before the Delhi High Court that is has a total of Rs. 6208.03 Crores funds lying in various banks. The development came after the DMRC filed an additional affidavit in the plea filed by Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL) seeking enforcement of the arbitration award dated May 11, 2017.The High Court had last...

Supreme Court Adjourns Pleas Challenging Provisions Of PMLA For January 25

The Supreme Court today adjourned the batch of petitions concerned with the interpretation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for January 25, 2022.Since the batch of pleas were listed for January 11, 2022 Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal today mentioned the matter before the bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar for adjourning the matter for 4-6 weeks. "The problem is that there is a...

'No Tampering At NTA Office' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Alleging Discrepancies In NEET-UG Scores

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a writ petition filed by 6 students alleging tampering of their NEET-UG OMR scorecards by the National Testing Agency. The petitioners had approached the Court alleging that there was a huge variance in their marks computed on the basis of the answer keys and the final results.A bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna dismissed the...