Contempt Against Prakash Singh's Judgement: SC Impleads Interim/Acting DGP Neeraj Sinha As Party In Contempt Case Over DGP'S Appointment

The Supreme Court on Friday impleaded interim/ acting DGP, Jharkhand, Neeraj Sinha as a party in the contempt petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against State of Jharkhand for willfully and deliberately disobeying Top Court's direction passed in Prakash Singh's judgement ("Judgement") on police reforms and against UPSC for its failure to prepare panel for appointment...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Rule 18 Of UP Higher Judicial Services Rules, 1975 Prescribing Minimum Qualification (45% Aggregate) For All Categories

Referring to Justice Shetty Commission, the plea had stated that Rule 18 was ultra vires the constitutional provisions, owing to non-prescription of lower minimum qualification for Reserved category candidates.

Supreme Court Seeks Delhi Police's Response On Timeline To Probe Into Religare Finvest Case

The Supreme Court on Friday (September 3) asked Delhi Police to apprise the Court about the time that would be taken to complete investigation against Shivinder Mohan Singh, former Fortis Healthcare promoter accused in a money laundering case. Issuing limited notice in the special leave petition filed by Singh challenging Delhi High Court's order of cancelling his bail granted to him...

'Well Established Process With Sufficient Safeguards Exists For Judges Appointment' : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Collegium Proposal For HC Judgeship With Rs 5 Lakh Costs

Sufficient safeguards exist in the system, the Supreme Court said while it dismissed a lawyer's plea against proposal to appoint a judicial officer as a judge of the High Court for the State of Telangana. Advocate B. Sailesh Saxena filed a writ petition seeking a direction to consider the representation submitted by him in this regard. The bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM...

Age Relaxation Can't Be Claimed On The Basis Of Chief Minister's Tweet : Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that candidates for public employment cannot claim relaxation in upper age limit as their right merely because the Chief Minister has tweeted in this regardA division bench of Justice Rajan Gupta and Justice Karamjit Singh held so while dismissing an appeal filed by petitioners seeking appointment to the post of Police Sub-Inspectors. On August 11,...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Stays RBI Circular On Urban Cooperative Banks

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed a circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on June 25 which laid down several conditions related to Urban Coopeartive Banks.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla passed the interim order on September 3 while issuing notice on a writ petition filed by Mahanagar Nagrik Sahkari Bank Ltd....

Leading Cases For Supreme Court AOR Exams 2021 [Part 3- Constitutional Amendments and Reservations]

This part of the 'Leading Cases for AoR Exams' article series deals with two topics: Constitutional Amendments (1, 3, 6, 9, 33, 36) and Reservations (7,49).His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalavaru v. State of KeralaCase: WP(C) 135 of 1970; 24 April 1973; CJI Sikri, S.M., Justices Shelat, J.M., Hegde, K.S. & Grover, A.N., Ray, A.N. & Reddy, P.J. & Palekar, D.G., Khanna,...

Delhi Court Extends CBI Custody Of Anil Deshmukh's Lawyer Anand Daga, Sub Inspector By Two Days

A Delhi Court on Saturday extended the CBI custody of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh's lawyer, Anand Daga and Sub-Inspector Abhishek Tiwari by two days on the allegations of leaking sensitive information thereby subverting investigation into the corruption case.Special CBI Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav had earlier sent the duo to two days CBI custody after the agency had sought 7...

Vaccines Not Effective, Mandatory Vaccination Unconstitutional, Against Individual's Rights And Self Determination: Petitioner Files Additional Affidavit Before Supreme Court

According to the petitioner, the mandates on vaccination by states are arbitrary, discriminatory and an infringement of a citizen's fundamental rights.

Kerala High Court Allows Plea Seeking Correction Of Deceased Parent's Name On Passport

The Kerala High Court recently allowed a plea seeking a correction in the parent's name on the passport even after their demise, provided that documents were produced to the satisfaction of the Regional Passport Officer. Assailing the request of the petitioner, the Passport Officer had argued before Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas that there was no law under which a person can change the name of...

Narendra Dabholkar Murder Case: CBI Seeks UAPA, Terror Charges Against Accused, Defence Points Out Contradictions In Probe

The defence counsel relied on conflicting claims about Dabholkar's assailants in CBI's three charge sheets.

'You Must Protect The Institution From Targeted, Motivated And Mala Fide Attack': CJI Ramana's Advice For Young Lawyers

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday remarked that young lawyers must strive to protect the integrity and reputation of the judiciary. He was speaking at an event organised by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to felicitate him. The event was held in the presence of Supreme Court judges, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and other top law officers. "I also want to use this platform to send...