Supreme Court Wants To Know If Centre Will File Affidavit On Using Pegasus; Adjourns Hearing To Tomorrow

The Centre argued that the issue involved aspects of national security; petitioners highlighted Centre's present affidavit does not answer if it has ever used Pegasus.

Narada Case: Calcutta High Court Adjourns Hearing To September 13 For Oral Arguments

The Calcutta High Court on Monday took on record the rejoinder filed by Advocate General Kishore Datta in response to the affidavit-in-reply filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) pertaining to the Narada scam case. The affidavits purportedly detail the law and order situation in the State (outside the CBI office) on May 17, the date when the four TMC leaders were arrested....

Pegasus: Supreme Court Hearing On Plea Seeking SIT Probe-Live Updates

Supreme Court to continue its hearing today of a batch of petitions seeking SIT/judicial probe into the reports of snooping using Pegasus spyware.The Supreme Court on August 10 granted time to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to seek instructions from the Government on the petitions seeking probe into the Pegasus snooping controversy, on a request made by...

Breaking: Will Constitute Committee of Experts To Examine Pegasus Allegations & Dispel Wrong Narrative: Centre Tells Supreme Court

The Central Government has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court stating that it has resolved to constitute a Committee of Experts which will examine all the issues pertaining to the alleged Pegasus snooping scandal. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, while denying all the allegations of mobile interception through Pegasus, submitted: "with a view to dispel...

Supreme Court Asks Why Centre Introduced Tribunals Reforms Bill With Provisions Struck Down By Court

The Supreme Court on Monday made critical remarks against the Tribunals Reforms Bill 2021 passed by the Parliament last week re-enacting the very same provisions struck down by the Court in Madras Bar Association case.A bench led by the Chief Justice of India asked the Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta why the bill was introduced with the provisions invalidated by the Court. The bench...

Drastic Psychological Impacts: Plea In Delhi High Court Seeks Ban On Medically Unnecessary Sex-Selective Surgeries On Intersex Infants, Children

A PIL has been filed before the Delhi High Court seeking a ban on medically unnecessary, sex-selective surgeries on intersex Infants and children except in cases of life threatening situations. Moreover, a direction to the Delhi Government and Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) to frame detailed policy or guidelines specifying the conditions when medical surgery on...

'Covid Care Facility Inside Campus Made Operational': JNU, Delhi Govt Claim In High Court, Petitioners Granted Time To File Response

The Delhi High Court has granted time to Jawaharlal Nehru University Teacher's Association and others till September 17 in order to respond to the claim of the University and the Delhi Government that the Covid care centre has been made operational inside it's campus.The said claim was however refuted by the petitioners who submitted before Justice Rekha Palli that the position on the ground...

Does A High Court's Order Staying A Central Law Or Rule Apply Throughout The Country?

Will an order passed by a High Court staying the operation of a central legislation or rule operate across the country? Or is the operation of such an order confined only to the territorial jurisdiction of that High Court?Many readers asked this doubt in the wake of the Bombay High Court staying the operation of the enforcement of the Digital Media Code of Ethics under the IT...

Justice S. Muralidhar Seen As The Steve Jobs Of Indian Judiciary By Judges Across The Country: Justice V. Ramasubramanian

Underscoring Justice S. Muralidhar's (Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and former Judge of Delhi High Court) contributions towards initiating the process of e-filing in his courtroom, Supreme Court judge, Justice V. Ramasubramanian recently said that Judges across the country used to see Justice Muralidhar as Steve Jobs of the Indian Judiciary, for his contributions...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up, August 9 To August 15, 2021

JUDGMENTS THIS WEEK1. Improper To Quash FIR U/s 482 CrPC When There Are Serious Triable Allegations In Complaint, Reiterates Supreme CourtCase: Kaptan Singh vs State of Uttar Pradesh; CrA 787 OF 2021Citation: LL 2021 SC 379The Supreme Court observed that it is improper to quash criminal proceedings under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code when there are serious triable allegations in...

High Courts Weekly Roundup [August 9, 2021 To August 15, 2021]

Allahabad High Court Collusion In Bail Hearing Through Forged Vakalatnama : Allahabad High Court Deplores 'Downfall In Moral Values' Of Advocacy [Javed Ansari v. State of Uttar Pradesh] In a bail hearing before the Allahabad High Court, it was revealed that the advocates appearing on behalf of the accused and the complainant were acting in collusion, wherein the counsel for...

SC Stays Coercive Steps By NGT Against Municipal Commissioner Of Greater Mumbai Over Discharge Of Untreated Waste Into Water Bodies

The court considered the recourse to 'coercive steps' against the Commissioner not appropriate, particularly when the official is engaged in efforts to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in the city.