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Supreme Court Appoints Senior Advocate Maninder Singh, Advocate Rajesh Batra As Special Public Prosecutors In ED Cases On Coal Block Scam
The Supreme Court has appointed former Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh and advocate Rajesh Batra as special public prosecutors (SPPs) for trial of multi-crore coal scam cases filed by Enforcement Directorate.The order was passed by the Court after Senior advocate R S Cheema, who was appointed SPP in 2014 by the top court, sought permission to be relieved of the responsibility...
'Amend Section 138 NI Act To Allow One Trial For Multiple Cases From Single Transaction' : Supreme Court Issues Directions For Expeditious Trial Of Cheque Cases
A constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Friday issued a set of directions to expedite the trial of cheque dishonour cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act.The directions are as follows :The High Courts are requested to issue practice directions to the Magistrates to record reasons before converting trial of complaints under Section 138 of the ...
Functional Convenience Of A Party In Commercial Litigations Cannot Be A Ground To Transfer Case U/s 25 CPC: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that functional convenience of one of the parties in commercial litigations cannot be a ground to transfer under Section 25 of Code of Civil Procedure.A petitioner seeking transfer of a case involving business-related disputes from one jurisdiction to another will have to establish some grave difficulty or prejudice in prosecuting or defending the case in a...
BREAKING : Kerala High Court Quashes Kerala Police FIRs Against Enforcement Directorate
The Kerala High Court on Friday quashed the two FIRs registered by the Kerala Police Crime Branch against "unnamed officials" of the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly coercing the accused in the gold smuggling case to give false incriminating statements implicate Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and other state functionaries.In a judgment pronounced on Friday, the High Court held that the...
Manipur High Court Declares Election Of Congress Leader As Member Of State Assembly Null And Void For Non Disclosure Of Information In Election Affidavit
The Manipur High Court on Thursday declared as null and void the election of Congress leader Okram Henry Singh as a member of State Assembly (Wangkhei Assembly Constituency) in 11th Manipur Legislative Assembly after observing that failure to disclose name of the spouse and his dependents, details of pending criminal cases and educational qualification would constitute a corrupt practice...
"Parties Are Happily Married; FIR Lodged Due To Miscommunication" : Supreme Court Quashes Rape Case
The Supreme Court quashed a rape case accepting joint request of the accused and the complainant who stated that they are happily married.All steps taken on the basis of impugned FIR be treated as effaced from the record in law, the bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari observed while allowing the writ petition filed by the accused.In this case, the FIR was lodged...
Karnataka High Court Seeks State Response On Prison Conditions
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the state government to file a detailed response in regards to the conditions of prisons in the state. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj summarised the issues on which the state will have to respond by May 29. The issues are as follows. Hygiene of prisoners. The court noted hygiene...
Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman To Speak Today On "Great Women of History" At 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture
Justice RF Nariman of the Supreme Court of India will be speaking on the theme "Great Women of History" on the occasion of the 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture today at 5. 30 PM.The event will be live-streamed here. About Justice Sunanda Bhandare Born on November 1, 1942, the year of the quit India movement, Sunanda was freedom's child. Later, much later, she...
Plea In Bombay High Court Seeks Direction To Use Lockdown Fines to Provide Sanitizer Dispensers Inside Buses, at Railways Stations
A local NGO has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court seeking directions to the BMC and State to provide sanitiser dispensing machines in public places like railway stations, bus stands and slums by using the funds collected for violating lockdown norms. The petition also cites sanitization measures undertaken by other cities. The civic bodies of...