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'IAS Officers Want To Show Supremacy Over IPS & Forest Service Officers': Supreme Court Judge
During the hearing of a forest protection matter, Justice BR Gavai of Supreme Court today took exception to a persisting conflict between Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers on one hand and the Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers on the other."In my experience as a government pleader for 3 yrs and a judge for 22 yrs, I can tell you IAS officers want...
Supreme Court Slams Punjab Govt For Disowning Undertaking Given By Addl Advocate General, Hauls Up Chief Secretary
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the State of Punjab for attempting to distance itself from an undertaking given by its Additional Advocate General in 2002 assuring the Court that the state will implement the Punjab Privately Managed Affiliated and Punjab Government Aided Colleges Pensionary Benefits Scheme, 1986. The state had claimed that the undertaking was by the officer and not by...
'Poor Homebuyers In NCR Taken To Ransom, Nexus Between Banks & Builders Must Be Investigated': Supreme Court Hints At CBI Probe
Expressing the view that certain real estate companies, and banks which sanctioned loans to them for their projects in the National Capital Region, had taken poor homebuyers to ransom, the Supreme Court yesterday hinted at directing a CBI probe into a builder-banks nexus.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh was considering grievances of homebuyers in the National Capital...
'AoRs Are Lifeline Of Justice Delivery System', Justice Surya Kant Highlights Art Of Persuasive Drafting At AoRs Felicitation Event
Speaking at the felicitation event organized by the Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association (SCAORA) for newly enrolled Advocates-On-Record (AoRs), Supreme Court Judge Justice Surya Kant emphasized the crucial role of Advocates-on-Record (AORs) in the legal system, calling them the "lifeline of the justice delivery system". Justice Surya Kant discussed the art of persuasive drafting in...
'No Reason Recorded' : Supreme Court Sets Aside BCI Order Dismissing Complaint Against Law Firm, Directs Reconsideration
The Supreme Court recently set aside an order passed by the Bar Council of India dismissing a revision petition filed by a litigant alleging professional misconduct by Advocates Alok Dhir and Maneesha Dhir, partners of law firm Dhir & Dhir Associates.A bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Manmohan noted that without recording "any reason at all", the BCI rejected the...
MNLU Mumbai, Nagpur & NALSA Sign MoU To Provide Law Students With Hands-On Legal Training And Governance Exposure
An Memorandum of Understanding has been entered into between Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, Maharashtra National Law University Nagpur and National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). Recognizing the mutual benefits of collaboration, MNLU Mumbai, Nagpur and NALSA enterd into the MoU to facilitate academic and research cooperation through an Internship Program on Legal...
Time Has Come To Think & Write About Misuse Of PILs : Justice BV Nagarathna
Justice BV Nagarathna, Judge of the Supreme Court, recently commented about the misuse of Public Interest Litigations (PILs) and said that the time has come to think and write about this issue."I think the time has now come for him to think and write about the misuse of PIL, a powerful legal weapon for ameliorating injustices, which owing though the actions of a few has been reduced to...
Supreme Court Wonders Why NCLAT Wrote Long Order On Delay Condonation Application Despite High Pendency
The Supreme Court recently expressed surprise that the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), despite having a high pendency of cases, devoted extensive time and effort to writing a 17-page order on a delay condonation application.A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan remarked that lengthy submissions and pleadings by members of the Bar often contribute to...
'Will Hold Chief Secretaries Personally Liable' : Supreme Court Warns States/UTs Which Haven't Formed Expert Committees To Identify Forest Areas
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 4) came down heavily on States/Union Territories for not complying with its earlier directions to constitute expert committees for the identification of forest areas.If the non-compliant States fail to constitute the Expert Committees within one month and carry out the exercise in terms of Rule 16(1) of Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Rules, 2023 within...
'Can't Be “Operation Successful-Patient Dead” Case' : Supreme Court Issues Notice To Telangana Speaker Over Delay In Plea To Disqualify BRS MLAs
In Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs' pleas against Telangana Assembly Speaker's delay in deciding disqualification petitions in respect of party MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress, the Supreme Court today questioned the impact of long pendency of disqualification petitions on democratic principles."Every matter can't be operation successful, patient dead...reasonable period (for...