Franklin Templeton Moves Supreme Court Against Karnataka HC's Order Restraining Winding Up Of Schemes Sans Consent Of Investors

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund (FT) has moved the Supreme Court, challenging a Karnataka high court order according to which the decision to wind down six debt schemes required simple majority consent from unit investors.Franklin has stated that in May 2020, the trustees had sought a vote by unit investors for validly undertaking an orderly sale of the debt securities held in the funds and...

Centre Decides To Block 43 More Mobile Apps Citing Security Concerns

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday blocked 43 mobile apps, mostly Chinese, citing threat to security of state. The Ministry has decided to invoked powers under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public)...

Madras High Court Directs Chennai Police Commissioner To Investigate Cases Against Ex-Judge Karnan; DGP To Supervise

"The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry has rightly taken up the cause as the repeated utterances by the 1st accused, viz., Mr. C.S. Karnan, would undermine the dignity, reputation, honour and majesty of the Institution, for which the lawyers also form part," the Madras High Court observed on Monday while directing Police authorities to investigate uncharitable tirades of...

"Just Because They Are Law Students We Cannot Bypass Law": Karnataka High Court Dismisses Plea Against KSLU's Decision To Hold Semester Exam

Observing that "just because they are law students, from our fraternity, we cannot bypass the law on Public Interest Litigation (PIL)", the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by two Law Students, challenging the circular issued by Karnataka State Law University (KSLU) in so far as they impose an examination on the intermediate semester law students, for the...

Tej Bahadur Yadav Neither An Elector Nor A Candidate In Varanasi; No Locus To Challenge PM's Election: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by Ex- BSF Jawan, Tej Bahadur Yadav, challenging the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.The judgement was rendered in a Special Leave Petition challenging the Allahabad High Court's dismissal of Bahadur's election petition in December 2019 on the ground of lack of...

Right To Property Remains A Valuable Constitutional Right, Reiterates Supreme Court

"To permit the state: whether the Union or any state government to assert that it has an indefinite or overriding right to continue occupying one’s property (bereft of lawful sanction)– whatever be the pretext, is no less than condoning lawlessness."

Supreme Court Reserves Order In Plea To Install CCTVs In All Police Stations Across Country

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved orders in a matter pertaining to the installation of CCTVs in police stations across the country. A Bench comprising of Justices Rohinton F. Nariman, KM Joseph and Aniruddha Bose also directed Senior Advocate Siddhartha Dave, Amicus Curiae, to submit a comprehensive note by Friday on the questions regarding preservation of CCTV footage for more than...

'Why Section 124A?' : Bombay High Court Questions Invoking Offence Of Sedition Against Kangana Ranaut & Sister; Grants Interim Protection In Mumbai Police FIR

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel in the FIR registered by Mumbai police over alleged communal tweets.A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik granted the interim protection subject to the condition that Kangana and Rangoli should appear before the investigating officer at Bandra Police...

Bar Council Cannot Suspend Licence To Practice While Referring Complaint Against Lawyer To Disciplinary Committee: Punjab & Haryana HC

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a resolution passed by Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana suspending the licence of practice of a lawyer who allegedly posted derogatory comments in Facebook about the judiciary and lawyers.The Court held that the the provisions of the Advocates Act and the BCI Rules do not bestow power on the State Bar Council to suspend the licence to practice of...

Delhi High Court Gives Liberty To Sameet Thakkar & TV Today Network To Seek Clarification From Single Bench On Order To Take Down Tweets

A division bench of the Delhi High Court has given liberty to Sameet Thakkar and TV Today Network to approach the single bench seeking clarifications on whether the 29 sets of URLs taken down by Twitter are the tweets which are the subject matter of the proceedings in the defamation suit filed by TV Today Network against Thakkar.Accordingly, a division bench of Justices Hima Kohli and...

Arnab Goswami Vs Maharashtra Assembly: 'No Contempt, Letter Issued on Instructions From Speaker, It Cannot Be Withdrawn: Dushyant Dave Tells SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered the petition filed by Arnab Goswami, against the breach of privilege notice issued by the Maharashtra Assembly against him. On November 6, the Court had issued contempt notice upon Assistant Secretary of the Maha Legislative Assembly for sending an allegedly "intimidating" letter to Goswami & to show cause as to why contempt should not be issued...

'We Have To Respect Humanity' : Bombay High Court Asks If ED Summons To Anand Grover Can Be Deferred In Case Against Lawyers Collective

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Assistant Solicitor General appearing on behalf of the Enforcement Directorate to take instructions on whether the summons issued to Senior Advocate Anand Grover to appear before them on November 26 can be deferred.A division bench of Justice SS Shinde and Justice MS Karnik was hearing the writ petitions filed by 'Lawyers Collective' and...