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Supreme Court Sets Aside Judgment Allowing Jharkhand Residents Who Cleared CTET/TET From Neighboring States To Apply For 2023 Teacher Recruitment
The Supreme Court set aside a 2023 judgment of the Jharkhand High Court permitting Jharkhand residents who had cleared the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) or Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) from neighbouring states to participate in the recruitment process for Assistant Teacher positions in Jharkhand.A bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Rajesh Bindal pronounced the judgment....
NBDSA Directs News18 Rajasthan To Take Down Broadcast Where Its Guest Panelist Linked Tirupati Laddu Adulteration To Congress Party
The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has directed TV news channel News 18 Rajasthan to remove within seven days from all its platforms the broadcast footage where a guest panelist had linked the alleged adulteration of Tirupati Laddu to the Congress party. The body in its order noted that the overall tone of the broadcast seemed to be less about seeking accountability...
Default Bail Under BNSS: Sixty Days or Ninety Days -- The Confusion Continues
Article 21 of the Constitution of India declares that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. The right to default bail is part of the procedure established by law under Article 21 of the Constitution. It is, therefore, not merely a statutory right but a fundamental right granted to an accused person.1Clause (a) of the first proviso to Section 167(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short 'the Code'), which...
Malankara-Jacobite Dispute : Supreme Court Sets Aside HC Direction To Hand Over Churches, Says 'Police Going Inside Religious Places Bothers Us'
The Supreme Court on Thursday (January 30) set aside the directions of the Kerala High Court which directed the State authorities to take over the possession of six churches from the Jacobite faction and hand them over to the Malankara Orthodox faction.A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice N Kotiswar Singh asked the division bench of the High Court to take a fresh decision on...
Can Property Of Person Accused Under Prevention Of Corruption Act Be Seized Or Frozen U/S 102 CrPC? Supreme Court To Decide
In the backdrop of divergent High Court views on the point, the Supreme Court is set to decide the issue as to whether Section 102 CrPC, which deals with police officer's power to seize certain property, shall apply to a criminal case registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act."The petitioner has raised an interesting issue with regard to the exercise of the power by the...
'Tanneries Caused Irreversible Damage' : Supreme Court Passes Directions On Pollution In TN's Vellore, Asks Polluters To Compensate
The Supreme Court on Thursday (January 30) issued a set of directions to mitigate the pollution caused by the enormous discharge of untreated effluents by tanneries into the Palar River in Vellore District(Tamil Nadu).Notable among them are the directions to pay compensation to the affected families, to recover the compensation from the polluting industries as per the "polluter pays"...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-up: January 20, 2025 To January 26, 2025
Nominal IndexCitationsBalbir Singh & Anr Etc v. Baldev Singh (D) Through His Lrs & Ors. Etc 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 82Musheer Alam v. State of Uttar Pradesh 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 83Bharat Aambale v. State of Chhattisgarh 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 84Bhupinderpal Singh Gill v. State of Punjab and Others., Civil Appeal No.183 of 2025 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 85Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. v. Commissioner...
Why 2-Judge Benches Hear Bail Applications? Supreme Court Questions Calcutta High Court Practice, Seeks Report
The Supreme Court recently questioned the practice of the Calcutta High Court hearing regular and anticipatory bail applications before Division Benches instead of Single Judges, as is the norm in other High Courts.“When there is a huge filing and pendency of the bail applications, we wonder why regular bail applications and anticipatory bail applications are being heard by the Division...
Supreme Court Bans Manual Scavenging & Manual Sewer Cleaning In Six Metropolitan Cities
The Supreme Court today(January 29) passed directions banning manual scavenging and manual sewer cleaning in six metropolitan cities in a writ petition seeking the eradication of manual scavenging in India.In its order, it stated that in the comprehensive affidavit filed by the Union, there is "no clarity" on the eradication of manual scavenging and sewer cleaning. "We hereby intend to stop...
'Before Us For Political Mileage?' : Supreme Court To BJP MLA Challenging Karnataka Govt's Withdrawal Of CBI Consent To Probe DK Shivakumar
Justice Surya Kant of the Supreme Court questioned today the political motives of BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal behind assailing withdrawal of consent accorded by Karnataka government for CBI to prosecute Congress leader and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets case."Why you are, for political mileage, before the Supreme Court? Go there in political field and contest...
Delhi Riots: Court Grants Custody Parole To AIMIM Candidate Shifa Ur Rehman To Contest Assembly Elections
A Delhi Court on Wednesday granted custody parole to Shifa-ur-Rehman, accused in the UAPA case connected to the 2020 North East Delhi riots, for contesting the upcoming Delhi Legislative Assembly polls. Rehman is a candidate of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party and is contesting from Okhla constituency. Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts directed...