Common People Shouldn't Be Frightened By Complex Court Procedures, No Place For Fear In Independent India: President Droupadi Murmu

The President of India Droupadi Murmu said that there is no place of fear in independent India and the system must ensure that common people are not scared of approaching Court and resorting to Court procedures.The President was speaking at Bhubaneswar on Thursday where she inaugurated the new Judicial Court Complex for the judgeship of Khordha district. The event was attended by Raghubar...

Supreme Court Asks Chief Secretaries Of States/UTs To Designate Senior Officer To Supervise Compliance With RPwD Act

In a PIL seeking implementation of the provisions of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court recently called on non-compliant states/Union Territories to file by February, 2025 their response/affidavits on further steps taken to comply with the provisions of the Act. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti further asked Chief Secretary of each state/UT to designate...

Great Travesty Of Justice That Secularism Wasn't Given Its Due By Supreme Court In Babri Masjid Dispute: Justice RF Nariman

Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice RF Nariman expressed that the judgements that the Supreme Court delivered over the years relating to the Babri Masjid Dispute did not do justice to the principle of secularism, especially the 2019 Verdict which conclusively decided the issue by allowing the construction of the temple at the site where the mosque was demolished."In my opinion, a great...

Parliament Clears Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak To Replace Aircraft Act Of 1934

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday (December 05) passed the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak 2024, which replaces the Aircraft Act, 1934. The Lok Sabha had passed the bill on August 09 2024. The Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak (BVV) retains most provisions of the Aircraft Act. BVV aims to regulate and control the design, manufacture, maintenance, possession, use, operation, sale, export and import of aircraft...

Suits Against Mosques & Dargahs Creating Communal Disharmony, Places Of Worship Must Be Applied : Justice Nariman

Former Supreme Court judge Justice RF Nariman on Thursday (December 5) stressed the importance of enforcing the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991 to counter the various suits which are being filed against mosques and dargahs in the country, creating communal tension and disharmony.Justice Nariman expressed concerns at various such suits popping up like "hydra-heads" in...

Supreme Court Grants Relief To Disabled Candidates For AIBE; Express Surprise At NLU Consortium Having No Policy For CLAT

After the Supreme Court last week allowed a 100 percent blind law student to avail the assistance of a scribe, as appointed by the Consortium of the National Law Universities, to appear for the Common Law Entrance Test (CLAT)- Postgraduate exam 2024-25, the Court today granted relief to the other two petitioners seeking the use of computers to write answers and soft copies of Bare Acts for...

Documents Filed In Court Must Be Accessible To Persons With Disabilities : Lawyer Flags Issue Before Supreme Court

While hearing the matter on the accessibility of computers and soft copies of bare acts for students with benchmark disability to appear for the upcoming All India Bar Examination (AIBE) on December 22, Advocate Rahul Bajaj informed the Court that the format in which the Union Government filed its counter on the suggestions is not in an accessible format. Bajaj, appearing for the...

SCAORA Urges CJI Sanjiv Khanna To Issue Revised Guidelines For Circulation Of Adjournment Letters

The Supreme Court Advocates On Record Association (SCAORA) today (December 5) wrote to CJI Sanjiv Khanna, requesting to formulate revised guidelines for circulation of adjournment letters by the AoRs. In the letter, the Hony. Secretary of SCAORA, Nikhil Jain has urged the CJI to issue revised guidelines for circulating adjournment letters in the Court. The SCAORA stressed that the...

Delhi Air Pollution | Supreme Court Directs NCR States To Urge Workers' Unions To Register In Portal To Receive Allowance During Construction Ban

The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 5) directed the NCR states - Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana- to convene a meeting with all workers' Unions and appeal to them to get the workers registered in the online portal so that they become eligible to receive the subsistence allowance paid during the period when they remain unemployed due to the ban on construction activities.Due to...

Delhi Air Pollution : Supreme Court Allows GRAP-IV Restrictions To Be Relaxed Upto GRAP-II

The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 5) allowed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to reduce the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage-IV restrictions in Delhi to GRAP-Stage II in view of the betterment in the Air Quality Index (AQI). The Court advised the CAQM to also consider adding certain measures under GRAP-Stage III. If the AQI crosses 350, GRAP-III should be imposed...

Supreme Court Sets Aside Manipur HC's Direction To CBI To Trace Absconding Rape Convict Within 3 Months

The Supreme Court today (December 5) set aside suo moto directions passed by the Manipur High Court in October 2023 directing the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) to speedily track and produce Timothi Changsang, a Northeast child-home Administrator convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, for raping minor girls within 3 months before the High Court.The...

Medical Negligence : Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal Of Doctor Held Liable For Surgery On Wrong Leg

The Supreme Court on December 2 dismissed an appeal filed by a doctor challenging an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission holding him liable for medical negligence for conducting the surgery on the wrong foot of a patient.A bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Manoj Misra dismissed an appeal filed by Dr Rahul Kakran, who worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the...