Madrasas Unsuitable For Proper Education, Have Arbitrary Mode Of Working : NCPCR Tells Supreme Court

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has filed written submissions in the Supreme Court expressing concerns about the quality of education imparted through Madrasas.The NCPCR filed its statement in the case challenging the Allahabad High Court's decision striking down the 'Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004'. In April, the Supreme Court had stayed the...

Rejection Of Remission Must Be Immediately Conveyed To Prisoners To Enable Them To Seek Legal Aid : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on September 10 heard the suo moto plea instituted to issue a comprehensive policy strategy for the grant of bail to prisoners. The Court while taking notice of the list of States that were asked for compliance reports, issued further directions for States that are yet to comply with the orders. It also noted that the rejection of the remission application must be...

Supreme Court Criticises P&H High Court & Punjab Govt For Not Reinstating Judicial Officer Whose Dismissal Was Set Aside By SC

The Supreme Court recently expressed disapproval of the refusal of the Punjab & Haryana High Court and the State of Punjab to reinstate a judicial officer whose dismissal from service was set aside by the Supreme Court in 2022.In 2022, the Supreme Court had set aside the order passed by the Punjab Government in 2009 (based on a recommendation of the Full Court of the P&H HC)...

Chhattisgarh High Court CJ Ramesh Sinha Launches RTI Online Web Portal Dedicated To HC, District Judiciary

In a significant stride towards increased transparency and accountability, Justice Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice of the High Court of Chhattisgarh launched the RTI Online Web Portal dedicated to the Right to Information (RTI) for the High Court of Chhattisgarh and District Judiciary of the state. The web portal was launched last week to mark a new era in citizen empowerment through...

Judgment On Govt Employees' Entitlement To Increment Earned A Day Before Retirement : Supreme Court Clarifies Date Of Application

The Supreme Court has passed an interim order making certain important clarifications regarding the application of its judgment in the case The Director (Admn and HR) KPTCL & Others vs CP Mundinamani and others which held that government employees are entitled to the increment which they earned on the previous day of their retirement.The judgment was delivered by two-judge bench on April...

Surrogate Mothers Likely To Be Paid Anyway, Better To Have A System To Regulate : Supreme Court In Challenge To Ban On Commercial Surrogacy

While hearing the pleas challenging certain surrogacy laws, the Supreme Court today emphasized the need to safeguard the interests of surrogate mothers, even though commercial surrogacy is prohibited in India.A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a batch of petitions pertaining to the Surrogacy Regulation Act and the Assisted Reproductive...

Kerala Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Former State Committee President Of Indian Lawyers' Congress In Rape Case

The Ernakulam Sessions Court has granted anticipatory bail to Advocate V. S. Chandrasekharan in a rape case. The order was passed by the Court on the 10th of September. Chandrasekharan is the former State President of the Indian Lawyers Congress in Kerala and former Chairman of the legal aid committee of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). He had resigned from these posts after the...

Supreme Court Dismisses Ex-Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini's Plea To Quash FIR In Multani Murder Case

The Supreme Court today (September 10) dismissed a special leave petition filed by former Director General of Police, Punjab, Sumeth Singh Saini challenging the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash an F.I.R. lodged against him in the Multani murder case. In 1991, during the Punjab militancy, one Balwant Singh Multani (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased')...

WB Aparajita Women & Child Bill And Governor's Reference To President : Explained

On September 6, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose reserved the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the President of India Droupadi Murmu for consideration.Before referring the Bill to the President, the State government reportedly sought a technical report. Per Raj Bhavan's statement on X (formerly Twitter), the “Governor has pointed out...

Supreme Court Stays HC Order On 'One Day Elections' & 'One Member One Post' Rule For Bar Associations In Delhi

Update on Sep 12 - Supreme Court Clarifies Stay Order, Says HC's 'One Member, One Post' Direction StayedThe Supreme Court on September 9 stayed the order of the Delhi High Court which held that elections to the Executive Committee of all bar associations in the national capital shall be held simultaneously on the same day for a uniform period of two years.The High Court direction that no...

Companies Act | When Can Courts Exercise Power Of Rectification Of Register Of Members? Supreme Court Explains

The Supreme Court in a recent judgment held that Company Law Tribunals can exercise powers of rectification of the register of members under Companies Act 2013 if the applicant was a victim of an 'open-and-shut' case of fraud by his opponents.The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar also explained the concept of 'rectification' and held that company courts should carefully...

Don't Accept Black & White Photographs Without Permission Of Court : Supreme Court Directs Registry

The Supreme Court has directed the Registry to not accept black and white photographs produced by parties without the permission of the Court."We are observing for a fairly long time that parties take full liberty in placing on record black and white photocopies of photographs, mostly which are blurred. The Registry is directed not to entertain hitherto any black and white photographs...