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Litigant Whose Land Was Illegally Occupied By State 60 Yrs Ago Gets Relief From Supreme Court
Pursuant to the intervention of the Supreme Court, a litigant whose land was illegally occupied by Maharashtra authorities 60 years ago got relief today in the form of alternate land.The matter was before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan, which directed the state authorities to deliver peaceful and vacant possession of the alternate land (agreed to be accepted by the...
Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association Requests Change In Supreme Court's Winter Vacation Schedule
The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association has requested the Supreme Court to revise the winter vacation schedule as starting from December 24, 2024, to January 13, 2025.The present schedule is from December 23 to January 1.The letter written by Mr. Nikhil Jain (Hony. Secretary of the Association) to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court, stated that with climate change, the...
Supreme Court Stays Allahabad HC Direction To UP Govt To Prepare Fresh List Of Candidates To Fill 69K Assistant Teachers Vacancies
The Supreme Court today (September 9) stayed the order of the Allahabad High Court directing the redrawing of recruitment list of candidates to fill up 69,000 vacancies to the post of Assistant Teacher in Uttar Pradesh. The bench of CJI DY Chandrachud comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra while issuing notice in the matter, directed a stay on the decision of the Allahabad High...
Supreme Court Imposes Cost Of Rs. 10k On Petitioner For Seeking Remission By Suppressing Facts & Giving False Information
The Supreme Court today (September 9) dismissed a special leave petition and imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on a petitioner for seeking remission by suppressing facts. A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Augustine George Masih told the advocate that false statements have been pleaded in this case. The accused in this case sought remission against his conviction for offences punishable...
Savukku Shankar Not Kept In Solitary Confinement: Tamil Nadu Govt Tells Supreme Court
The Tamil Nadu Government on Monday (September 9) told the Supreme Court that YouTuber Savukku Shankar was not kept in solitary confinement.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by Shankar's mother Kamala challenging his detention under the Tamil Nadu 'Goondas' Act 1982.The bench posted the...
Supreme Court Accepts Maharashtra IAS Officer's Apology For Affidavit Suggesting That Court Wasn't Following Law
The Supreme Court today discharged the contempt notice issued to Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue and Forest Department), Maharashtra government, taking exception to certain statements in an affidavit filed by him which suggested that the Court was not following the law.On being apprised that the affidavit in question was finalized by various persons, a bench of Justices BR Gavai and...
'Lower Your Pitch, Are You Trying To Address The Gallery Outside The Court?' : CJI Pulls Up Lawyer During RG Kar Case Hearing
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday (September 9) pulled up a lawyer for making submissions in an aggressive tone during the hearing of the suo motu case over the rape and murder of RG Kar hospital doctor at Kolkata.The CJI did not appreciate the conduct of the lawyer, Advocate Koustav Bagchi and asked him to lower his pitch.The exchange happened shortly after the bench...
'Lawyers Have Such Unity That You People Can't Be Touched, Won't Permit This To Go On' : Supreme Court In 'Fake' SLP Case; Reserves Orders
The Supreme Court today reserved orders in a case where the petitioner denied filing any Special Leave Petition and claimed ignorance of advocates who represented him.Notably, the order impugned in the SLP had put an end to criminal proceedings against the only witness in the 2002 Nitish Katara Murder case. However, as informed by respondents during court proceedings, the SLP was filed in...
Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Acquittal Of Ram Rahim Singh In 2002 Murder Case Of Manager Ranjit Singh
The Supreme Court today (September 9) issued notice in a plea challenging the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitting self-styled Godman and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI court in the 2002 murder of manager Ranjit Singh.A bench of Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma was hearing a challenge...
RG Kar Case| 'If This Document Is Missing, Something Is Amiss' : Supreme Court Asks West Bengal Police To Produce Postmortem 'Challan'
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 9), while hearing the Suo Motu case taken on the rape and murder of a doctor of the RG Kar Medical College Hospital at Kolkata, asked the State of West Bengal to produce the challan which was sent along with the dead body for post-mortem. The challan would have entries regarding the articles and materials sent along with the body for autopsy, the...
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Stop India's Military Exports To Israel Amidst Gaza Conflict
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 9) dismissed a petition seeking the suspension of military exports from India to Israel amidst the ongoing war against Gaza.The Court said that it was beyond its jurisdiction to direct the Government of India to not export materials to any country, as it was a matter which was completely within the domain of foreign policy.The bench comprising Chief...
RG Kar Case | 'Protest Can't Be At Cost Of Duty' : Supreme Court Asks Doctors In West Bengal To Return To Work
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 9) directed the doctors in the State of West Bengal, who are abstaining from duties as part of protests over the rape-murder at the RG Kar Medical College Hospital, to immediately return to work. If they return to work by 5 PM tomorrow, no adverse action be taken against them, the Court directed.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, for the State of West...