Do Online Gaming Platforms Supply An 'Actionable Claim'? Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging 28% GST

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) issued notice and sought the centre's response on a batch of petitions filed by online gaming companies, including Dream 11, Games 24x7, and Head Digital Works, challenging the constitutional validity of imposition of 28% GST.Senior Advocate Harish Salve, representing the gaming companies, told a bench comprising the Chief Justice of India DY...

Supreme Court Arranges Counselling For Female Advocate Who Complained Of Sexual Harassment; Records Sent For Inquiry

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) directed that a counselling be arranged for the female advocate, who alleged sexual harassment by a male advocate. The counselling was directed to be arranged at the Supreme Court Mediation Centre. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, on being apprised that no counselling could take place as directed on the previous date,...

Rule Of Law Must Be Enforced Unmindful Of Consequences : Supreme Court Observes In Bilkis Bano Case

While setting aside the remission granted to the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, the Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) stressed that in protecting the rule of law, those concerned with it must remain unmindful and unruffled by the ripples of consequences. It also categorically stated that compassion and sympathy have no role to play where rule of law is required to be enforced.The...

Satyendar Jain's Bail Plea | No Predicate Offence Made Out, Company Assets Can't Be Attributed To Director, Shareholder: Singhvi To Supreme Court

In Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain's challenge to denial of bail by the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court today commenced hearing arguments on merits.The Bench comprising Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal was hearing Jain's petition challenging the denial of bail by the High Court in April last year. He was taken into custody on May 30, 2022, but came to be granted interim bail...

Narendra Dabholkar Murder : Supreme Court Dismisses Daughter's Challenge To Bombay High Court Ending Monitoring Of Probe

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) dismissed a plea challenging the discontinuation of the court-monitored probe into the 2013 murder of anti-superstition crusader Narendra Dabholkar.The Division Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Satish Chandra Sharma however left it open for petitioner-Mukta Dabholkar (daughter of Narendra Dabholkar) to provide any material related to the criminal cases...

Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With Acquittal Of Union Minister Ajay Mishra 'Teni' In 23-Year-Old Murder Case

The Supreme Court, today (on January 08), refused to interfere with the Allahabad High Court's order upholding the acquittal of Union Minister of State for Home, Ajay Mishra Teni, in the murder case of Prabhat Gupta. Gupta, a rising student leader, was killed in broad daylight in Lakhimpur Khiri district in the year 2000. In the instant case, four people, including Union Minister Teni,...

Bilkis Bano Case | Judgment Directing Gujarat Govt To Decide Remission Was Obtained By Fraud; It's Also Bad In Law : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8), while setting aside the premature release of eleven life convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, declared its May 2022 judgement - which directed the Gujarat Government to consider the remission applications of the convicts- as a nullity since the petitioner (one of the convicts) was found to have "played fraud" by suppressing material facts and...

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Plea Against Collegium System; Lawyer Cites Interview Of Justice Kaul On 'Faults' In System

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) agreed to constitute a bench to hear a plea raising concerns regarding the collegium system in place for the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court and Higher Judiciary.Advocate Mathews Nedumpara mentioned the petition, which seeks to abolish the collegium system, before Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud for urgent listing. The lawyer said that...

Telangana State Appoints Youngest & First Minority Additional Advocates General (AAG)

Telangana has appointed two new Additional Advocates General. ("AAG")Advocate Tera Rajinikanth Reddy has been appointed as 2nd AAG after the creation of State of Telangana. His G.O. for appointment as AAG was issued on 14.12.2023 and he assumed charge on 18.12.2023. Advocate Reddy hails from a rural background and is a first-generation advocate. He completed his LLB in Sultan ul Ulloom...

Bilkis Bano Case | Gujarat Govt 'Acted In Tandem' With Convict, Breached Rule Of Law, Usurped Power : Supreme Court

While setting aside the remission of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, the Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) slammed the Gujarat government for acting in tandem with the convict who had moved the top court seeking a direction for the consideration of his premature release application. In response to the convicts writ petition, the court had in May 2022 held the State of Gujarat to be...

Supreme Court Stays HC Direction To ECI To Hold Bye-Election For Pune Lok Sabha Seat

The Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) stayed the direction issued by the Bombay High Court to the Election Commission of India to hold bye-election for the Pune Lok Sabha seat, which has been vacant since the death of MP Girish Bapat on March 29, 2023.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra passed the interim order while issuing notice...

Supreme Court Sets Aside Remission Of 11 Convicts In Bilkis Bano Case; Asks Them To Surrender In Prison

In a highly anticipated judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday (January 8) set aside the remission of 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple murders and gang rapes, including that of Bilkis Bano, during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat.The court held that the State of Gujarat was not the "appropriate government" to decide the issue of remission as the trial was held in the...