Supreme Court To Hear Curative Petition Against Judgment That Arbitration Clause In Insufficiently Stamped Agreement Cannot Be Acted Upon

The Supreme Court recently listed a curative petition against its 2020 ruling that had held that an arbitration clause in an insufficiently stamped agreement cannot be acted upon by court, for open court hearing on 24th August 2023. A bench comprising of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice B R Gavai and Justice Surya Kant issued notice in...

Kerala Court Orders Conditional Attachment Of Police Sub-Inspector's Property For Prima Facie Custodial Torture Of Kollam Lawyer

A Kerala Court has ordered conditional attachment of a Police Sub-Inspector's property for prima facie custodial torture of a Kollam based lawyer.Sub Judge Santhosh Das at Karunagapally has also asked the officer to either furnish security of ₹25,00,000 or show cause why he shall not furnish the security, by October 19.Advocate Jayakumar had filed a suit seeking damages from the Station...

Supreme Court Judge Justice PK Mishra Recuses From Hearing Umar Khalid's Bail Plea In Delhi Riots Larger Conspiracy Case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of the bail application of former JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid in Delhi riots larger conspiracy case after Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra recused.The matter was listed before a bench comprising Justices AS Bopanna and Prashant Kumar Mishra. As soon as the matter was taken, Justice Bopanna said, "This will come before some other...

Article 370 Case : Live Updates From Supreme Court [Day 4]

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court will continue its hearing today in the petitions challenging the decision of the Central Government to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by diluting Article 370 of the Constitution.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice BR Gavai and Justice Surya Kant will hear...

Kuno Cheetah Deaths| Supreme Court Requests Centre To Take Into Consideration Suggestions Of Expert Committee In 'Right Earnest'

The Supreme Court on Monday closed the plea regarding the deaths of Cheetahs translocated to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park from the African continent, taking on record the submission of the Centre that all the members on the Consulting Panel of Cheetah Project Steering Committee are being consulted to carry on the project in a proper manner and to ensure further deaths are...

Gyanvapi | Restrain Media From Publishing 'False News' About ASI Survey: Mosque Committee's Application In Varanasi Court

An application has been filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee, which manages the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, in the District Court to restrain the electronic and print media from publishing 'false news' about the ongoing ASI Survey of the Gyanvapi premises. The application has been moved in the pending Shringar Gauri Worshipping suit of 2022 filed by 4 Hindu Women Worshippers...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: July 31 To 6 August

Judgment/OrdersUAPA - 'Watali' Precedent Won't Apply If Evidence Is Of Low Probative Value On Surface Level Analysis: Supreme CourtCase title: Vernon v. State of MaharashtraCitation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 575The Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to Bhima Koregaon-accused and activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira appears to have carved out a crucial exception in an otherwise...

Chattisgarh Liquor Scam : Supreme Court Asks UP Police To Not Take Coercive Steps On FIR Against Officials

The Supreme Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh Police to not take any coercive action in the FIR registered against Chhattisgarh government officials, including Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Anil Tuteja, over alleged making of duplicate holograms in connection with the liquor scam case. The Court has however not restrained the UP Police from investigating the matter.A...

Jammu & Kashmir Case | Constitution Does Not Allow Changing Whole State Into Union Territory : Sibal Tells Supreme Court [Day 3]

Arguing before the Supreme Court Constitution bench, which is hearing the batch of petitions challenging the dilution of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on Tuesday questioned the constitutionality of converting the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into a Union Territory (UT). Sibal is representing National Conference MP Mohammed Akbar Lone who...

Bilkis Bano Case : Supreme Court Asks How Convict's Earlier Writ Petition Could Have Been Admitted By Court

While hearing the Bilkis Bano case on Tuesday, the Supreme Court questioned the maintainability of the writ petition filed by one of the convicts in 2022, in which the Court had passed an order allowing the State of Gujarat to decide on the premature release of the life-convicts.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing a clutch of pleas against the decision of the...

Article 370 Case | No Question Of Referendum In Our Constitution, Says Supreme Court When Petitioner Cited Brexit-Referendum [Day 3]

Today, the Supreme Court resumed its hearings in the batch of petitions challenging the dilution of Article 370 of the Constitution of India which stripped the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) of its special status. The Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant heard arguments raised...

Gujarat Court Rejects Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's Plea For Interim Stay On Proceedings In PM Modi Degree Defamation Case

An Ahmedabad Court has rejected a plea filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh for an interim stay on proceedings in a criminal defamation complaint filed by Gujarat University for their (Kejriwal & Singh) alleged derogatory statements made in connection with the controversy regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree....