Supreme Court orders CMC Ludhiana to pay PG Student Rs. 5 lacs as compensation [Read the Judgment]

After being denied admission into the course of her choice, the Supreme Court today ordered that depriving the student of the opportunity to opt for the available NRI seat was unjustified, and ordered CMC Ludhiana to pay the student Rs. 5 lacs as compensation.The petition before the apex Court was filed by a student who wanted to shift her PG course from M.D. Pathology to M.D. General Medicine...

India's second child witness court room inaugurated

Two long years after the first of its kind child witness court room (CWCR) was inaugurated at the Karkardooma Court Complex in Delhi, the second was inaugurated at the Saket court complex on Wednesday.The courtroom is designed in a manner that it will help the child witness depose freely. It has often been observed that children are important witnesses in many cases, including some...

India's first non-European law lecturer at Cambridge

Cambridge gets its first non-European lecturer as Mumbai-born Antara Haldar as a lecturer of law at the University of Cambridge. 28-year-old Antara is also among the youngest, and the only Indian, to get the tenured position in the top-ranking law faculty reported the TOI. Antara was in Mumbai recently before beginning her tenure in the UK and now she is all set to study the Gujarat...

Supreme Court allows Italian Marine to return home

The Supreme Court of India has allowed one of the two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 to return home on medical grounds.Massimiliano Latorre, who was recently released from a hospital in Delhi after treatment for an ailment, has been allowed to go home for four months.But SC made the relief conditional on the accused and the Italian government giving a...

Supreme Court extends stay on Surinder Koli’s execution till 29 October

Agreeing to hear his review petition for reconsidering the death penalty, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of Surinder Koli, convicted for Nithari Killings.The execution has been stayed till October 29 as the Court will be taking up the matter in open court on October 28. The 3 judge Bench headed by Justice H.L.Dattu has also said that Surinder Koli’s lawyer will have a maximum of...

Supreme Court announces National Lok Adalat on December 6

The Supreme Court of India came up with a notice declaring that National Lok Adalat in the Supreme Court will be organized on Saturday, the 6th December, 2014.Through the notice, the Supreme Court has asked the advocates/parties-in person to send their consent for placing the matter before the Lok Adalat along with a copy of Memo of Parties indicating their complete address of the parties to...

Delhi HC declares E-Rickshaws illegal, ban to continue

"What is prohibited under the law cannot be permitted", pronounced the Delhi High Court. The Bench of Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul upheld the ban on e-rickshaws, and said the Court cannot issue a writ of mandamus to legalise what is illegal as per the existing law.The Court held that the plying of e-rickshaws is illegal as per current laws and that the ban will continue...

SC orders permanent absorption of ED Deputy Director

“The Central government shall confirm the permanent absorption of Rajeshwar Singh as Deputy Director within three days from today,” the Supreme Court said today.The Bench headed by Justice Dattu criticized the Centre for not complying with the orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), issued on December 24 last year, to absorb Singh on permanent basis with the...

Madras High Court suggests Centralized record room and paperless Courts for speedy justice

Justice S. Vimala of the Madras High Court today slammed a subordinate Court for adjourning a five-year-old civil case 89 times with a simple remark, 'awaiting records', every time, reportedly remarked, "The direction "calling for records" could have been complied with within 10 minutes, but it had not been implemented and the appeal is pending for nearly 5 to 6 years, only for want of...

Gopal Subramanium withdraws resignation

Withdrawing his letter to the Supreme Court in which he had opted out as amicus curiae in the Padmanabha Swamy temple case, Gopal Subramaniam has now said that he would continue as amicus curiae in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple case.Mr. Subramanium has started working already and left for Thiruvananthapuram to inspect the temple premises and prepare an additional report on the administration...

Supreme Court tells Salman Khan that law is equal for all

While Salman Khan opposed the stand taken by Rajasthan Government that the high court had granted special privileges to him by staying his conviction in which he was sentenced by a trial court to undergo five-year jail term, in the Blackbuck case before the Supreme Court, the Court observed that “You may have good case for suspension of sentence but not for conviction,”The bench comprising...

Delhi HC defers PIL on appointment of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha to October 15‏

A Delhi High Court bench headed by Chief Justice G. Rohini, on Wednesday, deferred the hearing on a PIL demanding direction to the Speaker to appoint Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. The PIL was deferred till October 15 as the High Court took note of the fact that the Supreme Court is already hearing the matter. A similar plea will be heard by the apex Court on 9th September.The...