SCVMS, New Visitor Management System at Supreme Court

Supreme Court has launched new Visitor Management System; SCVMS a web based Visitor Management System.New system facilitates online registration of requests for Entry Pass for Litigants and others visiting Supreme Court of India.It provides for a two-step verification in which the visit details including registration number, date of visit and approval status are communicated to the...

Corporates will not be allowed to withdraw open offers even if it becomes economically unviable; SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has delivered the important judgment in Civil Appeal No. 6041 of 2013 in Securities and Exchange Board of India vs. M/s. Akshya Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd., settling the position regarding India Inc's responsibility to open offers. A Supreme Court Bench of Justices SS Nijjar and AK Sikri while dealing with the fundamental issue that whether an open offer voluntarily made through...

Australian Arbitrator appointed by Supreme Court for Reliance-Government dispute

Supreme Court has appointed former judge of the High Court of Australia, Michael Hudson McHugh, as the third Arbitrator to head the board of arbitrators to solve the KG Basin dispute and allowed RIL's plea for appointing an international Arbitrator so as to remove any bias.The Court had earlier withdrawn its order appointing Australian judge James Spigelman as an Arbitrator between RIL and...

Supreme Court is to pass an order to stop mining in Odisha.

Supreme Court has made it clear that it will pass an interim order on a plea for stopping illegal mining activities in Odisha and the priority before it would be to halt 40 out of 56 iron ore mines operating in the area. Green bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik observed that it will pass an interim ban on 40 iron ore mine leases  which are identified by Supreme Court-appointed...

Cannot pass judicial order to prohibit kith and kin of sitting judges from practicing in same court: Supreme Court

A Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha and comprising of Justices M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph refused to entertain a PIL seeking to prohibit the kith and kin of sitting judges of the apex court and High Courts from practicing in the same courts. While dismissing the petition, filed by Advocate M L Sharma, the Bench said it couldn’t pass a judicial order on the plea seeking...

Pardoning Power of the President Should Not Be Questioned: Centre to SC

Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that Courts should not inquire into a decision of the President’s Pardoning Power, saying that it is beyond the light of any question.In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court Centre said that the power to grant clemency is an attribute of sovereignty and Court ought not to inquire into the merits of the exercise of the prerogative.Affidavit was filed...

Supreme Court issues notice on Vineet Narain’s PIL on appointment of CBI additional director

On a Petition filed by journalist and anti-corruption activist Vineet Narain who challenged the appointment of woman IPS officer Archana Ramasundram as additional director of the CBI, saying it ignored the recommendation of the selection committee, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph issued notice to the Centre and others. According...

Stay lifted by the Supreme Court in the disproportionate assets case against Jayalalithaa

The Supreme Court yesterday vacated its stay on the 18- year-old disproportionate asserts case regarding Rs. 66.65 crore accumulated during her tenure as the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister between 1991 and 1996.The Supreme Court was approached by the Special Public Prosecutor, after his plea being dismissed by the Karnataka High Court against the trial court’s order which imposed a penalty of...

K P Indira takes over as administrator of Padmanabhaswamy temple

The Additional Sessions judge, Thiruvananthapuram, K P Indira, has taken over as the head of the administration of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple as directed by the Supreme Court.The Court issued an interim order on Thursday directing the temple administration and the state government that the administration of the temple be handed over to an independent panel headed by sitting District...

SARFAESI Amendment 2004 Unconstitutional: Gujarat HC

The Gujarat High Court delivered an important judgment, wherein it held unconstitutional an amendment in securitization laws and restored the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the watchdog of banks and non-banking financial institutes across the country as far as their non-performing assets (NPA) period was concerned. A division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattachrya and Justice J B...

Supreme Court Directions in Padmanabha Swamy Temple Case [Read the Order]

Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice A.K. Patnaik issued directions against the alleged mismanagement of Kerala's famous Sree Padmanabha swamy temple. The directions are as follows;1. Mr. K.N. Satheesh, IAS, Director, Higher Secondary Education, Government of Kerala is, for the time being, appointed as the Executive Officer of the Temple until further orders.2. By...

No immediate decision on Lokpal: Centre

Centre today told the Supreme Court that it is not going to take any immediate decision on the appointment of Chairperson and Members of the Lokpal. The bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha said there was no need for any interim order in the PIL challenging the selection procedure for the Lokpal after the government assured the court that no decision will be taken till May 5.The bench was...