Supreme Court gives Muslims right to adopt child

Despite their personal law barring them, Muslims have now the right to adopt a child as the Supreme Court in a landmark judgmentsaid till the country attains Uniform Civil Code as provided in Article 44 of the Constitution, the laws of land has to get priority over personal law.While hearing an 8 years old petition by ShabnamHashmi who had approached the apex courtfor framing of guidelines by...

Assassins' of Rajiv Gandhi not to be hanged, as Supreme Court delivers landmark verdict commuting death sentence to life term

The judgment which is expected by the students of human rights jurisprudence has finally come. The Supreme Court has granted relief to the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, by commuting their death sentence into life term on the grounds that the 11-year delay in deciding their mercy petition by the Central government had a...

SC rejected plea against AP’s Bifurcation

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a special leave petition which challenged the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into two States to form a separate and independent state of Telangana.The apex court stated the plea against Telengana as “premature” and hence could not take a different stand which it had taken on February 7.The petitions for the February 7 judgement were filed by TDP MLA...

SC refrains from issuing order of SIT for Anti-Sikh riots

The Supreme Court withheld from issuing any notice on a petition filed by S Sudarshan Singh Wazir, seeking constitution a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the chronicles leading to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court asked the human rights activist to find out matters of events which have not yet been considered in the last three decades.The bench presided by Justice A...

Supreme Court extends bail to Maya Kodnani, convict in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case.

Supreme Court has extended the interim bail granted to former Gujarat Minister Maya Kodnani, convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case till February 24.The bench had earlier extended her interim bail which was expired on February 12. Ram Jethmalani who appeared for the convict appealed that the bail shall be extended on the ground that she is suffering from suicidal impulse. Court...

Penguin accuses IPC for removing Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History

Penguin Books India who is convinced over standing by its decision to publish American Indologist Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History and are upset with authors and the publishing fraternity for giving up easily in the legal battle, has maintained that the British-vintage Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) made it very challenging for any Indian publisher to...

Nokia India approaches Supreme Court in tax row case

As per reports, Nokia India the Indian arm of the Finnish handset maker has moved the Supreme Court challenging the February 5 order of the Delhi High Court, which asked the company to give an undertaking to fulfill the conditions relating to payment of tax dues and asked to abide by the order of December 12 last year. The High Court had paved the way for their sale to Microsoft,...

CBI to file chargesheet under Section 173 of Criminal Procedure Code in 6 cases, as ordered by Supreme Court in coal scam case

As per reports, a Supreme Court bench of Justices R M Lodha, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph has given a three weeks time to the CBI to file charge sheet, final reports under Section 173 of Criminal Procedure Code in the six cases relating to irregular allotment of coal blocks in which it has completed investigation. The CBI in its FIR has leveled allegations that to reinforce its claim for...

Mudgal Panel submits report before Supreme Court

In a probe conducted by Justice Mukul Mudgal committee, Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan and team official of Chennai Super Kings, has been alleged to have indulged in betting and passing on information during IPL 2013.“The role of Gurunath Meiyappan in Chennai Super Kings (CSK) as the team official stands proved and the allegations of betting and passing...

Pending writ petition leads to holding back of NCLT recruitment

As per reports, the government, which had invited applications for the posts of judicial members in the National Company Law Tribunal, has put the process on after two months of doing so, as a writ petition filed by the Madras Bar Association is pending in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has been informed by the corporate affairs ministry that till the time the matter is resolved,...

Delhi High Court Chief Justice appointed as Supreme Court Judge

Delhi High Court Chief Justice NV Ramana has been appointed as Supreme Court judge by the order issued by President Pranab Mukherjee dated 08-02-2014. He is likely to assume office as Supreme Court judge on Feb 13.Justice NV Ramana, is presently Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and formerly acting chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013. He was...

5 lakh cost imposed by SC on frivolous petition

Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by Kishore Samrite, ex-Samajwadi Party MLA with punitive cost of Rs 5 lakh for levelling baseless allegations against Supreme Court Judge, justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad. Earlier, he and Gajendra Pal Singh were charged of Rs. 50 lakh, in a writ of Habeas Corpus against Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad High Court where he maligned him alleging...