Appeal against National Green Tribunal orders can be heard by High Court

Enabling litigants hit by orders of the NGT to file appeals in the high court, a division bench of the Madras High Court comprising Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice P Devadass, which explained an area arising out of a provision in the NGT Act, which says appeals against NGT orders can be filed only in the Supreme Court, held that high courts did have jurisdiction to entertain...

Delhi High Court seeks Aam Admi Party’s reply on allegations regarding foreign funding

Delhi High Court sought responses from Aam Admi Party and its founding members, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, on allegations regarding foreign funding.Court was considering a writ petition pleading for registration of a criminal case on the ground that the newly formed party allegedly received foreign funding in violation of various laws.A bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog...

Supreme Court set aside contempt proceedings against ONGC chairman and managing director, advises high court to exercise contempt powers with care and thoughtfulness [Read Judgment]

A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh while setting aside the contempt proceedings initiated by the Madras High Court on January 19, 2012 against ONGC chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva for not obeying with its order for creating excessive posts of a marine assistant radio operator, stated that under the...

Misconducting judges

 Recently, country witnessed the most unimaginable act of bravado from a sitting judge of a High Court. Recommendation for appointment of 12 judges by the collegium in the Madras High Court was questioned by Advocates and their Writ Petition was being heard by a Bench comprising of Justices V Dhanapalan and K Sasidharan. Justice Karnan, sitting judge of the same court, a man not unknown...

SC reserves its verdict on the plea of death row convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

Supreme Court today has reserved its verdict on the plea of death row convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case seeking commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment.A three-judge bench headed by Chief justice P Sathasivam reserved the order after hearing the arguments of counsel appearing for the convicts and Attorney General G E Vahanvati who represented the central government.In...

HL Dattu’s name likely to come up as CJI nominee for Lokpal selection panel

According to reports, Supreme Court Judge HL Dattu’s name is probably going to be one of the names for the members of the PM-led panel to choose the chairperson and other members for the Lokpal. On December 17, 2008, Dattu, was elevated to the apex court, and he is the third senior most judge after the CJI and Justice R M Lodha.CJI P Sathasivam has reportedly nominated Justice Dattu’s...

Residents, civic body asked by Supreme Court to resolve Campa Cola flats issue

Four week time has been given by the Supreme Court to the Campa Cola Residents Association and the civic body in Mumbai to look for a solution to the conflict over certain illegal and unauthorized flats, which face demolition in view of its earlier order.A Supreme Court bench of Justices S J Mukhopadhya and Kurian Joseph made these remarks when Senior Advocate MukulRohatgi, appearing for...

Allahabad High Court gets 12 new judges

The Allahabad High Court yesterday witnessed the swearing-in of twelve new judges. Chief Justice Dhananjay Yeshwant Deshmukh administered the oath of office of the judges inside the Chief Justice's court. With the appointment of the twelve judges to the High Court, the total number of judges went up to 90 as against the approved strength of 160.Among the newly sworn-in judges are two...

Supreme Court allows auction of the 900 and 1800 mhz of spectrum band in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai: 8 telecom operators in the bid

Under the earlier regime of Unified Access Service, allocation of spectrum according to the Indian legal parlance was done based on a pre-set initial allocation of 4.1 MHz which could be extended. Under the present regime of Unified License, the spectrum cannot be extended but has to be auctioned. The spectrum was sought to be extended via Unified Access Service contract...

Very few AOR have spoiled the working of the institution of AOR, who simply lend their signatures for petty amount: SC

Supreme Court yesterday observed that the working system of Advocates on Record Institution have been spoiled by a very few members in it. In a special leave petition filed by Sanjay Kumar Bench consisting of J. Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J. Chelameswar and J. M.Y. Eqbal observed that in fact, a very few AOR have spoiled the working system of the institution of AOR who simply lend their signatures...

Supreme Court seeks government to make its view clear in Enrica Lexie case

Supreme court has asked the government to resolve all disputes arising out of the issue of invoking Suppression of Unlawful Acts against safety of Maritime Navigation And Fixed Platforms on Continental Shelf Act against two Italian marines in Enrica Lexie case within a week.A bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan directed the Centre to end the deadlock in the issue in which ministries of...

Delhi High Court takes Suo Motu cognisance in murder of Arunachal student

Delhi High Court has taken suo motu cognisance in the incident of killing of an Arunachal Pradesh student, who was allegedly beaten and killed by some shopkeepers in a South Delhi market.A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi Government and Delhi Police to file a report on the incident by Wednesday...