Supreme Court takes cognizance suo motu in West Bengal gang rape Case

The Supreme Court, today, has taken suo motu cognizance of dreadful incident of gang rape of a young tribal woman by 13 villagers in West Bengal and issued notice to the state government.As per the reports, as soon as the three judge bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam and also comprising, Justices Ranjan Gogoi and MY Eqbal assembled for the hearing, it expressed shock over the...

Dowry complaint filed by Andhra Pradesh High Court Judge’s daughter-in-law against him

A dowry harassment complaint has been lodged by Kavya Rao, daughter of a Chennai-based businessman who is the daughter-in-law of an Andhra Pradesh High Court judge against him and his family members. She handed over her complaint to senior police officials at the city police commissionerate.She stated in her complaint that despite her family having given immense dowry at the time of her...

No approval for tendon Committee report from Supreme Court; asks UGC to consider 44 Deemed Universities for afresh status.

The Supreme Court has directed the University Grants Commission to consider afresh the status of 44 deemed universities while checking the legality of the continuance of their Deemed University status. All the concerned institutions were sought to be de-recognised on the basis of the Tandon Committee report.The Tandon Committee had recommended de-notifying the deemed university status to...

It is my bounden duty to prove my allegations against CJI and other Judges; Justice Karnan

Justice C S Karnan has written a letter addressed to Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam and chief justice of the Madras high court Justice R K Agrawal, maintaining that his presence in Madras High Court was important, as he obliged to prove his allegations against the Chief Justice of India and other judges of the high court, possibly to refuse the possibility of his transfer to another...

Government can seize property if the source is hidden, Says Supreme Court. [Read the Judgment]

Supreme Court has ruled that the government would be justified to dispossess a person of his property if he cannot explain the legitimate source of funds to acquire it. In a civil appeal filed by Bishwanath Bhattacharya, who was detained under COFEPOSA for his illegal activities in foreign exchange in 1977, a bench of Justices H L Gokhale and J Chelameswar held that the property of a person...

Delhi High Court’s order to the Centre to look into demands for guidelines for conduct of public servants

While hearing Public Interest Litigation filed before the Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice RS Endlaw of the Delhi high court, advocate Kirti Singh stated the remarks made by the CBI director in November, when he compared betting to rape, and the comments made by the Andhra DGP regarding women’s clothing, and thus, asked the Central government to expeditiously inspect the demand for...

Petition to increase retirement age of judges turned down by the Supreme Court

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam declined to entertain a PIL filed by an advocate R K Kapoor pleading that the superannuation age of judges of trial courts be increased from 60 to 62 years and those in the high courts from 62 to 65 years. On October 7, Kapoor was asked by the bench to approach the Centre with his plea, following which he wrote a letter to the...

Parents seeking re-trial of the youngest person executed in USA after 70 years of his execution.

A petition was moved to a South Carolina court to reopen the case of Stinny, the youngest person executed in USA in the last 100 years.According to reports of NDTV, nearly 70 years ago, Stinney a 14-year-old black boy was found guilty of killing two white girls, 11-year-old Betty Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames, just over a month after their bodies were found beaten in the head and...

Denial of Sex is Cruelty and a valid ground for Divorce but not Schizophrenia; Bombay High Court [Read Judgments]

Bombay High Court held that willful denial to have sex with spouse without any reason is mental cruelty and is a ground for divorce. High Court upheld the divorce order granted by a family court on the grounds that his wife treated him cruelly by denying sexual relations.Division bench of Justice Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani and Justice P N Deshmukh has said, "Sex plays an important role in...

What is happening in CIC?

The Honourable High Court of Delhi issued Notice to the Department of Personnel Training and the Central Information Commissioner on the allegation that CIC is listing and hearing cases out of turn in an irregular manner and even deciding some cases on the same day they are filed while thousand of cases are still pending for more than 2 years and even unregistered cases are being decided by...

Supreme Court comes down heavily against faulty Investigation and Prosecution again; Failure to send the Viscera to FSL is a serious lapse; Directions issued [Read Judgment]

After the landmark Judgment in State of Gujarat v. Kishanbhai which held that erring Prosecutors and Investigating Officers must be proceeded against in case of unmerited acquittals and wrongful convictions, Supreme Court delivered another Judgment expressing its great displeasure on the inefficiency and callousness on the part of Investigating officers and Prosecutors.The Supreme Court relied...

Supreme Court issues landmark guidelines relating to Death Penalty;

A three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court issued landmark guidelines relating to Death Penalty, while allowing all the 13 Writ Petitions filed by 15 Death Convicts in various cases. The Bench consisted of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gagoi and Justice Shiv Kirti Singh commuted the death sentence imposed on Suresh, Ramji, Bilavendran, Simon, Gnanprakasam, Madiah ,Praveen Kumar,...