If member of a sect dies in road mishap, compensation to be paid to the sect/organization: Supreme Court

According to a Supreme Court ruling, if a person who has renounced family to serve a religious organization or sect dies in an accident, other members of the sect/organization shall be entitled to compensation. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and S K Singh, while widely interpreting the law observed that due to the death of a volunteer there could be substantial loss to a...

"If compensation not paid to owner, land acquisition not valid", says Supreme Court

In alandmark judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in Pune Municipal Corporation & Anr. v. Harakchand Misirimal Solanki & Ors., it has been held that the acquisition would be deemed to have lapsed and would be covered under the 2013 law entitling the landowners to higher compensation, if compensation for land acquired under the 1894 Act has not been paid to the land owner or...

Hearing of Fresh Interpretation of ‘juvenile’ by Supreme Court commences

The final hearing on the petitions filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and the parents of the victim of the December 16 gang rape, challenging the constitutional validity of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, has been started by the Supreme Court.The petition was filed in order to seek for a fresh interpretation of the term, juvenile, in the statute and leaving...

Senior members of the Bar express concern over Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2013

In a discussion organized by the Bar Association of India, the senior members of the bar, unanimously expressed their concern about the 64th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2013.Mr.Anil Divan, Senior Advocate and President of the Bar Association of India, was critical of the hurried manner in which two important bills relating...

Bhullar’s mercy petition to be heard by Supreme Court in open court

A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justices R.M. Lodha, H.L. Dattu and S.J. Mukhopadhaya has agreed to hear the curative petition filed by Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar’s wife NevneetKaur on Friday. The apex court has agreed to hear the petition of Bhullar in an open court, which he filed for commutation of death sentence...

Supreme Court restricts Subrata Roy leaving the Country till Sahara furnishes source of money refunded to investors

A Supreme Court bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar refused to make changes in its order restricting Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy from travelling abroad till his company delivers details of refunding an amount of 20,000 crore of investors money, saying he will not be permitted to leave the country and he will be allowed only when the Sahara group provides all the documents...

Section 377: Supreme Court rejects review petition on judgement

Supreme Court has rejected the petition to review its judgement on Section 377. Court in December 2013 had struck down an earlier Delhi High Court decision that de-criminliased gay sex and declared gay sex an offence punishable up to life imprisonment. Justice HL Dattu and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya who heard the plea for the review petition in the private chambers refused to accept the...

Supreme Court issues notice to Department of Telecommunication in a PIL to ban Child Pornography Websites

The Supreme Court has issued  notice to the Department of Telecommunication looking for its answer in question of blocking websites with pornographic content particularly those containing objects of child pornography.In a PIL, highlighting menace of child pornographic content freely available on the internet, filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani , through Advocate Vijay Panjwani,...

Supreme Court to consider the Review Petitions on its verdict declaring gay sex illegal

The petitions which have been filed by Centre and rights activists seeking review of its verdict declaring gay sex an offence punishable up to life imprisonment, will be taken up by a Supreme Court bench of Justices H L Dattu and S J Mukhopadhaya today, who will take up the petition in chamber to decide whether the verdict needs to be reviewed or not.  Gay rights activists, including NGO...

PIL on selection of judges to be withdrawn

A public interest petition filed by Senior advocate R Gandhi which gained popularity, more because of sitting judge C S Karnan's dramatic entry before the division bench hearing it, than its controversial contents will most probably be withdrawn, with Gandhi filing a memo in the high court stating that he be allowed to withdraw the petition considering the word of assurances given by the...

Notice issued by Supreme Court to Andhra, Odisha governments on chopping off laborers’ hands

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi took suomotu cognizance of a media report of an awful incident in which the right hands of two migrant laborers from Odisha were chopped off by a contractor from Andhra Pradesh in December last year, and issued notice to the chief secretaries of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. As per reports of The Asian Human...

Civil Service aspirant alleges rape against Rajasthan Civil Service Appellate Tribunal Chairman

Civil service aspirant alleges rape charges against Chairman of Rajasthan Civil Services Appellate Tribunal as per the reports. The lady in a private complaint made before the trial court alleged that the officer, B B Mohanty, had called her to a place in Swej farm and raped her repeatedly on February 17 and 19 last year.Reports says that police have received the complaint from a local court...