Sexually harassed law intern fails to turn up for recording of statement

The NUJS graduate, who has alleged sexual harassment by a recently-retired Supreme Court judge, failed to turn up for recording of her statement before the three-judge committee set up to investigate the charge.According to court sources, members of the panel which was constituted soon after the law intern revealed about an alleged sexual harassment by a retired Supreme Court judge, assembled...

Supreme Court accepts Prashant Bhushan’s apology

The Supreme Court bench that criticized Advocate Prashant Bhushan for making upsetting remarks against it in connection with the Coalgate case, has accepted his apology that his intentions were not to lower the esteem of the court or hurt judges.Earlier a three-judge bench headed by Justice RM Lodha, which listed the case only for the purpose of taking cognizance of Bhushan’s...

US federal judge grants stay of execution citing concerns over new execution method

Hours before a white supremacist serial killer, Joseph Franklin was due to be put to death in Missouri, a stay of execution was granted to him by a federal judge in Missouri, citing concerns over the state’s new execution method which involves the use of a new drug.Franklin's lawyers showed that the use of pentobarbital carried a high risk of contamination and sustained, unneeded pain...

Amendment in Representation of People’s Act gets SC sanction

The Supreme Court gave its approval to amendment to the Representation of the People Act, opening doors to the people who are in jail or in police custody to contest elections.The apex court has said that in the light of amendments brought by the Government of India in the Representation of the People Act, a person does not cease to be an elector only by a reason of being in police...

Campa Cola case: SC asks illegal residents to vacate premises

Hundreds of residents of Mumbai's Campa Cola Society, who are fighting a legal battle since 2005 claiming they were duped by the builders, have been taken aback by the verdict of the Supreme Court which has directed the occupants of illegally constructed flats to vacate their houses by May 31, 2014.The apex court has directed them to give an undertaking within six weeks for the same which if...

SC issues notice to Centre on PIL for regulating chit fund industry

The Supreme Court today issued a notice to the Central Government, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) seeking their response on a PIL filed for putting in place proper mechanism for regulating the functioning of chit funds in the country.A bench headed by Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam directed the government and the institutions to file...

Delhi High Court directs ICAI to provide writers to disabled students

The Delhi High Court has directed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to prepare a panel of writers to assist disabled students while appearing for the chartered accountancy examinations.The High Court has asked that the panel be constituted within six months.Justice V.K. Jain said that for preparing the panel of scribes to assist disabled students, the ICAI should...

NUJS Intern not interested in pursuing the case further

According to a Hindu Report the NUJS intern, who alleged sexual harassment against a retired Judge who yesterday deposed before the Supreme Court panel of Justice RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Ranjana P Desai formed by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam to inquire into the matter, is not interested in pursuing the matter further.The report saysAccording to highly placed legal sources, the...

NUJS Intern Deposed before SC Panel

The NUJS intern, who alleged sexual harassment against a retired Judge deposed before the Supreme Court panel of Justice RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Ranjana P Desai formed by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam to inquire into the matter. It took about two and half hours to finish the proceedingsRavindra Maithani, Secretary General of the apex court revealed that " "The committee held its...

Supreme Court refuses to entertain PIL on Andhra Pradesh bifurcation

Saying that the petition filed against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh is pre-mature as Parliament and state legislature are still to pass it, a Supreme Court bench of Justices H.L. Dattu and Madan B. Lokur and refused to entertain a PIL challenging Union Cabinet’s decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh to carve out a separate Telangana state. It, however, said that arguments on all the...

SC seeks DoT’s response on ways to block pornographic websites

After Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising submitted that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which was earlier issued a notice in the matter of blocking pornography websites, is concerned with content on radio and television and not with regulating websites, a notice has been issued by a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan to the Department of...

Notice issued by Supreme Court to Centre on commutation of death sentence of 5 condemned prisoners

A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Ranjana P Desai and Ranjan Gogoi and headed by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam gave its consent to hear a PIL questioning the former President Pratibha Patil's decision to commute death sentence of five condemned prisoners in child rape cases and issued notice to the Centre on the plea seeking to set aside the commutation.Contention of the...