News Updates
All India Bar Exam (AIBE) is rescheduled to be on 19th January 2014
All India Bar Examination conducted by Bar Council of India with an objective to evaluate an Advocate’s capability to practice the profession of law is rescheduled and now to be held on 19 January 2014.Earlier the examination was scheduled for 22 December 2013.The BCI has issued a notification today i.e. on 11 November revising the schedule. The last date for online registration...
CLAT 2014 is scheduled on 11th May 2014
The 2014 Edition of Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is scheduled to be be held on 11th May 2014. The decision has been taken by the CLAT Committee comprising of Vice Chancellors/Directors of 14 National Law Universities across India. Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) will be the ‘organising university’ for 2014.The core committee deliberated on various issues related to...
JUSTICE V.R.KRISHNA IYER @ 99
Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer who is considered as the “judicial conscience of India” turned 99 this month. Justice Iyer has the rare distinction of being first a Minister in State a Cabinet and later a Judge of the High Court and Supreme Court. He was the Law Minister of Kerala in the first democratically elected Communist Government led by E M Sankaran Namboodiripadu. The government was...
Justice Ansari who declared CBI Unconstitutional is transferred to Patna High Court
Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari, who wrote the judgment declaring the CBI formation unconstitutional, is transferred to Patna High Court. The Gauhati High Court Bar Association gave a farewell to Justice Ansari today. Justice Ansari , the senior most Judge in the Gauhati High Court was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court from 15th October, 2013 till Justice Abhay...
Supreme Court stays the Gauhati High court order on CBI
The apex court stayed the order of the Gauhati High Court on CBI, which declares the formation of CBI unconstitutional and quashed the 1963 executive order under which the CBI was formed. The Court issued notice to parties. Next hearing will be on 6th DecemberAttorney General Gulam .E.Vahanvati filed the petition on behalf of the government seeking urgent hearing over the petition .The...
END OF CBI ? Guwahati High Court says CBI formation is ultra vires
In a path breaking judgment Gauhati High Court has ruled that the 1963 executive order under which the CBI was formed is unconstitutional, and that an act should have been passed for the purpose.A Division Bench of Justices Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Indira Shah in Navendra Kumar v. Union of india Writ Appeal ;119/2008 said "The resolution number 4/31/61-T dated 1/4/1963 issued by secretary to...
West Bengal government bans Two Fingers Test
Following the order of the apex court, West Bengal government has issued a proforma for forensic medical examination of rape survivors. The ‘Two Finger Test’ –test for examining the rape victims, which was also condemned by Justice Verma Commission, has been set aside in the Proforma issued by the W.B Government.As per a TOI report the proforma accommodates the DNA profiling of the...
Courts cannot order recovery after annulling the appointment: Supreme Court
Hearing a PIL filed by Central Electricity Supply of Orissa (Civil Appeal NO. 9872 OF 2013), the apex court has ruled that courts cannot order recovery of the amount of an employee while abrogating the appointment as "denial of pay for the service rendered tantamounts to forced labor which is impermissible."The bench of Justice Anil. R. Dave and Justice Dipak Misra dismissed the order passed...
High Courts have no power to direct magistrate to grant bail to an accused on surrender: Supreme Court
The apex court while hearing a criminal appeal [NO.1862 OF 2013] ruled that high courts should not direct the Magistrate to grant bail to an accused on surrender.The bench of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Madan.B.Lokur said,"such orders put restriction on the power of the trial court to consider the bail application on merits and grant or reject prayer for bail. We are of the...
SC allows Sahara Chief to travel abroad
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Subrata Roy, the Sahara Chief, to go abroad and modified its order restraining him from leaving the country.The bench consists of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and J. S. Khehar considered the application of the Sahara group seeking modification in the order in chamber. Roy's counsel and Senior Advocate C A Sundaram, who was present in the chamber,...
New judge for Special Court to hear Jayalalitha’s asset case
The Karnataka High Court has transferred John Michael Cunha, a judicial officer in the rank of a District Judge, to the Special Court, trying the case of disproportionate assets allegation against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha. He will be soon designated as ‘Special Judge’ as per the procedure under Section 3 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Mr. Cunha is presently working...
Do not obey oral instructions from Political Bosses: Supreme Court to Bureaucrats
The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment has directed bureaucrats to not take oral orders of political bosses for administration.The court also ruled that, the executives must get an assured minimum tenure in posting. The apex court observed that, "Fixed tenure of bureaucrats will promote professionalism, efficiency and good governance,much of the deterioration in the functioning of...