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Supreme Court Weekly Round Up
Live Law reported the following judgments/orders of the Apex Court last week.Ansal Brothers Sentencing modified The Supreme Court modified the sentence ofAnsal Brothers. According to the new order, if SushilAnsal and GopalAnsal, the accused in the Uphaar Tragedy case, fails to pay Rs. 30 Crores each within three months from today, they will have to undergo the sentence of...
High Courts Weekly Round Up
Delhi High CourtDelhi HC to shift many files to Lower courtsDelhi high court may soon transfer many of its files to the Lower courts. LokSabha last weekpassed Delhi High Court (Amendment) Bill, 2015, by a voice vote. It was earlier passed by RajyaSabha during budget session. The amendment act reads “In sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Delhi High Court Act, 1966, for the words...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
Section 364A IPC not unconstitutionalThe Supreme Court of India on Friday, dismissed an appeal by a death row convict, and held that Section 364A awarding death penalty as a possible punishment, for kidnapping any person threatening to cause death in order to compel Government or any other person, to pay ransom , is not unconstitutional. Three Judge bench of Justices T.S. Thakur, R.K....
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice H.L.Dattu, Justice P.C. Ghose and Justice S.A. Bobde has directed CBI Chief Ranjit Sinha to submit all documents relating to the alleged attempts to seek a reopening of the 2G Spectrum scam case, which is nearing completion now.The Bench rapped CBI for jolting out of the probe supervising officer, DIG Santosh Rastogi, from the 2G spectrum scam case...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Supreme Court Constitutional bench comprising of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice J.S. Khehar, Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.F. Nariman observed that the Government has strived to create a parallel justice delivery mechanism in tribunals. However, the difficulty lies in finding the right judicial person for tribunals dealing with specific areas of laws. The...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha, dismissed a PIL challenging the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution of India. It sought a declaration that the Article lapsed with the dissolution of J & K Constituent Assembly on 26th January 1957.A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice H.L. Dattu, has provided three months time to CBI...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice C. Nagappan in a judgment observed that the appellant who is an accused person cannot be deprived of hearing on the face of the express provision contained in Section 401(2) of the Code and on this ground, setting aside an order of the High Court and remitting the matter.The Supreme Court, has delivered a much awaited...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of the death sentence of Sonu Sardar, convicted and sentenced for killing five members of a scrap dealer’s family in Chhattisgarh. He had put forward a new plea that at the time of committing the offence, his age was 18 years and two months, based on information furnished by some student researchers of NLU-Delhi.A Supreme Court bench comprising...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
A Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan allowed a 93-year old woman, accused of stealing crockery during the 1984 riots and then illegally occupying a shop, to walk free by reducing her punishment to the period already spent in prison.A Supreme Court bench comprising of Justice C. Nagappan and Justice J.S. Khehar stayed the execution of death sentence...
High Courts Weekly Round-Up
The Bombay High Court bench comprising of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice P.D. Kode observed that a mechanism should be developed to prevent custodial deaths and excessive use of force during interrogation.Justice G.S. Sistiani of the Delhi High Court has restrained Nutritious & Spreads from infringing the “Nutralite” trademark of Zydus Wellness Ltd, which sells a similar product...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up
The Supreme Court directed the Delhi Police Commissioner to provide security to a female lawyer, Ambika Das who was allegedly manhandled by policemen and others inside Lajpat Nagar police station. Further the vacation bench consisting of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice A.K. Sikri has also asked the Joint Commissioner of Police to file an affidavit after considering all aspects of the...