Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

L&T Case: Multi-point levy of turnover tax on works contract struck downThe Supreme Court in Larsen & Toubro Limited Vs. Additional Deputy Commissioner Of Commercial Taxes & Anr. held that the value of the work entrusted to the sub-contractors or payments made to them shall not be taken into consideration while computing total turnover for the purposes of Section 6-B of the Karnataka Sales Tax Act. Sedition: authorities directed to follow Kedar Nath JudgmentSupreme Court of India on Monday issued a direction to all the concerned authorities to follow the Constitutional bench judgment in Kedar Nath v State of Bihar (1962) which limited the scope of Sedition Law (Section 124A) in India. The Supreme Court has said that all authorities would be bound by the Kedar Nath judgment when dealing with cases of sedition. With the above observation the Supreme Court dismissed the Petition filed by NGO ‘Common Cause’ and Dr. S.P. Udayakumar.Availability of alternate remedy not a ground to bar petition U/s 482 CrPCA three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday in Prabhu Chawla vs State of Rajasthan clarified that the availability of remedy under Section 397 CrPC would not make a petition under Section 482 CrPC not maintainable.Magistrate can’t order further investigation against public servant sans valid sanctionA two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court held that a Magistrate cannot order further investigation under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure in relation to public servant in the absence of valid sanction.Petitions challenging Delhi HC’s ‘One Bar, One Vote’ judgment rejectedThe Supreme Court dismissed petitions challenging the Delhi High Court judgment in which the High Court directed incorporating the ‘one bar, one vote’ principle forthwith in relation to every Bar Association in Delhi (including the Delhi High Court Bar Association, the Delhi Bar Association, the New Delhi Bar Association, the Rohini, Shahdara, Saket and Dwarka Courts Bar Association and all other Court/Tribunals attached Bar Associations).States, UTs must upload FIRs on websites within 24 HrsIn a path-breaking judgment, the Apex Court on Wednesday directed that the copies of the FIRs, unless the offence is sensitive in nature, like sexual offences, offences pertaining to insurgency, terrorism and of that category, offences under POCSO Act and such other offences, should be uploaded on the police website, and if there is no such website, on the official website of the State Government, within 24 hours of the registration of the First Information Report so that the accused or any person connected with the same can download the FIR and file appropriate application before the Court as per law for redressal of his grievances. 10 significant guidelines issued on FIROn Wednesday in Youth Bar Association of India Vs Union of India and Others, the Apex Court issued 10 important Guidelines on First Information Report.Tarun Sagar Row: Vishal Dadlani’s plea seeking protection from arrest declinedThe Supreme Court refused to grant protection to music composer Vishal Dadlani from arrest after he got enmeshed in legal controversy over his tweets about Jain guru Tarun Sagar. Dadlani might get arrested for his allegedly scathing remarks hurting religious sentiments. The court told him that it cannot intervene in the case at this stage and he must first approach the High Court.PIL for police reforms petitioner asked to move application in Prakash Singh CaseThe Supreme Court on Monday directed BJP leader and Delhi-based lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for the implementation of Supreme Court directions issued in Prakash Singh case, to file an interlocutory application in the case, which is still pending before a three-judge bench of the apex court.BulandsaharGangrape: Stay On CBI probe liftedIn a new twist in the Bulandshahr rape case, the Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the stay on CBI investigation after modifying its August 29 order and asked the agency to “proceed as per law”.Lord Vishnu Cover Row: Criminal case against MS Dhoni, AroonPurie quashedThe Supreme Court recently quashed criminal proceedings against India’s limited overs cricket captain cricketer MS Dhoni and India Today Group head AroonPurie, pending before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Bengaluru. The criminal proceedings were initiated against them for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by publishing a cover photo in ‘Business Today’ magazine in 2013 showing Dhoni as Lord Vishnu.2G accused – Essar promoter Ravi Ruia’s request to travel abroad rejectedEssar group promoter Ravi Ruia, facing trial in a case arising out 2G scam probe was disallowed to go abroad by the Apex Courton Tuesday which cited a “bad experience” and said a similar person was allowed to go abroad and he did not return.Plea for new mechanism for appointment of judges to be heard on Sept 12A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India on...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

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