'An Important Issue Of Consumer Protection': Supreme Court Emphasise On The Need To Frame Model Builder-Buyer Agreement Under RERA, Asks ASG To Assist The Court

Noting that it is a "very important issue of public interest", the Supreme Court on Monday asked ASG K. M. Nataraj to assist the Court on the issue of the need for the framing of a model agreement for builder-buyers under the RERA.The bench of Justices D. Y. Chandrachud and A. S. Bopanna was hearing a string of petitions under Article 32 raising the grievances of flat-purchasers that in...

Courts Are Closed But Is Justice On Leave? Revisiting The Debate On Judicial Vacations

The fact that after vacation for Dussera, the Supreme Court had again gone on a week-long vacation for Diwali has reignited the debate on the need for court vacations.The ones questioning the en masse vacations have resorted to the argument of innumerable cases pending across the strata of the Indian judiciary(as per the statistics on the Supreme Court's own website, as of 01/10/2021 there are 69,922 pending matters before it). Another argument is that no other public institution takes as...

Anti-CAA Protests In UP-"These Notices Will Basically Go In View Of The New Act": Supreme Court On Notices To Recover Public Loss From Protestors

In connection with a plea seeking quashing of notices sent to alleged protestors by district administration in UP for recovering losses caused by damage to public properties during anti-CAA agitations in the state, the Supreme Court on Monday orally observed that in view of the new legislative regime in UP on the subject, these notices can no longer be acted upon.The Uttar Pradesh assembly...

Conviction Based On Disclosure Statement Can Be Sustained Only When Resultant Recovery Is Unimpeachable: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that to convict an accused exclusively on the basis of his disclosure statement and the resultant recovery of inculpatory material, the recovery should be unimpeachable and not be shrouded with elements of doubt.In this case, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana had upheld the Trial Court judgment which convicted an accused ­Bijender @ Mandar under Sections 392 and...

'Not A Desirable Position' : Supreme Court On Consent Requests Of CBI Pending Before States [Full Courtroom Exchange]

The Supreme Court on Monday (8th November) observed that it was "not a desirable position" that several CBI cases have hit a roadblock due to the pendency of requests for specific sanctions before State Governments which have withdrawn their general consent for the investigation by the central agency.A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh made this observation after...

Karnataka High Court Issues Notice Regarding Urgent Listing Of Pending/ Fresh Matters

The Karnataka High Court has issued a notice informing the procedure for urgent listing of matters, whether fresh or pending.It is informed that if in a pending matter the advocates/ party in person intend to get the matter listed in view of urgency, an application accompanied by an affidavit narrating the urgency shall be filed in the counter. The notice issued on Monday states, "The...

Lakhimpur Kheri : Journalist Crushed By Car; Not Lynched, UP Govt Tells Supreme Court

The Uttar Pradesh Government on Monday orally submitted before the Supreme Court that the local journalist Raman Kashyap who was killed in the violent incident at Lakhimpur Kheri, died due to being crushed by the car and not because of mob lynching."Farmers and the journalist were crushed by the car" Senior Advocate Harish Salve appearing for the State of Uttar Pradesh said. A bench...

NEET Admissions: Supreme Court Allows "All Similarly Situated" OCI Candidates To Participate In General Category Counselling For 2021-22

The bench said that the order was passed in view of the suddenness of the notification, and had the same been issued earlier, the court would not have intervened.

Lakhimpur Kheri : 'No Faith In UP SIT', Widow Of Slain BJP Worker Tells Supreme Court; Seeks CBI Probe

The widow of Shyam Sunder, the BJP worker who got killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence of October 3, expressed before the Supreme Court on Monday her lack of confidence in the Uttar Pradesh Police investigation.Senior Advocate Arun Bharadwaj, appearing for Ruby Devi who has intervened in the PIL seeking proper investigation of the case, submitted before a bench headed before the Chief...

Physical Hearings Happened For 70 Years, No Harm If We Go Back To It: Supreme Court In Plea Seeking Continuance Of Virtual Courts

The Supreme Court of India today agreed to hear a clutch of pleas filed before it seeking continuance of virtual court and hybrid mode, in December 2021.The matter was mentioned by Senior Advocate Mr. Sidharth Luthra before the Bench of Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice Abhay S. Oka, who queried Mr. Luthra in a lighter vein that effectively the Writ Petitions are infructuous with...

[BREAKING] Lakhmipur Kheri Case Probe "Not Going The Way We Expected" : Supreme Court Mulls Appointing Retired HC Judge To Monitor

The bench said that it was of prima facie view that attempts are being made to give benefit to one particular accused in the case.

Lakhimpur Kheri Violence- Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES

Supreme Court will continue hearing today the PIL on the #Lakhmipurkheri incident.The Supreme Court had on 26th October directed the State of UP to provide protection to the witnesses of the Lakhimpur Kheri Violence. The Court also directed the State of UP to ensure that the statements of relevant witnesses are recorded by the Judicial Magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC. The court had...