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'One More Order From Allahabad HC With Which We're Disappointed' : Supreme Court On HC Ignoring Law On Sentence Suspension
The Supreme Court again expressed displeasure with an order of the Allahabad High Cour which declined to suspend the fixed-term sentence without applying the settled position of law on sentence suspension. The Court set aside the High Court's order, observing that it had failed to properly assess the circumstances justifying the denial of sentence suspension in a fixed-term conviction, as...
Justice Yashwant Varma Case | Videos, Photos Shouldn't Have Been Published, But In-House Inquiry Not Vitiated: Supreme Court
While upholding the overall sanctity of the in-house procedure, the Supreme Court has stated that the video and pictures of cash at Justice Yashwant Varma's official residence should not have been published on the Court's website. To that extent, the Court has said that there is nothing contemplated in the in-house procedure that the incriminating evidence should be published in the...
CJI Has Authority To Recommend Removal Of Judge While Forwarding In-House Inquiry Report To President & PM : Supreme Court
While dismissing the writ petition filed by Justice Yashwant Varma against the in-house committee report which indicted him in the unaccounted cash controversy, the Supreme Court held that the Chief Justice of India has the authority to forward the report to the President and the Prime Minister recommending the removal of the Judge.The Court held that the provision (paragraph 7(ii)) in...
Supreme Court Weekly Digest July 14 - 20, 2025
Citations 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 693 to 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 730Advocates Act, 1961 - High Court of Orissa (Designation of Senior Advocate) Rules, 2019- Rule 6(9)- Suo moto power to the full court of High Court to designate an advocate as 'Senior Advocate'- the 2019 Rules were formulated in the backdrop of the Indira Jaising v Supreme Court of India (2017)- High Court held Rule 6(9) to be ultra vires...
Electricity A Public Good; Disproportionate Increase In Regulatory Assets Must Be Avoided : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 6) while directing the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (“ERC”) to timely liquidate the regulatory assets, to avoid accumulation of rightful cost due to the DISCOMS, has issued ten points relating to regulatory assets, determination of tariff and accountability of ERCs, and powers of the APTEL to avert regulatory failure. The bench comprising...
Incestuous Sexual Violence Committed By Parent Requires Severest Punishment : Supreme Court Upholds Father's POCSO Conviction
Incestuous sexual violence cannot be condoned under any circumstances as it shakes the very foundation of the familial trust, observed the Supreme Court while upholding the conviction of a father who repeatedly raped his minor daughter aged ten years.Upholding the life sentence imposed on him for the offence of penetrative sexual assault under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from...
Supreme Court Dismisses Justice Yashwant Varma's Plea Challenging CJI's Recommendation For His Removal
The Supreme Court today(August 7) dismissed the writ petition filed by Allahabad High Court Judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house inquiry report, which indicted him in the case-at-home scandal, as well as the then Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna's recommendation made to the President and the Prime Minister for Justice Varma's removal.A bench comprising Justice Dipankar...
S. 389 CrPC | To Suspend Sentence, HC Should Assess If Convict Has Fair Chance Of Acquittal : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 6) set aside the Rajasthan High Court's order granting bail and suspending the sentence of a man convicted under the POCSO Act for sexually assaulting a minor girl, observing that the High Court failed to assess whether the convict has a fair chance of acquittal.“One would have expected the High Court hearing an application under Section 389 of Cr.P.C....