Exclusion Of Advocates From Post Of DRT & DRAT Presiding Officers Challenged; Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response in a plea challenging the exclusion of Advocates from being eligible for the post of Presiding Officer and Chairman, Debts Recovery Tribunals and Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunals under the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and other Authorities (Qualifications,Experience and other Conditions of Service of Members) Amendment...

'Problem Of Taking Statements Out Of Context' : CJI On N Ram Being 'Trolled' Over Pegasus Case Hearing

The social media controversy into which N Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of 'The Hindu' daily and one of the petitioners in the Pegasus case, was dragged found a mention in the Supreme Court during today's hearing.When the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana made remarks disapproving "parallel debates" in Facebook, Twitter etc., about the case by the petitioners while the Supreme Court is seized of...

Election Commission Should Create Mobile App With Information About Criminal Antecedents Of Candidates : Read Supreme Court Directions

The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions to ensure that complete information about the criminal antecedents of politicians are available to votersThe directions passed by the Court are : (i) Political parties are to publish information regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on the homepage of their websites, thus making it easier for the voter to get to the...

"People Of The Region Have Been Left At The Mercy Of Administration": Ladakh Residents Move Supreme Court Challenging Abrogation of Article 370

The Reorganization Act along with the corresponding Presidential Orders is alleged to have a "chilling effect of extinguishing a 'State' by overriding the constitutional scheme to establish Union Territories, which do not conform to the democratic pattern envisaged by the Constitution of India".

NCLT/NCLAT Has No Residual Equity Jurisdiction While Dealing With Resolution Plan Approved By CoC: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that there is no residual equity based jurisdiction in the Adjudicating Authority or the Appellate Authority while dealing with the resolution plan approved by the Committee of Creditors.The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah reiterated that these authorities can not enter into the commercial wisdom underlying the approval granted by the CoC to the...

BREAKING : Supreme Court Imposes Fine On 8 Political Parties For Violating Directions To Publish Criminal Antecedents Of Candidates In Bihar Polls

The Supreme Court imposed fine on eight political parties for committing contempt of court by flouting the directions in its February 2020 judgment for publication of the criminal antecedents of candidates during the Bihar assembly polls last year.Rupees Five Lakhs each have been imposed as fine on Communist Party of India( Marxist) and Nationalist Congress Party. Bharatiya Janata Party,...

[BREAKING] Politicians With Criminal Antecedents Cannot Be Permitted To Be Law-Makers; But Our Hands Are Tied: Supreme Court

Sending a stern message to decriminalize politics, the Supreme Court observed that persons with criminal antecedents cannot be permitted to become law-makers. However, the Court refrained from issuing any directions to that effect, saying that such directions cannot be issued in the absence of a statutory foundation."Our hands are tied, we can only appeal to the conscience of the...

Political Parties Have To Publish Information On 'Candidates With Criminal Antecedents' On Their Website Homepage: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has directed the political parties to publish information regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on the homepage of their websites.It will also become necessary now to have on the homepage a caption which states "candidates with criminal antecedents"The court has also directed the Election Commission of India to create a dedicated mobile application...

'NHRC Working Without Full Strength For First Time' : Plea In Supreme Court To Fill Up Vacancies

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned a plea seeking Top Court's intervention to ensure that the Apex Human Rights watchdog of the country runs with its full strength to September 9, 2021. The matter was listed before a division bench of Justice L Nageshwar Rao and Justice Aniruddha Bose. Claiming that it was for the first time in the history of the National Human Rights...

Wife Seeks Financial Assistance From PM Cares & State CM's Relief Fund: Supreme Court To Hear Tomorrow

The plea seeks financial assistance for getting her husband a lung transplant after having exhausted her savings over his post- CoVID treatment.

[BREAKING] NEET MDS 2021 Counselling From August 20 To October 10, 2021 : Centre Tells Supreme Court

The Union of India on Tuesday informed Supreme Court that it has decided to conduct NEET MDS 2021 counselling from 20th August 2021 and will conclude the same on 10th October 2021The Medical Counselling Committee and Union of India made the submission through an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court today, August 10th. The Centre has also submitted the proposed schedule for counselling...

'Country Has Right To Know' : Goa Govt Opposes Tarun Tejpal's Plea For In-Camera Hearing Of Rape Case Appeal

Journalist Tarun Tejpal has sought all proceedings in the Bombay High Court at Goa against his acquittal in 2013 rape case to be held in-camera and raised objections on the maintainability of the Goa Government's appeal. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that he usually wouldn't be opposed to an in-camera prayer, but in this case, the institution has failed to impress...