Welfare Schemes Should Cover Children Orphaned During COVID & Not Just Who Became Orphans Due To COVID : Supreme Court

The Court clarified that its orders are not confined to children who lost parents due to COVID and is dealing with all those who became orphans during COVID.

Actor Vijay's Entry Tax Case : Madras High Court Stays Single Bench Judgment Which Had Scathing Remarks

Vijay told the bench that he was not challenging the tax demand and was only aggrieved with the adverse remarks.

Supreme Court Issues Notice In PIL For Directions To Operationalise Provisions Of Clinical Establishments Act To Ensure Affordable & Quality Healthcare

Supreme Court has on Tuesday issued notice in PIL filed seeking directions to operationalise all the provisions of the Clinical Establishments Act, 2010, and Clinical Establishment Rules, 2012, and among others, in order to ensure the affordable and quality healthcare guaranteed under the constitution.A Bench headed by CJI NV Ramana has sought the Government's response to the plea filed by ...

'Won't Take Elitist View; Begging Not Out Of Choice' : Supreme Court Turns Down Plea To Stop Street Begging Amid COVID

The Court however issued notice on a prayer in the petition to rehabilitate and vaccinate beggars.

High Court Must Give Brief Reasons In Order Disposing Application Seeking Leave To Appeal Against Acquittal: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court reiterated that brief reasons must be given in an order disposing an application for leave to appeal under Section 378 ofthe Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 against an order of acquittal.Merely observing that the order of the trial Judge has taken a possible view without an application of mind to the evidence and the findings is not consistent with the duty which is cast...

Breaking: "Targeted Surveillance Using Military Grade Spyware": Journalists N Ram And Sashi kumar Move Supreme Court Seeking Probe In To Pegasus Snooping Row

Senior Journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar have approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction for an independent inquiry headed by a sitting or retired judge of Supreme CourtCourt to probe into allegations that illegal surveillance has been carried out on inter alia journalists, lawyers, government ministers, opposition politicians and civil society activists using the Pegasus...

Manipur Office Of Profit Case : Governor Yet To Decide On ECI Opinion About Disqualification Of 12 BJP MLAs, Congress MLA Tells Supreme Court

A Congress Manipur MLA on Monday urged before the Supreme Court his plea for the expeditious decision by the Governor as to the disqualification of 12 BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly under Article 192 for holding Offices of Profit on their appointment as Parliamentary Secretaries.The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose was hearing a writ petition filed by D. D....

Suo Motu Case On Lawyers' Strikes: No Response From BCI, State Bar Councils; Supreme Court Requests BCI Chairman To Assist Court

In connection with the problem of strikes and abstention of work by lawyers, the Supreme Court on Monday has requested the Chairman of the Bar Council of India to render assistance to the Court. On February 28, 2020, the Court, taking a serious note of the fact that despite consistent decisions of the Court, still the lawyers/Bar Associations go on strikes, had taken suo moto cognisance...

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-75]

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Ocular Evidence Is The Best Evidence Unless There Are Reasons To Doubt It: Supreme Court

Ocular evidence is considered the best evidence unless there are reasons to doubt it, the Supreme Court observed while setting aside an order of High Court that acquitted an accused in a murder case.The bench comprising Justices Navin Sinha and R. Subhash Reddy observed that the ocular evidence may be disbelieved only when there is a gross contradiction between medical evidence and...

Letter Of Intent Is Not A Binding Contract Unless Such An Intention Is Evident From Its Terms: Supreme Court

A Letter of Intent is not a binding contract unless such an intention is evident from its terms, the Supreme Court observed while dismissing an appeal filed by South Eastern Coalfields Ltd, a Government company.The bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta observed that such intention must be clear and unambiguous as LoI normally indicates a party's intention to enter into a...

'Public Should Not Be Cheated' : Supreme Court Records Franklin Templeton Will Not Launch Any New Debt Scheme Till Disposal Of Appeal Before SAT

The Supreme Court on Monday recorded that Franklin Templeton Asset Management India Pvt Ltd will not launch any new debt scheme till disposal of its appeal pending before the Securities Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai.The appeal being referred to here has been filed before the SAT against the order dated June 7, 2021 passed by Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India...