Breaking- Supreme Court Refuses To Quash FIRs Against Journalist Amish Devgan For Remarks Against Sufi Saint Moinuddin Chishti

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to quash FIRs registered against Journalist Amish Devgan for his remarks against Sufi Saint Moinnuddin Chisthi.A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar & Sanjiv Khanna however, clubbed all FIR's filed against Devgan and transferred them to Ajmer. The July 8 stay on investigation and coercive action against the journalist will continue.As many as 7 FIRs have...

Central Vista Project: Supreme Court Allows Foundation Ceremony For New Parliament Building Without Altering Site In Any Manner

"We clarify that the authorities would be free to continue with procedural processes without altering the status of the site(s) in question in any manner, including to continue with the scheduled progmramme of foundation stone-laying on 10th December, 2020", Supreme Court said in the Order.

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-43]

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

TOP STORIES1. Attorney General Grants Consent For Contempt Action Against Artist Rachita Taneja For Illustrative Tweets Against Supreme CourtThe Attorney General for India, KK Venugopal has granted consent to a law student for initiating contempt of court proceedings against a comic illustrator Rachita Taneja, for her illustrative tweets depicting Supreme Court being hand in glove with the...

Plea In SC Seeks Direction To Centre To Ensure Refund Of Exorbitant Amounts Charged By Pvt. Labs, Hospitals For RT-PCR Tests

The Supreme Court on Saturday has been moved in a plea for direction to the Centre to ensure refund of "exorbitant" amounts charged by private labs and hospitals for conducting RT-PCR tests to detect COVID-19.The interim application has been filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ajay Agrawal in his pending PIL in which he had sought fixing of uniform rate of Rs 400 across India, as done by Odisha,...

Supreme Court Pulls Up Telangana Govt For 'Insensitivity' Towards Case Of BHEL Officer's Suicide Due To Workplace Sexual Harassment

The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on the Telangana government and the Telangana state police for their insensitive approach towards a BHEL employee who committed suicide last year on account of workplace sexual harassment.The bench of Justice A. M. Khanwilkar was hearing a writ petition, through advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava, by the victim's mother seeking to urgently transfer...

High Courts Having No Commercial Division Competent To Consider Cancellation Of Design Under Section 22(4) Of Designs Act : Supreme Court

The judgment delivered by the Supreme Court on December 1 in the case S D Containers, Indore v M/s Mold Tek Packaging Ltd discusses the interplay between the Designs Act 2000 and the Commercial Courts Act 2015.A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi held that it is not necessary that a suit involving the issue of cancellation of design under Section 22(4) of...

Breaking- Arnab Goswami Moves Bombay High Court Seeking Direction To Trial Court To Not Take Cognizance Of Chargesheet In Anvay Naik Suicide Case

Republic TV Chief Arnab Gowswami has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a direction to the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Raigad-Alibaigh, not to take cognizance of the final report filed by the Raigad Police on Friday, in a 2018 Anvay Naik abetment of suicide case. Goswami has alleged that the entire case reeks with malafide on part of the State Government and is an example of...

Will Consider Alternative Questions In CLAT 2021 For Visually Challenged Candidates: NLU Consortium Responds To Justice Chandrachud's Suggestions

The NLU Consortium has decided to consider if the option of alternative questions should be given in the CLAT examination to PwD candidates (Persons with Disabilities), particularly visually challenged candidates, so that they are not at any disadvantage vis-à-vis other candidates. The decision comes in the backdrop of recent remarks made by Dr. Justice DY Chandrachud, that the...

Is National Cooperative Society 'State' To Make Centre Liable For Salaries, Subsistence Allowances Of Employees?: Supreme Court To Consider

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider if a national cooperative society is 'State' for the purpose of Article 12 so as to attach the liability of payment of salaries and subsistence allowance of employees to the government.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran were hearing a writ petition by the NCCF (National Co-operative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd.) Employees...

SG Seeks More Time, Supreme Court Adjourns SNC Lavlin Case Hearing To January 7, 2021

Granting liberty to the CBI to file any additional documents, the Supreme Court on Friday listed the SNC Lavalin case for hearing on January 7, 2021 at the end of the board.The bench of Justices U. U. Lalit and Vineet Saran was hearing the CBI appeal challenging the Kerala High Court verdict upholding a special court's decision to allow the discharge petition of Kerala Chief Minister...

Plea For Stringent Bail Provisions, Reverse Onus, Death Sentence For Rape: Supreme Court Asks Govt. To Consider

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, refused to entertain a writ petition seeking a direction to the Government to bring certain reforms and amendments in the law to make it stringent and deterrent in cases of rape with grievous injury, gang rape and rape/gang-rape with murder.While disposing the writ petition filed by Advocate Kirti Ahuja and others, the Court, however, granted them liberty to...