'This Has Never Been The Level Of Public Discourse': CJI Bobde To Arnab Goswami's Lawyer

In the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of India on Monday passed certain remarks on the style of reporting followed by Arnab Goswami, Chief Editor of the Republic TV."You can be a little old-fashioned with reporting. Frankly speaking, I cannot stand it. This has never been the level of our public discourse", CJI Bobde told Senior Advocate Harish Salve, who was appearing for Goswami.The Court...

[Vijay Mallya-UBHL] About Rs 3,600 Crore Recovered, Rs 11,000 Crore Still Due, SC Told; Dismisses UBHL's Appeal Against Winding Up

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed United Breweries Holdings Ltd.'s appeal against the Karnataka High Court's decision as regards its winding up for recovery of dues payable to Kingfisher airlines."We are here against the order of winding up of UBHL, which was a corporate guarantor of Kingfisher. Vijay Mallya was also a corporate guarantor and he has been proceeded against. It was alleged...

Supreme Court Rejects Plea For Interim Order For Implementation of 50% OBC Reservation in Medical College Seats in 2020-2021

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed pleas filed by State of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK seeking a direction for implementation of 50% quota for Other Backward Classes in the All India Quota for undergraduate, post-graduate medical and dental courses in Tamilnadu for the academic year 2020-2021.A Bench comprising of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi dismissed the pleas...

[Disha Salian Death] "What Is The Problem In Bombay High Court? Supreme Court On Plea Seeking CBI Probe

The Supreme Court on Monday granted liberty to the Petitioner in a plea seeking a CBI probe monitored by top court into the death of Disha Salian, former manager of Late Actor Sushant Singh Rajput to approach the Bombay High Court instead.A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, AS Bopanna & V. Ramasubramaniun stated that the Bombay High Court would be an appropriate forum to approach in terms...

Stubble Burning: Based On Centre's Request, SC Keeps In Abeyance Order Appointing Justice M B Lokur Panel [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday kept in abeyance the order passed by it on October 16 to appoint Justice(Retired) Madan B Lokur, former SC judge, as a one-man panel to coordinate and monitor the steps taken to tackle the problem of stubble-burning.A bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, S A Bobde, passed the order on Monday based on a request made by the Solicitor General of India, Mr....

UP Prevention Of Cow Slaughter Act Being Misused Against Innocent Persons; Any Recovered Meat Is Shown As Beef : Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on Monday expressed concern over frequent misuse of the provisions of Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955, for implicating innocent persons. While hearing the bail application of one Rahmuddin, accused of cow slaughter and sale of beef under Sections 3, 5 and 8 of the said Act, the Single Bench of Justice Siddharth observed, "Act is being...

[Breaking]In A First In India Gujarat High Court Begins Live Streaming Of Court Proceedings On YouTube

"With a view to effectuating and broadening the implementation of Open Court concept even during the virtual hearings of the Court," the Gujarat High Court has announced that it will commence live streaming of Court proceedings on YouTube from today, i.e. October 26, 2020.It is intimated that the proceedings of the First Court, i.e. of the Bench headed by Chief Justice Vikram Nath shall...

Centre's Order On Complaints Against Sudarshan TV Is Ready; Can Be Served Tomorrow: Solicitor General Tells Supreme Court

The Solicitor General of India, Mr .Tushar Mehta, told the Supreme Court on Monday that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was ready with its order on the complaints against the 'Bindas Bol' show of Sudarshan News TV.The Ministry had earlier heard Sudarshan News TV on the complaints that its show violated the program code by communalizing the entry of Muslims into the civil...

Supreme Court Stays Operation Of Madhya Pradesh HC Order Restraining Physical Poll Campaigns

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court imposing conditions in conducting physical gatherings by political parties for campaigning in assembly bye-polls. A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari & Sanjiv Khanna passed the stay order in 3 separate pleas, by ECI & BJP Leader Pradyumn Singh Tomar and Munna Lal Goyal, challenging an order...

Supreme Court Stays Uttarakhand HC's Contempt Proceeding On Alleged Non-payment of Rent By Ex-CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Contempt proceedings initiated by Uttarakhand High Court in the case concerning alleged non-payment of rents by former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (present Union HRD Minister)A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman stayed the contempt proceedings on a plea filed by the Union minister of Education.The Uttarakhand High Court on...

Ex-NDA Minister Dilip Ray Gets Three Years Imprisonment In Coal Scam Case

Former union minister Dilip Ray was on Monday awarded three-year jail term by a Delhi court in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.Ray was Minister of State (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.Special Judge Bharat Parashar also awarded three-year jail term each to two senior officials of the Ministry of Coal at that...

Supreme Court Dodges RTI Query On Live Streaming Implementation; Says 'Matter Under Registry's Consideration'

The Supreme Court has dodged detailed queries raised under the Right to Information Act seeking reasons for the non-implementation of live-streaming of court proceedings by giving an evasive reply that the "matter is under the consideration of the Registry"In the verdict pronounced on September 26, 2018 in Swapnil Tripathi v Supreme Court of India and connected cases, the court laid...