Employees Of 'Local Bodies' Entitled To Gratuity Under Payment Of Gratuity Act: SC [Read Judgment]

"The provision in the State Act contemplating payment of Gratuity will be inapplicable in respect of the employees of the local bodies"

[Validity Of Finance Act 2017- Day-3] Majority Judgment In Aadhaar Case Covers My Case, Submits AG As Constitution Bench Reserves Judgment

As Attorney General K. K. Venugopal resumed his submissions on the constitutionality of the passage as a Money Bill of the Finance Act of 2017 on Monday, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked for a copy of the Supreme Court's order in Rajiv Garg, where the court had considered whether different conditions of service could be prescribed for different tribunals. In that case, the court had taken...

One Sided Clauses In Builder-Buyer Agreements Is An Unfair Trade Practice: SC [Read Judgment]

"A term of a contract will not be final and binding if it is shown that the flat purchasers had no option but to sign on the dotted line, on a contract framed by the builder."

Authorization From Central Govt Necessary For RBI To Direct Insolvency Process Against Stressed Assets : SC [Read Judgment]

"It is clear that directions that can be issued under Section 35AA can only be in respect of specific defaults by specific debtors", SC said.

SC Sets Aside Bail Granted To J&K Businessman In Terror Funding Case [Read Judgment]

"The High Court has ventured into an area of examining the merits and demerits of the evidence"

SC Strikes Down RBI Circular Asking Banks To Take Defaulting Companies To Insolvency [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court today struck down the circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India on February 12, 2018 directing banks to initiate insolvency proceedings against companies having bad debts of Rs 2000 crores or above.The February 12 circular had directed banks to resolve debts over Rs 2000 crores within 180 days, failing which the corporate debtor would have to be taken to the National...

Hardik Patel's Plea For Stay Of Conviction To Contest Loksabha Poll: SC Declines Urgent Hearing

The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to accord urgent hearing to Congress leader Hardik Patel's plea challenging the Gujarat High Court order rejecting stay on his conviction in the 2015 Vispur rioting case. The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra. The bench also comprising Justices M M Shantanagoudar and Navin Sinha told the counsel...

Breaking: Employee's Pension Should Be Proportional To Salary: SC Upholds HC Judgment Quashing Pension (Amendment) Scheme, 2014 [Read Order]

In a major relief to many employees, the Supreme Court has dismissed the Special Leave Petition filed against a Kerala High Court Judgment setting aside Employee's Pension (Amendment) Scheme, 2014 that capped maximum pensionable salary to Rs.15, 000 per month. The bench comprising the CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjiv Khanna in limine dismissed the SLP filed...

Employee Not Entitled To Full Back Wages On Acquittal, Unless His Prosecution Was Found Malicious: SC [Read Judgment]

"We do not see any difference between initiation of the criminal proceedings by the department vis-a-vis a criminal case lodged by the police."

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

'Second FIR Not Barred Merely Because Motive In Both Offences Are The Same'; SC Upholds Life Sentence Of Saravana Bhavan Founder For Murder [Pattu Rajan V. State of Tamil Nadu] The Supreme Court upheld the life sentence awarded to P Rajagopal - the founder of famous South Indian restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan - and five of his aides for murder of Santhakumar in 2001. The bench...

Mere Empanelment Does Not Create Any Indefeasible Right To Appointment: SC [Read Judgment]

The employer also has the discretion not to fill up all requisitioned vacancies, but which has to be for valid and germane reasons not afflicted by arbitrariness

Assam Detention Centres: SC Just Stopped Short Of Issuing Non-bailable Warrant To Chief Secretary

The Supreme Court on Monday reprimanded the state of Assam for its submission that thousands of illegal immigrants declared as foreigners by its Foreigners Tribunals have absconded and merged with the general public. The bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was also miffed by the absence of the state's Chief Secretary from the court. As Solicitor General Tushar Mehta...