Anil Ambani Appears Before SC In Contempt Plea By Ericsson; SC Adjourns Matter For Tomorrow

Anil Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Communications, appeared in the Supreme Court in response to the notices issued by the apex court in the contempt petitions filed Swedish company Ericsson. Three officials of the company were also present.The bench of Justices R F Nariman and Vineet Saran however adjourned the matter for tomorrow. Since the bench has not exempted the personal appearance, and...

Breaking : SC Holds Nageswara Rao Guilty Of Contempt; Sentences Till Rising Of Court & Rs. 1 Lakh Fine

The Supreme Court bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi today held CBI Additional Director M Nageswara Rao guilty of contempt of court for transferring the investigating officer heading the probe in Muzaffarpur shelter home case in violation of the orders of the Court.The Court sentenced him till the rising of the Court and imposed a fine of Rs. one lakh, after noting that the transfer...

Ex-CBI Head Nageswara Rao Apologises To Apex Court For Transferring Officer Probing Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Case

Former CBI interim chief M Nageswara Rao today filed an affidavit admitting that he committed "mistake" in transferring former joint director A K Sharma and apologised to the Supreme Court saying he had no intention to circumvent its orders.Rao, was responding to a contempt notice issued to him on February 7. In the affidavit, he offered unconditional and unqualified apology to the apex court....

Breaking: Acquittal If IO & Informant Same Person: Benefit Of 'Mohan Lal' Judgment Not Available To Cases Prior To It: SC

"A proper administration of the criminal justice delivery system, therefore requires balancing the rights of the accused and the prosecution, so that the law laid down in Mohan Lal (supra) is not allowed to become a spring board for acquittal in prosecutions prior to the same, irrespective of all other considerations."

'Voluntary Provocation' Cannot Attract Exception To Offence Of Murder: SC [Read Judgment]

"From the proved facts of this case it appears that the provocation was voluntary on the part of the offender. Such provocation cannot come to the rescue of the Respondent to claim that he is not liable to be convicted under Section 302 IPC."

SC Refuses To Monitor Probe In Saradha Chit Fund Scam

The Supreme Court on Monday declined the plea for monitoring by the court of the investigations in the Saradha Chit Fund scam. Senior Counsel Vikas Singh drew the attention of the bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the May 9, 2014 judgment of the apex court transferring the probe to the CBI, where the-then Chief Justice T. S. Thakur, though not considering it necessary...

"Children Writing Exams There": SC Dismisses WB BJP's Plea Against Ban On Mics And Loudspeakers In Residential Areas

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the BJP's West Bengal outfit's challenge to an order of the State Pollution Control Board banning the use of mikes and loudspeakers near the residential areas in the state. "You are challenging an order of 2013?", asked Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi at the outset. "Yes, but it is applied every year. Your Lordships had passed an order disposing of...

SC Directs Minority Commission To Decide On Representation Seeking Guidelines For Identifying "Minorities" [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Commission for Minority (NCM) to take a decision within three months on a representation seeking laying down of guidelines for defining the term 'minority' in the context of state-wise population of a community. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay to re-file his representation to...

When A Person Is Lynched For The Food He Had, It Is The Constitution Which Gets Lynched : Justice Chandrachud [Watch Video]

Commenting on the great chasm between the idealistic vision of Constitution and actual working of it at ground level, Justice D Y Chandrachud said "when a person is lynched for the food he or she had, it is the constitution which gets lynched".He placed the working of constitution in the context of several recent incidents, which paint the Indian state in a less savoury light, by saying...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Section 38 Specific Relief Act: Plaintiff Has To Prove His Actual Possession On The Date Of Filing The Suit [Balakrishna Dattatraya Galande V. Balakrishna Rambharose Gupta] The Supreme Court observed that in a suit filed under Section 38 of the Specific Relief Act, permanent injunction can be granted only to a person who is in actual possession of the property on the date of...

"Threat Of Surveillance by The State Or By Private Players Is A Challenge To Human Rights" :Justice Sikri

"In so far as the contempt power is concerned, we are not using it that much in India", reflected Justice A. K. Sikri on Sunday at Lawasia's first Human Rights Conference in New Delhi. Moderating a panel of lawyers and journalists, Indian and international, on the issue of the "Freedom of the Press in the Digital Age", the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court noted that though it...

Political Parties Should Not Be Allowed To Field Candidates With More Than 2 Kids: PIL In SC [Read Petition]

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Election Commission to India requiring all political parties to not field candidates who have more than two children and to also declare the two-child norm a mandatory criterion for government jobs, subsidies besides other measures to control population explosion.The PIL has been filed by BJP spokesperson advocate...