High Court Cannot Stay/Quash An Order In Anticipation, Before It Is Passed: SC [Read Judgment]

“The higher judiciary must avoid as far as possible from making any disparaging harsh remarks and strictures against any judicial/administrative officer while examining their action/order impugned in the judicial proceedings.”

Teachers Cannot Claim Gratuity Under Payment of Gratuity Act: SC [Read Judgment]

"The High Court was, therefore, not justified in making a distinction between the "teachers working in the primary schools" and the "teachers working in other educational institutions"

SC Restrains Karnataka Govt From Pumping Secondary Treated Water From Sewage Treatment Plants To Irrigation Tanks

The Supreme Court today stayed the Karnataka High Court order which permitted the Government to pump secondary treated water from Sewage Treatment Plants(STP) to the irrigation tanks in Kolar, which is being carried out with the purported objective of recharging ground water level.The Karnataka Government was carrying out this activity under the scheme "K&C Valley Project", which envisages...

Lok Sabha Passes Personal Laws (Amendment Bill) To Remove Leprosy As Ground For Divorce [Read the Bill]

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Personal Laws (Amendment Bill), 2018, which seeks removal of leprosy as a ground for divorce.To this end, it seeks to amend five Acts: (i) the Divorce Act, 1869, (ii) the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, (iii) the Special Marriage Act, 1954, (iv) the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and (v) the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.The Amendment...

CBI -Alok Verma Case : SC To Pronounce Verdict Tomorrow

The Court had reserved orders on December 6.

SC Issues Notice On Plea For Cross-Verification Of VVPAT Trails In At least 30% Polling Stations

The Supreme Court, on Monday, sought response from Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition demanding counting and cross verification of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPAT) in at least 30% (randomly chosen) of all polling stations within each Assembly Segment/ Constituency.The notice was issued by a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on...

Breaking : Kerala HC Bans Flash Hartal Without Prior Notice Of 7 Days

The High Court of Kerala today passed an order banning 'flash' hartals.The Division Bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar ordered that hartals can be declared only after giving prior notice of seven days. The Court held that within the 7 days, any citizen can challenge the declaration of hartal.The operative portion of the Court's order said :"Hartal without 7 days notice is unconstitutional and within those 7 days any citizen can challenge Hartal".The Court...

Mentally Ill Patients Kept Under Chain: SC issues Notice To Centre, States

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A. K. Sikri and Abdul Nazeer on Monday issued notice to the Centre and all states on a PIL filed in the interest of proper healthcare and treatment facilities to mental patients. Petitioner Gaurav Kumar Bansal has alleged that some of the patients, suffering from a mental illness, who are lodged in a Faith-Based Mental Asylum situated near Mohalla...

Continued Use Of Unconstitutional Section 66A IT Act: SC Assures Strict Action Against Officials, Issues Notice To Centre

The Supreme Court has issued notice in an application filed by People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), on the continued use of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act. In its petition, PUCL has submitted that more than 22 people have been prosecuted under the provision, after it was scrapped by the Apex Court in 2015. The case was argued by Advocate Sanjay Parikh, who was assisted...

Will Restoration Of Writ Petition Revive Interim Order? SC To Examine [Read Order]

The Supreme Court will examine the question whether the interim order passed in a writ petition gets revived when the main writ petition is restored.A writ petition filed in the year 1995 by the U.P. State Electricity Board was dismissed by the Allahabad High Court for want of prosecution. Later, on an application filed by the board, it was restored to file. Though there was an order of stay...

SC Issues Notice To Anil Ambani On Ericsson's Contempt Petition Over Non-payment Of Dues

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Reliance Communication Ltd (RCom) Chairman Anil Dhirubhai Ambani and others on a contempt petition filed by Ericsson India Pvt Ltd over non-payment of its dues. A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman sought a response from Ambani and others in four weeks. Appearing for R Com, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Mukul Rohatgi asked the court...

SC Declines Urgent Hearing Of PIL Seeking Linking Of Aadhaar & Voter IDs

The Supreme Court today turned down an oral plea made for urgent listing of a PIL seeking linking of Aadhaar with Voter IDs.The PIL is filed in February 2018 by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwani Upadhyaya, who made the oral mention today before the bench of CJI.In April 2018, the SC had said that it will hear the petition after the constitution bench delivers judgment in the Aadhaar case.The...