High Court Of Andhra Pradesh Notified To Function From Jan 1 2019 At Amaravati [Read Notification]

The President has issued notification today constituting High Court of Andhra Pradesh seated at Amaravati to function with effect from January 1, 2019.The Supreme Court had observed on October 29 that there was no legal impediment in bifurcating the the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad into the High Court of Telangana and the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. The SC said that it expects...

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Advocates For SC/ST Quota In Judiciary

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Monday, advocated for reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the judiciary, through an all-India judicial service conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).Mr. Prasad was speaking at an event organised by the All India Lawyers Board in Lucknow. The Minister further told TOI, “The judicial services examination,...

Appointment Of Information Commissioners: Disclose Info On Shortlisted Candidates, Criteria Etc. : SC To Centre, States [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre as well as States to disclose information pertaining to shortlisted candidates and the criteria being following for appointments to the Central Information Commission as well as the State Information Commissions, on their respective websites.A bench comprising Justice AK Sikri, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer and Justice R. Subhash Reddy...

SC To Hear Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Title Dispute Case On Jan 4

The Supreme Court is scheduled to take up a batch of petitions for hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case on January 4.The matter is listed before a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul.The bench is likely to constitute a three-judge bench for hearing as many as 14 appeals filed against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered in...

Review Petition Filed In SC Against Constitution Bench’s Aadhaar Judgment [Read Petition]

A review petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging its upholding of the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India & Others.The impugned judgment was authored by Justice AK Sikri, with the concurrence of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice AM Khanwilkar. It had read down certain provisions of the Aadhaar...

Want To Organise Rath Yatra To “Save Democracy” But State Govt Showing Political Vendetta: BJP Moves SC [Read Petition]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order restraining it from holding its proposed Rath Yatras in the State of West Bengal.BJP had planned three rath yatras from different parts of the State, with chariots travelling across the State’s 42 parliamentary constituencies over one-and-a-half months. The impugned order...

Advocate Challenges MHA’s Surveillance Order Before SC

Says all citizens can’t be suspected to be criminalsAn advocate on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the recent order of the Ministry of Home Affairs authorizing 10 central agencies to intercept “any information” on computers. Amit Sahni moved the Supreme Court saying the December 20 order of the MHA be quashed and strict redressal mechanism be put in place to resolve...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Accused In Summary Court Martial Proceedings Can Engage Legal Advisor [Jaswant Singh V. Union of India]The bench comprising of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice MR Shah set aside an order of punishment of dismissal from service and six months rigorous imprisonment in civil jail, awarded to an Army sepoy after finding him guilty of assaulting a superior officer.Customs Act: Assessable Value...

Plea In SC Challenges Laws Regularising Entry & Stay Of Persecuted Communities From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan In India [Read Petition]

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging rules and notifications which regularise the entry and stay in India, of people from six communities which claim to be victims of religious persecution in their own countries.More specifically, the petition, filed by the Nagarikatwa Aain Songsudhan Birodhi Mancha (Forum Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill), challenges...

Sajjan Kumar Moves SC Against Conviction In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Case

Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar Saturday moved the Supreme Court challenging the life imprisonment awarded to him by the Delhi High Court in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.Senior advocate H S Phoolka, who is representing the victims of the riots cases, said he has been conveyed by the the apex court registry that Kumar has filed an appeal against the high court's judgement.He said the...

Project For Live Electronic Exchange Of Data Between Courts & Police Launched In Telangana

The project for live electronic exchange of data between courts and the police, under the Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS), was launched on December 15, 2018 in the State of Telangana at Warangal.The project was inaugurated through video conferencing by Justice Madan B. Lokur, who is the Chairman, ICJS and Judge-In-Charge e-Committee, Supreme Court of India. During the event, a...

Rape Victim Anonymity : Mainstream Media Violated Recent SC Directions

Recently, on December 11, the Supreme Court issued a slew of directions to protect the identity of victims of rape.In Nipun Saxena vs Union of India, the SC bench of Justice M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta ordered, among other things, that "In cases where the victim is dead or of unsound mind the name of the victim or her identity should not be disclosed even under the authorization of the next...