Non-Disclosure Of Pending Criminal Cases: SC Issues Notice To Maha CM Fadnavis

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S. K. Kaul and K. M. Joseph on Thursday issued notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on a plea alleging that in his election affidavit filed in 2014, he had failed to disclose the pendency of two criminal cases against him.According to the petitioner-advocate Satish Ukey, the incumbent CM did not disclose...

Pendency Of Similar Cases Not A Factor While Sentencing: SC [Read Judgment]

“The Trial Court was also in error in taking into consideration, for the purposes of sentencing, the pendency of two similar cases against the appellant which it could not, in law, consider.”The Supreme Court has held that the mere pendency of one or more criminal cases against a convict cannot be a factor for consideration while awarding a sentence.The bench comprising Justice Madan...

SC Dismisses Petition For Execution Of Nirbhaya Convicts Within Two Weeks

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, refused to entertain a petition demanding execution of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, within two weeks.The petition was dismissed by a bench comprising Justice MB Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta.It was in September, 2013, that the Additional Sessions Judge, Saket District Court Complex had found the accused in the case guilty...

HC Cannot Direct The Speaker To Decide A Disqualification Petition Within A Time Frame, Rohatgi Tells SC In TN MLAs Disqualification Case

The proceedings before the Supreme Court bench of in the case of R.Sakkrapani v Secretary, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and others took an interesting turn on Wednesday with senior counsel, Mukul Rohatgi, counsel for the 11 MLAs, led by the current Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O.Paneer Selvam, arguing that a mandamus cannot lie to the Speaker.Rohatgi took this position on the...

Can Legislature Take Over The Functions of Judiciary, In View Of Huge Pendency Of Cases, Asks SC (In Jest)

The hearing of the case R.Sakkrapani v Secretary, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and others before the three-Judge bench of Justices A.K.Sikri, Ashok Bhushan and S.Abdul Nazeer, brought out hilarious moments when senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi was harping on the ramifications of the argument that the judiciary can direct the Speaker to decide disqualification petitions within a time frame and...

SC Collegium Recommends Justice Ravindra Bhat As CJ Of Rajasthan HC

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the appointment of Justice Ravindra Bhat as the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.Justice Bhat is currently a judge of the Delhi High Court. The present CJ of Rajasthan HC, Justice Pradeep Nandrajog, has been recommended to be elevated as SC judge. Following this, Justice Bhat has been recommended as CJ of Rajasthan HC.Justice Bhat was appointed...

SC Collegium Recommends Elevation Of Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog To SC

Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the elevation of Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog to Supreme Court.The Five member Collegium headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has also recommended the elevation of Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon to the top Court.Justice Pradeep Nandrajog was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1981. He...

Breaking :Collegium Recommends Elevation Of Delhi HC Chief Justice Rajendra Menon To SC

The Supreme Court collegium has resolved to recommend the elevation of Justice Rajendra Menon, currently the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, to the Supreme Court.The Collegium has taken the decision in a meeting held on Wednesday.Justice Menon was born on 7th June 1957, graduated in Science from Govt. Science College, Jabalpur under Rani Durgawati University (Jabalpur), did LL.B from NSE...

Convict’s Socio-Economic Condition Must Be Considered While Awarding Sentence: SC Commutes Death Sentence [Read Judgment]

‘We endorse and accept that socio-economic factors must be taken into consideration while awarding a sentence particularly the ground realities relating to access to justice and remedies to justice that are not easily available to the poor and the needy.’While commuting death sentence awarded to a man convicted for murdering six members in a family, the Supreme Court has observed...

Based On Religion India Should Have Been Declared A Hindu Country: Meghalaya HC [Read Judgement]

While considering a petition relating to refusal of Domicile Certificate to an army recruit, the Meghalaya High Court, on Monday, traced the events leading up to India’s partition and observed,“It is an undisputed fact that at the time of partition, lakhs and lakhs of Sikhs and Hindus were killed, tortured and raped and forced them to leave their forefather’s property and compelled them...

Civil Suit To Invalidate Land Acquisition Isn’t Maintainable, Reiterates SC [Read Order]

‘The only remedy left to the aggrieved party is to file a writ petition before the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India or to approach this Court.’The Supreme Court, while setting aside a Rajasthan High Court order, reiterated that a civil suit to invalidate land acquisition is not maintainable.In the suit for declaration and permanent injunction, the plaintiff...

Gujarat Fake Encounters: Govt. Objects Inquiry Report, SC Asks Justice Bedi To Reply

The Supreme Court on Wednesday requested retired Justice H. S. Bedi to communicate his views on whether the final report in respect of the investigations into the instances of fake encounter in the state of Gujarat between the 2002 and 2006 was prepared in consultation with the other members of the court-appointed Monitoring Committee of which Justice Bedi is the Chairman.Solicitor General...