CIC Sridhar Acharyulu Retires After A Proactive Term As RTI Custodian

"It is undeniable that his tenure has strengthened the RTI regime, shaping it as a powerful tool to ensure constitutional governance"Professor M Sridhar Acharyulu(also known Madabhushi Sridhar) has retired as Central Information Commissioner yesterday, after an eventful tenure of five years.  A law professor at NALSAR Hyderabad and author of several books of law and journalism, he was...

Not Getting Job Due To Pendency of Criminal Appeal For Last 10 Years: SC Asks MP HC To Expeditiously Dispose Of Criminal Appeal Filed By A Electronic Engineer-Cum-MBA Graduate [Read Order]

“The incident is of the year 2005 and the appeal is pending before the High Court from the last ten years.”The Supreme Court has ‘requested’ the Madhya Pradesh High court to dispose of expeditiously a criminal appeal filed by a youth who is a qualified Electronic Engineer and MBA graduate.Santosh had approached the apex court as his plea seeking expeditious disposal was turned down by...

SC To Hear Review Petitions In A Death Sentence Case Afresh; Recalls 2012 Order [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has recalled a 2012 order by which it had dismissed review petition against a judgment confirming death penalty.The bench comprising Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud passed this order while considering the convict’s request for shifting him from Nagpur Central Jail to Aurangabad. It directed the authority to consider his request...

Section 319 CrPC: Courts Cannot Mechanically Summon Persons As Accused Not Named In Charge-Sheet Just Because A Witness Named Them, Says SC [Read Judgment]

“The test that has to be applied is one which is more than prima facie case as exercised at the time of framing of charge, but short of satisfaction to an extent that the evidence, if goes unrebutted, would lead to conviction.”The Supreme Court held that merely because a court has power under Section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure to proceed against any person who is not named in...

Primary Duty Of Lawyer Is To Disclose All Material Facts Before Obtaining Any Order From The Court; SC Pulls Up Lawyer [Read Order]

“We have warned him that such unbecoming conduct of an advocate who appears before this Court, will be sternly dealt with should any future incident of a like nature arise before this Court.”The Supreme Court bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Navin Sinha on Monday came down heavily on a lawyer for suppressing the factum of an earlier order.On 22nd October, Advocate...

Breaking: Delhi Court Awards First Death Sentence In Anti-Sikh Riots Case

This is the first Death Sentence awarded in a Case related to 1984 Anti-Sikh RiotsA Delhi court Tuesday awarded death penalty to convict Yashpal Singh and ordered life imprisonment to another, Naresh Sherawat, for killing of two men during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi leaving nearly 3,000 people dead.In the first verdict after...

CBI Vs CBI: 'Article In 'The Wire' Not Based On Alok Verma's Response To Court': Fali Nariman Clarifies, SC Adjourns Hearing To Nov 29

Senior Counsel Fali S. Nariman, appearing for CBI Director Alok Kumar Verma, clarified that the stories carried by ‘The Wire’ are based on Verma’s answers to the questions put to him in the course of the CVC inquiry and not to the report of the institution to which the reply on his behalf was supposed to be submitted to the court in sealed cover.When the matter had come up for hearing...

CBI Vs CBI: CJI Expresses Displeasure Over Leak Of Alok Verma's Confidential Reply To CVC Report

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S. K. Kaul and K. M. Joseph adjourned to November 29 the hearing on the pleas by CBI Director Alok Verma and NGO Common Cause challenging the October 23 orders of the CVC and the Central government sending Verma on leave and handing over the interim charge of the agency to Mr. Nageshwar Rao.At the previous hearing on Friday,...

SC Commutes Death Penalty In Kidnap-Cum-Murder Case [Read Order]

The Supreme Court last week ‘altered’ death sentence awarded to a murder convict to ‘life imprisonment’.The bench of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar and Justice MR Shah set aside the death penalty imposed on Swapan Kumar Jha in a short order stating that a reasoned order will follow. The same bench had, on the previous day, passed a similar ‘reasoned order...

SC Recalls Its 2006 Order That Dismissed ‘In Limine’ a SLP Against Imposition Of Death Sentence In A Kidnap Cum Murder Case [Read Order]

Last week, the Supreme Court recalled an order it passed twelve years ago by which it had dismissed in limine a special leave petition challenging imposition of capital punishment in a kidnap cum murder case.SLP filed by Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar against Bombay High Court judgment confirming his death sentence was dismissed by the Supreme Court on 21st July 2006. The review petition was...

2002 Gujarat Riots: SC To Hear Zakia Jafri's Plea Challenging Clean Chit To Narendra Modi On November 26

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to next week the hearing in the SLP preferred by Zakia Jafri, wife of former MP Ahsan Jafri, who was killed in the 2002 Godhra riots, challenging the Gujarat High Court judgment upholding the clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Others in connection with the genocide.The bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Deepak Gupta was of...

#Sabarimala: 'Duty Bound To Implement Judgment, But Facing Practical Difficulties': Devaswam Board Seeks Further Time From SC To Implement The Judgment [Read Application]

The Travancore Devaswom Board has filed an application before the Supreme Court seeking further time to implement the constitution bench judgment allowing women to enter Sabarimala.In its application, the board says it is 'duty bound' to implement the judgment in ‘letter and spirit’, but is facing certain practical difficulties in that regard.The board said that judgment has evoked...