“Be Serious, Make It A Model For Other Metros”, SC Green Signal To LG Panel For Clearing Delhi’s Garbage Mountains

Giving the green signal to the experts committee under principal secretary of Delhi Government's urban development department to draw a plan to clear the landfill sites at Ghazipur, Bhalaswa and Okhla, the Supreme Court today directed them to hold their first meeting next Tuesday.The panel has been asked to meet for five days in the first two weeksA bench of justices Madan B Lokur, Deepak...

SC Directs Kannur Medical College To Pay One Crore (From Cost) To Kerala Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund [Read Order]

The Supreme court, on Wednesday, while disposing an SLP filed by Kannur Medical College, directed the College to pay an amount of Rupees One Crore from the cost imposed by the Court to the Chief Minister’s Flood Relief Fund, Kerala.The bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Indira Banerjee said that the deposit has to be made before 20th September. It also directed the college to also...

SC Upholds Pan India Reservation Policy in Delhi, But States Can't Unilaterally Extend Reservation To SC/ST Members Of Other States [Read Judgment]

“If in the opinion of a State it is necessary to extend the benefit of reservation to a class/category of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes beyond those specified in the Lists for that particular State, constitutional discipline would require the State to make its views in the matter prevail with the central authority so as to enable an appropriate parliamentary exercise to be made by...

Vision Document On Taj Mahal: SC Stresses On Keeping Interest Of Monument, TTZ In Mind; Expects UP Govt To Take Call On Declaring Agra A Heritage City In A Month [Read Order]

Disquieted by the incorrect figures of polluting industries near the Taj Mahal, the Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasized that the vision document for protection and preservation of the UNESCO world heritage site must be prepared while keeping the larger picture and the interest of the Taj Mahal and the Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) in mind.A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice S Abdul Nazeer...

“Govt Unprepared. We Are Anguished”: SC Defers Hearing On PIL For Fast Track Courts To Try MPs/MLAs

“It seems the government is compelling us to pass certain orders which we do not want. The union of India is unprepared. We express our anguish”, a bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph said as the government did not have any specific answer in its counter affidavit regarding the number of cases pending in each fast-track court already set up The Supreme Court...

“Can These Important Busy People Meet Daily?”, SC Raises Questions Over LG’s ‘Clear Landfill Sites’ Panel

The example Justice Lokur cited to drive home his point: “ Once a Chief justice of this court formed an experts committee with big guns of  India like Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji etc. .etc..they could not meet even once. Then what is the purpose of forming the committee?”Continuing its hearing on Delhi’s worsening garbage issue, a bench headed by Justice M B Lokur of the Supreme...

SC Partially Stays Delhi HC Judgement Striking Down Exclusion Of Genetic Disorders From Insurance Policies As Unconstitutional [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday partially stayed the Delhi High Court judgment which had held as unconstitutional discrimination in health insurance against individuals based on their genetic disposition or genetic heritage, in the absence of appropriate genetic testing and laying down of intelligible differentia.The Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Navin Sinha and Justice KM...

BREAKING : 'Dissent Is The Safety Valve Of Democracy": SC Says Five Activists Arrested Shall Be Kept At Their Houses Only [Read Order & Petition]

"Dissent is a safety valve of democracy. If you don't allow dissent, the pressure valve of democracy will burst", Justice Chandrachud observed during the hearing.The Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, Justice A.M.Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y.Chandrachud, was about to rise at 4.45 p.m. after hearing a couple of mentioning matters, when senior counsel, Abhishek...

Entire Prosecution Story Shouldn’t Be Doubted For Certain Embellishments: SC Revives 1993 WB Panchayat Post-Poll Violence Case [Read Judgment]

‘It is but natural to have certain minor variations in the evidence of eye-witnesses when a large number of people had gathered to assault a smaller group of people and which resulted in death of five persons and injuries to 24 persons.’Reviving a criminal case related to a post-panchayat poll violence in West Bengal in 1993, the Supreme Court has observed that merely because there...

Stick To Timelines Or Risk Being Superseded: SC Warns Pharmacy Council Of India [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has warned the Pharmacy Council of India of superseding it if the latter does not mend its irregularity in granting recognition to pharmacy institutions despite them having met all pre-requisites to start admissions.The Bench comprising Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Indu Malhotra observed, “We have been informed that the Pharmacy Council is doing this in a...

SC To Hear Petition Challenging "Arbitrary Arrests" Of Human Rights Activists At 3:45 PM

Five eminent citizens led by Professor Romila Thapar today moved the Supreme Court against "arbitrary arrests" of human rights defenders including Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha citing "Maoist links".The matter was mentioned by senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing the petitioners,  before a constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Sanjay Kishan...

Sudha Bharadwaj Not To Be Taken Out Of Haryana Till August 30 As CJM Recalls Transit Remand After Midnight Hearing [Read Order]

In a temporary relief to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, she will not be taken out of Haryana till August 30, as the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) recalled the earlier order of transit remand to Maharashtra Police. The recall was made following the directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court in the habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf.Earlier in the day, at 7.40 PM, the CJM had...