Justice Rajesh Bindal Committee Suggests One Window Solution For Inter-Country Removal & Retention Of Children [Read Report]

The Committee headed by Punjab and Haryana HC Judge, Justice Rajesh Bindal has examined issues relating to inter-country parental child removal, and has suggested a model legislation to safeguard interests of the parents and the children.The High Level Committee was constituted on 18 May, 2017, and has now stressed upon the need for mediation as the first step. It has also suggested that...

As NEET Candidates From TN Travel To Far-Off Centres, SC Asks CBSE To Ensure Minimum Inconvenience In Future [Read Order]

While staying the Madras High Court order by which the CBSE was asked to set up additional examination centres in Tamil Nadu for this year’s National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for the sake of students allotted centres as far as Rajasthan and Kerala, the Supreme Court has directed the Board to ensure minimum inconvenience is caused to students in future.A bench of Justice SA Bobde...

Kathua Rape Case: Accused Come To The Defence Of Jammu Bar Associations; Demand CBI Probe

In an interesting turn of events, two of those accused for the rape and murder of an eight year old girl in Kathua have now come to the defence of the Jammu State Bar Associations, which have been censured for allegedly siding with the accused and preventing members of the state police from filing a chargesheet in the matter in front of the Chief Judicial Magistrate.In their...

MP HC Allows Visually-Challenged Woman To Pursue Her Dream To Become Judicial Officer [Read Order]

The problem is in the mindset that a visually challenged candidate will not be able to read, write and thus, would not be able to discharge the duties as a Judicial Officer, the bench said.The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday asked the high court authorities to give reservation to a visually-challenged candidate and directed it to conduct a special written examination by providing...

Centre And SC Lock Horns Over Judicial Appointments In Open Court

With the rift between the Centre and the Supreme Court widening, the two recently had a face-off in open Court over the delay in appointment of judges, according to a Hindustan Times report.A Bench comprising Justice M.B. Lokur, who is a part of the Supreme Court collegium, and Justice Deepak Gupta was hearing a petition filed by a Manipur resident, who had lost a case before a single-judge...

Allahabad HC Challenges Its Own Judgment On HC's Superintendence Over Family Courts; SC Issues Notice [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on an appeal filed by the Allahabad High Court against its own judgment placing family courts under the superintendence of the High Court.The notice was issued by a Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R. Banumathi on a petition challenging a judgment passed in July last year.The petition before the High Court had been filed by the...

Supreme Court Is One, Bar Fosters Us, Nurtures Us: CJI Dipak Misra At Justice Agrawal's Farewell Function

Justice R K Agrawal was given a warm farewell today by the Supreme Court Bar Association at a function presided over by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, some of the judges and large number of lawyers.The event comes at a time when Supreme Court is gripped by several crises centered around the CJI himself- friction with four senior most judges, impeachment motion against him and spat with the centr...

Inordinate Delay To Complete Investigation May Be Taken As Presumptive Proof Of Prejudice, Particularly When Accused Is In Custody: SC [Read Order]

There is certainly a need for in-house mechanism to ensure that there is no undue delay in completing investigation, the bench said.The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, observed that inordinate delay in completing investigation may be taken as presumptive proof of prejudice particularly when accused is in custody so that prosecution does not become persecution.The bench of Justice AK Goel and...

Collegium Vs Centre: Facts And Figures Show That Centre's Reasons For Non-elevation Of Justice KM Joseph Are Weak

The collegium on Wednesday deferred a decision on reiterating Justice KM Joseph's nomination and appears to have clubbed his case with additional nominations from the Calcutta, Rajasthan, and Telangana & Andhra Pradesh high courts "in view of the concept of fair representation".The Narendra Modi government’s argument in withholding the elevation Justice K.M. Joseph – currently...

SC Refuses Permission To Mining Baron Janardhana Reddy To Campaign In Ballari For Karnataka Polls

The Supreme Court today disallowed Karnataka mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy to visit Ballari and campaign for his brother Somasekhara Reddy, a BJP candidate in the constituency and also vote in the May 12 election.Janardhana Reddy, an accused in the illegal mining case is out on bail.“We find no merit. The petition is dismissed”, a bench of justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan...

Incorrect Reference Regarding Applicability Of Indian Arbitration Act, 1940 Wouldn’t Render Entire Arbitration Agreement Invalid: SC [Read Judgment]

Any reference to 1940 Act in the arbitration agreement would be of no consequence and the matter would be referred to arbitration only in terms of 1996 Act consistent with the basic intent of the parties as discernible from the arbitration agreement to refer the disputes to arbitrationSetting aside, what it termed as a ‘completely erroneous’ order, the Supreme Court observed that even if...

Disclosing Names Of Rape Victims In Affidavits: SC Accepts Apology On Behalf Of States [Read Order]

It has been impressed upon them that they have committed a very serious lapse and they are required to be far more circumspect in future, the bench said.The Supreme Court has accepted apologies tendered on behalf of the states of West Bengal and Uttarakhand for disclosing names of rape victims in the affidavit they filed before the court, observing that they have committed a very serious...