Frame Guidelines To Ensure Safety Of School Children Within 3 Months: SC to HRD Ministry

“The Ministry of HRD shall draft guidelines after going through the suggestions submitted by various states, Petitioners and stakeholders. Such rules shall be applicable to both private and government schools. It shall be submitted within three months”, the SC bench said.A bench of justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and Rohinton Nariman of the Supreme Court today directed the Ministry of...

Collegium Reiterates The Recommendation To Appoint Justice Ramendra Jain As Permanent Judge Of Punjab & Haryana HC

The Supreme Court Collegium has reiterated its recommendation for appointment of Mr. Justice Ramendra Jain, Additional Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court as permanent Judge of High Court.The Three-Judge Collegium comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Jasti Chelameshwar and Ranjan Gogoi on Tuesday resolved that it would only be appropriate that the proposal for appointment...

Aadhaar [Day-29] There Is A Possibility Of Abuse Of Aadhaar Data To Manipulate Elections: Justice Chandrachud

On Day 29 of the Aadhaar final hearing, resuming his submissions, Senior Counsel Rakesh Dwivedi urged before the Supreme Court five-judge bench that under section 8 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Deliveries of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act of 2016, the biometric and demographic information of an individual is used only for authentication.Referring to sections 8(3) and...

SC Upholds Centre’s Decision To Scrap Limited Competitive Examination For Recruitment To IPS [Read Judgment]

We have no doubt that the decision to scrap the LCE recruitment has been taken in the larger public interest, the bench said.The Supreme Court has upheld the decision taken by the Central government to scrap the Limited Competitive Examination (LCE) recruitment for making appointments to the Indian Police Service (IPS), observing that the same has been taken in the ‘larger...

SC Sets Aside ‘Unreasoned’ Family Court Order That Asked Husband To Pay Rs.15 Lakh Permanent Alimony To Wife [Read Judgment]

Orders of the high court and family court deprived him to know the reasons for fixing the permanent alimony amount of Rs.15,00,000 payable to his wife, the bench said.The Supreme Court today set aside an ‘unreasoned’ family court order that directed a husband to pay Rs. 15 lakh as permanent alimony to wife.The bench of Justice RK Agrawal and Justice AM Sapre was considering an appeal filed...

Draft Witness Protection Scheme Is Ready, Centre Tells SC; Sent To All States, UTs For Furnish Comments By May 31 [Read Order]

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has told the Supreme Court that it has prepared a draft Witness Protection Scheme 2018, and also provided it to all the State Governments and the Union Territories Administration requesting them to furnish their comments.The Supreme Court Bench was also apprised that, initially, the states and UTs were told to furnish their comments by 9th April, but later...

No SC Respite To Latha Rajnikanth On Rs. 6.2 Crore Film Dues [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday reiterated its direction to Ms. Latha Rajinikanth's firm M/s Mediaone Global Entertainment Ltd. to pay Rs. 6.2 crore along with interest to the firm, Ad Bureau which had financed the movie ‘Kochadaiiyaan’.The Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R. Banumathi was hearing an impleadment application filed on behalf of Mediaone, which had claimed that...

Expedite Process To Select Lokpal: SC; Centre Says Meeting To Appointment 'Eminent Jurist' Held On April 10 [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to expedite the process for appointment of a Lokpal.The remark came when Attorney General K K Venugopal submitted before a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi that a meeting was held on April 10 to choose an eminent jurist who will be part of the selection committee to select the Lokpal.Noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan on behalf of petitioner...

Sec 27 Of Evidence Act Applicable Only If Confessional Statement Leads To Discovery Of Some New Fact: SC [Read Judgment]

The material objects which the police is claimed to have recovered from the accused may well have been planted by the police, the bench said.The Supreme Court, in Navaneethakrishnan v The State by Inspector of Police, has reiterated the settled legal proposition that Section 27 of the Evidence Act is applicable only if the confessional statement leads to the discovery of some new fact...

Prashant Bhushan Files Criminal Complaint Against Madhu Kishwar Alleging Communally Provocative Tweet [Read Complaint]

Advocate Prashant Bhushan has filed a criminal complaint against Madhu Kishwar alleging that her tweet against Rohingyas in connection with Kathua rape-murder case was her communally provocative. Madhu Kishwar, an academic activist, has a twitter handle with more than 2 million followers.  On April 14, she had tweeted that the rape and murder of the minor girl in Kathua were suspected to be...

Kathua Case- State Shall Give Security To Victim's Family, Advocates Deepika Singh And Talib Hussain: SC, Issues Notice On Transfer Petition [Read Order]

Supreme Court has issued notice to the state of Jammu and Kashmir on the writ petition filed on behalf of the Kathua gangrape and murder victim’s father, praying for the transfer of the trial proceedings outside of the state.The Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar has also ordered protection to victim's family members and...

Nanak Shah Fakir: SC Refuses To Deliberate On Rights Of A Religious Denomination Under Article 26(b)

Hearing an application on behalf of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) for vacation of its interim order dated April 10 permitting the exhibition of the film Nanak Shah Fakir, the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra refused to extend the scope of the primary writ petition to decide the contents of the right under Article 26(b) of a religious denomination...