Cannot Allow Rohingyas To Enter India Or Provide Them ID Cards; Allegations Of BSF Brutalities False: Centre Tells SC [Read Affidavit]

The Centre, on Thursday, reiterated its stand before the Supreme Court that it cannot allow Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to enter India, refuting the application filed by noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan.In an affidavit filed by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Centre asserted that India is already facing a "serious problem of infiltration because of its porous border with other countries...

Hearing In PILs Seeking Probe In To Judge Loya's Death Concludes, SC Reserves Judgment

The hearing in the string of writ petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of CBI special judge Loya concluded on Friday, with Senior Counsel Mukul Rohatgi, appearing on behalf of the state of Maharashtra, making his final submissionsIn context of the credibility of the discreet inquiry carried out by the Commissioner of State Intelligence, he submitted before the Supreme...

SC Postpones Elections For Bar Council Of Andhra Pradesh For 3 Months [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, postponed the elections for the State Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh for a period of three months.In the meantime, the Bench comprising Justice R.K. Agrawal and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to prepare an electoral list of Advocates who opt for being registered in the State Bar Council of Telangana, so that elections to both...

Ram Sethu Will Not Be Touched For Implementing Sethusamudram Project, Centre Tells SC [Read Affidavit]

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra that it will not touch the mythological Ram Sethu for the implementation of its Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project initiated to facilitate navigation between India's East and West coasts.Appearing for the Union Ministry for Shipping, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Pinky Anand mentioned...

For The One Last Time, SC Grants UP Govt 6 Weeks More To Decide On Criminal Procedure (UP) Amendment Bill 2010

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government on Friday sought more time from the Supreme Court to take a decision on the Bill related to the issue of inclusion of anticipatory bail provision in the state.A bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice LN Rao granted six-week time to the Yogi Adityanath government to take a decision whether to place or not the Criminal Procedure (UP) Amendment Bill 2010 before...

PNB Scam: PIL Petitioner Accuses AG Of Reading Wrong Brief, Angry CJI Abruptly Adjourns Hearing (With Courtroom Exchange)

 We do not ask a lawyer if he has read his brief. Here you are asking us to ask the AG if he has read his  brief? What sort of language is this? Maintain the decorum.You should have only said these are not my prayers.There was high drama as a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra today abruptly adjourned the hearing of a PIL for a SIT probe into PNB Scam and urgent steps to bring...

Money Lending Business: Provisions Prohibiting Payment Of Interest On Amount Of Security Deposits Not Unconstitutional: SC [Read Judgment]

We must also remember that the businesses of money lending and pawn broking are usurious businesses and the Government may rightly impose onerous conditions to restrict or even discourage people from entering into such businesses, the Bench observed.The Supreme Court in State of Karnataka vs. The Karnataka Pawn Brokers Assn., has held that provisions prohibiting payment of interest in...

Aadhaar Hearing [Day 18] Anand Grover Raises Concern Over Leak Of Sensitive Bio-metric & Demographic Data, De-Duplication Errors [Read Written Submissions]

On Day 18 of the Aadhaar final hearing, Senior Counsel KV Viswanathan resumed his submissions on the point that the government has been unable to satisfactorily prove how Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA) has contributed towards savings and the plugging of leakages in social security schemes.In connection with the PDS, he elaborated on the kinds of frauds that are perpetrated,...

Arbitration Amendment Act 2015: New Section 36 Apply Even To pending Section 34 Applications On The Date Of Commencement Of The Amendment Act [Read Judgment]

“Since it is clear that execution of a decree pertains to the realm of procedure, and that there is no substantive vested right in a judgment debtor to resist execution, Section 36, as substituted, would apply even to pending Section 34 applications on the date of commencement of the Amendment Act”, said the Bench.A Supreme Court bench of Justice R.F. Nariman and Justice Navin...

SC Extends Protection To Karti Till March 26; Transfers Pending ED Matters In Delhi HC To Itself [Read Order]

In a relief to Karti Chidambaram, the Supreme Court today extended the protection from arrest granted to him by the Delhi High Court earlier in the day from March 22 by another four days to March 26.Enforcement Directorate (ED) is seeking his arrest in the INX Media money laundering case.Significantly the apex court also transferred to itself all matters pending before the Delhi High...

Mandatory Training For Ultrasonography: SC Stays Delhi HC Judgment In Indian Radiological And Imaging Association Case [Read Order]

We direct in consequence that the judgment of this Court in Voluntary Health Association of Punjab shall be strictly enforced by all states and union territories untrammelled by any order of any High Court or any other court, the Bench said.The Supreme Court has stayed a Delhi High Court judgment that held that there are no provisions in the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic...

Fully Equipped SC Creche To Become Operational On May 1 [Read Order]

Bench led by Justice Gogoi asked all stakeholders  to sit together with SC Registry officials to decide on all modalities like the age of children to be admitted; fees to be charged, number of employees; qualification of employees, questions of health-care/hygiene, food, etc.and file a report on April 10 A fully equipped crèche is going is likely to be inaugurated and become operational...