Advisories Issued To States, UTs, Corporates For Effective Implementation Of Sexual Harassment At Workplace Act: Centre Tells SC [Read Affidavit]

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that the government has requested leading business organisations Assocham, Ficci, Confederation of Indian Society, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and Nasscom to ensure effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013.Appearing for the Ministry of Women and...

Initiate Suo Motu Proceedings For Implementation Of JJ Act,Establish Child Friendly And Vulnerable Witness Courts: SC To High Courts [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, requested Chief Justices of all High Courts to "seriously consider" establishing child friendly courts and vulnerable witness courts in each district.The Bench comprising Justice M.B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta observed, "Inquiries under the JJ Act and trials under other statutes such as the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, the...

SC Summons HP Chief Secy To Explain Why Standing Counsel For State Isn’t Appearing In Criminal Appeals [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has summoned the Chief Secretary of the State of Himachal Pradesh to appear before it to explain the reasons for not engaging any counsel in some criminal appeals.The bench was hearing the appeals filed by Rangeel Singh, Manoj Kumar and Surinder Singh whose conviction and sentence was upheld by Himachal Pradesh High Court in a murder case. They were sentence to...

Hearing Of 'Live Streaming Of Cases' In SC : Who Said What?

As the writ petition filed by senior counsel Indira Jaising seeking live streaming of apex court proceedings came up for hearing before the Supreme Court on Friday, petitioner-in-person advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, having instituted a petition seeking identical relief, submitted that Jaising’s petition was mentioned even before filing ‘to garner publicity’.To this, Jaising asked...

SC Grants J&K Govt 4 Weeks Time To Take Final Stand On Constituting Minority Commission

The Supreme Court today granted four weeks time to Jammu and Kashmir government to take a final stand on constituting a state minority commission.This was after Attorney General K K Venugopal who appeared for Centre submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that the state had shown disinterest in the joint meeting of Centre and state officials to discuss the issue, as...

Sham Transactions Illegal Even If There Is Little Effect On Stock Market: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) which held that only if there is market impact on account of sham transactions, could there be violation of the Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices Regulations.A bench of Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice R Banumathi observed that the stock market is not a platform for any fraudulent or...

Why Sudden Flurry Of Activities Near Taj ? SC Asks UP Govt

Why hotels and leather industries were coming up in Taj Tapezium Zone when it was stopped earlier? the supreme court wanted to know from Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday.A bench of justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta has asked the state government to submit a vision document on protection and preservation of the Taj."Look..We find a sudden flurry of activities in this zone. Any...

Ayodhya Hearing: Rajeev Dhavan’s Comments & CJI Misra’s Response

The hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case  not only witnessed special bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra taking stock of the status of pleadings and submission of documents but was also marked by some sharp comments from  senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan who appeared for Appellant M.Siddique (Through LRS) .Dhavan insisted that the issue was important and demanded...

Restricting Anticipatory Bail For Offences Under SC/ST Act Unconstitutional, Submits Amicus, SC Reserves Judgment [Read Written Submissions]

A division bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice UU Lalit on Wednesday reserved its judgment in SLP (Crl.) No. 5661 of 2017, Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v. State of Maharashtra.Vide its order dated 20.11.2017, the bench had framed the following questions of law:(i)           Whether there can be procedural safeguards so that provisions of Scheduled Castes and the...

There Is No Lapse Of Acquisition Due To The Non-deposit Of Amount In Court: SC 3 Judge Bench, Pune Municipal Corporation Case 'Per incurium' :(2;1) Majority [Read Judgment]

Due to the failure of deposit in court, the only consequence at the most in appropriate cases may be of a higher rate of interest on compensation as envisaged under section 34 of the Act of 1894 and not lapse of acquisition, the Bench observed.A three judge bench of Justices Arun Mishra, AK Goel and Mohan Shantanagoudar has answered some important questions vis-à-vis old and new land...

Shopian Firing: Major Aditya Singh’s Father Moves SC Seeking Quashing Of FIR Against Him [Read Petition]

Lt. Col. Karamveer Singh, father of Major Aditya Singh who was named in the FIR registered by the J&K Police after the Shopian firing on January 27 in which three civilians were killed, has approached the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the FIR against his son and other Army personnel.In his petition, filed through advocate Aishwarya Bhati, he also questioned why the J&K Police...

Ayodhya Hearing: SC Ensures Parties Get The Documents And Videos, Next Hearing On March 14 [Read Order]

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Abdul Nazeer and Justice Ashok Bhushan on Thursdays scheduled the hearing in the string of appeals arising out of the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute for March 14.Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta submitted before the bench on Thursday that 504 exhibits, including...