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...

Aadhaar Hearing [Day-9] Article 21 Gives Me Choice And The Aadhaar Act Takes It Away: Kapil Sibal

On Day 9 of the Aadhaar hearing, Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal commenced his arguments submitting that many persons are facing problems in registration for old age homes on account of the need for Aadhaar. “How many parts of the country do not have electricity and wifi? How many places are there where machines have not reached and where they do not work? How can the Aadhaar scheme be...

Finalization Of MoP For Appointment Of Judges Will Take More Time: Govt In Lok Sabha

The finalization of the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) is going to take more time, the Ministry of Law and Justice told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.It was on December 16, 2015 that the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had directed the Government to draft a new Memorandum of Procedure [MoP] for appointment of High Court and Supreme Court Judges. The MoP has since been getting tossed...

5,925 Judicial Officer Vacancies In Lower Courts: Govt. In Lok Sabha

There exist 5,925 vacant posts of judicial officers in District and Subordinate Courts, the Ministry of Law and Justice told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.The answer was tabled in response to a question raised by YSR Congress Party chief whip in Parliament Y.V. Subba Reddy, who sought to know the number of vacancies in the lower Courts, as well as the steps being taken by the Centre to fill...

Appeal Against Execution Of Foreign Arbitration Award Not Maintainable Under Commercial Courts Act, Holds SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has held that appeal provided under Section 13 of the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Court Act 2015 cannot be invoked to challenge order allowing execution of foreign award. The division bench comprising Justice R.F Nariman and Justice Navin Sinha held that appeals in respect of arbitration proceedings are exclusively governed...

SC Quashes All Iron Ore Mining Leases In Goa; Operations To Stop By 15 March [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, cancelled all iron ore mining leases in the State of Goa. The leases, which were renewed for the second time, would now lapse on 15 March.The Bench comprising Justice M.B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta opined that the second renewal of the mining leases granted by the State were " unduly hasty, without taking all relevant material into consideration and...

Plea To Ban Legislators From Legal Practice Reaches SC [Read Petition]

Three days after a sub-committee of the Bar Council of India concluded in their report that  MPs, MLAs and MLCs- cannot be barred from legal practice,  the same petitioner  Ashwini Upadhyay on Wednesday  moved the Supreme Court  challenging the permission to an individual to perform the dual role of a lawyer  and a legislator on grounds of conflict of interest and violation of...

Aadhaar Hearing [Day-8] Our Identity As Indians Cannot Be Confined To Mere Aadhaar Numbers: Kapil Sibal [Read Written Submissions]

As the Aadhaar hearing resumed on Wednesday, Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing on behalf of petitioner Raghav Tankha and another, submitted that Section 8(3)(c) of the Aadhaar Act of 2016, which speaks of ‘alternatives to submission of identity information to the requesting entity’, has been wrongly drafted as the definition of ‘authentication’ in section 2(c) of the Act leaves...

Can't Allow Continuous Blackmailing Of Victim: Sc Asks Accused In Jindal Gang Rape To Give iCloud Password To Victim

The Supreme Court Bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice LN Rao on Wednesday asked the OP Jindal Global University gang rape accused to share their iCloud account password with the victim.“We are not concerned about the guilty. We are concerned about the present situation. There are pictures of the girl with one of you. It is difficult for us to accept and tolerate continuous...

A Humane Attitude Required When Dealing With Custody/Bail Of Accused: SC [Read Judgment]

A humane attitude is required to be adopted by a judge while dealing with an application for remanding a suspect or an accused person to police custody or judicial custody, the bench observed.Emphasising on the necessity of ‘introspection’, while denying bail to an accused, the Supreme Court has granted bail to an accused observing that if the investigating officer does not find it...

Motor Accident Claim: If The Transfer Of Vehicle Is Not Registered With Authority Original Owner Is Liable [Read Judgment]

A claimant for compensation ought not to be burdened with following a trail of successive transfers, which are not registered with the registering authority, the bench observed.The Supreme Court, in Naveen Kumar v Vijay Kumar, has held that the expression ‘owner’ for the purpose of Motor Vehicles Act is the person in whose name the motor vehicle stands registered.The bench headed by the...