Cleaning Up Cricket: Retired Rly Officer, Scribe Move SC Seeking To Stay IPL, Other Leagues To Check Match-Fixing [Read Petition]

Atul Kumar, a retired railway officer, and Shantanu Guha Ray, a journalist, have approached the Supreme Court seeking directions to control the on-going massive public fraud and crime through institutionalized fixing in cricket by staying IPL and other leagues like TNPL, KPL etc and other international cricket matches in the country, and by appointing a suitable special investigating team...

Increase Diversity, Participation And Transparency In Consultation Process: Academicians And Advocates Write To Justice Srikrishna Committee [Read Letter]

A group of 24 legal academicians and advocates have written to the Justice Srikrishna Committee of Experts on Data Protection, advocating for a citizen centric data protection law and making several suggestions to achieve this objective.The group has also demanded that the consultation process be made more inclusive, claiming that the white paper released by the Committee failed to set out...

Bofors: CBI Files Appeal In SC Against Discharge Of All Accused By Delhi HC 12 Yrs Ago [Read Petition]

Twelve years after the Delhi High Court discharged all accused including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers in the Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case, the CBI today filed an appeal in the Supreme Court.The timing of the appeal is surprising as recently Attorney General K K Venugopal had advised against filing an appeal after a 12 year delay.“It could be dismissed on grounds of delay...

SC Notice To Bollywood Producer Karim Morani, Telangana Police On Rape Survivor’s Plea To Cancel Bail

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) has issued notice to Bollywood producer Karim Morani, who is an accused in an alleged rape case, and the Telangana state police on a petition filed by the rape survivor seeking cancellation of bail granted to him by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in November last year.The high court had granted him regular bail on November 17,...

High Voltage Hearing At SC In Judge Loya Matter: Will Continue On Monday [The Gripping Courtroom Exchange &Written Submissions]

The string of writ petitions seeking an independent probe into the death CBI Special Judge Loya witnessed a high voltage hearing on Friday afternoon. As the hearing commenced before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar, Senior Counsel Dushyant Dave, appearing on behalf of the Bombay Lawyers’ Association, submitted,“I...

Can TN Conserve Jallikattu As Its Culture? SC Refers Matter To Constitution Bench With Five Questions [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a constitution bench the matter pertaining to whether Tamil Nadu can conserve jallikattu as its cultural right under Article 29(1) of the Constitution which guarantees protection to cultural rights of citizens.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Rohinton Nariman felt the writ petition revolving around jallikattu involved substantial...

SC Asks MP HC To Constitute Bench Headed By Judge With Reasonable Tenure To Hear 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy Cases [Read Petition]

“In the working of the last 5 years, it is seen that the files connected with the Bhopal gas tragedy and rehabilitation are so voluminous, which is generally listed before the Hon’ble Chief Justice of the High Court or the senior-most Hon’ble Judges, who are generally transferred or elevated to this Hon’ble court within one year or before, and the petition is again listed...

SC Issues Notice To Centre On CPI(M)'s Plea Challenging Electoral Bonds [Read Petition]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, sought the Centre's response on a Petition filed by the  Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) challenging the Government's decision to issue electoral bonds.The Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar issued notice on the plea, while agreeing to hear the petition along with similar challenges by two NGOs - Association...

SC Dismisses PIL To Make Rape, Sexual Harassment, Stalking, Outraging Modesty Gender-Neutral

Terming it as an "imaginative petition", the Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL for making laws pertaining to rape, sexual harassment, stalking, voyeurism, outraging the modesty etc gender-neutral.The plea filed by a SC lawyer Rishi Malhotra had come close on the heels of the Supreme Court, on a similar petition asking the Centre to examine if adultery law can be made gender-neutral."These...

Rule 8D Of Income Tax Rules Prospective In Operation: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, in Commissioner of Income Tax Mumbai v M/s Essar Tele Holdings Ltd., has affirmed a Bombay High Court judgment holding that Rule 8D of Income Tax Rules is prospective in operation and could not have been applied to any assessment year prior to Assessment Year 2008-09.Rule 8D, which was introduced in 2008, deals with method for determining amount of expenditure in relation...

Party Not In Possession Of Device From Which Electronic Document Is Produced Need Not Produce Sec. 65B Certificate: SC [Read Order]

The applicability of requirement of certificate being procedural can be relaxed by Court wherever interest of justice so justifies, the bench observed.The Supreme Court has clarified that a party who is not in possession of device from which the electronic document is produced, cannot be required to produce certificate under Section 65B (4) of the Evidence Act.A bench of Justice AK Goel...

SC Reserves Judgment On Entry Of Foreign Law Firms To India: Read The Complete Court Room Exchange Of Final Day's Marathon Hearing

As the hearing in the Foreign Law Firms Case continued before the Supreme Court bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice U. U. Lalit on Thursday, Advocate Nakul Dewan, appearing on behalf of the Global Indian Lawyers Association, resumed his submissions.“Can an Indian Advocate partner with a foreign lawyer? In partnership, there is an element of agency; the master servant...