Why Can’t An Amendment Be Brought To Exclude ‘Toddy’ From The Definition Of ‘Liquor’, SC Asks Kerala Govt.

The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the writ petitions filed by the Kerala Toddy Shop Licensee Association and Vaikom Taluk Chethu Thozhilali Union seeking a direction to the Kerala government to not treat ‘toddy’ as ‘liquor’ while enforcing the highway liquor ban in the state.The petitions were heard by a Bench of Chief Justice Diapk Misra and Justices AM Kanwilkar and...

SC Bars HC From Hearing The Constitutional Validity Of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code /NCLT

Supreme Court of India on Thursday directed Gujarat High Court not to enter into the debate pertaining to the validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 or the constitutional validity of the National Company Law Tribunal.The Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud was hearing a petition regarding a pending matter in the Gujarat High Court...

Aadhaar For Bail: SC Asks Chhattisgarh HC To Decide The Plea For Modification Of Order In 10 Days [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of the Special  Leave Petition challenging the Chhattisgarh High Court order by which it had made Aadhaar card of the accused as well as surety mandatory before obtaining bail.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud disposed of the petition filed by advocate Peeyush Bhatia after the counsel for the...

SC Rejects Rajasthan Govt.’s Plea Against HC Order For CBI Investigation Against Police Officers In Custodial Death Case

The Supreme Court bench of Justice S. A. Bobde and Justice L. Nageswara Rao on Thursday refused to admit a Special Leave Petition filed by State of Rajasthan against the order of Rajasthan High Court transferring to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the investigation in a FIR registered under sections 143, 365 and 302 of the IPC against the state police personnel in respect of a...

Padmaavat Pre-Release Violence: SC Agrees To Hear Contempt Plea Against 4 States, Karni Sena Leaders

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday two petitions which sought initiation of contempt proceedings against the state governments of Gujarat, Rajasthan, MP and Haryana for not taking steps to ensure law and order before the release of  controversial movie ‘Padmaavat’ and not providing enough security to theatres.It is to be noted that a bench headed by Chief Justice Misra...

371 Convicts In Death Row By 2017 End, 27% Dip From 2016: Centre On Death Penalty (NLU-D) Report [Read Report]

A total of 371 convicts are on death row by the end of 2017, which is 27 per cent lower than that in 2016 when 399 persons were awarded death sentence.The statistics are part of second edition of ‘Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics Report’ Published by Centre on death penalty, National Law University.The report is a result of extensive research and analysis which involved filing of...

Aadhaar [Day-4 Session-2] Aadhaar Project’s Structure Promotes Establishment Of Surveillance State, Argues Shyam Divan

As the Aadhaar hearing resumed post lunch hour on Wednesday, senior counsel Shyam Divan, appearing on behalf of the petitioners, urged before the five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court that the architecture of the Aadhaar project is such that it promotes the establishment of a surveillance state.“The demographic and biometric data gathered under the Aadhaar scheme is stashed in...

Sohrabuddin Case: Bombay HC Quashes CBI Court Order Gagging Media, Says Trial Court Has No Such Powers [Read Order]

The Bombay High Court today struck down the media gag order passed by Special CBI judge SJ Sharma presiding over the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and Kausar Bi, and held that trial court had no power whatsoever to impose such a condition on the press.Justice Revati Mohite Dere dictated the judgement in open court in a courtroom full of journalists...

SC Seeks CBI Response On Rajiv Gandhi Murder Convict Perarivalan’s Plea To Recall Trial Court’s Conviction Order [Read Application]

The Supreme Court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice R Bhanumathi on Wednesday sought CBI response on the plea of AG Perarivalan, a life convict in the former PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to recall the trial court’s conviction order against him in 1998.Issuing notice to the CBI, the bench sought the agency's reply in three weeks and posted the matter for February...

Aadhaar-[Day-4 Session-1] Citizens Have The Right To Be Protected Against Excessive Monitoring Unless They Stand In Violation Of Law: Shyam Divan [Read Written Submission]

The hearing commenced on Wednesday with Senior Counsel Shyam Divan discussing the provision of section 59 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Deliveries of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act of 2016- “As per the text of the section, only the actions of the Central government, being in pursuance of the notification dated January 28, 2009 establishing the UIDAI, are...

‘We Don’t Want To Flog A Dead Horse’: SC Turns Down Plea For SIT Probe Into ‘Attack’ On Kanhaiya Kumar On Court Premises

The Supreme Court bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Wednesday dismissed Advocate Kamini Jaiswal’s petition seeking a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the incidents of attacks on then JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar on 15 and 17 February, 2016, at Patiala House Court while he was escorted to court room in a sedition case.“We don’t want to flog a dead horse back to...

SC Stays Execution Of Death Sentence Awarded To Man Convicted For Murder Of Five ‘Sleeping’ Persons, Including A Minor [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to one Murugeshan in a murder case.Murugeshan was found guilty by the trial court for murdering five persons, including an 8-year-old kid. The prosecution case is that the accused using a chopper, murdered five persons who were sleeping in a hut. The deceased include a minor child of eight years.“He has butchered five...