SC Grants ‘One-Time Relaxation’ To Candidates Enrolled For Distance Course In Engineering During 2001-2005 Academic Years [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, in a relief to those candidates who were enrolled for Distance Course in Engineering during the academic years 2001-2005, has issued following directions as ‘one-time relaxation’: All such candidates, who wish to appear at the forthcoming test to be conducted by AICTE in May-June 2018 and who exercise option to appear at the test in terms of the judgment, can retain...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

SC Elucidates Principles Of ‘Under Insurance’ And “Averaging Out”Elucidating the principles of “under-insurance” and “averaging out”, the Supreme Court, in IC Sharma vs The Oriental Insurance Co Ltd, held that when a group of items is insured under one heading and only some of the items and not all items are lost/stolen, then the principle of under-insurance will apply. The...

GST On Lawyers: SC Stays Further Proceedings In Petitions Pending Before Delhi And Chattisgarh High Courts [Read Petition & Order]

Supreme Court on Monday stayed all further proceedings in petitions challenging the applicability of Goods and Service Tax (GST) on lawyers for their services individually or through law firms, pending before the Delhi High Court and Chattisgarh High Court.The Centre has approached the Supreme Court under Article 139A of the Constitution of India seeking the transfer the petitions submitting...

Salve Vs Dave -The Gripping Courtroom Exchange In SC During Judge Loya Death Case Hearing

During the Monday hearing of judge BH Loya’s death case, the Chief Justice’s Court saw unusual heated exchanges between top senior lawyers in the country Harish Salve and Dushyant Dave, Mukul Rohatagi and Indira Jaising.Dave appeared for the Bombay Lawyers Association while Salve appeared for the State of Maharashtra. Mukul Rohtagi, too, appeared for the State of Maharashtra,...

SC To Hear Review Plea Against Quashing Of NJAC In March

The Supreme Court today said it will hear a petition filed by 'National Lawyers' Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms' seeking review of its October 2015 judgment that quashed NJAC “sometime in March”.“We are seeking complete dismantlement of collegium system of appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts”, advocate Mathew Nedumpara, representing the...

BCI Finalises Schedule For Elections To All State Bar Councils

The Bar Council of India has finalised the schedule for elections to different state bar councils while noting that some state bar councils acted at a snail pace when it came to publishing electoral rolls and others sought more time even as the Supreme Court intended to see the elections to all state bar councils completed by March.The BCI General Body had, in its meeting held on January...

SC Decides To Hear Petitions Seeking Probe In To Judge Loya's Death, Orders Transfer Of Petitions Pending Before Bombay HC To SC [Read Order]

The two writ petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of CBI special judge Loya came up for hearing before the Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Monday.The hearing commenced with the counsel for one of the petitioners submitting before the bench that the document supplies in respect of the matter are...

SC Seeks Centre’s View On Plea To Exclude Creamy Layer Among SC/ST From Reservation Benefits [Read Petition]

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra of the Supreme Court has asked for the view of Union Government on a PIL that sought keeping out the creamy layer, that is relatively wealthier or well educated, among SC/ST tribes in matters of providing reservation in jobs and education sector.The PIL was filed by Samta Andolan Samiti, a body representing the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes...

Office Of Profit Row: President Approves Disqualification Of 20 AAP MLAs By ECI [Read Notification]

President Ram Nath Kovind has approved the Election Commission of India's (ECI) recommendation for disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs for holding office of profit.The MLAs who have been axed are Adarsh Shastri (Dwarka), Alka Lamba (Chandni Chowk), Anil Bajpai (Gandhi Nagar), Avtar Singh (Kalkaji), Kailash Gahlot (Najafgarh), Madan Lal (Kasturba Nagar), Manoj Kumar (Kondli),...

Senior Advocate Indira Jaising Starts Change.Org Petition For Live Streaming Of Supreme Court Proceedings

After petitioning the Supreme Court for live streaming and video recording of cases of "national importance", Senior Advocate Indira Jaising has now started a change.org Petition with similar demands.Addressed to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, her Petition says, "The Supreme Court has advanced the human rights jurisprudence of this country and heard pleas of citizens...

Judge Loya Death Probe PIL To Be Heard By CJI Bench On Monday

In an interesting turn of events, the Petitions seeking independent probe into Judge Loya’s Death will be heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud on Monday.The Apex Court had, on Tuesday, adjourned the proceedings after the Maharashtra Government had filed all documents pertaining to it before the Court in a...

Cannot Take Benefit Of Reservation Just Because Spouse Belongs To Scheduled Caste: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, refused to allow a woman to take benefit of reservation just because she was married to a man who belonged to the Scheduled Castes, asserting that caste is determined by birth and not by marriage."There cannot be any dispute that the caste is determined by birth and the caste cannot be changed by marriage with a person of scheduled caste. Undoubtedly, the...