SC Asks Legal Service Authority To Aid Convict Who Spent Nearly 3 Decades In Prison [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has asked the UP Legal Service Authority to help a convict who spent nearly three decades in prison, by giving necessary legal aid to file requisite petitions before the high court challenging a Government Order that rejected his plea seeking premature release.Ashok Kumar, the convict, had approached the apex court directly challenging the rejection of his application...

Prof Kalburgi’s Widow Moves SC For SIT Probe; Notice Issued To Centre, 3 State Govts, CBI, NIA

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, the states of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka and probe agencies -- the CBI and the NIA – on a petition moved by Professor MM Kalburgi’s widow seeking “dedicated” Special Investigation Team under the supervision of a retired apex court or high court judge to probe the “conspiracy and gruesome murder” of the eminent...

HC Can’t Act Like An Investigating Agency While Exercising Inherent Powers Under S.482 CrPC: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, in Dineshbhai Chandubhai Patel v State of Gujarat, has observed that the high court, while exercising inherent powers under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (“code”), in order to examine as to whether the factual contents of the FIR disclose any prima facie cognizable offence or not, cannot act like an investigating agency and nor can it exercise powers like...

SC Tells U’khand Govt To Appoint Lokayukta Within 8 Months Of Coming Into Force Of New Legislation Of 2017

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar on Wednesday disposed off the writ petition filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay seeking the writ of mandamus to the Uttarakhand government for appointment of the Lokayukta for the state in accordance with the Uttarakhand Lokayukta Act of 2011, with a direction to the effect that the...

SC Issues Notice To Centre On A Plea To Stop Prayer Song In Kendriya Vidyalayas Based On A Particular Religion [Read Petition]

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre on a petition which sought discontinuance of a Hindu religion based song as a morning prayer in 1,125 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) across the country on the ground that it was a religious instruction which will create a “lot of obstacles in developing a scientific temperament among the students”.The petition insisted that a school or...

SC Distinguishes Freedom Of The Press From Defamation

The Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice Dipak Misra, and justices A.M.Khanwilkar and D.Y.Chandrachud, on Monday, made it clear that every instance of wrong reporting by journalists cannot be equated with defamation.The observation, coming from the CJI Dipak Misra, who had upheld the constitutionality of Section 499 Indian Penal Code, dealing with the offence of defamation, is...

Read 25 Important Judgment Of Supreme Court Of India Delivered In 2017

1.Right To Privacy Is A Fundamental RightSettling the decades long debate on the issue of the right to privacy being a fundamental right, the Supreme Court held that right to privacy is protected under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. In a unanimous decision, a nine -Judge Constitution Bench overruled the judgments in MP Sharma and Kharak Singh cases. The Petitions were disposed...

Execution By Hanging Most Viable, Lethal Injection Not Workable: Centre To SC

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that executing a death row convict by hanging was the most viable method as lethal injection “was not workable”.But this was only a mere oral remark by Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand who represented the Centre during the hearing of a plea filed by Rishi Malhotra, a Supreme Court advocate, seeking abolition of hanging by the neck.He...

SC Hearing On National Anthem; Who Said What? [Also Read The Judgment]

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar on Tuesday, replacing the word “shall” with “may” in direction (d) in the order issued by it on November 30, 2016, ruled that the playing of the national anthem by movie halls shall be deemed to be directory and not mandatory.However, the bench clarified that should a cinema...

Breaking: National Anthem Not Mandatory In Cinema Halls: SC [Read Judgment]

Henceforth it will not be mandatory for cinema halls across the country to play national anthem before start of a movie.The bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra of the Supreme Court today in a significant order, modified it's November 30, 2016 interim order which had made it mandatory. SC today left it to the discretion of each cinema house.This came following an affidavit filed by...

Judge Loya’s Death: Another PIL Filed In Bombay HC Seeking Probe By Commission Of Inquiry [Read Petition]

One more public interest litigation has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking constitution of a Commission of Inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate the death of former CBI judge presiding over the Sohrabuddin trial, judge BH Loya.The petitioner, Bombay Lawyers’ Association, has primarily relied on The Caravan’s report dated November 20, 2017, which gives...

Health Of Citizens First: SC Stays Karnataka HC Judgment On Pictorial Warnings On Tobacco Products [Read The Order]

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar on Monday granted an interim stay on the Karnataka High Court judgment dated December 15, 2017 striking down the 2014 amendment to the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling Rules) of 2008.Rule 3(1)(b) of Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging...