Justice Karnan Walks Free After Serving 6-Month Jail Term For Contempt

Former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan today walked free from Kolkata’s Presidency jail after completing a six- month jail term slapped on him after found guilty of contempt of court.A seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by then Chief Justice of India J S Khehar had on May 9 this year directed that Justice Karnan be arrested “forthwith”.This was after he declined to...

How Justice Kurian Joseph Bench Is Uniting A Fighting Family

One of the main objective of the Family Court Act is ‘to promote conciliation in, and secure speedy settlement of, disputes relating to marriage and family affairs’. Although many family court judges in the country do it in their own way, perhaps they should emulate Justice Kurian Joseph and his unique ways of uniting fighting parties.An order passed, while hearing a special leave petition...

PIL Filed In Rajasthan HC Challenging Ban Of Condom Ads During Daytime

A Petition has been filed before the Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur challenging the advisory issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting banning television ads for condoms during prime time hours.The Petition has been filed by an NGO, Global Alliance for Human Rights, which has been working for the welfare of HIV +ve patients since 2012.It contends that the advisory, which asserts...

Permitting Court Arguments In Local Language Would Help Common Man To Better Understand Proceedings: President Ram Nath Kovind [Video]

The President of India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, on Saturday, stressed on the necessity to avoid delay in justice delivery and suggested that adjournments should be resorted to only as a last resort.The President asserted that the citizens should have faith in the judiciary, but yet, it is the common man who tends to avoid knocking at its door. This, he said, needs to change.Mr. Kovind was...

Debar MPs And MLAs From Practicing As Advocates: BJP Leader Writes To BCI [Read Letter]

In a letter addressed to the Chairman of Bar Council of India, Mr. Manan Kumar Mishra, BJP leader and Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has sought debarment of Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from practicing as Advocates.The letter relies on the decision rendered by the Supreme Court in the case of Dr. Haniraj L. Chulani v. Bar Council of Maharashtra...

SC Slaps Cost Of Rs. 50,000 On Litigant For Adjournment

We see no reason why the private respondent No.3 should suffer for this adjournment who has come from Chennai along with his counsel, the bench remarked.A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar has slapped cost of Rs 50,000 on a litigant for adjourning a case.When a special leave petition was posted for admission before the bench of Justice J Chelameswar and Justice Sanjay...

Piecemeal Analysis Of Movie Unwarranted: SC Sets Aside HC Order On Revocation Of Censorship Certificate To Movie 'New' [Read Order]

We are also of the opinion that it was not proper for the high court to entertain such writ petition, particularly in the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case, more so when an appropriate authority had already issued a censor certificate, the bench said.The Supreme Court has set aside a more-than-decade old Madras High Court order that directed revocation of censorship...

SC Imposes Rs.1 Lakh As Cost On PIL Seeking Direction To Centre To Implement Prohibition

The Supreme Court bench of justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Navin Sinha, on Friday, imposed cost of Rs.1 lakh on an NGO, for filing a PIL seeking directions to the Centre to bring about Prohibition in the country, under Article 47 of the Constitution.  The NGO from Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Chaitanya Sravanthi, is working in the area of women empowerment in slums.The NGO claimed that...

No Disciplinary Proceedings Can Be Initiated Against Lawyers For Their Acts Unrelated To Professional Conduct: SC [Read Judgment

The Supreme Court, setting aside disciplinary actions taken against a lawyer by Bar Council of India, has observed that initiation of disciplinary proceedings against a lawyer for his acts which has nothing to do with the professional conduct, is improper and without jurisdiction.The Bar Council of India had upheld the order of Chhattisgarh Bar Council which had held advocate Kaushal...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

After The 2016 Amendment, Mere Knowledge Of The Accused that Victim Is SC/ST Is Sufficient For Prosecution Under SC/ST Act: SC The Supreme Court, in Asharfi vs State of Uttar Pradesh, observed that after the amendment of the Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act carried out in 2016, mere knowledge of the accused that the person upon whom the offence is committed belongs...

SC Cancels Bail Granted To Woman Accused Of Forcing Girls Into Prostitution [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has cancelled bail granted to a lady convicted for immoral traffic, after the state told the court that she is involved in immoral trafficking and forcing young girls into prostitution.Kali was convicted under various sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. The Allahabad High Court had granted her bail while considering her appeal. She was sentenced by the trial...

Curious Case Of Contradictory Bail Orders Uploaded On Jharkhand HC Website: SC Closes Controversy [Read Orders]

We think that it is not necessary to pass any further orders in this regard, the bench said.The Supreme Court recently closed an issue of the curious case of two contradictory orders of Jharkhand High Court, one rejecting bail and another granting bail, to the husband of Jharkhand’s Congress leader Nirmala Devi.During the course of hearing of a special leave petition, senior advocate...