SC Directs Tripura Medical College To Admit Two CVD-Affected Students Who Qualified Before NEET Under Its “Transcendental” Jurisdiction [Read Order]

Two students, suffering from Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD), have succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court that they could not be disqualified from seeking admission to the MBBS course, on the ground of their CVD.On September 12, the bench of the Chief Justice, Dipak Misra, and Justices Amitava Roy and A.M.Khanwilkar, overruled the objections of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the...

Online Access To Law: Delhi HC Issues Directions To Revamp ‘India Code’ Portal [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court recently issued a direction to the Ministry of Law and Justice to add more contents to the new India Code website, which is being developed by the Legislative Department of the ministry.Officials from the Ministry of Law and National Informatics Centre made a presentation of the New India Code website to Justice Manmohan, who was hearing a writ petition relating to...

Interim Wages Part Of Wages As Per ESI Act And Is To Be Reckoned For ESI Contribution [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has declared that interim wages will come within the definition of wages as per Sec.2(22) of Employees State Insurance(ESI) Act, and that the employer is liable to pay ESI contribution on the interim wages as well.The ruling came in the appeal filed by ESI Corporation against the judgment of the Kerala High Court which had held that the employer was not liable to...

Last Minute Litigation In Medical Admissions Creates High Pressure And Anxiety For Students: SC Likely To Issue Guidelines [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, took note of the “annual recurrence” of litigation concerning medical admissions and indicated towards the need for issuance of “deterrent measures” for preventing such instances.“In these writ petitions, this Court was compelled to take note of the annual recurrence of this kind of litigation which creates high pressure and anxiety for the...

Can’t Extend Time For Filling Vacant Seats In Super-Specialty, PG & MBSS Courses: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, refused to extend the time for filling up the vacant seats in super-specialty, post-graduate and MBBS courses. The Interlocutory Applications demanding an extension were filed in the case titled, Ashish Ranjan and Ors. v. Union of India & Ors., wherein the Court had earlier laid down a time schedule to be followed for completing admissions to medical...

Can SC Entertain Application For Making Arbitral Award As Rule Of The Court If It Retains Seisin Over Arbitral Proceedings? Question Referred To Larger Bench [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, referred to a larger bench the question: “Whether this Court can entertain an application for making the award as Rule of the Court, even if it retains seisin over arbitral proceedings?”In the case at hand, the Court had, in January, 2013, referred the issue between the State of Jharkhand and Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd. (HCC) for adjudication to retd....

Order Counting Of EVM Paper Trails In Vengara, Gurudaspur Polls: Plea In SC [Read Petition]

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission to take urgent steps to count the entire paper trails coming out from the VVPATs of EVMs in the forthcoming byelection scheduled on October 11, 2017 in Punjab (Gurudaspur) and Kerala (Vengara).The petitioner Sabu Stephen, a social activist wants a  comparison of the counts of paper trails with...

Rohingyas Are Refugees, Not Militants Or Illegal Immigrants: Rohingyas Tell SC [Read Rejoinder Affidavit]

Rohingyas are not illegal immigrants but refugees and have no connection with any criminal activity, much less any terrorist activity or militancy, two petitioners from the community have said in a rejoinder affidavit filed before the Supreme Court.Mohammad Salimullah and Shaqir, two Rohingya Muslim immigrants, have contested and denied the claims of the Centre that Rohingyas are...

There Can Be Simultaneous Proceedings Under SARFAESI And Arbitration Act For Recovery Of Loan Arrears [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has held that NBFC is entitled to initiate both arbitration proceedings and SARFAESI proceedings with respect to a loan account, and that the ‘doctrine of election’ was not attracted in such a scenario. It was further clarified that there was no illegality  in an Non-Banking Financial Company(NBFC) invoking SARFAESI Act for recovery of loan arrears with respect to...

NGT Can Only Decide A Substantial Question Relating To The Environment: SC Quashes NGT Decision On SPCB Appointments [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, on Friday, set aside the order of the National Green Tribunal whereby the functioning of Chairmen of 10 State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) had been ceased due to the failure of such States to make appointments in adherence to NGT’s earlier judgment.While the Bench comprising Justice M.B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta opined that the NGT had exceeded its jurisdiction...

Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code- SC Interprets Scope Of ‘Existence Of Dispute’ Between Operational Creditor And Corporate [Read Judgment]

The judgment of the Supreme Court in Mobilox Innovations Pvt.Ltd. v.Kirusa Software Pvt.Ltd. rendered by a bench of Justices R. F Nariman and Sanjay Kishan Kaul settles a significant issue under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. The issue was whether the existence of a dispute by itself without the record of initiation of any suit or arbitration proceedings in relation to it is...

West Bengal Child Rights Body Moves SC Against Rohingya Deportation

West Bengal State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBSCPCR) became the second rights body after the apex body National Human Rights Commission to oppose the deportation of Rohingya Muslims.WBSCPCR has moved the Supreme Court, to become a party in the matter to be heard on October 3 by the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra saying the entire community cannot be branded...