SC To Hear Petition Against Deportation Of Rohingya Muslims On Monday [Read Petition]

A Petition has been filed before the Supreme Court, challenging the decision to deport Rohingya Muslims, who have taken refuge in India to escape persecution in Myanmar.The matter was mentioned by Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Friday, before a Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud. The Bench has agreed to list the case on Monday...

I Became A Lawyer By Accident: AG K.K. Venugopal Reveals That Secret [Video]

Senior Advocate K.K. Venugopal, during his felicitation by the Bar Council of India for being appointed as the Attorney General for India, revealed the circumstances in which we decided to take up law as a career.AZqTAuaELaY“Now, I became a lawyer by accident. I failed in my BSc Physics. Keep it a secret, don’t tell anybody,” he chuckled, and further explained, “I was wondering what...

SC To Hear Bofors Pay-Offs Case In October

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear  the plea in bofors pay-off case by BJP leader and advocate Ajay Kumar Agarwal in October. He had challenged the Delhi High Court May 31, 2005 judgement quashing all charges against the Europe-based Hinduja brothers in the Bofors pay-off case.The decision by a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices D Y Chandrachud and A M Khanwilkar comes...

Decoding Of Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code, 2016, SC's First Major Judgment [Read Judgment]

In a detailed judgment, Justice RF Nariman, while sitting with Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, has extensively travelled through the new legislation – Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of 2016. The Supreme Court was dealing with an appeal preferred by M/s Innovative Industries, against which insolvency proceedings were initiated by ICICI Bank. It was the contention of the appellant, who is...

Challenge To Child Marriage Exception To Rape In SC: Petitioner-NGO Relies On The Recent Triple Talaq Judgment

The counsel for the NGO, Independent Thought, Gaurav Agrawal, today began his submissions before the Supreme Court’s bench of Justices Madan B.Lokur and Deepak Gupta, justifying its public interest litigation challenging  Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code.Exception 2 mentions that sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 15...

SC Asks Dilip Kumar To Deposit 20Cr To Get Back His Land Given To Developer [Read Judgment]

The ageing thespian, Dilip Kumar, has won back his property in the posh Pali Hill area in the suburbs of Bandra, with the Supreme Court ruling in his favour. But the Supreme Court asked Kumar to deposit Rs. 20 crore with the apex court registry, after which the developers will hand him over the 2,412 sq. yd in Pali Hill in the village of Dand, Bandra.The Court asked the developers, to whom...

Men’s Group Supports Plea Against Marital Rape; Delhi HC Allows Impleadment [Read Application]

Displaying solidarity against marital rape, a men’s group has submitted its application in support of the Petitioners before the Delhi High Court, in the quest for criminalization of marital rape. They have been impleaded in the case.The Forum to Engage Men (FEM) contends that setting aside the exception to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code would amount to “sending a message to...

SC Allows Woman To Abort 24-Week-Old Foetus;Centre Writes To States To Set Up Medical Board To Handle Such Cases

The Supreme Court today allowed the plea of a Pune-based woman to abort her 24-week old foetus with severe abnormality of not having a skull for which there was no treatment.The bench relied on the medical report while allowing the plea.Meanwhile the solicitor general Ranjit Kumar told the court that the  Centre has written to all the states and Union Territories asking them to set up...

Designation Of Senior Advocates Is The “Red Beacon” Of Legal Profession And Should Be Abolished: Gujarat HC Advocates’ Association [Read Written Submission]

In its submissions before the Supreme Court Bench examining the constitutional validity of the conferment of Senior Advocate designation, the Gujarat High Court Advocates’ Association, in its submissions, listed down the privileges accorded to Senior Advocates and contended that the conferment of such designation is essentially the “red beacon of legal profession”. “The Central...

Marital Rape: Petitioners Rely On SC’s Recent Privacy Judgment To Persuade The Delhi HC

The landmark privacy judgment of the Supreme Court is just one week old.  But its echoes were heard in the Delhi High Court today, when the bench of the Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C.Hari Shankar heard the arguments on the petitions seeking criminalization of marital rape for the second day today.Senior counsel, Colin Gonsalves, arguing on behalf of the petitioners,...

Judgment on Video Conferencing In Matrimonial Disputes Needs Reconsideration: SC Refers Matter To Larger Bench [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has referred to a larger Bench its decision rendered in March, wherein it had advocated for the use of video conferencing in resolution of matrimonial disputes.A Bench comprising Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice R. Banumathi has requested the Chief Justice of India to expeditiously constitute a Bench for reconsideration of the decision in the case of Krishna Veni Nagam...

Offence Under SEC.138 NI Act Is Person Specific. Concept Of ‘Taking Cognizance Of The Offence And Not The Offender’ Not Appropriate In Cheque Cases: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has pronounced a point of law that the offence under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act is person specific. It was also clarified that the general concept under Cr.P.C that cognizance was taken against the offence and not against the offender was not appropriate in prosecution under NI Act.The complainant in the case was issued a cheque, which was signed by one...