SC Refuses To Stay Auction Of Subrata Roy's Aamby Valley

Supreme Court today declined to stay the auction of Aamby Valley, Sahara Group’s posh property.During the hearing before a bench headed by justice Dipak Misra senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Roy, said that the auction process should be put on hold till September so that his client could arrange the Rs 1,500 crore to be deposited into Sebi-Sahara account.After SC's refusal to...

Senior Designation Matter: AG KK Venugopal Wanted To Recuse- Parties, Bench Said "No"

As the hearing  in the petition filed by senior advocate Indira Jaising began in the Supreme Court, Attorney General K K Venugopal expressed his wish to recuse from the case but was disallowed by all the parties except advocate Mathew Nedumpara who appeared for National Lawyers Campaign for Transparency and Reforms.After that the bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked Venugopal, who had...

No Insurance Renewal Without Valid Pollution Certificate: SC [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today ruled that henceforth vehicle owners who don’t have a valid pollution certificate will not be able to renew the insurance of their vehiclesA bench led by Justice Madan B Lokur issued a direction to all insurance companies to ensure polluting vehicles stay off the roads.The bench also asked the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to ensure that all fuel...

AG KK Venugopal Seeks Better Caution During Senior Designation, Jaising Says It Must Be For Improving Quality Of Administration Of Justice

"The designation carries with it a public perception that a particular lawyer is competent and can be handed over a case with full confidence. And that he is much better than a non-senior. Because of this presumption court should be circumspect while awarding seniority" AG K K  Venugopal who is assisting the court."It is not that you are doing individual favour to a person..it is all in...

Hadiya Case: SC Directs Kerala Police To Share Probe Details To NIA [Read NIA's Application And SC Order]

Supreme Court of India has directed the Kerala Police to share the information in the Hadiya Case to National Investigating Agency to examine whether this case is an isolated one or a bigger conspiracy involved.Today morning Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh mentioned the matter before the Chief Justice and submitted that Centre or NIA has no materials in this Case. An application...

Prosecution For ‘Amorphous And Transitory’ Charge With ‘Conjectural Or Hypothetical’ Evidence Not Possible: SC [Read Judgment]

The charge for which the appellant finally has been convicted wears a new complexion different from the one with which he had been arraigned at the initiation of the trial, the bench observed in the case.A person cannot be subjected to a criminal prosecution either for a charge which is amorphous and transitory and further on evidence that is conjectural or hypothetical, the Supreme Court...

The Word ‘Vernacular’ Is Derogatory: Justice Dipak Misra

An interesting observation came from Justice Dipak Misra on Thursday while hearing a matter dealing with the use of 'regional language' in competition examination.Senior advocate Indira Jaising and Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh were arguing the matter related to NEET in regional languages, where both the lawyers used the word ‘vernacular’.Justice Dipak Misra, who is known...

Centre Assures SC That National Food Security Act Will Be Implemented In All States and UTs

The Centre today assured the Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B.Lokur and N.V.Ramana, that the provisions of the National Food Security Act, 2013 would be implemented in all the States and the Union Territories, and that the Government would make all efforts in this regard with due earnestness.The Attorney General, K.K.Venugopal, made this assurance on behalf of the Centre, when the...

SC Asks Centre To Provide Data On Implementing Child Marriage Prohibition Act

The Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B.Lokur and Deepak Gupta, on Wednesday, asked the Centre to provide data on the number of Child Marriage Prohibition Officers, appointed under the Child Marriage Prohibition Act, 2006 as well as the number of prosecutions that have been instituted over the last three years under the Act.The bench also requested the petitioner NGO, Independent...

National Court Of Appeal : Will The Centre Give Wings To New AG's Dreams ?

The Centre and the Supreme Court are reportedly deliberating on establishment of Courts of Appeal. According to the Economic Times  report, the idea was mooted at a recent top-level meeting attended by senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Secretary, and Secretaries from Ministries of Finance, Department of Personnel and Training, and Niti Aayog. Two Supreme...

Sahara: Subrata Roy Urges SC To Put On Hold Auctioning Of Aamby Valley

Sahara chief Subrata Roy today requested the Supreme Court to put on hold the auction process to sell the group's Rs 34,000-crore worth Aamby Valley property by the official liquidator of the Bombay High Court.On July 25, the bench had asked the official liquidator of the Bombay High Court to proceed with the publication of sale notice with regard to auctioning of Sahara's prime property...

Gujarat Polls Using VVPAT EVMs If Machines Delivered On Time : EC To SC [Read Affidavit]

The assembly elections in Gujarat, scheduled for December this year could be held using Electronic Voting Machines attached to Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail machines if the machines are delivered on time, the Election Commission told the Supreme Court today.The EC told the requirement was at least 70,000 EVMs with VVPATs.“It is pertinent to point out that the Election Commission...