New Legislation Required To Deal With Inter-Country Child Custody Cases: Chief Justice Khehar

Expressing concern over the future of children and their rights in bad marriages abroad and the challenges before Indian judiciary to handle such cases, Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Khehar has said child right is vital and there has to be a new legislation to deal with inter-country custody cases."When the child custody fight transcends national boundaries, the welfare of the child suffers,...

SC Dismisses Review Petitions Of Two Death-Row Convicts [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra, R.Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, dismissed on July 7 the review petitions filed by death-row convicts, lodged in Patiala Central Jail, Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Jasvir Singh.The two were convicted and sentenced to death for the offence of kidnapping Abhi Verma alias Harry, a school student, in Hoshiarpur, and killing him with an...

Chief Justice Khehar Supports Entry Of Foreign Lawyers To India

Chief Justice JS Khehar on Saturday supported the entry of foreign lawyers and law firms to India. He stated that though The Advocates Act, 1961, does not permit foreign lawyers to practice law in India. It, acknowledges that if some country permits Indian lawyers to practice in its jurisdiction, then lawyers from that country can be granted reciprocal privileges in India.He was speaking...

SC Stays Uttarakhand HC’s Order Declaring Ganga And Yamuna Rivers As Living Legal Entities [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order declaring the rivers Ganga and Yamuna as having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person.The High Court had, in March this year, made the declaration, observing that this was needed to be done in order to “protect the recognition and the faith of society.”The...

Jishnu Pranoy Case: SC Bars Accused Krishna Das From Entering Kerala [Read Order]

The order replacing anticipatory bail conditions came in a petition filed by the State of Kerala challenging the anticipatory bail granted to Krishna Das in an alleged assault case.   The Supreme Court on Friday barred Nehru Group of Institutions’ chairman P Krishna Das from entering Kerala.He should remain in Coimbatore where Nehru group corporate office is located.He can enter Kerala...

Unnecessary Litigation By The Centre in SC: Two Recent Examples

If any instances are required of Central Law Officers failing to dissuade the  Central Government from pursuing unnecessary litigation in Supreme Court against High Court verdicts, which went against it,  they were available on July 4 before the Supreme Court bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Sanjay Kishan Kaul.The bench dismissed two SLPs filed by the Centre, against High ...

Perjury Case: SC Asks Ex-BCCI Chief Anurag Thakur To Tender Fresh Apology

In further trouble for former BCCI President Anurag Thakur, the Supreme Court today rejected his apology in the perjury case and also asked him to be personally present before it on July 14.Two months after he was issued a contempt notice for filing some false statements and affidavit in the Lodha panel Vs BCCI case, Thakur had on March 6 appeared personally before the bench and tendered...

#Aadhaar : SC Three Judge Bench Asks Counsel To Jointly Mention Before CJI To Constitute Constitution Bench

The Supreme Court bench of Justice J.Chelameswar, and Justices A.M.Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha, today requested the counsel for the petitioner and the Union of India in the Aadhaar case, to mention it before the Chief Justice seeking setting up of the Constitution Bench at the earliest, so as to decide the main matter referred to it in August 2015.“Once a matter is referred to...

SC Stays IIT JEE (A) Counselling, Admissions Over Grace Mark Challenge [Read Petition]

A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India has stayed the counselling and admissions to IITs on a petition challenging award of bonus marks to candidates who appeared for Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2017.A bench of justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar in the order said "we are inclined to direct that no counselling or admission to the seats in IIT-JEE (Advance) 2017 shall...

AG KK Vengugopal Recuses From TN Trust Vote Case In SC

In his first recusal after taking charge as Attorney General, senior advocate KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court that he cannot appear in the case filed by O Panneerselvam camp of the AIADMK asking for a fresh trust vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly saying he had earlier given legal opinion to the Panneerselvam faction.The apex court had sought the assistance of  Venugopal in the matter asking...

SC Imposes Rs.50000 As Costs On State Of West Bengal [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, imposed costs of Rs.50,000 on the State of  West Bengal on July 4, while dismissing a Special Leave Petition against the Calcutta High Court judgment quashing the state Government’s order denying the benefit of compassionate appointment in favour of a litigant for running a fair price shop.The Single Judge of...

Jobs, Admissions Secured On Invalid Caste/Tribe Certificates Void: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

In a landmark judgment Supreme Court of India has held that an appointment to a post or admission to an educational institution – on the basis that the candidate belongs to a reserved category for which the benefit is reserved, the invalidation of the caste or tribe claim upon verification would result in the appointment or, as the case may be, the admission being rendered void or...