Goods and Service Tax (GST) Formally Launched

The Goods and Service Tax (GST), India’s most ambitious tax reform since independence, was launched at the Central Hall of Parliament at midnight on June 30.Interestingly, this is only the fourth time in the history of independent India that a function has been organized at midnight at the Parliament. The previous three were the moment of Independence on the night of August 14-15, 1947,...

Patna HC Orders Bihar Exam Board to Pay Rs. 50 Lakh Compensation to Candidates Denied NEET 2016 Counselling [Read Judgment]

The Patna High Court, on Thursday, directed the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB) to pay Rs 50 lakh as compensation to three medical undergraduate course aspirants, who were denied MBBS pre-admission counselling, on October 7 last year, against all-India quota Seats.“The young men and women having opted medicine as career harbour dream in their minds to pursue...

SC gets 4 New Courts, Changes Court Room Numbers

As per a Circular issued on Friday, the Supreme Court will now have four new Courtrooms, when it re-opens on 3 July after the vacations.Besides, a few Court rooms have been re-numbered. While current Court room 8 has now been changed to Court room 10, Court room 6 will become Court room 8. Court room 7 will house Court room 9, and current Court room 9 will become Court room 11.Moreover,...

Hope For Jail Inmates As NALSA Opens Legal Assistance Establishments (LAEs) Across The Country

The LAE is the brainchild of Supreme Court judge Justice Dipak Misra, who is also the Executive Chairman of NALSA.To provide legal aid to jail inmates and their pairokar (family members), the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has set up legal assistance establishments (LAEs) all across the country. They will also be known as Nyara Sahyog, Naya Sampark and Nyaya Samadhan.The LAE is...

SC Restores Trial Court’s Conviction In 1980 Hooch Tragedy in Haryana [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices A.K.Sikri and Ashok Bhushan on Thursday, June 29, set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s acquittal of the two accused in the 1980 hooch tragedy, which claimed 36 lives and blinded 44 persons at Village Kalanwali,  Sirsa District, Haryana.The Session Judge had convicted two out of the 48 accused and sentenced the two to life...

Breaking: Senior Advocate KK Venugopal Appointed As New Attorney General For India

The President of India has cleared the name of Senior Advocate and Constitutional Expert KK Venugopal as the next Attorney General for India, reports News 18."President Pranab Mukherjee has approved his appointment. The government will notify his appointment in a day or two",states the report.He will replace Mukul Rohatgi . In the first week of June, the Appoint Committee of the Union...

Bombay HC Reserves Order In PIL Seeking Deferment Of GST Rollout

The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its order after hearing both sides in a PIL seeking deferment of the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax Act (GST) till the next financial year of 2018-19.Though the bench headed by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur would have heard this matter, but as she was not sitting, a bench of Justice VK Tahilramani and Justice SK Shinde heard arguments...

NALSA Launches Web Application For Free Legal Services To Prisoners

The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) on Wednesday launched a Web Application for free Legal Services to prisoners, and the Legal Services Management System developed through the NIC.Through the Web Application, the information regarding legal representation of individual prison inmates will be fed by the State Legal Services Authorities and District Legal Services...

SC Adjourns Hearing Of Plea To Abort Beyond Twenty Weeks Fetus To Monday, Asks Counsel Not To Share Medical Report With Media To Protect Privacy

The Supreme Court Vacation Bench of Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre and Sanjay Kishan Kaul today read the report of the Medical Board constituted to examine the petitioner,  Sarmishtha Chakraborty, and her 25-week fetus, and asked her counsel, and the counsel for respondents to read it and get fresh instructions from their clients, before it is heard again on Monday, July 3.The bench read...

Calcutta HC Raps CBI For “Carelessness And Negligence” In Handling Of National Treasures [Read Judgment]

The Calcutta recently rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation for not complying with Court orders to relocate Buddhist religious manuscripts and artefacts engraved with gold, which had been lying neglected at the Kalimpong court ‘Malkhana’ for almost six years“It is nothing but callousness, carelessness and negligence on the part of the CBI which has caused national treasures to...

Highway Liquor Ban: Punjab & Haryana HC Issues Notice In a Plea Challenging Punjab Excise Amendment [Read Petition]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a Petition challenging the Punjab Excise (Amendment Bill), which allows the sale of liquor at hotels, clubs and restaurants, located within 500 metres of state and national highways. The Bill changes the definition of ‘sale’ of liquor, therefore exploiting a loophole to sidestep the Supreme Court ban. The notice was issued by...

Breaking: Delhi HC Quashes President’s Order Rejecting Mercy Petition, Commutes Death Sentence Of Sonu Sardar To Life Imprisonment [Read Judgment]

A Division Bench of Delhi High Court has commuted the death sentence of Sonu Sardar to Life Imprisonment. He was convicted and sentenced to death for killing five members of a scrap dealer’s family in Chhattisgarh.SC Permits Delhi High Court To Hear Death-Row Convict Lodged In Chhattisgarh [Read Orders]The bench of Justices G.S.Sistani and Vinod Goel has allowed his petition under Article...