Uttarakhand HC Restrains State Govt From Buying Cars, Furniture As It Failed To Provide Bare Facilities in Schools [Read Judgment]

The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday restrained the state government from buying luxurious cars, furniture and air conditioners etc., since, it miserably failed to provide minimum bare facilities in schools, inter alia, benches, desks, blackboards, hygienic separate toilets for boys and girls, water purifiers and ceiling fans, as per the court directions.By its judgment dated 19.11.2016,...

Regulatory Commissions, Not Courts To Determine Electricity Tariff: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court, in Waryam Steel Castings Pvt Ltd vs Punjab State Power Corporation, has reiterated its stand that it would not be proper for the court to examine the fixation of electricity tariff rates or its revision, while dismissing appeals preferred by arc furnace industries in Punjab.A bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Navin Sinha was considering pleas against the...

SC To Refer Plea Of A Woman To Abort Her 23-Week Pregnancy To A Medical Board

The Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices D.Y.Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul today decided to refer on Friday to a Medical Board, the plea of a 33-year old pregnant lady from Kolkata, ​Sarmishtha Chakraborty, to abort her 23-week fetus on the ground that it suffered from abnormalities. Advocate Sneha Mukherjee appeared for the petitioner.In her writ petition, she claimed that she...

New Judges Appointed In Madras, Punjab & Haryana, Chhattisgarh High Courts [Read Notification]

President of India has appointed new Additional Judges in Madras (6), Punjab and Haryana (2) and Chattisgarh (3) High Courts.The names of Judges are as followsMadras High Court(i) Smt. V. Bhavani Subbaroyan,(ii) Shri A.D. Jagadish Chandira,(iii) Shri G.R. Swaminathan,(iv) Shri Abdul Quddhose,(v) Shri M. Dhandapani, and(vi) Shri Pondicherry Daivasigamani AudikesavaluPunjab and Haryana...

How Justice Karnan Lost His Last Minute Bail Plea

As the Vacation Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices D.Y.Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul assembled at 10.30 AM today, Justice C.S.Karnan’s lawyer, Mathews J. Nedumpara, was waiting for his turn. As he began making his submission, Justice Chandrachud reminded him that he was sentenced to imprisonment by a seven-Judge bench, and that the present two-Judge bench could not suspend...

Govt. Allows Central District Cooperative Banks To Deposit Old Notes With RBI [Read Notification]

The Government of India has allowed the Central District Cooperative Banks to deposit the demonetized notes [Rs.500,Rs.1000]  with Reserve Bank of India. To enable this, the Ministry of Finance has notified the Specified Bank Notes (Deposit by Banks, Post Offices and District Central Cooperative Banks) Rules, 2017. The notes shall be deposited within 30 days of commencement of the Rules. In...

SC Rejects Justice CS Karnan’s Bail Plea

A two Judge Bench of Supreme Court of India on Wednesday has rejected the former Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan’s application for bail and suspension of sentence.Justice CS Karnan was arrested from a guest house in Coimbatore, by West Bengal police on Tuesday.A Seven Judge Bench of Supreme Court had found him guilty and sentenced to 6 months in jail for contempt by an order...

SC Directs Delhi Metro To Pay Rs. 60 Crore As Interest To Reliance Infra Unit DAMEPL [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court order directing the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to pay Rs. 60 crore as interim payment to Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL), a Reliance Infrastructure Subsidiary.A vacation Bench comprising Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice S.K. Kaul, however, extended by a week, the time for complying...

Bank Valuer Facing Allegation Of Facilitating Grant Of Huge Loan On The Mortgage Of A Non-Existent Property Gets Interim Relief From SC

The Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices D.Y.Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, on Monday, June 19, issued notice returnable in four weeks, on an appeal filed against the Punjab and Haryana High Court order dated June 2, directing the SHO, Police Station Kotwali, Bathinda, Punjab, to act against the valuers of a public sector bank, and attach their properties. The appeal was filed by...

Can Prevention Of Money Laundering Act Be Applied Retrospectively, SC Set To Examine

The Supreme Court’s Vacation Bench of Justices D.Y.Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, on Monday, June 19, issued notice returnable in three weeks, on an appeal by the Directorate of Enforcement against the Karnataka High Court’s March 13 order, quashing retrospective application of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against an accused. The order was delivered by the High Court bench...

Breaking: Justice CS Karnan Arrested From Tamil Nadu

Former Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan who was convicted by the Supreme Court for contempt of Court, has been arrested by West Bengal Police from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.He has been evading arrest since May 9, retired on June 12, became the first High Court Judge to have retired while still absconding.https://twitter.com/PTI_News/status/877206121118695424This was in aftermath of...

CRPF Denies That The Sukma Attack Amounts To Violation Of Human Rights Of Its Personnel: RTI Reply [Read RTI Reply]

The dastardly attack by Maoists on the Central Reserve Police Force personnel at Sukma in Chhattisgarh on April 24 led to concerns over violation of their human rights. Left-Wing Extremist groups carried out an attack on a team of 90 CRPF personnel,  who were on duty, sanitizing a stretch of public road being constructed in the Burkapal-Chintagufa area of Sukma district in...