#NEET Judgment Leak: Disclose Action Taken On Complaint Against Former CJI Altamas Kabir: CIC To SC Registry And DOJ [Read Order]

The Central Information Commission on Wednesday directed the Supreme Court Registry and the Department of Justice to disclose action taken on a complaint against former Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir.The Law Ministry was further directed to disclose the steps taken in the matter relating to the alleged leak of a judgement dated 18 July 2013, in the matter of Christian Medical...

HIV+ Rape Victim Approaches SC Seeking Permission To Abort Foetus

We are concerned with saving the life of a destitute woman, the bench said.An HIV positive woman has approached the Supreme Court with a plea to permit her to abort her pregnancy.Earlier the woman, who was sexually assaulted and as a result got pregnant, approached the Patna High Court seeking termination of pregnancy. After seeing the medical report, the high court came to hold that it would...

As Government Seeks To Justify Aadhaar For IT Returns, More New Grounds Emerge To Weaken Its Case

The battle-lines are clearly drawn between the petitioners and the Union of India in the Supreme Court’s hearing of the challenges to Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, which makes the Aadhaar number mandatory for filing Income-Tax returns from this year.Justices A.K.Sikri and Ashok Bhushan today heard Arghya Sengupta, and Zoheb Hossain, AOR, arguing for the Union of India. The bench...

Mismanagement Of Wealth In Shri Padmanabhaswamy Temple: Amicus Seeks SIT Probe [Read Report]

Senior Advocate Gopal Subramanium, appointed by the Supreme Court as Amicus Curiae, has submitted a report before the Court about the dismal state of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala and the mismanagement of the temple fund and wealth.Seeking an independent probe into the allegations against the administrators, he sought for an order to set up a Special Investigation Team which is to...

Advocate Moves SC Against Compulsory Aadhaar For Applying For APP Post [Read Petition]

Even as the Supreme Court is yet to take a final call on the mandatory requirement of Aadhaar for various purposes by the authorities, an advocate has moved the apex court against such a demand while applying for the post of assistant public prosecutor (APP).Rana Pratap Bismal, a resident of Rayagada district of Odisha, contended that he was asked to provide Aadhaar details while applying...

SC Refuses To ‘Review’ Death Penalty On Man Who Raped 4-Yr-Old Child [Read Judgment]

Cumulative effect of the mitigating circumstances on one hand and the aggravating facts on the other, would be weighed for the ‘rarest of rare’ test, it saidThe Supreme Court has refused to review the death penalty awarded to a man found guilty of raping a 4-year-old kid.A three-judge bench, comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justice RF Nariman and Justice UU Lalit, dismissed the review...

Amicus Curiae Suggests Hiking Senior Citizen’s Pension To Rs 2,000 Per Month [Read Report]

Amicus curiae Mathew Cherian, appointed by the Supreme Court in the matter of old age homes for senior citizens, has suggested uniform pension of Rs 2000 per person, creation of four homes per district and also implementation of health care facilities by creating geriatric centres in all 707 districts in the country.Appearing before a bench led by Justice Madan B Lokur, Cherain, CEO of...

SC Declines To Transfer Petition To Itself Where Bombay HC Held That No Approval From BCI Is Required For Admission In Law Colleges [Read Orders]

In an interesting update where the Division Bench of Bombay High Court in Vibhuti Amarnath Agrawal v State of Maharashtra had held that for admission to law colleges in Maharashtra, consent/approval from Bar Council of India (BCI) was not required and that the admission process must be completed within the time schedule as fixed by the concerned University, the Supreme Court has declined...

SC Tells Essar To Pay Rs. 1,038.27 Cr To Gujarat Govt [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal by Essar Steel India Ltd. against the Gujarat High Court judgment directing it to pay electricity duty amounting Rs. 1,038.27 crores to the Gujarat government.The State Government’s decision rejecting the claim of the company for exemption of payment of electricity duty and the recovery notice issued for payment of electricity duty for the period...

Triple Talaq Case: SC Allows Salman Khurshid’s Impleadment Application

The Apex Court has allowed Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid’s impleadment application as a Respondent in the Triple Talaq case. The Bench comprising Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice S.K. Kaul has also permitted him to file written submissions within two days, despite the fact that the time for filing such submissions in the matter has already...

How A Senior Advocate & His Associate Set An Example For The Legal Community

Senior Advocate R Basant and his associate A Karthik were recently showered with praises by the Supreme Court when the duo declined to accept any remuneration for rendering assistance in mediating and settling a decade-old case.The dispute pertained to the control and management of two companies, the shares of which belonged to individual members of a family. While the court had made...

Now, Justice Karnan ‘Issues’ Non Bailable Warrant Against 7 SC Judges [Read Order]

There seems to be no peace in sight in the ongoing battle between Justice Karnan and the Supreme Court.In the latest development, Justice CS Karnan has ‘issued’ a non-bailable warrant against seven judges of the Supreme Court. He has also directed the registrar-general of the Calcutta High Court to issue NBW through the DGP or Commissioner of Police, New Delhi.Justice Karnan issued this...