SC Imposes Fine of Rs 1.4 Crore On Two Doctors For Providing Medical Asylum To Ex MLA

Sending a strong message to medical fraternity who provide medical asylum to VVIP accused, the Supreme Court on Tuesday awarded a fine of Rs 1.4 crore on two doctors for admitting an Ex- MLA, a murder accused, in their hospital for 527 days without any ailment in a contempt case.Justice Dipak Misra’s bench directed doctors — Dr K.S. Sachdev, Managing Director and Dr Munish...

Six Judge Bench To Consider Curative Petition In Saumya Rape And Murder Case

The Supreme Court of India will consider (by circulation, in Chief Justice's chamber) a curative petition filed by Government of Kerala in Saumya Murder Case.The Bench of Chief Justice JS Khehar, Justices Dipak Misra, J Chelmeswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Prafulla C Pant and UU Lalit will consider the petition on 27th April.In September 2015, Supreme Court had acquitted Govindachami alias...

UID Akin To Aadhaar For Cows Across Country: Centre To SC

If the Ministry of Home and Agricultural ministry has its way, there could soon be a Unique Identity Number (UIN) tag for all cows and buffaloes across the country.Each animal to be tagged with a Unique Identification Number  with proper records of identification details ( age, breed, lactation, height, body, colour, horn type, tail switch, special marks etc.)The UID tag was one of...

Fill Vacant Police Posts In Time-Bound Manner: SC Tells UP, 5 Other States [Read Order]

Observing that filling up of the vacancies over 1.5 lakh in the police force would help in dealing with the law and order problem in the state, the Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to fill the posts in four years.Chief Justice of India JS Khehar’s bench directed the filling up of the currently 1,01,619 vacant posts in the police and also asked the state government...

“Your Party Is Ruling, Why Are You Seeking Court’s Intervention In Policy Matters”: SC Declines BJP Leader's PIL To Review Working Of Constitution

The Supreme Court has declined to entertain a PIL filed by BJP spokesperson and advocate Ashwini Upadhyay for a direction to the government to review the working of the Constitution.Chief Justice of India (CJI) JS Khehar asked Upadhyay when his party (BJP) is in power at the Centre and no decision was taken, the court cannot intervene as the issue raised by him is a policy matter and it is...

SC Asks Husband To Provide Rs. 50 Lakh Amount, Rs. 1-cr Flat To ‘Cruel’ Wife [Read Judgment]

We are not oblivious to the requirements of the wife to have a decent house where she can live, the bench said.The Supreme Court has directed a husband to provide his wife Rs. 50 lakh amount and a flat worth Rs. 1 crore, even though it held that the acts of the wife in filing false complaints against the husband amounted to cruelty.The husband had filed a divorce petition before the family...

SC Notice To Centre, Tamil Nadu On An Appeal Against NGT Order On Kudankulam Nuclear Project [Read Appeal Memorandum]

The Supreme Court has issued notice to Centre and Tamil Nadu government on an appeal filed by an environmental activist against the National Green Tribunal’s order dismissing his plea which has challenged the clearance given to four units under the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.Issuing notice to Environment ministry, and Tamil Nadu State Coastal Zone Management Authority and M/s...

SC Transfers PIL For Cleaning Up Yamuna To NGT

After hearing it for 23 years, the Supreme Court today transferred to the National Green Tribunal a public interest litigation seeking de-polluting of river Yamuna and a complete clean up. “There cannot be two parallel jurisdictions to deal with the same issue”, a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud said.Earlier the bench had transferred a PIL filed...

SC Asks Centre To Speed Up Process For Anti-Torture Law

With an observation that it is an issue of international reputation and the government has to deal with it expeditiously, the Chief Justice of India-led bench has asked the Centre to speed up the process to take a decision for the enactment of anti-custodial torture law."It needs to be dealt with extreme urgency," CJI JS Khehar said and asked Solicitor-General Ranjit Kumar to inform the...

Centre Submits To SC Recommendations To Stop Smuggling Of Cattle Across Indo-Bangla Border

The Centre today placed before the Supreme Court recommendation of a committee headed by a senior official of the Home Ministry constituted for chalking out a mechanism to stop cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh border.The recommendations included strengthening of institutional framework, sensitization of enforcement agencies, stern action by animal husbandry department,  setting...

Gunner Suicide: SC Notice To Centre On Plea By Journalist Against Invocation Of Official Secrets Act

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Centre and Army on a petition filed by a journalist  booked under Official Secrets Act (OSA) by Nashik police in connection with the suicide of Lance Naik Roy Mathew who figures in her sting video related to the controversial sahayak(buddy) system in the Army.She moved SCu against the misuse and abuse of OSA.The journalist working with a...

Courts Can’t Relegate Parties To Arbitral Tribunal After Having Set Aside The Award: SC [Read Judgment]

Court cannot exercise this limited power of deferring the proceedings before it suo motu, the bench said.The Supreme Court, in Kinnari Mullick vs. Ghanshyam Das Damani, has held that Section 34 (4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996, does not empower the court to relegate the parties before the Arbitral Tribunal after having set aside the arbitral award in question.A three judge...