Judges Must Sit During Vacations To Reduce Pendency: CJI, PM Offers Support To Judiciary

During the celebration of 150 years of the Allahabad High Court, Chief Justice J S Khehar today raised the issue of pendency of cases in courts, including in the Supreme Court, and the shortage of judges, and said he was taking steps to reduce the burden on the judiciary.The CJI asked the judges to consider sitting in courts for five days during vacation to clear at least 10 cases each day...

Right To Protest A Valuable Right: SC Rejects Plea To Declare ‘Hartals’ Unconstitutional

The Supreme Court, on Friday, remained adamant on its unwillingness to entertain a Public Interest Litigation that alleged that political organizations were resorting to hartals despite several judicial pronouncements banning strikes and bandh calls.“Hartals can never be unconstitutional. Right to protest is a valuable constitutional right. How can we say hartals are unconstitutional.”...

Breaking: SC Ready To Hear 5000 Plus Cases During Summer Vacations [Read The List]

These are apart from the three constitution benches that will sit during the same time to hear complex issues such as The legality of triple talaq and the right to dignity of Muslim women, WhatsApp's implications on citizen's right to privacy The vexed citizenship tangle in Assam. The Supreme Court has expressed readiness to hear a whopping and unprecedented 5,298 cases which figure in...

Thousands Of Teachers Lose Jobs, As SC Vacates Stay On Tripura High Court’s Order Quashing Their Appointments [Read Order]

On May 7, 2014, the Tripura High Court had terminated the appointment of 10,323 government school teachers on various grounds. The Supreme Court had in 2014 granted a stay on the High Court’s order.On March 29, the Supreme Court bench of justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Lalit, vacated the stay, and modified the High Court’s order, directing the state Government to complete...

SC Quashes ‘False’ Rape Case [Read Judgment]

Judicial process is a solemn proceeding, which cannot be allowed to be converted into an instrument of oppression or harassment, the court said.The Supreme Court has quashed a rape case against a person observing that judicial proceedings cannot be allowed to be converted into an instrument of oppression or harassment.Referring to Bhajanlal case, the court observed that when there is material...

Let There Be Debate & Dissension, But Not Intolerance: President Pranab Mukherjee

President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said Indians could be described as argumentative, but never intolerant.“If our feet are firmly on the ground, we will not be blown off by ideas from outside.  India is a land of tolerance.  We adopt, embrace and absorb but never reject.  Let there be debate, disagreement and dissension, but not intolerance,” the President said.Mr. Mukherjee...

SC Rejects Contempt Plea Against Dushyant Dave, Prashant Bhushan, Kalikho Pul’s Wife

The Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking contempt action against senior lawyers Dushyant Dave and Prashant Bhushan; and former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Kalikho Pul’s wife Dangwimsai Pul.Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma, who had filed the plea, alleged that the two lawyers forged documents with regard to Kalikho Pul's suicide and, hence, contempt action should be initiated...

BCI Chairman Locks Horn With SCBA Over The Law Panel’s Recommendations Against Striking Lawyers

A day after lawyers protested following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) call against Law Commission recommendations for drastic changes in the Advocates Act to penalise lawyers who go on strike, BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has now taken on Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) executive committee members for slamming the statutory body.Mishra said if the SCBA claimed to lead the fight...

Pul: SC Rejects Plea For Contempt Against Lawyers

A petition filed seeking contempt action against some apex court lawyers for writing to the vice president on the alleged suicide of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul has been dismissed by the Supreme Court"Contempt proceedings is our jurisdiction and no one should tell against whom the contempt action should be taken. The plea is dismissed”, Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U...

Why Not Put HIV-Affected Kids In Disadvantaged Group For Education? SC

State governments need to consider issuing a notification to include children living with or affected by HIV as belonging to disadvantaged group for imparting compulsory education, the Supreme Court has said.“We are of a prima facie view that the state governments need to consider issuance of notification to include children living with or affected by HIV as belonging to disadvantaged...

SC Acquits 17 Accused In 1990 Murder Case [Read Judgment]

One of them, Ayub Khan, has already served 11 years in jail.The Supreme Court has acquitted 17 persons in a murder case of the year 1990.This judgment by the Supreme Court illustrates the oft-quoted proverb: Justice delayed is Justice denied. Ayub Khan is one of the accused in the murder case.Though the trial court acquitted him and the other 16 accused, the high court reversed those findings...

Not Mandatory To Impose Fine In All Murder (302 IPC) Case Convictions: Allahabad HC (Full Bench) [Read Judgment]

It needs to be taken into consideration whether to impose a fine or not, and it should not be a mechanical process of either imposing fine or not to impose fine, the bench said.The full bench of Allahabad High Court, in Sukh Dev vs State of UP, has held that it is not mandatory to impose fine in addition to substantive sentence of imprisonment for an offence punishable under Section 302...