DA Case: Sasikala And Others Guilty, SC Restores Trial Court Verdict [Read Judgment]

In a landmark Judgment Supreme Court of India has convicted VK Sasikala, Ilavarasi and Sudhakaran in the disproportionate assets Case.The Division Bench of Justices PC Ghose and Amitava Roy has restored the conviction and sentence imposed by the trial Court in the disproportionate assets Case.Key highlights Conviction and sentence against A2 to A4 (VK Sasikala, Ilavarasi &...

Legitimising Vyapam Admissions Is Like Allowing A Thief To Retain Stolen Property: SC [Read Judgment]

It would surely depict the court’s support in favour of the sacrilegious. It would also compromise the integrity of the academic community, the bench said.A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, on reference from a two-judge bench, in the matter of medical students whose admissions were cancelled as Vyapam scam fallout, has agreed with the view expressed by Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre...

MoP On Judges’ Appointments By This Month End: CJI

The stalemate over the rules for appointment of judges to  higher judiciary- High Courts and Supreme Court is set to end by the month endA bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar today indicated it may come out with the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) by the month end.“We will finalise the MoP may be within this month”, a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice N V...

Madras HC Judge’s Wife Moves SC Against Justice Karnan

Spelling more trouble for Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan, the wife of a judge at Madras High Court has moved the Supreme Court accusing Justice Karnan of harassing her and the family.Presently, Justice Karnan is facing contempt proceeding from top court for openly accusing judges of corruption.A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India JS Khehar on Monday deferred...

SC Stays Madras HC’s Notice To Justice Radhakrishnan Over PETA Award [Read Petition]

Supreme Court of India on Monday stayed the notice issued by Madurai Bench of Madras High Court to former Supreme Court Judge, Justice KS Radhakrishnan in relation to the PETA award he received in 2015.After hearing Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra and Advocate Shivshanker Panickar the Bench comprising Chief Justice Khehar and Justice Ramana has stayed all the further pproceedings in...

Aadhaar Bill: Courts Cannot Question Legislative Procedure: AG To SC

The Supreme Court today began hearing the view of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on a petition filed by Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh challenging the decision to treat Aadhaar bill as a money bill, which was passed during Budget session in March last year overruling amendments moved in the Rajya Sabha.The AG told the court that the Speaker’s decision on any legislative procedure...

RTI Activist Moves SC Against RBI For Non-Compliance Of Court Judgment [Read Petition]

RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal has moved a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against Reserve Bank of India (RBI) alleging willful disobedience to the specific directions issued by the court in Reserve Bank of India Vs Jayantilal N Mistry and others.In Jayantilal N Mistry case, the Supreme Court had held that the RBI is bound to disclose information under the RTI Act.The petition...

Contempt: After Justice Karnan Fails To Appear, SC Gives Him Another Chance [Read Order]

A seven judge bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar deferred the hearing of the contempt case against Calcutta High Court judge Justice C S Karnan after he failed to appear.Though Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi insisted that contempt charges should be framed against Justice Karnan, the bench was of the view that one more opportunity should be given to him.At the outset Rihatgi said Karnan...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Mere Anchoring Of A Vessel For Repair Does Not Constitute Taxable ImportThe Supreme Court, in Commissioner Of Customs, Mumbai Vs M/S Aban Loyd Chiles Offshore Ltd, held that mere repair of a vessel is not putting the vessel to use in India and would not result in home consumption, so as to constitute a taxable import.Karnataka Law Providing ‘Consequential Seniority’ To SC/STs On...

Can’t Allow Pvt FM Stations To Air News: Centre To SC

“All these stations, channels are run mainly by NGO/other small organizations and private operators, several anti national radical elements within the country can misuse it for propagating their own agenda": Home Ministry Affidavit.Private FM and community radio service operators in India, unlike their counterparts in foreign countries, will not get a chance to air news and current...

The Tamil Nadu Political Crisis: Options Before The Governor And Precedents

With the Supreme Court indicating that it would deliver its verdict in the disproportionate assets case against V.K.Sasikala next week, the Tamil Nadu’s Acting Governor, CH.Vidyasagar Rao, appears to be inclined to wait and watch, as the rival factions battle it out for the numbers game in the assembly.LiveLaw imagines the hypothetical scenarios and the options before the Acting Governor...

KSCZMA Moves SC Against Kerala HC Verdict Regularising Illegal DLF Building

Kerala State Coastal Zone Management Authority [KSCZMA] has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Kerala High Court Judgment that allowed DLF to deposit Rs.1 crore to regularise an illegal construction done in violation of CRZ norms.There are almost 180 odd luxury flats being built by DLF and the project cost in in the region of over Rupees 300 crores.A single Judge of Kerala High...