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...

SC Directs Centre To Notify Wetland Rules By June 30 [Read Order]

The Supreme Court bench of justices Madan B.Lokur and Prafulla C Pant, on Friday, directed the Centre to notify the Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2016 on or before June 30, 2017. “There has to be some finality to the publication of the Rules, as the matter has been pending with the Centre for long”, the bench observed.A wetland is land covered by water. Wetlands...

Justice KS Radhakrishnan Moves SC Against Madras HC Notice On PETA Award, Jallikattu Judgment

Justice KS Radhakrishnan, who delivered the landmark judgment banning bull-taming sport jallikattu, has moved the Supreme Court against a notice issued by the Madurai bench of Madras High Court in relation to the PETA award he received in 2015.The Madurai bench issued the notice to Justice Radhakrishnan, Secretary to President of India, Ministry of Law and Justice and People For Ethical...

SC To Hear PIL Against Upper Age Limit For #NEET

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the upper age limit and other new restrictions introduced by the government for candidates appearing for the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) this year.The Supreme Court is likely to hear the petition on February 17.The PIL is filed by students who have been denied the opportunity of appearing in the...

J&K Govt Opposes Minority Commission

Jammu and Kashmir government has told the Supreme Court that it is opposed to creation of a minority commission in the state.“Assertion of the PIL petitioner for setting up a state minority commission of the state of jammu and Kashmir through proper legislation including time-bound identification and notification of religious and linguistic minorities by the state is also not...

Contempt Proceedings Against Me Not Maintainable: Justice Karnan

Brushing aside the contempt proceedings initiated against him by the Supreme Court, Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan has said the proceedings are “not maintainable under law” against a sitting high court judge and asked the top court to refer the matter to Parliament for consideration.He again raised the issue of minority class and alleged that judges of higher caste wanted...

Stop Trash Petitions Or Be Ready For Heavy Costs: CJI

“Trash and nonsensical petitions are increasing.No. This has to stop and only this way (imposing heavy costs)it can stop. For years we have not done it. See if you have a good cause we are with you but not for such petitions which take away judicial time.” “Whatever the case, we have to read all these pages. My brother judges are young. They have no problem going through the entire records...

Law Ministry Clears 5 Names Recommended By Collegium For Elevation To SC

Union Law Ministry has cleared Five names recommended by Supreme Court collegium for the appointment to Supreme Court, reports TOIAs per the report, the names of  Rajasthan HC CJ Naveen Sinha, Madras HC CJ Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Chhattisgarh HC CJ Dipak Gupta, Kerala HC CJ Mohan M Shantanagouder and Karnataka HC’s Justice S Abdul Nazeer have been cleared by the Law Ministry.The TOI report...

SC Declines Urgent Hearing On Fresh PIL Against Sasikala [Read Petition]

In view of the political development in Tamil Nadu, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Friday filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to restrain a non-member of either the Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly of a state from becoming the chief minister.The Mahasabha, through its president Chander Prakash Kaushik, approached the apex court stating that VK Sasikala should...

BCI Wants SC to Direct Universities To Waive Certificate Verification Fee

It has sought either waiver of verification fees as a one-time measure or charge of only Rs. 100 as verification charge per candidate.The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Friday filed an application in Ajayinder Sangwan Vs Bar Council of Delhi and Another, seeking that the government be directed to instruct the University Grants Commission (UGC) to either waive verification fees as a...

CVC, VC Appointments: Centre Submits Records To SC

The Centre today defended before Supreme Court the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner K V Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner T M Bhasin.On the direction of the bench, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi brought to the court entire records pertaining to the appointments.But a bench of justices Arun Kumar Mishra and Amitava Roy said we will go into them later.Originally the SC had...