Fare War: SC notice to Meru on Uber Plea Against Competition Tribunal Order

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear plea of Uber taxis against the December 11, 2016 order of the Competition Appellate Tribunal directing probe against it for resorting to unfair trade practice including predatory pricing.A bench of justice Dipak Misra and justice D Y Chandrachud however refused to stay probe against Uber on allegations of abuse of dominance and anti-competetive practices...

Jallikattu: 2016 Notification Withdrawn: Centre Tells SC, Hearing on Jan 31

The Centre today filed a petition informing the Supreme Court that it has withdrawn its 2016 notification allowing Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu in view of the fresh legislation passed by the state assembly on the issue.Centre had filed an interim application seeking to withdraw its notification of January 7, 2016, bringing bulls back into the stable of performing animals under the 1960 Act in...

SC To Hear Biti Mohanti’s Bail Plea In German Girl Rape Case Today

The Supreme Court to hear on Friday the bail plea of Bitihotra Mohanti alias Biti, son of a retired IPS officer who was sentenced to seven years in jail for raping a German girl in 2006 at a hotel in Alwar.The incident had hit the newspaper headlines for several days as Mohanti, son of the then Odisha DGP B B Mohanti, had also jumped parole for more than six years after spending seven months...

Animal Welfare Board Secy, Counsel Lock Horns On Jallikattu Plea In SC

Soon after an interim application in an earlier writ petition was filed on behalf of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) before the Supreme Court requesting a stay on the operation of the new law passed by Tamil Nadu Assembly to allow bull-taming sport jallikattu, the board’s secretary, also an official in the Environment Ministry, has sought withdrawal of any kind of petition filed by...

President Pranab Mukherjee Favours Simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly Elections

President Pranab Mukherjee, in his Republic Day address to the nation, has said time is ripe for a constructive debate on electoral reforms and a return to the practice of the early decades after Independence when elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies were held simultaneously.He also said it was for the Election Commission to take this exercise forward in consultation with...

ESI (Central) Amendment Rules, 2017 Notified: Benefits Extended To Surrogate And Adopting Mothers [Read Notification]

The Ministry of Labour and Employment vide notification dated 20.01.2017 in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 95 of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, after consultation with the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation has amended the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950. The rules termed as the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Amendment Rules, 2017...

Govt Issues National Anthem Guidelines For Persons With Disability [Read Notification]

The Central Government has issued guidelines prescribing modalities for persons with disabilities to show respect to the national anthem at movie halls.The Supreme Court, by its order dated 30th November, 2016, made it mandatory for all cinema theatres to play the national anthem before the screening of a movie begins, during which the national flag is to be shown on the screen.Later the...

Jallikattu: Animal Rights Groups Move SC Against New Law; Hearing Monday [Read Petition]

Animal rights organizations headed by Animal Welfare Board of India today moved the Supreme Court challenging the new law passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly to allow bull-taming sport jallikattu and a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra agreed to hear them on Monday.Urgent mentioning of it was made by senior advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Anand Grover.The bench asked them to file...

Defect In Survey Number Of Suit Property Is A ‘Formal Defect’: SC [Read Judgment]

SC restores trial court order, allowing plaintiffs to withdraw the suit with permission to institute a fresh suit.The Supreme Court, in V Rajendran vs Annasamy Pandian, has held that the defect in the survey number of the suit property will constitute to be a “formal defect” within the meaning of Order XXIII Rule 1(3) (a) of Code of Civil Procedure.The plaintiffs, in the instant case,...

Physically Handicapped OBC Candidates Can’t Claim 10 Attempts in Civil Service Examination: SC [Read Judgment]

Physically Handicapped Category is a Category in itself, a person who is physically handicapped be it Physically Handicapped of a General Category or OBC Category, the Bench said.The Supreme Court on Tues day set aside Madras High Court and Delhi High Court Judgments which had held that physically handicapped candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBC), are entitled to avail 10...

SC Transfers 32-Year-Old Ganga Clean-Up PIL To NGT

“The entire issue is of monitoring now. We have passed an order long ago. That way NGT is a better body...the enforcement mechanism is with NGT now. The NGT Act provided for penalty and other penal provisions in case of non-compliance of the tribunal's orders”: Chief Justice J S Khehar.The famous M C Mehta Vs Union of India, a PIL filed in 1985 seeking measures to clean up the Ganga...

Withdrawing 2016 Jallikattu Notification: Centre To SC

The Supreme Court was informed by the Centre today that it is withdrawing its 2016 notification allowing Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu in view of the fresh legislation passed by the state assembly on the issue.“I am under instructions to inform the honourable court that the Centre has decided to withdraw the January 6, 2016 notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest allowing...