Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Allowed a 22-year-old woman to terminate her 24-week pregnancyConsidering the right to preserve the life of a person is paramount, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed a 22-year-old woman to terminate her 24-week pregnancy on medical ground.File status report on installation of speed governorsSupreme Court it will summon secretaries of several states to appear in person with files if the...

Nobody Could Point A Finger At Justice Khehar On His Honesty, Integrity, And Uprightness: SC [Read Order]

Even as one thought the writ petition challenging Justice J.S.Khehar’s appointment as the CJI has become infructuous with his swearing-in on January 4, the Supreme Court bench of Justices R.K.Agrawal and D.Y.Chandrachud, has released its detailed order on it, 20 days after it was heard during the Christmas vacation.The petition, filed by the National Lawyers’ Campaign for...

SC Sets Aside Madhya Pradesh HC Inquiry Against BJP MP Kailash Vijayvargiya For Submitting False Affidavits [Read Judgment]

The matter has been remanded back to the high court for fresh considerationThe Supreme Court has set aside an order of Madhya Pradesh High Court that initiated an inquiry against BJP MP Kailash Vijayvargiya into allegations that he had submitted false affidavits to the court. The apex court remanded the matter back to the high court for fresh consideration.Madhya Pradesh High Court had...

President Commutes Death Sentences Of Four Convicts

President Pranab Mukherjee, on January 1, commuted the death sentences of four convicts to life imprisonment, accepting their mercy petitions.   They are Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh.The Supreme Court had confirmed their death sentences on April 15, 2002.The President received the recommendation from the Ministry of Home Affairs on August...

We Have Fast-Tracked SC Cases.No Adjournments, Deletions: CJI Khehar

“We are on the fast track. Don't worry, No matters will be deleted from list. We will take it up. But remember there will be no adjournments on frivolous grounds” : Chief Justice J S Khehar“No...no..no..no adjournment…Take instructions or file affidavits.. whatever you want.. but today itself..not another day.. you come at 2 or 4 today itself. This is such an old matter we cannot keep...

Legal Experts Express Mixed Reactions On Jallikattu Ordinance

Bowing to the public pressure, the Tamil Nadu government with the help of Centre has promulgated an ordinance to hold the traditional sport jallikattu, the ancient bull taming sport, in the state. The Supreme Court had banned the sport on the ground of cruelty to animals.The legal experts said the government was left with no other option but to resort to legislative means to pacify the...

A Peep Into Recusals In Supreme Court

On Friday, the Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India, (CJI) J.S.Khehar and Justice D.Y.Chandrachud, heard a peculiar problem faced by the Tripura High Court operating with just three Judges, although it has a sanctioned strength of four.The High Court chief justice, Tinliangthang Vaiphei, wrote to the CJI that he was unable to constitute a division bench to hear intra-court...

SC Stays Himachal Pradesh High Court’s Judgment Directing Centre To Enact A National Law Banning Cow Slaughter

The Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice J.S.Khehar and Justice D.Y.Chandrachud, on Friday, stayed the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s July 29, 2016 judgment directing the Centre to enact law prohibiting slaughtering of cow/calf, import or export of cow/calf, selling of beef or beef products, at the national level.As the High Court, in the same judgment, directed construction of cow...

BCI Considering To Frame Rules On Lawyers' Strike: Submits In SC

The Bar Council of India has submitted before the Supreme Court that it is considering framing of rules for regulating strikes by advocates. The submission was made during the hearing of a contempt petition filed in the matter of landmark judgment in Harish Uppal’s case.A contempt petition filed by one Prem Prakash Panigrahi sought contempt against the Bar associations of Odisha that have...

SC Sets Aside Concurrent Murder Conviction of Six Persons [Read Orders]

Six persons, one from Delhi and five from Kerala, were acquitted by the Supreme Court of murder charges by setting aside the concurrent findings of respective high courts and trial courts.The trial court had found Raj Kumar guilty of murdering a house wife.The conviction was later upheld by the Delhi High Court. On his appeal, a bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Ashok...

Rape Accused Dead; But SC Keeps Case Alive To Decide Victim’s Interests [Read Order]

“I urged the court not to close the case merely citing the death of the accused because here the issue involves the victim and not just the accused. There is a question of her relief and rehabilitation. We had also urged the court to decide on the law also, to lay down general principles as to if a man who sexually abuses an adult victim can be tried in a children's court under the...

NRI Students Move SC On NEET Regulations To Unaided Private Medical Colleges [Read Petition]

They are children of NRI parents and had taken admission to various private medical colleges for academic year 2016-17 on the basis of their marks in Intermediate (10+2) and requisite merit in the NRI category, but later they were denied admission and asked to undergo National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).Their fate is now hanging on fire as the Telengana and Andhra Pradesh High Court...