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...

Sidelights Of BCCI Hearing In SC

Today’s hearing on the reform of the BCCI in the Supreme Court witnessed some amusing and not-so-amusing moments.  While it is obvious that the critics of the Justice Lodha Committee see an opportunity in the absence of the retired Chief Justice, T.S.Thakur on the bench, to try to change the tides in their favour, what is of interest would be how they intend to go about it, and the...

SC To Hear PIL Against Advancing Budget On Jan 23

A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar today said it will hear on January 23 in detail a PIL which challenged the advancement   of the Union Budget to February one ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in five states.The bench which had sought material and legal provisions in support of the PIL, said it wanted time to go through the additional affidavit filed by the petitioner M L...

BCCI: SC Panel Submits Names For Appointment As Administrators; Bench Has Objections [Read Order]

The two member SC panel of amicus Gopal Subramaniam and senior lawyer Anil Diwan submitted to the Supreme Court today a list of nine names as the administrators of the BCCI after the removal of its President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke for non-implementation of Lodha panel reforms.However a bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra who replaced retired CJI T S Thakur in the bench...

Jallikattu: On AG’s Plea SC Says Will Not Pass Verdict For A Week

“People of Tamil Nadu are passionate about Jallikattu and the Central government and the state are trying to resolve the issue. The Centre and the state are in talks to find a way out in the matter and our request is that the court should not deliver the judgement for at least a week” : AG Rohatgi to SCActing on a submission by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, the Supreme Court today...

SC Acquits ‘Killer Thiayagu’ Of Murder Charges Reversing HC/Trial Court Findings [Read Order]

Holds him guilty of causing knife injury on the leg of the deceased.The Supreme Court has acquitted one ‘Killer Thiayagu’ of murder charges, reversing the concurrent findings of trial court and the Madras High Court which had held him guilty for murdering a real estate broker.The high court had already acquitted other three co-accused, who had been convicted by the trial court,...

Wife’s Capability To Earn No Reason To Reduce Maintenance Awarded To Her: SC [Read Order]

Merely because the wife is ‘capable of earning’, it is not a reason to reduce the maintenance awarded to her, the Supreme Court has held in a recent pronouncement in Shailja vs. Khobbanna.A bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Prafulla C Pant said whether the wife is capable of earning or whether she is actually earning are two different requirements and the high court...

SC Junks PIL For Legal Sanctity For Decree Of Divorce By Ecclesiastical Courts

In a ruling that would have bearing on the issue of divorce granted by any entity other than courts recognised by the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Thursday said decrees granted by the ecclesiastical court, known among Christians as church courts, have no legal sanctity.The court clarified that personal laws could not override parliamentary legislations on specific subject and only...

SC Permits Delhi High Court To Hear Death-Row Convict Lodged In Chhattisgarh [Read Orders]

The Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra and R.Bhanumati on January 12, allowed the Delhi High Court to hear the petition filed by Sonu Sardar, a death-row convict, lodged in Raipur Central Prison, against the rejection of his mercy petition by the President.The Supreme Court first entertained the Transfer Petition of Chhattisgarh Government which questioned the jurisdiction of the...

No Urgent Hearing On Jallikattu, Says SC

The apex court asks petitioner to move Madras High Court.In the light of growing defiance of its directions on jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give an urgent hearing to a related plea in the public interest.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India JS Khehar and Justice DY Chandrachud, however, asked the petitioner to approach the Madras High Court.In the...

SC Stays Uttarakhand HC ‘Eviction’ Order Against ‘Encroachers’ Of Railway Land [Read Order]

Permits aggrieved parties to approach HC against eviction notices.The Supreme Court has stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order which directed removal of all encroachments and assumption of possession by the railway authorities on a land located in Haldwani, Nainital. The apex court permitted the aggrieved parties to raise their grievance before a division bench of the high court.A...