527 Days In Hospital To Evade Arrest: SC Holds Doctors Guilty Of Contempt [Read Judgment]

However, the court has not yet imposed any punishment on them and has granted them one more opportunity to present their view on the issue.Hospitals and doctors who give shelter to criminals to escape from arrests will now have to think twice as they can also be held guilty of contempt of court.The Supreme Court, in Sita Ram vs. Balbir, has held two medical professionals guilty of contempt...

Jammu & Kashmir Has No Vestige Of Sovereignty Outside The Constitution of India [Read Judgment]

SC rejected the J&K High Court’s view that the J&K Constitution was equal to the Constitution of India,J&K Constitution is subordinate to the Constitution of India. SARFESI Act applicable to J&K, In a landmark judgment on cooperative federalism and legislative relations between the State of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and the Union of India, a two judge bench comprising...

Plea For Probe Into Sahara/Birla Documents & The Politics Of CJI Succession

Item 68 before Court 2 in Supreme Court was eagerly awaited in the afternoon, with justices J.S.Khehar and Arun Mishra deciding to forego their lunch hour to dispose of the pending cases.When the case - Common Cause v Union of India and Others - was taken up, Common Cause’s counsel, Prashant Bhushan, began saying that he burnt the midnight oil to meet the deadline, set by the Bench on...

Rules Followed While Shifting R K Dutta From CBI: Centre To SC [Read Affidavit]

The Centre today claimed before the Supreme Court that provisions governing the CBI was strictly complied and denied allegations that services of senior IPS officer R K Dutta, who was overseeing probes in 2G and coal scams, was curtailed at CBI in a “most malafide manner”.“The high-power committee, comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of Opposition...

Mobile Towers Come Within Ambit Of ‘Land And Building’ For Levying Property Tax: SC [Read Judgment]

A two judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and P.C.Pant in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation v GTL Infrastructure Ltd. & Ors. Etc. has held that mobile towers come within the fold of ‘land and building’ appearing in 21 Entry 49 List II of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution and can be termed as a ‘building’ for the purposes of levy of...

Two Tier Arbitration Procedure Permissible Under The Laws Of India: SC [Read Judgment]

In a landmark judgment accepting the concept of ‘two tier arbitration’ or ‘second instance arbitration’, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justices Madan B. Lokur, R.K Agrawal and D.Y Chandrachud answering a reference made in 2006 due to divergence of opinions between Justice S.B.Sinha and Tarun Chatterjee, held that arbitration clauses which provide for a two-...

Breaking; Legislation To Regulate Triple Talaq Required: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

It is possible to have a common code at least for the marriage law in India, Justice Mustaq said. The Kerala High Court on Friday observed that State intervention, by way of legislation, to regulate triple is required in India.Justice A Muhammed Mustaq, while disposing a batch a petitions relating to Muslim divorce law, suggested a number of reforms to be introduced in Muslim personal...

Demonetisation: SC Refuses To Intervene; 5 Judge Bench To Examine Validity [Read Order]

Contrary to expectations, the bench refused to intervene with the economic policy saying the government was the best judge of fiscal policy. But said it will constitute a five judge bench to examine the validity of November 8 demonetisation notificationThe Supreme Court today refused to intervene on the issue of extension of the order on depositing old Rs 500 and Rs 1000...

SC Cannot Be Made A Political Arena : CJI To "BJP Spokesperson" PIL Lawyer

Dismissing his fresh PIL seeking a National Liqour Policy to curb alcohol consumption, Chief Justice T S Thakur today asked petitioner, lawyer and BJP Spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyaya "not to make the court a political arena".As Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal who was present in the courtroom in connection with another case looked on, CJI pointed towards Sibal and told Upadhyaya"Yesterday in...

Survivor-Centric Approach Towards Rape Victims Is Need Of The Hour: SC [Read Judgment]

Why should the evidence of the girl or the woman who complains of rape or sexual molestation be viewed with the aid of spectacles fitted with lenses tinged with doubt, disbelief or suspicion, the bench remarked.Exhorting to bring significant reforms in the criminal justice system, the Supreme Court, in State of Himachal Pradesh vs  Sanjay Kumar @ Sunny, has mooted for a...

Bulandshahr Rape: SC Accepts Azam’s Apology [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today accepted Uttar Pradesh minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s apology for calling a Bulandshahr gang rape a “political conspiracy”.The Bench, comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy, today reproduced the relevant paragraph from Azam Khan’s fresh affidavit in which he said that “if by any statement made by him (Azam Khan), the petitioner has...

SC Hints Contempt, Perjury Proceedings Against BCCI Chief Anurag Thakur

“We prima facie feel that you (Anurag Thakur) are in contempt and we also prima facie feel that you are liable for perjury and we are inclined to launch prosecution. Once we pronounce the order, your client may have nowhere to go except to jail”: CJI Thakur told Anurag Thakur's lawyer Kapil Sibal.Supreme Court’s patience over sustained non-compliance of the Lodha panel reforms by BCCI...