SC Rejects IRS Official Vivek Batra's Plea Against Sanction To Prosecute Him In Graft Case [Read Judgment]

Sanction cannot be held invalid only for the reason that in the administrative noting different authorities had opined differently before the competent authority took the decision in the matter, said the Bench.The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Vivek Batra, former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai, challenging the sanction order issued by the Union Finance Ministry...

Breaking: BCCI Review Petition Against Lodha Reforms Not Dismissed :Defers Hearing For Two Weeks [Read Order]

After a brief in-chamber hearing, a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur today deferred by two weeks the hearing on the review plea filed by the BCCI against its July 18 judgment directing the board to implement the Lodha Committee report which has recommended sweeping reforms in the structure, functioning and membership to the cricketing body.The key issues over which the Lodha...

BCI Drafts Proposal For Amendments To Advocates Act, Wants To Regulate Foreign Law Firms, Conduct CLAT, Etc

The Bar Council of India has proposed to amend the Advocates Act 1961, through an internally regulated circular, as reported by Legally India. If implemented, the set of proposals could very well overhaul the regulation of legal profession in the country.The move follows the recent observations made by the Supreme Court of India in Mahipal Singh Rana vs. State of Uttar Pradesh, wherein the...

Is Seeking Vote In Name Of Religion “Corrupt” Practice? SC 7-Judge Bench Begins Hearing

In the famous verdict which was later known as “hindutva judgment”, apex court's three-judge bench in 1995 had held that Hindutva/Hinduism is a way of life of the people in the sub-continent and “is a state of mind."A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur today began a crucial hearing for an authoritative ruling on the interpretation of Section 123 (3)...

Delhi Landfill Sites A Health Hazard: SC

“People are dying are you aware of that? It is a health hazard...very very serious health hazard”, SC while seeking a status report on landfill sites issue by next Friday.The PIL in Supreme Court for devising a strategy to control the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya opened another front with the apex court seeking answers on solid waste management in the...

Finish Probe Into Scribe Murder Case In 3 Months: SC To CBI [Read Order]

The Supreme Court today asked the CBI to conclude its investigation in the journalist Rajdev Ranjan murder case in Bihar within three months.Controversial gangster-turned RJD leader Mohd Shahabuddin is also under scanner in the caseA bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy made it clear that no accused in the murder case shall seek bail on the statutory ground that charge...

Reserving Verdict, SC Hints At Tough Orders Against BCCI, Anurag Thakur

The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on the plea by Lodha panel for removing the entire top brass of the BCCI and replace it with an administrator after slamming the Board for its continued defiance and also pulling up its President Anurag Thakur for trying to seek the help of ICC chief  for non-implementation of the recommendations.The bench headed by chief justice T S Thakur...

Cauvery Panel Submits Report: Confirms Water Shortage And Agricultural Distress In Cauvery Basin, Hearing Tomorrow

A high level technical panel appointed by the Supreme Court confirmed that the Cauvery basin is in trouble. In its 40 page report, the committee has suggested various measures that are in the direction of calling a truce between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on the Cauvery river water sharing dispute.On 4 October, after the Centre took a U-turn on the Cauvery Management Board, much to the chagrin...

SC Issues Notice To Justice Katju In Govindaswamy Review Case [Read Order]

In a surprise development, after the conclusion of hearing of arguments by the review petitioners in the Govindaswamy case, the Supreme Court bench comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi, Prafulla C Pant and Uday Umesh Lalit, this afternoon, issued notice to the former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Markandey Katju, to appear in Court in person, and participate in the proceedings on November 11 at...

Reforming Personal Laws An Ongoing Process: Arun Jaitley On Triple Talaq

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently took to social media and made a very crucial distinction between the contentious Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and the constitutional validity of triple talaq.He highlighted the question with regards to reforms within the personal laws of various communities and said, "Reforming personal laws, even if there is no uniformity, is an ongoing process. With...

Of Judgments, Literature & Everything In Between

On a pleasant October evening, three lawyers and a judge came together for a literary festival organised in the lap of Jim Corbett forest to share and discuss the art of judgment writing and highlight the intricate relationship law shares with literature. The occasion was Kumaon Literary Festival and the topic was ‘From legal literature to literature in law: Changing contours of...

Kerala HC Full Bench Issues Guidelines On Filing Of Subsequent Bail Applications [Read Judgment]

A Full Bench of Kerala High Court in Firos Ali v. State of Kerala, has issued guidelines pertaining to filing of subsequent bail applications for same crime.The Bench comprising of Chief Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar, Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice K.T. Sankaran clarified a few doubts that were raised in the principle that was laid down in a previous Supreme Court judgment...