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...

False Character Assassination By Spouse Is Cruelty, Ground For Divorce: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court in Santosh Sahay vs Hanuman Sahay, has held that if a false character assassination allegation is made by either spouse, it would invariably constitute matrimonial cruelty to entitle the other spouse to seek divorce.The Bench comprising Justice Pratibha Rani and Justice Pradeep Nandrajog was hearing an appeal filed by the wife against the decree of family court...

PIL Battles Involve Much More Than What Meets The Eye

Among the many anecdotes which Nandini Sundar narrates in her latest well-researched book-'The Burning Forest: India’s war in Bastar', the readers will surely find this amusing:Every time the case she filed against Salwa Judum was listed for hearing in the Supreme Court,  Nandini Sundar made offerings at the tomb of a medieval ‘judge saab’ in the scrub jungle near her home in Delhi,...

Strange Ideas Of Justice Dave

The ideas of Justice Anil Dave, the second senior most judge in the Supreme Court are, to say the least, strange.Consider the following: He gave a public statement that the Gita should be made compulsory in all schools in India. Now the Gita is perceived by most Muslims and some other non Hindu communities as a Hindu religious book. How can it be forcibly taught to non Hindus in a secular country? And this statement is being made by a person who has taken an oath to uphold our secular...

SC Rejects AAP Leader Ashish Khetan’s Plea To Decriminalise ‘Insult Of Religion’ [Read Order]

The Supreme Court recently dismissed a writ petition by journalist and Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashish Khetan, challenging the constitutionality of Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises ‘insult of religion’.Khetan was booked under the said provision for allegedly announcing that the party manifesto was as "sacred" as the 'Shri Guru Granth Sahib', the religious scripture...

‘Class Action Suits’ Under Consumer Protection Act Can Be Filed For The Benefit Of All The Consumers: NCDRC (FB) [Read Order]

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has held that a complaint under Section 12 (1)(c) of the Consumer Protection (CP) Act can be filed only on behalf of or for the benefit of all the consumers, having a common interest or a common grievance and seeking the same/identical relief against the same person.It has also been made clear that in a class action suit...

New three-Judge SC Bench to hear Cauvery water dispute on October 18

The Supreme Court has reportedly constituted a new three-Judges Bench to hear the disputes relating to sharing of Cauvery river water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.The new Bench would comprise Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Amitava Roy and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, and will hear the matter on October 18.The State of Karnataka was rebuked by the Supreme Court earlier this week, and was asked...