Supreme Court Disgusted With Government Inaction On Drought Relief, Contemplates Contempt Proceedings

Coming down heavily on the Central and State Governments for their willful disregard of the Supreme Courts’ May verdict on drought relief, the Apex Court asked Swaraj Abhiyan to file a Contempt Petition against those who have disobeyed the Court’s orders.The Division Bench of Justice Madan Lokur and Justice N.V. Ramana repeatedly expressed their displeasure at the gross callousness of...

Kerala Journalists’ Union Approaches SC For Opening Media Rooms In Kerala Courts [Read Petition]

The Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) has approached the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Registrar of Kerala High Court to open media rooms attached to the high court and other courts in Kerala with immediate effect.The petition also sought a direction to the Registrar to provide for safe and dignified access to courts and working atmosphere on the court premises.According...

Supreme Court Monthly Digest of Cases (September 2016)

Contempt of CourtsIn Gyani Chand vs. State of A.P, three-judge Bench comprising Justice Anil R. Dave, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice L. Nageswara Rao also observed that it would not be fair on the part of a court to give a direction to do something which is impossible and if a person has been asked to do something which is impossible and if he fails to do so, he cannot be held guilty...

SC Acquits Men Accused Of Gang Rape [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court in Raja & Ors. vs. State of Karnataka, has set aside a Karnataka High Court judgment, which had reversed the acquittal recorded by a trial court in a gang rape case, and had sentence the accused to life imprisonment.The Bench, comprising Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy, observed that the prosecutrix has contradicted herself qua the place of...

Status Report On Judges’ Appointments: AG Sought Time From SC To Reveal Progress [Read Order]

In an unusual chamber hearing, the Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice, T.S.Thakur, and justices A.M.Khanwilkar and D.Y.Chandrachud, heard the Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi on Monday (October 3) afternoon, on the status report on the appointment of Judges, whose names have been cleared by the Supreme Court Collegium.Three writ petitions, filed by three different petitioners...

Prevent Public Demonstrations On Dog Culling Issue, SC Tells Kerala Govt [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while considering petitions by the Animal Welfare Board of India, took note of photographs that carried captions “Kerala politicians beat street dogs to death, hang them on a pole and take out a parade” and 'Gils Periappuram posing with the culled dogs'.The photographs also contain a photograph where the dogs are lying dead with the caption 'Gils...

SC Demands High Level Meet On Steps To Tackle Chikungunya [Read Order]

“Blame game is the biggest problem. Everybody keeps blaming everybody. We have had enough of blame game.”, a bench of justices Madan B Lokur and L Nageswara Rao.The Supreme Court today directed  Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to chair a meeting of the Chief Minster, heads of civic bodies, chiefs of all relevant agencies tomorrow to devise a strategy to control the spread of...

SC Asks Karnataka To Release 2000 Cusecs Of Water To TN From Oct 7 To 18 [Read Order]

Karnataka finally fell in line after being rebuked by the Supreme Court for non-sharing of Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu and today said it was ready to release water.A satisfied bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice U U Lalit then asked Karnataka to release 2000 cusecs of Cauvery water from October 7 to October 18.The bench put on hold setting up of the Cauvery Management Board to weigh...

SC To Hear On Oct 7 Haji Ali Trust’s Appeal Against HC Allowing Women In Sanctum

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on October 7, Friday the appeal filed by Haji Ali Dargah Trust challenging the Bombay High Court order lifting the ban on women from entering the sanctum sanctorum of the renowned Muslim shrine in South Bombay.The matter was  mentioned by the trust before a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur which fixed the matter for hearing on Friday.On August...

SC Bench Of CJI Thakur and Gowda.J Divided Over Minister’s Power To Sanction Disciplinary Inquiry Against State Employee [Read Judgment]

While CJI Thakur says minister can do that, Justice Gowda says only Governor has the right to do so.The Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur and Justice V. Gopala Gowda expressed divergent views on the issue of a minister's power to sanction the initiation of a disciplinary inquiry against an in-service or retired employee.The Bench was hearing an appeal against...

HC Can’t Remand Cases When Either Party Doesn’t Seek It: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court in Syeda Rahimunnisa vs. Malan Bi (Dead) by L.Rs. & Anr. Etc., has held that the high court, while hearing a second appeal, has no jurisdiction to remand a case to the trial court, especially when no party to the appeal raised this ground before the first appellate court or/and the high court as to why the remand of the case to the trial court is called for and nor there...

SC Upholds BJP Leader Rajendra Mesharam’s Election Win [Read Judgment]

Setting aside the March 2015, order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against BJP candidate Rajendra Mesharam, the Supreme Court has upheld his election win to Devsar seat from the Singrauli district in Madhya Pradesh.Last year, the high court had nullified Mesharam’s election on the grounds that he had failed to furnish the proof of his resignation from the post of chief pharmacist...