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...

SC To Decide Whether It Can Direct EC And The Central Government To Ensure Larger Participation Of Voters In Elections

Inspired by the mandatory voting in countries such as Belgium, Brazil, Argentina and Australia, a PIL petitioner, Satya Prakash, had approached the Supreme Court in 2014 seeking directions to the Election Commission and the Central Government, to take steps and frame necessary guidelines to ensure larger participation of voters in the elections.On September 30, his petition came up for...

SC Refuses To Review Death Penalty Of Ex-Cop Umesh In Rape-Murder Case [Read Judgment]

The petitioner is a menace and has become threat to the society, the Bench observed.After a series of commutation of death sentences and acquittals in September, the month of October began with the Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi confirming the death penalty imposed on a rape-cum-murder convict Umesh, by dismissing his review petition against the dismissal of appeals by...

SC Acquits Ex-Policeman Accused Of Killing Wife [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has acquitted an ex-police constable, who was convicted by the trial court and high court under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and resultantly sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and also to pay fine of ₹10,000 for killing his wife.The Bench comprising Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava Roy has held that the circumstances brought forth by...

SC Stresses On Rights Of Prisoners; Tells Centre, States To Comply With Guidelines On Prison Reforms [Read Order]

The Supreme Court in Re-Inhuman Conditions In 1382 Prisons, has observed that due importance needs to be given to the rights of prisoners and undertrials in various prisons across the country.Holding that the prisoners to have the right to life and the right to live with dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution, the Bench comprising Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice R.K. Agrawal...

Chikungunya: SC Slams AAP Govt For Delay In Affidavit To Prove “Non-Cooperation By Officials”

“If people are dying you do not need 24 hours to file an affidavit. When deaths take place some urgency is called for …you had made tall claims on that day and now you cannot file an affidavit ? SC TO AAP GOVT.The Supreme Court today pulled up Delhi’s AAP government for not filing the fresh affidavit demanded two days ago by the court in which it had sought the names of those...

Not Court, Only Parliament Can Form Cauvery Board: Centre To SC [Read the Application]

The Supreme Court was told by the Centre today that forming the Cauvery Water Management Board is the sole prerogative of Parliament and that any court did not have the jurisdiction to issue any direction to government on this.“The constitution of the Cauvery Water Management Board requires the consent of both houses of Parliament and that it cannot be formed on the orders of the apex...

How Can Orders On Curbing Sardar Jokes Be Enforced ? Wonders CJI

The Supreme Court today said may not want any community to be ridiculed through jokes or SMSs or its commercialization but wondered even if it banned or issued some orders pertaining to it, how could it be enforced?Carrying forward the hearing on PILs seeking a ban on ‘sardar jokes’, a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur asked petitioner and lawyer Harvinder Choudury...

Katara Murder: SC Modifies Sentence Of Vikas Yadav And Pehlwan [Read Judgment] [UPDATED]]

The Supreme Court today modified the sentences of Vikas Yadav and his aide Sukhdev Pehlwan convicted in the sensational 2002 Nitish Katara murder case.High Court has imposed a fixed term sentence, i.e., 25 years for the offence under Section 302 IPC and 5 years for offence under Section 201 IPC with the stipulation that both the sentences would run consecutively. Today a bench of Justices...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Rape & Murder of 7Yr Old Girl: Accused acquitted Of Murder Charges and Quashes Death Penalty; Upholds Lifer for Rape The Apex Court in Rajesh vs. State of Madhya Pradesh acquitted a rape-cum-murder accused of murder charges and upheld life imprisonment and conviction under Section 376 (2) (f) and 377 IPC. The Bench comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice...

Cauvery: Karnataka Moves Fresh Review Petition In SC

Setting the stage for further confrontation with the Supreme Court, the Karnataka government has moved a fresh review petition in the Supreme Court against its three recent orders on Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu and direction for constitution of Cauvery Water Management Board by Centre.“Undue hardship will be caused to us and there will be grave miscarriage of justice”, said...

HC Action Against Contempt Of Subordinate Court, Only By Reference Or By AG’s Motion: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court in Vilas V. Sanghai vs. Sumermal Mishrimal Bafna & Anr., has set aside a High Court order in a contempt proceedings against a police officer on a limited ground that, since the criminal contempt was of a subordinate Court, the High Court could have taken action only on a reference made to it by the subordinate Court or on a Motion made by the Advocate General and not...