"Overriding" NGT's 4-day-old order, SC directs to impose Rs 700 –Rs 1,300 pollution tax on trucks entering Delhi

The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi government and the MCD to levy an Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) ranging from Rs 700 to Rs 1,300 on commercial vehicles, largely trucks, entering the capital and cause pollution.A three judge special bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu, and Justices Arun Mishra and Adarsh Kumar Goel ordered that the charge should be levied on all...

Bar Council of India to appeal against Madras HC verdict on scrapping 3yr LLB Course

The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Sunday decided to file an appeal against a Madras High Court judgment which directed scrapping of the three-year degree course and retaining only the five-year programme, and taking over the regulatory body of the legal profession as well as education by a retired Supreme Court judge headed-panel. Read the Cover on the Judgement by Live Law.In the order,...

Allahabad HC directs UP Govt. to protect Minor Rape Victim’s unborn Child

In a landmark judgment, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to take care of the unborn child of a minor rape victim.Indicting the State for its failure to protect a minor girl from a rapist, the High Court on Friday said it was now the obligation of the State to take care of the unborn child conceived after the crime.The Court, however,...

Is this a High Court or a joke ? Justice Katju's Charges against Allahabad High Court

Former Judge of Supreme Court of India Justice Markandeya Katju in his Face book post last week, lambasted the Allahabad High Court over the delay of disposing  Cases and other things. He also said that he was informed that the much awaited Supreme Court judgment on the Constitutional validity of the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act will be delivered next week by the...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-up

JudgmentsIn a judgment rendered on Thursday, the Apex Court has held that Stale claims are not to be adjudicated unless non-interference would cause grave injustice. A Bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C. Pant, allowed the appeal filed by State of Jammu and Kashmir against the High Court judgment. A writ court while deciding a writ petition is required to remain alive to...

High Courts Weekly Round-up

Delhi High CourtDelhi High Court came to the rescue of a 19 year old NRI transgender, who had approached the Court alleging that her parents had forcibly brought her to India and got her enrolled in an educational institution in Agra so that she could be reformed and taught to be a “normal girl”. The Court directed the Police to escort her to the Delhi Airport so that she could return...

Law Minister V. Sadananda Gowda supports live telecast of Court Proceedings

Speaking to The Telegraph, Law Minister V. Sadananda Gowda has expressed his eagerness to live telecast of all Court proceedings. The possibility of acceptance of the proposal however, depends upon the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014, to be determined by the Supreme Court, he saidMr. Gowda was quoted as saying, “After the completion of the second phase of...

Nitish Katara Murder , not a ‘rarest of rare’ Case; SC rejects the plea for Death Sentence to Vishal and Vikas Yadav

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav who have been convicted for murdering her son Nitish Katara in February 2002.An Apex Court Bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice R. Banumati said that while it was a murder and could even be pre-meditated, it certainly was not heinous or a matter of...

Is it SC vs NGT? CJI set to issue orders on vehicle pollution tax that will supersede green court's directions

Wednesday's National Green Tribunal order imposing environment compensation charge ranging from Rs 500 to 1000 on polluting vehicles entering Delhi is as good as 'null and void' with the Supreme Court today, in a surprising decision, stating that it would issue orders on the same issue on Monday.Significantly, the bench headed by chief justice H L Dattu also said: "Our orders will...

Vyapam case: Look how deaths stopped after SC took over and handed over probe to CBI : CJI Dattu

The Supreme Court today wondered how deaths related to the sensational  Vyapam case stopped soon after it took over the matter and handed over the probe to the CBI and  said it meant that something was amiss earlier .CJI H L Dattu observed that “I really wonder how deaths have completely stopped in Vyapam scam since apex court took over the matter on July 9 and entrusted the case to the...

Pollution Tax on Trucks: Salve, Dave question NGT’s Jurisdiction; SC summons order copy

Senior lawyer Harish Salve, acting as the amicus curiae and Senior lawyer Dushyant Dave for the Delhi government today questioned the jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal to issue general directions and entertain PILs. The Apex Court was hearing the petition demanding imposition of pollution compensation tax on nearly 60,000 trucks entering the capital daily.The Senior...

'Father of deceased' has the Locus standi to file an Appeal against Acquittal of Accused, but with leave of the High Court; SC partially overrules Delhi HC's Full Bench Judgment

A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court in Satya Pal Singh v. State of M.P held that the father of the deceased has locus standi to prefer an appeal before the High Court under proviso to Section 372 of Cr.P.C. as he falls within the definition of victim as defined under Section 2(wa) of Cr.P.C. to question the correctness of the Judgment and order of acquittal of Accused in the Case. The...