SC notice to Delhi pollution board, Centre on plea by 3 infants seeking steps to curb pollution

The supreme court today issued notices to the Delhi Pollution Control Board, Delhi government and Centre on a petition filed by three infants--Arjun Gopal, Aarav Bhandari and Zoya Rao Bhasin, all aged between 6 months and 14 months urging for urgent measures to bring down the “fatal” pollution level in national capital Delhi.Appearing for the infants, who moved court through their...

Stale claims could not be allowed to rise like a phoenix by the Writ Court; Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

Stale claims are not to be adjudicated unless non-interference would cause grave injustice. A writ court while deciding a writ petition is required to remain alive to the nature of the claim and the unexplained delay on the part of the writ petitioner. The Supreme Court of India has held that Stale claims are not to be adjudicated unless non-interference would cause grave injustice. A Bench...

Karnataka appoints Dushyant Dave as Spl.Prosecutor in Appeal against Jayalalithaa’s Acquittal in DA Case

Karnataka Government has reportedly appointed Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave as its special prosecutor in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, being heard by the Supreme Court. Mr. Dave will work alongside Karnataka's former Advocate-General and Special Public Prosecutor before the special court and the High Court B.V. Acharya.In the Petition...

Delhi HC finds patent infringement by Glenmark, restrains from business of anti-diabetes drug [Read Judgment]

Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained Indian Mumbai based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals from selling, distributing, marketing or exporting its anti-diabetes drugs Zita and Zita-Met, holding that they were infringing the patent granted to US-based Pharmaceuticals Company, Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp.Restraining Glenmark, Justice A.K. Pathak observed, "it emerges from the comparison of the...

Everyone has a fundamental right to be recognized in their chosen Gender: Delhi HC allows transgender student to return to US [Read Judgment]

"Shivani is a brave-heart," observed Justice Siddharth Mridul, coming 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...

SC sets aside Punjab & Haryana HC order upholding Bar Association (Constitution and Registration) Rules, 2015

Supreme Court has set aside the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dated August 4, 2015, wherein Bar Association (Constitution and Registration) Rules, 2015 framed by the Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana were upheld by consent between the parties.The Court ruled that the order of the High Court was passed without hearing the parties and in violation of principles of natural justice....

SC refuses to modify order linking Aadhaar cards only to LPG, PDS distribution; says constitution bench will decide further pleas

Refusing to modify its August 11 interim order allowing linking Aadhaar cards with only public distribution system for distribution of food grains, cooking fuels and LPG cylinders, the Supreme Court today said demands to extend it to more schemes shall be dealt with by the larger constitution bench to which the matter is being referred to.Despite fervent pleas by Attorney General Mukul...

SC notice to WB govt, prosecution on plea by Irish rape case accused against allowing victim to depose through SKYPE

Admitting a petition filed by the accused challenging the permission given to the victim in the 2013 Kolkata Irish rape case to depose from her country through Skype, the Supreme Court has issued notice to the West Bengal government and prosecution in the case.Significantly, a bench of Justice J S Khehar and Justice R Banumathi also agreed to delve on an important question raised in the...

SC imposes costs of Rs. 5 lakh for withdrawing appeals, in view of "judicial time expended" [Read Order]

In an order delivered last week, the Supreme Court imposed a cost of Rs. 5 lakh on Kerala State Electricity Board and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited for withdrawing their appeals, without circulating a letter before the Bench notifying it of the withdrawal.Granting the permission to withdraw, the Bench, comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N.V. Ramana ordered payment of costs by the...

Breaking; UOI to consider to entrust the Functions of Bar Council to a body headed by Rtd.SC Judge; Madras HC issues Guidelines to clean the Legal Profession [Read Judgment]

Madras High Court today issued Guidelines to prevent intrusion of person having criminal antecedents without legally studying bachelor of Law Degree for maintaining the purity in the justice delivery system."Neither Legal Profession is an asylum for criminals Nor law Degrees are shields for their criminal activities ". Legal profession is blighted by the entry of criminal elements. It is...

J & K Beef Ban: SC keeps Jammu order in abeyance; asks 3-judge bench of Srinagar HC to decide issue

The Supreme Court today suspended for two months a controversial court order for enforcing ban on the sale of beef in Jammu and Kashmir while asking the Chief Justice of J-K High Court to set up a three-judge bench to decide on two conflicting orders on the issue. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu directed that the September 8 order of the Jammu bench of the High Court, by which it...

"My grandson has started wearing a mask and looks like a Ninja", says CJI Dattu Favours pollution compensation tax on trucks coming into Delhi

"The situation is alarming indeed. Even my grandson has started wearing pollution masks", Chief Justice H L Dattu said as he favoured imposition of hefty pollution tax ranging from rs 600 -1,200 on nearly 60,000 trucks from outside passing through Delhi spewing harmful pollutants.A bench headed by Justice Dattu on Monday sought positive views of Centre, Delhi government and MCD on the proposal...