Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Live Law reported the following judgments/orders of the Apex Court last week.Ansal Brothers Sentencing modified The Supreme Court modified the sentence ofAnsal Brothers. According to the new order, if SushilAnsal and  GopalAnsal, the accused in the Uphaar Tragedy case, fails to pay Rs. 30 Crores each within three months from today, they will have to  undergo the sentence of...

Chinese Law makers vote for abolition of Death Penalty for 9 more Crimes

In 2011, they abolished it for 13 crimes. Now for 9 more crimes. Still 46 crimes are punishable with death. Will it reduce further?National People's Congress, the top law making body of Republic of China today adopted amendments to the Criminal Law, abolishing death penalty for nine more crimes.  Ninth amendment of criminal law was passed after a six-day bimonthly session of the...

Breaking; Supreme Court stays proceedings under Bar Council’s Verification Rules [Updated] [Read the Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings under new ‘Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015’  which are pending before various High Courts. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and R.K. Agrawal, during hearing of the Transfer Petition moved by Bar Council of India passed the following order “Issue notice. Dasti service, in addition,...

Dalit Woman petitions SC against Khap Panchayat’s orders to rape her and sister for brother’s actions

A Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice J. Chelameswar has reportedly sought response from the Uttar Pradesh Government on a plea against a Khap Panchayat diktat for rape of two Dalit women. The Panchayat had ordered the two sisters to be raped and paraded naked after blackening their faces as retaliation to her brother eloping with a married girl from the upper-caste Jat community.The...

Centre to crack down on Rape Videos: Supreme Court

The Centre was directed by the Supreme Court to crack down on rape videos those are uploaded on social networking sites, especially those involving children.A bench of Justice MB Lokur and Justice UU Lalit, issuing notice to the Ministries of Information and Broadcasting and Information Technology, said: “The government must crack down on these offenders and take steps to remove...

Supreme Court reminds the Centre that ‘National policy on Older persons’ is old and outdated, emphasizes the need to update it

The Supreme Court on Friday, reminded the central Government that the National Policy which envisages support for financial security, health care, shelter, welfare and other needs of older persons, has turned old and outdated. Social Justice Bench of Supreme Court reportedly said “national policy on old age homes is 15 year old. You need to update it. So much has happened since 1999."The...

SC raps Government for inadequate implementation of “wonderful” schemes

Social Justice Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice M.B. Lokur and Justice U.U. Lalit yesterday rapped the Government for the disparity between formulating “wonderful” welfare schemes for children belonging to lower strata of the society and their implementation at the ground level.The Court’s observation came when the Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta apprised the...

CIC directs Tihar Jail to inform about prisoners release [Read the Order]

The Central Information Commission directed the Tihar Jail authorities to give ‘release related’ information to undertrial prisoners to enable them to be released. In a second appeal filed by Ms Divya Iyer, the Information Commissioner Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu stated that it was the constitutional responsibility and statutory obligation of the Governments to review each case of...

SC upholds Bombay HC decision against seeking copies of Ajit Pawar’s I-T returns

The Supreme Court has refused to entertain a plea by former Central Information Commissioner, Shailesh Gandhi, who wanted copies of the Income Tax returns of former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar under the RTI Act.A Bench of Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice C Nagappan declined Gandhi’s appeal against the Bombay High Court order, saying there was no merit in his arguments.Gandhi,...

Prosecution against an Economic Offender can continue even if he settles the amount with the bank: SC [Read the Judgment]

To quash the proceeding merely on the ground that the accused has settled the amount with the bank would be a misplaced sympathy, the Supreme Court said while asking the Trial court to proceed with the trial in an economic offence case registered about two and half decades ago.The Supreme Court of India today, set aside a Delhi High Court order which had quashed the Criminal proceedings...

UP State Assembly passes amendment dropping HC Chief Justice from Lokayukta Selection Panel

The UP State Assembly yesterday amended the Lokayukta Act and reportedly dropped the High Court Chief Justice from the selection Committee, by approving the Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta and Up-Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2015.The Bill provides for a new four-member panel comprising Chief Minister, Leader of Opposition, Speaker and a retired Judge, who will be selected in consultation with the...

Prof. Shamnad Basheer appointed as Honorary Research Chair Professor of the Centre for IPR, at Institute of Law, Nirma University

A facebook page of the Institute of Law, Nirma University announced recently that the illustrious Prof. Shamnad Basheer was appointed as the Honorary Research Chair Professor of the Centre for IPR, at Institute of Law, Nirma University.When asked about this appointment, Prof Basheer confirmed it to us via email and noted: “It's a great honour to be appointed to this position. I've been to Nirma a couple of times in the past and was very impressed with their vision for legal education.”Prof Purvi...