NALSAR VC Dr. Faizan Mustafa gets SAARC Best Law Teacher award

In a proud moment for Indian legal academia, Dr. Faizan Mustafa, the Vice Chancellor of NALSAR has been conferred this year’s SAARC best law teacher award. The same was announced by Prof. N.R. Madhav Menon and Mr. LalitBhasin, president of Indian Law Firms.   The award, a highly prestigious one, carries Rs. 1 lac in cash, a citation and a plaque. A high powered jury in a unanimous...

No bail for Assaram, Rajasthan Government is directed to set up Medical Board for examine his health

A new development in the ongoing Jodhpur rape case leveled against controversial godman Asaram Bapu has come to fore. Accused of raping a 16 year old minor girl in Jodhpur, controversial godman Asaram Bapu has been imprisoned in the Jodhpur jail since September 2, 2013 charged under Section 376 (rape), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of the woman) and 354 (assault...

National Commission for Women cannot grant final relief or arrive at final conclusions; not a judicial body: Bombay High Court [Read the Judgment]

A Bombay High Court Bench comprising of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice A.K. Menon in a recent decision, has ruled that the National Commission for Women "is not entitled to arrive at final conclusions or grant reliefs that a civil or criminal court can."According to the Bench, the NCW has no jurisdiction to deliberate upon or come to any conclusion in relation to termination of...

Justice UU Lalit likely to be the Chief Justice of India for 74 Days; List of India’s probable CJs up to 2022, Justice Bobde has the longest tenure

It happened only once in the history of Supreme Court of India, a direct appointee becoming Chief Justice of India, and Justice U U Lalit will be the second direct appointee to become the Chief Justice of India. Justice UU Lalit will become the Chief Justice of India on August 26, 2022 and continue to remain so till November 8, 2022. Overall, Justice Lalit, as Chief Justice of India will...

Daughters are entitled to Ancestral Property; Bombay High Court Full bench [Read the Judgment]

A Full Bench of the Bombay High Court comprising Mohit Shah C.J, M. S Sanklecha and M.S Sonak, JJ, delivered a noteworthy judgment on daughter's right to ancestral property in a joint HUF on 14th August, 2014. The Bench was constituted on a reference by Single Judge R.G. Ketkar J. who doubted the correctness of the decision of the Division Bench in the case of Vaishali S. Ganorkar &...

Writ in Apex Court challenging National Judicial Appointments Commission and Constitution Amendment Bill

A Public Interest Litigation has now been filed by advocates R. Krishnamurthy and N. Rajaraman, in the apex Court of the Country, challenging the National Judicial Appointments Bills which lays down a procedure for appointment of Judges to the higher Judiciary.  The petition has also attacked the Constitution Amendment Bill which would confer a Constitutional status to the NJAC.The...

MP High Court denies the allegation of Bias on the Inquiry Panel ; Head of the inquiry Panel Justice Ajit Shah was not a member of the Committee which transfer the District Judge

Madhya Pradesh High Court denied the allegation of bias on the inquiry panel which inquires in to the Sexual harassment allegations by the Gwalior District Judge against a sitting Judge of the High Court. Registrar Ved Prakash said that "Justice Ajit Singh was not member of the Transfer Committee, which comprised of two other senior Judges who had recommended transfer and also dealt with...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice H.L.Dattu, Justice P.C. Ghose and Justice S.A. Bobde has directed CBI Chief Ranjit Sinha to submit all documents relating to the alleged attempts to seek a reopening of the 2G Spectrum scam case, which is nearing completion now.The Bench rapped CBI for jolting out of the probe supervising officer, DIG Santosh Rastogi, from the 2G spectrum scam case...

Kerala Human Rights Commission steps in to address the ‘Human Rights violations of Bar Hotel Owners’

It appears that the Kerala Human Rights Commission is determined to teach the world the new contours of ‘Humans Rights Law’.  Justice J B Koshy, the Chairperson and the former Chief Justice of Patna High Court has taken up the ‘noble cause’ of Kerala Bar Hotel owners, and violations of their human rights with the State Government. In the  report to the Government, the Commission...

Sisters who kidnapped and killed children set to become first ever women to be hanged in India

Two sisters from Kolhapur, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, may become the first women ever to be hanged in India, after President Pranab Mukherjee late last month rejected their mercy petitions.Renuka Kiran Shinde and her sister Seema Mohan Gavit, united with their mother Anjanabai Gavit kidnapped the kids and pushed them into begging....

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill: Kapil Sibal and Fali Nariman decide to challenge Constitutional Validity of the two Bills

The two amendment Bills aimed at scrapping the collegiums system that has been in place for two decades now, will now reportedly come under scrutiny by the apex Court of the country. Former Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal and eminent Jurist Fali Nariman have decided to challenge the Constitutional validity of Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, 2014, and the National Judicial...

MP Judge Harassment allegations: Female Judge fears bias in probe by panel

Additional District Judge in Gwalior who had allegedly resigned in order to save herself from continued sexual advances from a Madhya Pradesh High Court Judge now reportedly says that she would not co-operate with the panel set up to investigate the charges. The woman Judge asserts in her letter to the panel that "until the committee is reconstituted and her queries answered, she won't...