BREAKING| Five New Supreme Court Judges Take Oath; Working Strength Rises To 32, With 2 Vacancies

Five new Supreme Court judges took oath on Monday. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud administered the oath to the newly sworn-in judges in the presence of all judges of the Supreme Court.The newly sworn-in judges are :1. Justice Pankaj Mithal, Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.2. Justice Sanjay Karol, Chief Justice of Patna High Court.3. Justice P. V. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Justice...

Chief Justice of Singapore Praises Indian Supreme Court For Handling 'Immense Caseload', Hails Its Judges As Hardest Working In World

The Supreme Court of India is among the busiest courts in the world and its justices are among the hardest working judges because of the immense caseload that they carry, said Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon of the Singapore Supreme Court on his visit to India. The judge, while commending his Indian counterpart and the top court, said, “I saw this myself when I was honoured...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest (29th January 2023 - 5th February 2023)

Judgements/OrdersOrder XLI Rule 5 CPC - Mere Filing Of Appeal Would Not Operate As A Stay Of Decree : Supreme CourtCase Title: Sanjiv Kumar Singh vs State Of Bihar | Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s). 19038/2022 | 24 January 2023 Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 63Coram: Justices A S Bopanna and Hima KohliThe Supreme Court observed that mere filing of the appeal would not operate as a stay under...

Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2022- POCSO Act

Protection of Child from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - Any act of sexual assault or sexual harassment to the children should be viewed very seriously and all such offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment on the children have to be dealt with in a stringent manner - Cases of sexual assault or sexual harassment on the...

CJI & Supreme Court Judges Visit Amrit Udyan Of Rashtrapati Bhavan On Invitation Of President

On a special invitation by President Droupadi Murmu, Chief Justice of India, Dr Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and judges of the Supreme Court visited the Amrit Udyan of Rashtrapati Bhavan.The images and the video of the judges' visit were tweeted by the official twitter handle of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. On a special invitation by President Droupadi Murmu, Chief Justice of India Dr Justice...

OCI Rights: Supreme Court Urges 'Higher Echelons' To Examine 2021 MHA Notification Considering Impact On Indian Diaspora

The Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the notification issued by the Central Government in 2021 - which took away the rights of Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) category students to apply for general seats and confined their right only to Non-Resident Indians (NRI) category seats, but with prospective effect.Noting that the 2021 notification would have a ‘wide ramification’, a Bench...

Supreme Court Yearly Civil Digest 2022

AadhaarAadhaar Act 2016 - UIDAI directed to issue Aadhaar cards to sex workers without insisting proof of residence. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 525Act of GodAct of God - Meaning - When nothing of any external natural force had been in operation in a violent or sudden manner, the event of the fire in question could be referable to anything but to an act of God...

Supreme Court Issues Notice To All States In Plea To Equalise Salary Of Consumer Forum Members With District Judges

The Supreme Court has issued notice to all states in a petition concerning salaries of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members.The matter was heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala. The batch of pleas prays for the salary of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members to be the same as District...

Tax Authorities Should Maintain Discipline To Follow Decisions Of Higher Authorities : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, recently, observed that in order to avoid utter chaos in administration of tax laws, decisions made by higher authorities ought to be adhered to. It noted that if the decisions of higher authorities are not followed, the same would also lead to undue harassment of assessees."Unless the discipline of adhering to decisions made by the higher authorities is maintained, there...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Another Petition Filed By Teesta Setalvad's NGO CJP Challenging Anti-Conversion Laws Of 5 More States

In a separate petition filed before the Supreme Court of India, the Centre for Justice and Peace (CJP) has challenged five more religious conversion laws. In the earlier petition filed in 2021, the CJP had challenged religious conversion laws of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. Initially, a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A Bobde, Justice...

'Meat Affordable Means of Protein For Poor': Supreme Court On Plea To Curb Killing Of Animals

The Supreme Court on Friday(February 2) heard a plea which seeks the curb the killing of animals and to switch over to lab-generated meat for consumption. A Bench Justices KM Joseph and JB Pardiwala informed that it will hear the matter after the judgement in the Jallikattu matter is delivered and therefore, deferred it by a month. "There's a Constitution Bench which is hearing...

Interim Victim Compensation Cannot Be Imposed As A Condition For Bail: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that interim victim compensation cannot be imposed as a condition for bail."Victim compensation is simultaneous with the final view taken in respect of the alleged offence, i.e., whether it was so committed or not and, thus, there is no question of any imposition pre-finality of the matter pre-trial", the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka...