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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...
Remembering Shanti Bhushan : A Look At Notable Cases Fought By Him
Acclaimed lawyer and Senior Advocate Shanti Bhushan passed away at his home in Delhi at 7PM on 31st January. He was aged 97 years. Shanti Bhushan also served as the Union Law Minister from 1977 to 1979 during the post-emergency era in the Morarji Desai government. During his illustrious career that ran for over six decades, Bhushan was not just a part of but also pivotal to several important cases before the Supreme Court of India. Few of those cases are as follows: State of Uttar...
'Democracy Has Nowhere Collapsed Due To Judiciary Overprotecting Human Rights' : Arvind Datar Defends Basic Structure Doctrine
While delivering the 19th Justice P. D. Desai Memorial Lecture on the topic 'Fifty Years of Basic Structure - Judicial Overreach or Constitutional Necessity', Senior Advocate Arvind Datar on Saturday said that the basic structure does not act as a stumbling block or thwart an elected government's proposal for social reform. He also said that the Supreme Court has never come in the way of...
‘12,471 Cases Disposed of by Supreme Court, While 12,108 Cases Instituted in Last Three Months,’ Chief Justice DY Chandrachud
As the Supreme Court of India prepares to complete a quarter of a year under the leadership of Chief Justice Chandrachud, the senior most judge of the top court revealed that 12,471 cases were disposed of in that duration, as against the 12,108 cases that were filed, indicating that the rate of disposal has been higher than the rate of the institution of cases in the last three months....
BREAKING| Centre Notifies Appointment Of 5 Judges To Supreme Court, Working Strength Rises To 32
Accepting the recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium, the Centre today notified the appointment of 5 Judges to the Supreme Court.The 5 judges whose appointments have been notified 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 of Manipur High Court,4....