Supreme Court Directs Registrar General Of Allahabad HC To File Affidavit On Infrastructure For Hathras Judicial District

The Supreme Court, on Monday, issued notice to the State of Uttar Pradesh, in a PIL petition filed by Advocate, Mr. M.L. Sharma, seeking directions to the State Governments and Centre to provide complete infrastructure to District Courts as it has a bearing on the process of dispensation of justice to the Indian citizens as guaranteed under the Constitution of India. The petition...

Statements Like 'I Will Expose Your Scam' Against A Minister Not Defamatory Unless There Is Something More: Supreme Court

The statements such as "I will expose you", "I will expose your corrupt practices" and "I will expose the scam in which you are involved, etc." are not by themselves defamatory unless there is something more, the Supreme Court observed while quashing defamation complaint filed by Delhi Minister Manish Sisodia against BJP leader Vijender Gupta.The bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea To Retain Court's Copyright Over Live-Stream Videos Of Hearings, Prevent Commercial Use Of Footages

Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a plea seeking directions to preserve the copyright of the Court over the video footages of Court hearings live-streamed through platforms like YouTube. The application further sought prevention of usage of live-stream footage for commercial purposes.The application sought that the live-streaming should be done strictly in accordance with the judgement...

[Bilkis Bano Rape Case] Convicts Released For Good Behaviour, After Central Govt Approval: Gujarat Govt To Supreme Court

The Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that it decided to release the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case on completion of their 14 years sentence as their "behaviour was found to be good" and after approval from the central government. The government has also said that the decision was taken as per the policy dated 09.07.1992 "as directed by" the apex court and not "under...

Minister/Public Servant Can File Private Complaint Alleging Defamation; Need Not Follow Special Procedure U/Sec 199 (2) & (4) CrPC : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that a minister or public servant (a person covered by Section 199(2)) can file a private complaint alleging defamation and need not follow the special procedure prescribed by Section 199(2) & (4) CrPC."The special procedure is in addition to and not in derogation of the right that a public servant always has as an individual. He never lost his...

Supreme Court Reserves Order In Plea Of Aroon Purie, Former India Today Chief Editor, To Quash Criminal Defamation Case

The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order in the petition filed by Aroon Purie, founder-director of India Today group challenging the criminal defamation complaint filed over a 2007 news article "Mission Misconduct" in India Today magazine. The bench orally remarked that while it will granting relief to Aroon Purie (who was the Chief Editor of the India Today publications at the time...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest With Nominal And Subject/Statute Wise Index [October 10 –16, 2022]

Administrative Law - Accountability - Three essential constituent dimensions. (i) responsibility, (ii) answerability and (iii) enforceability. (Para 33-35) Vijay Rajmohan v. State, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 832 Central Sales Tax Act 1956 - Court directed the state of Andhra Pradesh to transfer to Jharkhand the amount of central sales tax deposited by Tata Motors with respect to the sale of...

Promissory Estoppel Would Not Apply Against The Exercise Of Legislative Powers Of The State : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the doctrine of promissory estoppel would not apply against the exercise of legislative powers of the State.In this case, the High Court of Delhi, dismissed writ petitions filed by Hero Motocorp and Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd. who claimed 100% budgetary support in lieu of the pre-existing 100% outright excise duty exemption for ten years from the date of...

Recovery Of Weapon Used By Accused To Commit Offence Is Not A Sine Qua Non For Conviction : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court reiterated that the recovery of the weapon used by the accused to commit the offence is not a sine qua non for conviction.In this case, the accused were tried and convicted in a murder case. It was the prosecution case that owing to animosity between the friend of the accused, they had killed the deceased. The Madras High Court later acquitted the accused by allowing...

Bail Orders Should Be Short And Crisp: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday orally remarked that bail orders should be short and crisp and consist of only two to four pages.A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay Shreeniwas Oka further said that in a bail matter, the other aspects need not be gone into, in excruciating detail. The court was hearing a Special Leave Petition moved by Union Territory of Jammu and...

BREAKING| President Appoints Justice DY Chandrachud As Next Chief Justice Of India

The President of India has appointed Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India with effect from November 9, 2022. Justice Chandrachud will take over as the 50th Chief Justice of India after the retirement of the incumbent CJI UU Lalit. The outgoing CJI UU Lalit had recommended the name of Justice Chandrachud as his successor on October 11. As the CJI, Justice Chandrachud...

Courts Should Not Sit Over Commercial Wisdom Of General Body Of Cooperative Society : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the Courts should not sit over the commercial wisdom of the General Body of the Cooperative Society as an Appellate Authority.The bench of CJI UU Lalit, Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and JB Pardiwala observed that the Co-operative Society is to function democratically and the internal democracy of a society, including resolutions passed in accordance with the Act,...