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Indian Medical Association(Dwarka) Moves Supreme Court Seeking Guidelines To Protect Doctors From Attacks By Patients' Families
In the backdrop of recent death of a practicing doctor by suicide in Rajasthan allegedly due to harassment by a patient's family, the Indian Medical Association(Dwarka) has moved the Supreme Court seeking directions for issuance of guidelines for protection of doctors who are regularly falling victim of physical assault at the slightest suspicion over treatment of the patients.The PIL has...
Mullaperiyar Case : Supreme Court Suggests Giving Supervisory Committee Powers Under Dam Safety Act
In connection with the Mullaperiyar dam dispute, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala to consider a "working arrangement" where the court-appointed Supervisory Committee may be entrusted with the functions and duties of the National Dam Safety Authority under the Dam Safety Act, 2021.Last week, the Court had asked the Centre to file a note...
Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response To Plea Challenging Section 15 Of Hindu Succession Act As Discriminatory Against Women
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought Centre's response in the plea challenging the constitutional validity of Section15 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 on the ground of gender discrimination. The petitioner challenges the provision arguing that there is discrimination in the devolution in case of a woman dying intestate, in comparison with the rules for devolution where a male has...
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee Moves Supreme Court Against Delhi HC's Refusal To Quash ED Summons
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear next week the plea filed by All India Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife challenging Delhi High Court's order refusing to quash summons issued to them by Enforcement Directorate in connection with West Bengal coal scam case.The impugned order also dismissed the plea by Banerjee's wife Rujira Banerjee assailing the complaint filed...
Should Arya Samaj Temples Follow Special Marriage Act Provisions While Solemnising Marriages? Supreme Court To Consider
The Supreme Court, on Monday(April 4), agreed to hear a plea challenging a Madhya Pradesh High Court order directing Madhya Bharat Arya Pratinidhi Sabha ("Sabha"), an Arya Samaj organisation to comply with the provisions of the Special Marriage Act, 1954 ("SMA") while solemnising marriages. The High Court had further held that no one other than the competent authority under the SMA...
NEET-PG Counselling - Round 2 Seat Will Be Lost Only If Candidate Joins Special Round Seat : Supreme Court Clarifies MCC FAQ
In the NEET-PG Counselling matter, the Supreme Court on Tuesday clarified that a candidate will lose the seat allotted in Round-2 of All India Quota Counselling only if she joins a seat allotted in the Special Round for the newly added 146 seats.The Court clarified the Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) list issued by the Medical Counselling Committee for the Special Round. As answer to FAQ...
Applications For Appointment Of Arbitrator Should Be Decided And Disposed At The Earliest:Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on April 1, 2022 expressed concerns at the time taken by the Telangana High Court to dispose of an arbitration application under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 after a period of four years. The bench of Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna also observed that arbitration applications for appointment of an Arbitrator are required to be decided...
Reasons Which Weigh With Court In Cancelling Bail To Co Accused Would Also Apply On Other Accused Seeking Bail: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has observed that the reasons which weigh with the Court in cancelling the bail granting to co accused would also apply in case of bail preferred by another accused in relation to the same FIR and incident. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant rendered this observation while considering a criminal appeal assailing Allahabad High Court's...
NEET PG 2022 : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Extend Internship Deadline Saying It Will Disrupt Academic Schedule
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by a group of doctors seeking extension of deadline for completion of internship beyond July 31, 2022 to accommodate interns whose internship got delayed due to compulsory Covid duties.The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Bela M Trivedi rejected the petitioners' prayer observing that extension of deadline will disrupt the...
'If Not For COVID, Would Have Heard This' : CJI Agrees To Hear Electoral Bonds Matter Urgently
The Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Tuesday agreed to hear the plea challenging the Electoral Bonds Scheme on an urgent mentioning made by Advocate Prashant Bhushan."This matter has not been listed for more than a year. Every two months, fresh tranche of electoral bonds are issued. In fact today, there is a report that a Calcutta based company has paid Rs 40 crores through electoral bonds...
Supreme Court Criminal Digest With Subject And Statute Wise Index- March 2022
Anticipatory Bail - SLP Against Madras HC Judgment dismissing anticipatory bail with some observations about requirement of custodial interrogation- Dismissed - High Court, after having found no case for grant of pre-arrest bail, has otherwise not given any such direction of mandatory nature - Observations are essentially of the reasons assigned by the High Court in declining the prayer...
Supreme Court Decides To Hear Plea Challenging Haryana Sikh Gurudwara(Management) Act On Merits; Rejects Haryana's Objections To Maintainability
The Supreme Court has rejected the preliminary objections raised by the State of Haryana to a writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Haryana Sikh Gurudwara (Management) Act 2014.A bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice V Ramasubramaniam decided to hear on merits the petition filed in 2014 by a man named Harbhajan Singh, a member of Shiromani Gurudwara...