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"Look At The Benefits" : Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Ahmedabad Municipal Body's Vaccine Mandate
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the vaccine mandate issued by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for entry in public places."Ultimately the Municipal Commissioner is incharge of public spaces within the city. He has to ensure the safety of the residents," the Court said orally while dismissing a Special Leave Petition filed against the Gujarat High Court's order...
Attorney General Objects To Plea In Supreme Court To Enforce Fundamental Duties
The Attorney General for India KK Venugopal on Monday objected to a writ petition which has been filed seeking directions to enforce fundamental duties and steps to sensitise the citizens about their duties.Asserting that "tremendous amount of work" has been done by the Ministry of Law and Justice to create awareness about duties, the AG said that the petitioner should have first done research...
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Challenge To Bails Granted To RJD Chief Lalu Prasad In Cases Related To The Fodder Scam
The Supreme Court, on Monday, issued notice in pleas filed by the State of Jharkhand assailing two orders passed by the Jharkhand High Court granting bail to RJD Chief, Lalu Prasad Yadav in cases related to the fodder scam. A Bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai agreed to hear the pleas assailing the orders of the Jharkhand High Court dated 17.04.2021 in the...
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging BCI's Upper-Age Limit For LLB Admission As Violative Of Competition Act
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea which alleged that the Bar Council of India has violated the Competition Act by "misusing its dominant position" by imposing an upper-age limit of 30 years for pursuing legal education.The petition was filed by a man, who is in government service now, claiming that by enacting Clause 28 of Schedule III, Rule 11 to Part IV– Rules of Legal...
"We Expected State To Act On SIT Recommendation" : Supreme Court Reserves Order On Victims' Plea Challenging Ashish Mishra's Bail In Lakhimpur Kheri Case
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved orders on the plea to set aside the bail granted to Ashish Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri case.A bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli was considering the special leave petition filed by the family members of the farmers who got killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence challenging the February 10 order...
Supreme Court Monthly Digest With Nominal and Subject/Statute Wise Index- March 2022
Administrative Law - Natural Justice - Importance of natural justice and an opportunity of hearing to be afforded to the affected party in any administrative or quasiÂjudicial proceedings. (Para 28) Esteem Properties Pvt. Ltd. v. Chetan Kamble, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 226 Amendment - If power to amend or modify or relax a notification and/or order exists, the notification and/or order...
Virtual Platforms Have Enabled Supreme Court To Be Truly A 'National Court': Justice DY Chandrachud
Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud joined an event organised by the High Court of Orissa to inaugurate e-filing 3.0 for the High Court and District and Subordinate Courts of the State, Vulnerable Witness Deposition Centres with Virtual Courtrooms in District Court Establishments and Odisha Judicial Workflow Automation System (OJWAS) for paperless office in...
Requested UP Govt Twice To File Urgent Appeal Against Ashish Mishra's Bail : Lakhimpur Kheri SIT Tells Supreme Court
The Special Investigation Team constituted to investigate the Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident has in its report submitted before the Supreme Court that the head of the SIT wrote to the UP Government twice requesting an urgent appeal in the Supreme Court for cancellation of bail of the main accused Ashish MishraThe Supreme Court had appointed Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain, former judge of the...
Can't Appreciate Approach Of High Court In Rejecting Bail Application In A Single Sentence: Supreme Court
"We cannot appreciate the approach of the High Court in rejecting bail application with a simple sentence that the appeal should be heard, while the hearing of the appeal looks almost impossible."
Intervenors Move Supreme Court Seeking Directions To Centre & States To File Status Report On Compliance With SC's Directions For Welfare Of Migrants
Activists Harsh Mander, Anjali Bhardwaj and Jagdeep Chhokar have moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Union of India to file a status report with regard to compliance with the directions issued by the court last year for the benefit and welfare of migrant workers.The miscellaneous application filed through Advocate Prashant Bhushan has sought the following details through the...
Even If Appointment Was Irregular, State Has To Pay Salary For Work Done By Employee : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has set aside a direction to recover from a person the salary paid to him after his appointment as a teacher was found to be irregular.The Supreme Court noted that the person had worked for nearly 24 years a teacher before his services were cancelled for the reason that his appointment was irregular. It was found that he was a relative of a member of the selection committee...
Dying Declaration Can't Be Discarded Merely Because There Was No Extreme Emergency When It Was Recorded : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that a dying declaration cannot be discarded merely because there was no extreme emergency or danger to the life of the victim at the time when it was recorded."...there is no absolute proposition of law that in a case when at the time when the dying declaration was recorded, there was no emergency and/or any danger to the life, the dying declaration should be...