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Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : August 13, 2025
Links of today's stories :Supreme Court Directs District-Wise Survey To Ascertain POSH Act Compliance By Employers'Gender-Neutral' Often Misunderstood As 'Gender Equality' : Supreme CourtSupreme Court Cancels Bail Of Olympian Wrestler Sushil Kumar In Murder Case, Directs Surrender In A Week'I Will Look Into It' : CJI BR Gavai On Plea Relating To Stray DogsSIT Flags Flaws In NOIDA's...
Non-Signatories Have No Right To Attend Arbitration Proceedings, Their Presence Breaches Confidentiality : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 13) observed that a party non-signatory to an arbitration agreement cannot participate in the arbitration proceedings, as the signatories to an arbitration agreement are only entitled to remain present in the arbitration proceedings. The bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and AS Chandurkar set aside the Delhi High Court's decision, which allowed...
Place Of Exclusive Jurisdiction Deemed As 'Seat' Of Arbitration : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that in the absence of a seat or venue of arbitration in the arbitration agreement, the place where the exclusive jurisdiction has been vested as per the agreement would be regarded as the 'seat' of the arbitration.The bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and A.S. Chandurkar set aside the Punjab & Haryana High Court's order allowing an application for the appointment...
Supreme Court Cancels Bail Of Olympian Wrestler Sushil Kumar In Murder Case, Directs Surrender In A Week
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 13) cancelled the bail granted by the Delhi High Court to Olympian wrestler Sushil Kumar in the Sagar Dhankhar murder case.The Court directed him to surrender within a week.A bench comprising Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra passed the order in an appeal filed by Ashok Dhankad, the father of victim Sagar, challenging the order passed...
'Gender-Neutral' Often Misunderstood As 'Gender Equality' : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently struck down the Indian Army's policy of reserving seats for male candidates in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch.While ordering that the appointments should be merit-based, the Court observed that the term "gender-neutral" is often incorrectly conflated with "gender equality."The Court was deciding a case where the female candidates challenged the Army's policy...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : August 12, 2025
Links of today's Supreme Court reports :Supreme Court Issues Notice On PIL Seeking Sub Quota For Economically Weaker Persons Within Reserved CategoriesSupreme Court Seeks Responses Of NHRC, NCW & NCPCR On Pleas Challenging Islamic Divorce By 'Talaq-e-HasanSupreme Court Upholds Punjab Jail Official's Conviction For Helping Undertrial's Escape AttemptAdverse Possession Plea Can't Be Raised...
Supreme Court Orders BCI Inquiry After Client Denies Engagement Of Advocates Who Settled His Case
The Supreme Court recently directed the Bar Council of India to conduct an inquiry into the proceedings where an allegedly false settlement agreement was prepared by certain advocates to arrive at a settlement between the petitioner and the respondent, where the latter claims to have never engaged an advocate to represent his case. In a peculiar case before a bench comprising Justice PS...
Convict Who Completed Fixed Term Life Imprisonment Entitled To Be Released Without Applying For Remission : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (Aug. 12) observed that the convict who was sentenced to fixed-term life imprisonment without remission is entitled to automatic release without applying for remission. Holding thus, the bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and KV Viswanathan ordered the release of Sukhdev Yadav, one of the accused convicted for 2002 Nitish Katara Murder case, after noting that...
Ex-Parte Injunction Must Be Vacated If Plantiff Fails To Comply With Order 39 Rule 3 CPC Conditions : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that the ex parte interim injunction granted under Order 39 Rule 3 CPC can be vacated if the mandatory requirements to record reasons for granting ex parte relief and service of documents to the opposite party was not ensued. The bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan heard a case in which the Appellant, who had secured an ex-parte interim...
CJI Not Superior To Other Judges; Can't Review Other Benches' Orders : CJI BR Gavai
The Supreme Court today (August 12) questioned the Union Government over the application filed by it to recall the 2023 judgment in Ritu Chhabaria v. Union of India which held that right of an accused to seek default bail is not extinguished when the investigating agency files an incomplete chargesheet.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice...
'Dirty Politics In Cricket Association' : Supreme Court Appoints Justice Nageswara Rao As Ombudsman Of Bihar Cricket Association
The Supreme Court today(August 12) appointed Justice L. Nageswara Rao, former judge of the Supreme Court, as an Ombudsman of the Bihar Cricket Association ("BCA") to take action against illegal activities of the office bearers. Consequently, it disposed of the matter, remarking that dirty politics is going on in such associations, wasting the public revenue.A bench comprising Justice JB...
Supreme Court Orders CBI Probe Into 2021 Telangana Lawyer Couple Murder
The Supreme Court today ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the probe into the 2021 killing of lawyer couple Gattu Vaman Rao and PV Nagamani in Telangana's Peddapalli district, observing that the case requires further investigation.A bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a plea filed by Rao's father, Gattu Kishan Rao, who sought a CBI...