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Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Challenging Appointment Of SK Singhal As Bihar DGP
The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice in a PIL filed challenging the appointment of Sanjeev Kumar Singhal as the Director General of Police by the State of Bihar.A Bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice Hima Kohli issued the direction after considering the submissions made by Senior Advocate Jay Salva appearing for the petitioner, who...
COVID Death Compensation : Supreme Court Expresses Concerns About Fake Medical Certificates
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed serious concerns at fake medical certificates being issued by doctors to enable undeserving people to claim the ex-gratia compensation for COVID-deaths.Observing that it might order an independent probe into the issue, a bench comprising Justice MR Shah and Justice BV Nagarathna adjourned to next Monday the case in which it is overseeing the disbursal...
Supreme Court Grants 2 Weeks Time To UPSC To Respond To Civil Service Aspirants' Plea For Extra Chance In Mains Exam
The Supreme Court on Monday granted two weeks time to the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) to respond to a petition by three civil services aspirants, who missed out the papers of the Union Public Service Commission's (UPSC) Civil Services Main Examination due to COVID-19 seeking additional attempt to appear in the exam.The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar while deferring...
Supreme Court To Hear MediaOne Channel's Plea Challenging Centre's Telecast Ban On March 10
Update : The hearing date was subsequently advanced to March 10 after a second mention by Senior Adv Dushyant Dave (The first report mentioned the hearing date as March 11)The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on Thursday (March 10) the special leave petition filed by Malayalam news channel MediaOne against the judgment of the Kerala High Court which upheld the Centre's decision to not...
High Courts Can't Issue Directions For 'No Arrest' or 'No Coercive Action Till Final Report Filed' While Refusing To Quash Criminal Proceedings: SC Reiterates
On Monday, the Supreme Court set aside the order of the Allahabad High Court to the extent that without quashing the FIR in the petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 ("Cr.P.C."), it had directed that the accused shall not be arrested till the final report is submitted. A Bench comprising Justices...
Plea In Supreme Court Seeks To Collect Data On Link Between Pornography & Sexual Crimes
In the light of the alarming increase in cases of sexual assault and rape against women and innocent children in various parts of the country, a writ petition has been filed in Supreme Court seeking formulating a SOP by police to examine the impact of viewing of pornographic material while investigation of the said cases.Preferred by Nalin Kohli as petitioner in person, it has been argued in...
Allow Ukraine-Returned Students To Complete Course In India : PIL In Supreme Court
In the backdrop of the ongoing Ukraine Russia conflict, a PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court of India seeking directions to accommodate the medical students returning from Ukraine and permit them to complete their education in Indian medical college with appropriate Indian or foreign degree as an emergency and one time measure. As an alternative relief, the petition has sought...
"Civil Dispute Given Colour Of Criminal Wrong Doing" Supreme Court Quashes Chargesheet Registered U/S 420 IPC
Observing that continuation of proceedings would amount to abuse of process the Supreme Court recently quashed a case registered u/s 420 IPC where a civil dispute was sought to be given a colour of criminal wrong doing. The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant in the present case was considering a criminal appeal assailing Allahabad High Court's order dated August 10,...
"It Was An Unprecedented Situation" : Supreme Court Reinstates Judicial Officer Whose Appointment Was Cancelled For Not Joining Service During Nationwide Lockdown
The Supreme Court reinstated a judicial officer whose appointment was cancelled since he could not join the service before stipulated date on account of the nationwide lockdown imposed in view of Covid-19 pandemic."There was considerable confusion also about what a person could do and what a person could not do during the time of the lockdown. It was an unprecedented situation which affected...
There Must Be Independent Application Of Mind & Some Reasoning While Deciding Writ Appeal: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that there must be an independent application of mind and at least some independent reasoning to be given by the appellate Court while deciding and disposing of the writ appeal.In this case, the Single bench of the Allahabad High Court allowed a writ petition and directed the District Inspector of Schools, Raebareli to ensure the regular payment of salary to the...
Judge-Wise Statistics Of Reportable Judgments Of Supreme Court In February 2022
In February 2022, the Supreme Court authored 83 Reportable Judgments in diverse areas of law. The highest number of Judgments (i.e. 21 Reportable Judgments) were authored by Justice M.R. Shah, followed by Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud authoring 10 Reportable Judgments.In continuation of the statistical study and searchable PDF of Reportable Supreme Court Judgments (as reported in January 2022), the authors of this article present to you a Judge-Wise Statistical study of Reportable Supreme...