CJP Urges Supreme Court To Stay Provisions Of Anti-Conversion Laws Mandating State Sanction To Change Religion

The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha on Monday adjourned the batch of petitions challenging religious conversion laws in various states. Senior Advocate CU Singh appearing for Citizen for Peace and Justice (CJP) submitted that the petitioners were seeking interim relief with respect to the Acts in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. The...

Demonetisation Not Illegal Merely Because Proposal Originated From Central Govt; No Breach Of Sec 26(2) RBI Act : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court (4:1) in its judgment upholding validity of demonetisation, observed that the word “recommendation” in Section 26(2) of RBI Act would mean a consultative process between the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India and the Central Government."Merely because the Central Government has advised the Central Board to consider recommending demonetization and that the Central...

Attorney General Questions Maintainability Of Meghalaya's Suit Challenging Lotteries Regulation Act Provision

Attorney General For India R Venkataramani on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the Centre had preliminary objections on the maintainability of the suit challenging section 5 of the Lotteries (Regulation) Act 1998.States of Meghalaya and Sikkim had approached the Supreme Court against the decision to ban their state lotteries in other states.The context of the suit is that as per Section...

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain PIL Seeking To Curb Deceitful Religious Conversions; Gives Liberty To Petitioner To Implead In Pending Matter

The Supreme Court today dismissed as withdrawn the plea seeking the creation of a special task force to keep a check on deceitful religious conversions.While doing so, a Bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar allowed the petitioner to file an impleadment application in the pending matter before the Bench against forced religious conversions.“Why should we hear you now?..... You file...

Demonetisation Not Invalid Merely Because Some Citizens Suffered Through Hardships : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court (4:1) observed that the demonetisation cannot be held invalid merely because some citizens have suffered through hardships or that the decision was taken in a hasty manner."The contention that the impugned notification is liable to be set aside on the ground that it caused hardship to individual/citizens will hold no water. The individual interests must yield to the...

Discussion In Parliament On Demonetisation Would Have Given It Legitimacy : Justice BV Nagarathna

Supreme Court judge Justice BV Nagarathna, who penned a dissenting judgment to declare the 2016 demonetisation as illegal, opined that the Central Government could not have demonetised the whole series of bank notes of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 through a mere executive notification. The judge expressed the view that such a measure had to be carried out through a plenary legislation."Such...

'Can Foreign Police Be Asked To Not Arrest Indians?' : Supreme Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Guidelines For Safe Visit Of Indians Abroad

Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking guidelines for safe visit of Indians abroad. The petition was filed by a man who was detained in Abu Dhabi due to mistaken identity and sought a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for all citizens of India visiting abroad. At the outset, the...

Supreme Court Stays Criminal Proceedings Against Salman Khurshid for Allegedly Trespassing Into DPS Society’s Office

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the criminal proceedings against Congress leader and Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid for allegedly trespassing into the office of the Delhi Public School Society in Delhi. A Division Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Vikram Nath ordered, “Leave granted. It is clarified that the stay of the proceedings is only in the case pertaining to the...

'Any' Means 'All' : Supreme Court Says Centre Can Demonetise All Series Of Bank Notes Invoking Section 26(2) Of RBI Act

Interpreting the word "any" in Section 26(2) of the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934 as "all", the Supreme Court by 4:1 majority held that the Central Government has the power to demonetise all series of currency notes of a particular denomination.A 5-judge bench comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer, BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and BV Nagarathna was deciding a batch of...

Questions & Answers By Justice V. Ramkumar- Investigation By Police- PART XVIII

Q.86 Is it not correct to say that both the “inquest report” and the “post-mortem report” are substantive evidence ? Ans. No. Both of them are not substantive evidence. (Vide— Para 6 of Munshi Prasad v. State of Bihar (2002) 1 SCC 351 = AIR 2001 SC 3031 – U. C. Banerjee, K. G. Balakrishnan - JJ; Sambhu Das v. State of Assam (2010) 10 SCC 374 = AIR 2010 SC 3300...

100 Important High Court Judgments of GST in 2022

Allahabad High Court: Allahabad High Court Stays GST Demand On Payment Of Royalty To Conduct Mining Activity Case Title: M/s Jitendra Singh versus Union of India The Allahabad High Court bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh has stayed the GST demand on payment of royalty to conduct mining activity. GST Dept. Made Attachment Without Recording Opinion And Referring To...

Supreme Court Stays HC Order Which Set Aside Acquittal Of Mukhtar Ansari In Case For Threatening Jailer

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an Allahabad High Court order sentencing former Bahujan Samaj Party legislator, Mukhtar Ansari to seven years’ imprisonment for threatening to kill a jailer by pointing a pistol at him in 2003. This comes as a major relief to the gangster-turned-politician elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Mau constituency in Uttar Pradesh...