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Cannot Deny Appointment Merely Because Candidate Was Tried For Offence U/S 498A IPC If He Was Acquitted: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court directed appointment of a candidate whose candidature was rejected on the ground that he was tried for the offence under Section 498A IPC.Pramod Singh Kirar applied for the post of Constable in the year 2013 and was found eligible to be appointed as Constable. In the verification form itself he declared that he was tried for the offence under Section 498A IPC earlier and...
DRT Member Facing Lawyers' Protest Gets Relief; Supreme Court Allows Him To Decide Matters On Merits, Advises To Avoid Confrontation
On Friday, the Supreme Court modified a Punjab & Haryana High Court order which restrained a Judicial member of the Debts Recovery Tribunal from passing adverse orders in pending matters. The High Court passed the order in a petition filed by DRT Bar Association, which alleged that the judicial member had been behaving rudely with lawyers.A Bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar...
Supreme Court Monthly Criminal Digest November 2022
CBI Investigation - Keralite Medical Student Death in Mangaluru in 2014 - Writ petition filed by his father seeking CBI investigation - Allowed - It appears prima facie that it is not a case of simple accident as opined by the Investigating Agency - CID, Bengaluru has failed to perform its duty by not thoroughly investigating the case and tried to find out the truth - It is unheard of...
Supreme Court To Hear Bail Applications Of Godhra Train Burning Case Convicts On December 15
The Supreme Court on Friday (December 2) agreed to hear on December 15 the bail applications of 15 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha asked the State of Gujarat to specify the individual roles of the convicts , based on which their applications for bail can be considered.The bench also noted that all...
Power Of The People Was Undone, World Doesn't Know Of Any Such Instance : Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar On NJAC Verdict
The Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday on Saturday rang a note of caution about the incursion of any one organ of the government into the exclusive preserves of the others. In what appeared to be a pointed response to the rejection of the proposed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) by the highest court of the land, the Vice President asked whether the "ordainment...
Order 33 Rule 1 CPC - Application To Sue As Indigent Can Be Rejected If It Is Found That The Suit Is Barred By Res Judicata : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that an application to sue as indigent under Order XXXIII Rule 1 of Code of Civil Procedure can be rejected if it is found that the suit is barred by res judicata.In this case, the plaintiffs filed an application to permit them to sue as indigent persons under Order 33 rule 1 CPC. The said application was dismissed by the Trial Court on the ground that the suit...
NEET-SS : Supreme Court Allows Tamil Nadu Govt To Implement 50% In-Service Quota In Super Speciality Seats For Current Academic Year
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Tamil Nadu government to reserve 50 per cent of super speciality seats available in the current academic year in government medical colleges for NEET-qualified in-service doctors in accordance with a 2020 government order, the validity of which is currently under challenge before the top court. The Bench, comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Vikram...
Justice S.K. Kaul Expresses Displeasure At Multiple Mentioning Of Same Matters
On Friday, the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul expressed displeasure that Counsels are taking recourse to 'multiple mentionings' to 'try their luck' to get their matters listed. He noted that the Counsels were mentioning the same matters before the concerned Bench; before the Registry and also before the Chief Justice of India till it is listed. He firmly stated that discipline...
Gujarat High Court Refuses Former NCLT Member's Plea For Re-Appointment
The Gujarat High Court Bench comprising of Justice N.V. Anjaria and Justice Sandeep N. Bhatt, while adjudicating a petition filed in Manorama Kumari v Union of India, has rejected the plea of a former NCLT Member for re-appointment as a Judicial Member of NCLT, after having served a term of 5 years and being retired. The Bench held that re-appointment is not a vested right for...
Should Salary Of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission Members Be The Same As District Judges? Supreme Court To Consider
Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha on Friday listed a matter concerning the salary of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members for December 8, 2022. The batch of pleas prayed that the salary of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members should be the same as District Judges.One of the pleas, filed by a retired...
It Has Become A Fashion For Former Members Of Supreme Court Collegium To Comment On Earlier Decisions: Justice MR Shah
On Friday, Supreme Court judge Justice MR Shah said that it has become a "fashion" for retired judges to comment about earlier decisions taken by the collegium of which they were a part of. "We don't want to comment on what former members (of the Supreme Court Collegium) say now. Nowadays, it has become a fashion to comment upon earlier decisions, when they were part of the Collegium. We...