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Post-Graduate Medical Admission : Supreme Court To Hear Maharashtra Govt Tomorrow In Pleas Challenging 20% In-Service Reservation
In a plea challenging 20% in-service reservation in Post-Graduate Medical Admission in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, after briefly hearing submissions adjourned it till 20th October, 2022 (tomorrow). The Special Leave Petition impugns an order of the Bombay High Court which affirmed the reservation recognised for in-service candidates to be implemented from the academic...
2019 Jamia Violence : Supreme Court Requests Delhi High Court To Decide Soon Students' Plea For FIR Against Alleged Police Atrocities
A Division Bench of the Supreme Court of India on Wednesday "requested" the Delhi High Court to dispose of the cases relating to the allegations of police atrocities in Jamia Millia Islamia in December 2019 during protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. The Bench composed of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath, while refusing to specify a time limit, asked the...
Electricity Act - Not Permissible To Amend Tariff Order During 'Truing Up' Excercise : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that it is not permissible to amend the tariff order made under Section 64 of the Electricity Act, 2003, during the 'truing up' exercise.The bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari held thus while disposing appeals filed by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd. and BSES Yamuna Power Ltd. against the judgment of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity. One of the...
Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Listing For Plea To Ban 'Thank God' Movie Before Its Release
The Supreme Court bench comprising CJI UU Lalit and Justice Bela M. Trivedi refused to list petition seeking to stop the release of upcoming Bollywood movie "Thank God" urgently. The bench listed the petition on 1st November 2022 despite the petitioner submitting that the petition would become infructuous by then since the movie was releasing on 25th October 2022. The bench remarked that...
Supreme Court Refuses To Stay CBI Probe In WB Teacher Recruitment Scam, But Stays Removal Of Board President & Cancellation Of 269 Appointments
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the order passed by the Calcutta High Court for CBI investigation into the scam relating to the appointment of primary school teachers in the State of West Bengal.A bench comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath observed that the High Court direction for CBI probe at an early stage "may fall short of the standards" laid down in the...
Delhi Govt vs Centre : Supreme Court Constitution Bench Defers Hearing To 24th Nov, 2022
At the request of the Solicitor General of India, Mr. Tushar Mehta, the Supreme Court, on Wednesday deferred the hearing of the dispute between the Delhi Government and the Union Government regarding control of administrative services in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Mentioning the matter before a Bench comprising Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Hima Kolhi, Mr. Mehta...
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Bail Granted To J&K PDP Leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir challenging the Jammu and Kashmir High Court order granting bail to PDP leader Waheed Ur Rehman Parra in a UAPA case over alleged terrorist activities.A Division Bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay Shreeniwas Oka however clarified that it was not giving imprimatur to the...
Guidelines On Seizure Of Digital Devices : Supreme Court Issues Notice On Foundation For Media Professionals' Petition
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday issued notice in a petition filed by a group of journalists on framing of detailed guidelines on search and seizure of digital devices. While issuing notice, a Bench of Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy asked the Union to respond and tagged the matter with a pending petition which sought from similar prayers with the present plea....
Convict in Bilkis Bano Case Was Booked For Outraging Woman's Modesty in 2020 While On Parole
One of the convicts, who was released by the Gujarat government on remission in the Bilkis Bano case, stands chargesheeted for outraging the modesty of a woman on June 19 in 2020, according to the State's counter-affidavit before the Supreme Court.The information was provided to the District Magistrate Dahod by the district superintendent of police when the government was considering the...
Part IXB Of Constitution Not Applicable To Local Co-operative Societies, Applies Only To Multi-State Societies & Societies In UTs : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that Part IX B inserted by the Constitution (97th Amendment) Act, 2011 would not be applicable to the local co-operative societies and the same would be applicable to the multi-State co-operative societies and the societies within the Union territories.The 97th Amendment granted a Constitutional status to cooperative societies and inserted Part IXB in...
"How Careless The Government Has Been": Supreme Court Questions Maharashtra Govt. On The Constitution Of Waqf Board
The Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed hearing on the issue as to whether every charitable trust established by someone professing Islam is necessarily a waqf, on the contours of the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 and Waqf Act, 1995.Last week, the bench of Justices K. M. Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy had orally suggested to the counsel in the matter an alternative route for resolving the dispute-...
