Supreme Court Issues Notice On Nurses Association Plea Seeking Fresh Policy For Best Patient To Doctor/Nurse Ratio In Hospitals

The Supreme Court of India on Monday issued notice in a plea seeking formulation of a fresh national accreditation policy for ensuring adherence of best patient to doctor and patient to nurse ratio in all the NABH(National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers) hospitals.The plea also seeks directions on the Quality Council of India and National Accreditation Board...

Supreme Court Seeks Union's Response To Suo Motu PIL On Drug Mafia, Appoints Amicus

Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India U.U. Lalit, Justices Ravindra Bhat and J.B. Pardiwala appointed Advocate Shoeb Alam as amicus curiae in a suo motu PIL taken on the basis of a letter petition sent to the then CJI NV Ramana regarding drug mafia in the country.The bench ordered today that–"The office note put up before Hon'ble Chief Justice on 17.11.2021 has been...

Supreme Court Half Yearly Complete Civil Digest 2022 (Jan – Jun)

Aadhaar Act 2016 - UIDAI directed to issue Aadhaar cards to sex workers without insisting proof of residence. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 525 Act of God - Meaning - When nothing of any external natural force had been in operation in a violent or sudden manner, the event of the fire in question could be referable to anything but to an act of God in...

Sanjiv Chaturvedi's RTI Query On Corruption Complaints Against Union Ministers A Pressure Tactic: PMO To Supreme Court

The Prime Minister's Office has told the Supreme Court that Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi's application, alleging non-compliance of the order on disclosure of information about action taken on corruption complaints against central government ministers, is arm-twisting and a pressure tactic."It is bonafide assumption of the respondent that the petitioner in guise of...

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case : Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre, TN Govt On Plea By Nalini & Ravichandran For Premature Release

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on the special leave petitions filed by Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts Nalini Srihar and R.P. Ravichandran seeking premature release. The appeals were preferred after the Madras High Court dismissed the pleas of the life convicts on June 17. The apex court has sought responses from the Union of India and the state of Tamil Nadu. [R.P. Ravichandran...

Supreme Court Dismisses Petition Filed By All India Transporters Welfare Association Alleging Illegal Police Seizure Of Vehicles

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by the All India Transporters Welfare Association alleging illegal seizure of properties by police.The petition had prayed for making a uniform procedure on a pan-India basis regarding the release of consignments and trucks illegally seized by police, by subordinate courts of India, in line of the uniform procedure established by...

"Disruptive Of Election Process" : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking To Restrain Political Parties From Using Symbols After Polls

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition which sought a direction that political parties cannot use election symbols allotted to them as party symbols beyond the period of elections.A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and AS Oka observed that the relief claimed was "disruptive of the election process" and imposed a cosy of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner for "complete wastage...

Supreme Court To Hear Plea Challenging Constitutionality Of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act On Oct 18

A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India, U.U. Lalit, Justices Ravindra Bhat and J.B. Pardiwala, on Monday, listed the writ petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 for 18th October 2022.Senior Advocate Arvind Datar appeared for the petitioners, Foundation of Media Professionals in the matter. CJI Lalit remarked...

Supreme Court To Have Its Own Platform For Live Streaming, Says CJI UU Lalit

Chief Justice of India UU Lalit on Monday said that the Supreme Court will soon have its own platform for live-streaming. CJI made this statement when a counsel mentioned that the Supreme Court should secure its copyright when the proceedings are live-streamed in YouTube. The counsel sought the urgent listing of the petition filed in that regard."These are the initial stages, we'll have our...

Supreme Court To Hear Plea Challenging ICAI Rule Limiting Number Of Tax Audits By Chartered Accountants Per Year

A Division Bench of the Supreme Court of India on September 22 continued hearing the challenge against a rule issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants Of India (ICAA) barring members from accepting more than the "specified number of tax audit assignments" (at present, the upper limit is set at 60) in a financial year. This matter is now being adjudicated almost two years after...

BREAKING| Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi Declines To Be The Next Attorney General For India

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi has told LiveLaw that he has declined the Union Government's offer to be the next Attorney General for India. He said that he thought about the offer again and decided to decline it.The term of the incumbent Attorney General for India KK Venugopal is ending on September 30. There were reports that Rohatgi was going to take the AG's mantle after Venugopal from...

Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest (Jan - Jun) Practice & Procedure

Practice and Procedure - Anticipatory Bail Applications - When an application for anticipatory bail accompanied by an application for ad -interim relief is listed before the court, it should decide the same one way or the other, so far as the ad -interim prayer or should have taken up for consideration after giving some reasonable time to the State. Even if admitted, the court should...