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"Defence Forces Meant To Protect Country, Not Conduct Lawlessness" : Supreme Court Deprecates Army Officers Violating Injunction Orders
The Supreme Court on Thursday strongly condemned the conduct of certain officers of the Indian army in Secunderabad for encroaching upon a civilian's property near the Army Quarters and razing down its boundary wall in violation of the injunction orders of a civil court.The Court was considering an appeal filed by the Union Government through the Defence Estates Officers, Andhra Pradesh...
Unitech Case : Advocate Apologizes & Undertakes To Refund Money Collected From Homebuyers For Giving Hearing Updates; Supreme Court Drops Proceedings
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, accepted the unconditional apology of an advocate in the Unitech matter, who had allegedly collected money from the homebuyers for uploading the update of the Court proceedings. On 27.07.2022, the Apex Court had issued him a show cause notice and asked him to file an affidavit providing details of the money he had collected. On Thursday, the Counsel...
Supreme Court Monthly Digest July 2022 (Citations 560 - 646)
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996; Section 11 - Even if an aspect with regard to 'accord and satisfaction' of the claims may/can be considered by the Court at the stage of deciding Section 11 application, it is always advisable and appropriate that in cases of debatable and disputable facts, good reasonably arguable case, the same should be left to the Arbitral Tribunal. (Para...
Plea To Trace Army Officer Who Went Missing From Pakistan Border In '97 : Supreme Court Asks Centre To Inform Mother Of Steps Taken
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, asked the Union Government to follow up on the steps taken by the concerned authorities to trace the whereabouts of Capt. Sanjit Bhattacharjee, an Indian army officer who went missing from Indo-Pak border 25 years ago, and apprise his 83-year old mother about the same, on a quarterly basis.The Court was hearing a writ petition filed by the mother of the...
S. 313 CrPC - All Adverse Evidences Should Be Put As Questions; Avoid Bundling Circumstances Together With Only Single Opportunity To Explain : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that while examining an accused under Section 313 CrPC, all the adverse evidences has to put in the form of questions so as to give an opportunity to the accused to articulate his defence and give his explanation."If all the circumstances are bundled together and a single opportunity is provided to the accused to explain himself, he may not ...
"Utterly Incomprehensible" : Supreme Court Sets Aside HC Judgment Saying Reasons Can't Be Discerned
The Supreme Court recently set aside a judgment of the Himachal Pradesh High Court for being "utterly incomprehensible." "The judgment of the High Court is utterly incomprehensible. The reasons on the basis of which the High Court has proceeded to allow the petitions and set aside the reassessment cannot be discerned from the judgments," a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Sudhanshu...
Plea Of Contractual Workers In Consumer Fora For Parity With Other Court Staff : Supreme Court Impleads NCDRC
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, impleaded the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, in the proceedings pertaining to the plea of workers of various Consumer Fora, including technical support staff, appointed on contractual basis seeking parity with their counterparts working at other Judicial Fora/Commissions such as High Court, District Court, NCLT, NCDRC, Human...
"You Don't Have To Carry All Papers": Justice Chandrachud Says Lawyers Will Be Provided The Same Scanned Files Given To Judges
During the course of a hearing on Thursday, Supreme Court Judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who also heads the Court's e-committee, informed the lawyers present that he has told the concerned Registrar to provide the lawyers the same scanned copies of the files that are given to the judges. "…from now on we will give members of the Bar the same scanned pages which come to us",...
Supreme Court Judge Justice MR Shah Castigates Registry For Deleting Cases From List
Supreme Court judge Justice M. R. Shah on Thursday expressed displeasure at the practice of the Supreme Court registry of deleting matters posted for any particular day.Addressing the court-master, Justice Shah commented, "Who is he (the Registrar) to decide? It is none of his business. We will decide! They say, 'Zyada matters hain toh delete kar dete hain'? Yeh nahi chalega! (They say,...
Uddhav vs Shinde : Supreme Court Asks Election Commission To Not Take Precipitative Action On "Real Shiv Sena" Claim
A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday said that it will decide on referring the issues arising out of the rift in Shiv Sena political to a Constitution Bench. The Chief Justice of India, leading the bench, orally said that a decision on reference is likely by August 8.The bench also orally asked the Election Commission of India to not take any precipitative action on the claim...
Breaking: CJI NV Ramana Recommends Justice UU Lalit As Next Chief Justice Of India
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has written to the Union Government recommending the name of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, the second senior judge of the Supreme Court, as the next Chief Justice of India.CJI Ramana is retiring with effect from August 26. Recently, the Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju had written to the CJI requesting him to name the successor.If appointed,...