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Supreme Court Deprecates Recent Trend Of Courts Deciding Bail Pleas Without Giving Specific Reasons
While setting aside the bail granted to a rape-accused, the Supreme Court expressed concerns at the "recent trend" of Courts passing bail orders without providing sufficient reasons."There is a recent trend of passing such orders granting or refusing to grant bail, where the Courts make a general observation that "the facts and the circumstances" have been considered. No specific reasons are...
DHJS - Supreme Court Reduces Service Years Criteria For Civil Judges To Seek Promotion As District Judges Through LDCE
The Supreme Court on Tuesday modified its previous orders regarding the eligibility criteria for Civil Judges in Delhi Judicial Service to seek promotion to the cadre of District Judges through Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE).The Court has now held that Civil Judges having 7 years qualifying service [(5 years as Civil Judge (Junior Division) and 2 years as Civil Judge...
IBC - Wages/Salaries Of Only Those Workmen/Employees Who Actually Worked During CIRP Are To Be Included In CIRP Costs: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that the dues towards the wages/salaries of only those workmen/employees who actually worked during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process(CIRP) are to be included in the CIRP costs.The court clarified that the wages and salaries of all other workmen/employees of the Corporate Debtor during the CIRP who actually have not worked and/or performed their duties when...
NEET-PG : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Not Shift Unfilled Quota Seats Of In-Service Compartment To Open/Direct Category
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a Special Leave Petition preferred by "in-service candidates" of the State of Madhya Pradesh seeking to not shift the unfilled seats of the reserved category in-service compartment to open/direct category. "There has to be some certainty in medical admission and some order in the lives of the students. HC has taken a view that on the...
Gift Of Ancestral Property Of HUF Can Be For 'Pious Purpose' Only ; It Cannot Be 'Out Of Love & Affection': Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a Hindu father or any other managing member of a Hindu undivided Family has power to make a gift of ancestral property only for a 'pious purpose'.The bench comprising Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari observed that the deed of gift in regard to the ancestral property executed 'out of love and affection' does not come within the scope of the...
Supreme Court Extends Use Of Vulnerable Witness Deposition Centres To All Jurisdictions Including Civil, Family Cases
The Supreme Court, recently (8th April), requested the High Courts to respond to the Model Guidelines for Vulnerable Witnesses Deposition Centres (VWDCs) circulated to the Chief Justices of High Courts by 20th May, 2022, so that the Committee, chaired by Justice Ms. Gita Mittal, former Chief Justice of the Jammu And Kashmir High Court, appointed to implement an All India VWDC Training...
Judges Are Least Concerned If They Are Liked; We Don't Work For Certificates Of Others, But As Per Our Conscience : Justice MR Shah
Supreme Court judge Justice MR Shah on Tuesday remarked that judges are not concerned if they are liked and they work as per their conscience and not for "certificates" from others.The judge made the comment during a brief discussion on the issue of pendency of cases, during the hearing of a case.While saying that one of the reasons for pendency is the frequent adjournment requests made by...
Interim Order Comes To An End With The Dismissal Of Proceedings: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a stayed order is not wiped out from the existence, unless it is quashed in the main proceedings.Once the proceedings, wherein a stay was granted, are dismissed, any interim order granted earlier merges with the final order, the bench comprising Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Vikram Nath observed. The interim order comes to an end with the...
Owner Can Bequeath Properties Even To Strangers By Will: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reiterated that an absolute owner of a property is entitled to bequeath his properties by Will in favour of strangers.In this case, Saroja Ammal filed a suit for a declaration of title and for permanent injunction in respect of certain properties. Her claim was based upon the last Will and Testament by one Munisamy Chettiar, whom she claimed to be her husband....
No Accused Can Be Subjected To Unending Detention Pending Trial : Supreme Court Affirms Right To Seek Bail
Affirming the right of an accused to seek bail, the Supreme Court has observed that no accused can be subjected to unending detention pending trial, especially when there is the presumption of innocence. The Court made this observation while remanding the bail application of Ashish Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri case to the High Court, after cancelling the bail granted to him by the High...