Allotment Of Public Properties On The Basis Of Discretionary Quota Has To Be Done Away With: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that the allotment of public properties on the basis of discretionary quota has to be done away with.Such allotment must be transparent and has to be fair and non arbitrary, the bench of Justice MR Shah and BV Nagarathna observed.The court added that even in the case where the policy decision is taken to allot the plots to a particular class – downtrodden...

Breaking: Supreme Court Designates 7 Retired HC CJs/Judges And 18 Lawyers As Senior Advocates

The Supreme Court of India has notified that 7 former Chief Justices/ Judges of the High Court and 18 Advocates On Record/Advocates have been designated as Senior Advocates with effect from December 8, 2021.The decision has been taken by the Chief Justice of India and Judges of the Supreme Court in the full court meeting held on December 8th 2021.A letter has been addressed regarding the same...

Reliability Or Genuineness Of Allegations Made In FIR/Complaint Cannot Be Gone Into While Exercising Jurisdiction U/Sec 482 CrPC: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that while exercising jurisdiction under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code, a High court cannot embark upon any enquiry as to the reliability or genuineness of allegations made in the FIR/complaint.The powers under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is very wide, but conferment of wide power requires the court to be more cautious, the bench comprising Justices MR...

Co-Accused Being Not Chargesheeted No Ground To Quash Proceedings Against Accused Who Is Chargesheeted After A Thorough Investigation: Supreme Court

A bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice M.R. Shah have recently observed in a case dealing with criminal conspiracy to cheat a bank and induce dishonest delivery of property, that "merely because some other persons who might committed the offences, but were not arrayed as accused and were not charge-sheeted cannot be a ground to quash the criminal proceedings against the accused...

Reservation In Civic Body Elections : Supreme Court Adjourns Pleas Challenging Madhya Pradesh High Court's Order Of Staying Reservation Notification

The Supreme Court today adjourned the batch of special leave petitions assailing Madhya Pradesh High Court's interim order of staying the notification dated December 10, 2020, related to the method of reservation in the civic body elections for Monday.The notification dated December 10, 2020 issued by the State reserved the offices of the President of various Municipal Councils and Mayor...

IIT JEE : OBC Student Who Mistakenly Clicked Wrong Course Moves Supreme Court For Allocation Of Preferred Choice

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by an IIT JEE aspirant who secured AIR 1008 in OBC category seeking directions to Centre, Ministry of Education and Organising Chairman, JEE Advanced, Kharagpur to allocate him the seat for academic programme ie Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati and rectify the unintentional mistake committed by the him.It has been argued...

What Ranjan Gogoi Omits To Say In His Memoir 'Justice For The Judge'?

Whatever be Gogoi's protestations, the fact of the matter is that there are valid and strong grounds for criticism against several of his decisions and (in)actions.

[Electricity Act, 2003] Captive Consumers/Captive Users Are Not Liable To Pay Additional Surcharge Under Section 42(4): Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed that captive consumers/captive users are not liable to pay the additional surcharge leviable under Section 42(4) of the Electricity Act, 2003 ("Act, 2003").It was also observed that consumers defined u/s 2(15) of the Act, 2003 and the captive consumers are different and distinct and they form a separate class by themselves.The bench of Justices MR Shah and...

Motor Accident Claims - Potential To Earn Can Be Considered To Determine Compensation If There Is No Evidence For Actual Income : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that even if there is no evidence on record of actual income, deceased person's potential to earn can be considered while considering insurance claims in motor accidents matter.The deceased was a computer engineer with a B.Tech degree. While there was evidence on record to show that the deceased was earning Rs.10,000/ month, there was no documentary evidence...

No Proposal To Scrap Sedition Offence Under Section 124A IPC : Centre Tells Lok Sabha

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha by a written reply that there is no proposal to scrap sedition law. The statement was in response to a question posed by MP M.Badruddin Ajmal whether the government was planning to strike down or amend S.124 A of the Indian Penal Code. The MP further sought to know whether there were any observations by the Supreme Court of India...

Whether Service Tax To Be Levied On Card-Issuing Bank For Interchange Fees : Supreme Court Delivers Split Verdict

A Division Bench of the Supreme Court took a divergent view on the issue, whether the card-issuing bank charging an interchange fee for credit card transaction is to be subjected to service tax for the same. Justice K.M. Joseph was of the opinion that the interchange fee is received for the service rendered by the card-issuing banks, hence liable to be subjected to service tax. Justice...

Supreme Court Issues Notice In Plea Filed By A Person Against Whom 95 FIR's Have Been Filed Seeking Consolidation Of Pending Criminal Trial and FIR's

The Supreme Courton Friday issued notice in a writ petition preferred by an accused against whom 95 FIRs have been filed seeking clubbing of all the trials, pending FIR's and its consequent trials in 5 states and bringing them before a Single Court of Law.The bench of Justices LN Rao and BR Gavai also tagged the matter with Prashant Chagan Patil & Ors v. M/S Future Maker Life Care...