[BREAKING] NEET-UG : Supreme Paves Way For Results Declaration By Staying HC Order For Re-Test To 2 Students

The Supreme Court on Thursday paved the way for the declaration of the results of the NEET-UG 2021 exam by staying a recent Bombay High Court order which had directed the National Testing Agency to hold fresh exam for two NEET UG aspirants. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, Sanjiv Khanna and BR Gavai issued notice on the special leave petition filed by the National Testing...

UAPA Case : Supreme Court Grants Bail To Thwaha Fasal, Dismisses NIA's Appeal Against Allan Shuhaib's Bail

The Supreme Court on Thursday restored the Special NIA Court, Kochi's order granting bail to Kerala youth Thwaha Fasal and Allan Shuhaib in a UAPA case over alleged Moist links.The bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay Sreeniwas Oka delivered the judgment in the following appeals : The appeal filed by Thwaha Fasal, a journalism student, challenging the judgment of the Kerala High Court...

Gujarat Riots- Two Ministers Of State Cabinet Positioned In City Control Rooms to Directly Interfere With Police Functioning: Kapil Sibal To SC In Zakia Jafri's Plea

The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued hearing Zakia Ahsan Jafri's plea challenging the SIT report giving clean chit to the then-Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other high functionaries in the Gujarat riots of 2002.At the outset, the bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C. T. Ravikumar told Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, for the petitioner, "Mr Sibal, the...

Motor Accident Claims - Loss Of Earning Capacity To Be Fixed As 100% When Claimant Is Incapacitated For Life: Supreme Court

The Court said the the percentage of loss of earning capacity cannot be always equated with the percentage of permanent disability.

PMLA Interpretation : 'Whole Act An Attempt To Aggrandize Power Of State', Kapil Sibal Argues In Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday commenced hearing on the batch of petitions concerned with the interpretation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal enumerated the broad propositions for consideration by the bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C. T. Ravikumar.(1) How can there be a penal statute in the absence of procedure on how to...

Pegasus Verdict Historic, Justice Raveendran Outstanding Choice To Head The Committe: Dushyant Dave

"It's a bright sunshine in the dark days," remarked former SCBA President Dushyant Dave, while speaking about the Supreme Court's order in the Pegasus snooping row. The Supreme Court today ordered the constitution of an independent expert committee to look into the allegations of widespread and targeted surveillance of politicians, journalists, activist etc using the...

NDPS Charges Based On Section 67 Statements Of Accused Unsustainable : Supreme Court Applies 'Tofan Singh' Judgment

In a case under the NDPS Act, the Supreme Court has set aside the charges framed against the accused after noting that the case was based on statements by other accused given to officers under Section 67, which are inadmissible in evidence.A bench comprising Justices Sanjeev Khanna and Bela Trivedi noted that the Supreme Court's verdict in last year's case Tofan Singh v State of Tamil Nadu...

Proceedings Under SC-ST Act Not Vitiated Merely Because Cognizance Was Taken By Magistrate: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that criminal proceedings under SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, is not vitiated merely because the magistrate had taken cognizance and committed the case to Special Court.The bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose observed that the insertion of second proviso to Section 14 of the Act only gives additional powers to the Special Court to take cognizance...

Come Up With Policy On Community Kitchens Scheme After Interacting With States : Supreme Court Directs Centre

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central Government to come up with a scheme for establishing pan-India community kitchens, after interacting with the state governments.A Bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli has directed the five states with highest number of hunger deaths including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar,...

Arbitrator Has Substantial Discretion In Awarding Interest U/Sec 31 (7) (a) Arbitration Act : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that an Arbitrator has substantial discretion in awarding interest under Section 31(7)(c) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.In this case, the Arbitrator had granted interest at the rate of 18% per annum from 01.01.2003 till the date of realization. Disposing the petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act),...

Decriminalize Personal Consumption Of Small Scale Drugs, Declare Certain NDPS Sections Unconstitutional : Plea In Supreme Court

In the wake of recent high profile arrests of celebrity youngsters in drug cases, a writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the decriminalization of purchase of certain small scale drugs for personal consumption or for consumption of friends or relatives.The petitioner argues that the NDPS Act is being misused by the authorities to stigmatize youngsters, instead of...

'No Evidence Of Conspiracy, A Case Of Personal Consumption, Maximum Punishment Is One Year': Amit Desai Argues In Aryan Khan Case In Bombay HC

Senior Advocate Amit Desai appearing for Arbaaz Merchant in the cruise ship drug case today told the Bombay High Court that the maximum case against him is that of 'personal consumption' of drugs. The Court is hearing the bail applications filed by Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the cruise ship drug case. Live Updates from hearing before Justice NW Sambre...