'No More Adjournments': Supreme Court To Hear On Oct 26 Zakia Jafri's Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi In Gujarat Riots

The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned to 26th October 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.A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar granted the adjournment based on a request made on behalf of the...

Reprimanding A Student Would Not Tantamount To Provoking Him To Commit Suicide: Supreme Court Quashes FIR U/s 306 IPC Against A Teacher

The Supreme Court observed that reprimanding a student for his indiscipline would not tantamount to provoking a student to commit suicide."If, a student is simply reprimanded by a teacher for an act of indiscipline and bringing the continued act of indiscipline to the notice of Principal of the institution who conveyed to the parents of the student for the purposes of school discipline...

'Medical Education & Regulation Have Become A Business; Entire Haste To Fill Up Seats' : Supreme Court Questions NEET-SS 2021 Exam Changes

The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Central Government and the National Board of Examinations observing that the changes in the National Eligibility-cum- Entrance Test- Super Specialty(NEET-SS) 2021 pattern were seemingly done to ensure that the seats in the private medical colleges were not lying vacant.The Supreme Court repeated its earlier observations that the changes have put...

NEET-SS 2021- 'What Is The Hurry In Changing Pattern?Have Some Concern For Students', Supreme Court To NBE [LIVE UPDATES FROM HEARING]

The Supreme Court is hearing a plea filed by 41 PG Qualified Doctors challenging abrupt "last minute changes" in the exam pattern of NEET SS 2021.A bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Vikram Nath and BV Nagarathna is hearing the petition.Senior Advocate Shyam Divan is appearing for the petitioners. Yesterday, the National Board of Examination filed an affidavit stating that the...

Court Boycott : Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Rajasthan HC Bar Association At Jaipur

The Supreme Court on Monday issued contempt notice to the office bearers of the Bar Association of the Rajasthan High Court at Jaipur for boycotting a bench of the High Court as part of strike.A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and AS Bopanna noted that despite repeated judgments of the Supreme Court which prohibit court boycotts and deprecated lawyers strikes, the Jaipur HC Bar Association...

Supreme Court Registers Suo Motu Case On Long Pendency Of Criminal Appeals In Allahabad High Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday registered a suo motu case on the issue of long pendency of criminal appeals in the Allahabad High Court. The Court is considering laying down of guidelines regarding grant of bail to convicts who have undergone long years of sentence due to delay in hearing of their criminal appeals.A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and MM Sundresh ordered...

Delhi Govt vs LG : Supreme Court To Constitute 3-Judge Bench To Decide Issue Of 'Services' After Dussehra Vacations

Senior Advocate Rahul Mehra on Tuesday mentioned before the Chief Justice of India the matter relating to the legal dispute between the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Government relating to control of services.In February 2019, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court had delivered a split verdict on the question of powers of the GNCTD and Union Government...

Multiple FIRs In Different States On Ponzi Scheme: 'Can It Be Dealt By A Separate Wing of Central Investigating Agency?' SC Asks Centre To Find A Solution

While hearing a writ petition seeking transfer and clubbing of 29 FIR's registered against an accused who has been in custody for falsely collecting crores of money in cash from people to any appropriate Investigating Agency or in the State of Haryana, the Supreme Court on Monday (October 1, 2021) asked the Centre to come up with the solution to deal with the matters in which multiple...

On The Right To Protest In Sub-Judice Matters

Does holding a protest in any way impede with the Judiciary's function to adjudicate on the constitutional validity of a legislation and is imposing restrictions on the right to protest the 'least intrusive' way of achieving this purpose?

Supreme Court To Hear West Bengal's Suit Against Centre Over CBI FIRs On October 22

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the original suit filed by the State of West Bengal against the Union of India to October 22. The suit has been filed under Article 131 of the Constitution against the Union of India alleging that CBI is going ahead with investigation in cases of post poll violence without securing the pre-requisite nod from the state under the law. A bench...

Conduct Of Accused, Gravity Of Offence, Societal Impact Etc. Are Grounds To Revoke Bail: Supreme Court

The Supreme court observed that bail granted to an accused can be revoked by a superior court if the court has considered irrelevant factors or has ignored relevant material available on record which renders the order granting bail legally untenable. "The gravity of the offence, conduct of the accused and societal impact of an undue indulgence by Court when the investigation is...

COVID Deaths- Hospitals Should Provide All Documents To Family Of Deceased As & When Demanded : Supreme Court

The Grievance Redressal Committee will have the power to call for documents from hospitals.