Supreme Court Weekly Round Up May 31- June 6, 2021

JUDGMENTS THIS WEEK1. Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Constitute Committees To Hold Preliminary Inquiries Before Lodging Sedition Cases Against Senior JournalistsCase: Vinod Dua vs. Union of India [WP(Crl) .154 of 2020] Citation: LL 2021 SC 266In its judgment quashing sedition case against Journalist Vinod Dua, the Supreme Court rejected the plea to direct the State Governments to...

VC Hearings- Address Issues Including Poor Connectivity, Inferior Audio-Video Quality: Justice DY Chandrachud Writes To MP High Court Chief Justice

In a letter written to Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq, Supreme Court Justice D. Y. Chandrachud has asked him to address the concerns raised by the Bar regarding several issues associated with Video Conferencing hearing including poor connectivity, inferior audio-video quality. Requesting Chief Justice Rafiq's to take corrective measure and acknowledging the...

"Failure To Administer Second Dose Would Frustrate The Very Exercise Of Administering Initial Dose": Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Friday observed that the failure to administer the second dose would compromise and frustrate the very exercise of administering the initial dose. While observing so, the Court asked the Delhi Government and the Centre to place on record the communications exchanged between them with regards to the persons who have not been administered the second dose of Covaxin till...

Supreme Court Grants Two Weeks Interim Bail to Unitech Ex- Promotor Sanjay Chandra

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to construction giant Unitech's erstwhile promoter Sanjay Chandra on grounds of his father-in-law's death last month.The vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and M. R. Shah was considering Chandra's plea for interim bail of 4 weeks, urging that the Petitioner's wife is in a state of shock due to the sudden demise of her only surviving...

LiveLaw Practitioners Series: "How To Contradict A Witness?" - By Justice Abraham Mathew

LiveLaw in association with AILU-Kollam is organizing a webinar under its "LiveLaw Practitioner Series" . Justice Abraham Mathew (Former Judge, High Court of Kerala) will speak on "How To Contradict A Witness?". Mr BG Harindranath (Former Professor, National Judicial Academy) will moderate the session. The details of the webinar are as follows: Date & Time: June 5, 2020,...

Advisable That Students Produce Negative RT-PCR Results For Maharashtra University Of Health Sciences (MUHS) Exams : Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) has directed the Maharashtra University of Health Science (MUHS) to issue advisories asking medical students to produce a negative RTPCR covid-19 report along with their hall ticket at the examination centre on June 10, or before their following paper."In case an examinee, is not having such a RT-PCR certificate, he can have report of a Rapid Antigen test...

Bombay High Court Refuses To Stay Maharashtra University Of Health Science's Offline Semester Exams

The Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) on Saturday refused to stay the Maharashtra University of Health Science's (MUHS) decision to conduct the 'Winter 2020' examinations through the 'offline mode' for medical students from June 10, 2021.A bench of Justice Avinash Gharote has posted the PIL, seeking online examinations, or vaccination for nearly 40,000 undergraduates before they...

COVID-Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Directions To Permit Banks To Offer Moratorium On Payments To Borrowers From Classifying Loan Accounts As NPA

While highlighting the financial implications of Covid's second wave on the middle class, a plea has been filed before Supreme Court seeking directions to permit banks to offer moratorium on payments to borrowers for the period of June to August. The plea filed by a NGO Trust Distress Management Collective has sought directions to Centre and the Reserve Bank of India, to issue...

Concerns on Connectivity, Vaccine Supply And Infrastructure Will Be Taken Up By SC Registry With Centre: CJI Ramana Assures High Courts

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has on Friday assured Chief Justices of High Courts that their concerns regarding connectivity, supply of vaccines and the urgent issues of infrastructure that are pending will be taken up by the Supreme Court Registry with the Central Government. CJI has further assured the Chief Justices of the High Courts that the authorities concerned will also...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks CBI/ NIA Investigation Into Hate Messages On Twitter

A Special Leave Petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking CBI/ NIA investigation into the communal/ hate posts that went viral on Twitter last year, during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic. The development comes at a time when the company and the Government has locked horns over the new IT Rules for regulation of user content.The petition seeking leave to appeal has...

Whether Directions To Amend Tribunal Rules Are Akin To Directing Parliament To Legislate? Supreme Court Asks In Madras Bar Association Case

The Supreme Court on Thursday considered whether directions issued by it to the Centre to amend the Rules framed by it are akin to directing the Parliament to legislate in a particular manner, thereby denuding the Parliament of its power to make law.The bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ravindra Bhat was hearing the Madras Bar Association's challenge to the Tribunals...

'Defective, Vexatious' : Delhi High Court Dismisses Juhi Chawla's Civil Suit Against 5G Roll Out With Rs 20 Lakhs Cost

Imposing a heavy cost of Rupees 20 lakhs on actor Juhi Chawla , the Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed her civil suit against 5G Roll out as "defective and not maintainable""Vexatious allegations were made", a single bench of Justice J R Midha noted in the order."It appears suit was filed for publicity. Juhi Chawla circulated link of the hearing on social media", the Court observed in...