Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea By A Lady Civil Judge From Uttarakhand Against Termination , Directs To Approach The High Court

Supreme Court has refused to entertain plea against dismissal of a lady Civil Judge from service in Uttarakhand for allegedly holding a minor girl captive at her residence and mistreating her. A three-judge Bench of CJI Bobde, Justice Bopanna and Justice Ramasubramanian has given the petitioner the liberty to withdraw and approach the High Court. The plea sought directions to...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Inclusion Of Advocates As 'Professionals' In MSME Act

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed seeking inclusion of Advocates in the definition of the word "professional" under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act 2006. A three-judge Bench of CJI Bobde, Justice Bopanna and Justice Ramasubramanian issued the direction while hearing petitioner's challenge to the Delhi High Court order refusing to...

Bombay High Court Exempts Arnab Goswami From Personal Appearance Before Trial Court In Anvay Naik Suicide Case

The Bombay High Court, on Friday, granted Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief, Arnab Goswami, exemption from personal appearance before an Alibaug court in the Anvay Naik abetment to suicide case, till April 16. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale granted the ad-interim relief on an amended plea by Goswami, seeking to quash the 2018 FIR and charge sheet against him in...

Don't Stall Probe Into Amaravati Land Scam; Agreeable To CBI Investigation Under Court-Monitoring, AP Govt Tells SC

The State of Andhra Pradesh on Friday urged the Supreme Court to lift the stay imposed by the AP High Court on the probe into the Amaravati land scam case.Senior Advocate Dr Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for the State Government, submitted that the government was agreeable to a court-monitored investigation even by the CBI."We agree to no coercive action against the accused. We agree...

Centre's OTT Rules 'Lack Teeth', Says Supreme Court; Solicitor General Agrees To Present New Draft

The Supreme Court on Friday expressed dissatisfaction about the new rules framed by the Central Government under the Information Technology Act to regulate Over The Top(OTT) platforms like Netlifx, Prime Vidoe etc., social media platforms and digital news portals."These OTT Rules don't have any teeth; they're only just guidelines", orally observed the Supreme Court on Friday during a...

BREAKING - 'Tandav' Row : Supreme Court Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Amazon Prime Video Head Aparna Purohit

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to Amazon Prime Video's India head Aparna Purohit in the FIR registered by UP Police over alleged hurting of religious sentiments by the web series 'Tandav'.A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy observed that the protection from arrest will be subject to the petitioner cooperating with the investigation...

Fed Up Of Seeing 'Cut-Copy-Paste' Orders Of High Courts; Independent Reasons Need To Be Cited : Justice Chandrachud

"One of the problems of the computer-age is copying and pasting of orders! I am fed-up of seeing cut-copy-paste orders of High Courts", remarked Justice D. Y. Chandrachud on Friday."Independent reasons have to be cited for affirming an order! There has to be an independent application of the mind! Cut, copy, paste from the Tribunal's judgment only adds to the volume of pages but...

Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre In Plea Seeking Repatriation Of An Indian Army Captain From Pakistan's Jail

Supreme Court has issued notice in plea seeking directions to the Centre to take immediate steps for the repatriation or release of the petitioner's son Capt. Sanjit Bhattacharjee who's been in Pakistan's jail for more than 23 years. The petitioner has sought Government's intervention on an urgent humanitarian basis, through diplomatic channel of External Affairs Ministry and intervene...

Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response On Plea Against Blanket Ban On Blood Donation By Transgenders, Sex Workers

Prohibition of transgender persons is due to assumptions based on negative stereotypes

Supreme Court Rejects ED's Plea To Stay Kerala HC Judgment Granting Bail To M Sivasankar IAS In Gold Smuggling Case; Issues Notice

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on the petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate challenging the bail granted to M Sivasankar IAS, former Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Kerala, by the Kerala High Court in the gold smuggling case.Although Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, appearing for the ED, sought for a stay of the judgment, the bench comprising Justices...

Senior Citizens To Be Given Seniority In Both Private And Government Hospitals : Supreme Court

Supreme Court has on Thursday directed the States to ensure that priority is accorded to senior citizens in hospitals, in a plea filed by former Union Minister Dr. Ashwani Kumar which sought for the protection of rights of the elderly. A division Bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice Subhash Reddy has directed that elderly people are to be given priority in admissions...

[Ward Reservations in Goa Municipal Councils] Supreme Court Stays Bombay HC Judgment And SEC's New Notification

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Bombay High Court judgment setting aside a notification issued by the Director and ex-officio Additional Secretary (Municipal Administration)/ Urban Development, Goa reserving wards in Goa Municipal Councils. A Bench of Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Hrishikesh Roy also stayed the new notification issued by Goa Election Commission...