Prescription Of Higher Educational Qualification As A Qualification For Promotion Is Not Unconstitutional: Supreme Court

The prescription of a Higher educational qualification as a qualification for promotion to a post cannot be held as violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court has reiterated.The bench headed by the Chief Justice of India SA Bobde observed thus while setting aside a Judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court which quashed an administrative Order of the ...

Plea For National Uniform Public Holiday Policy : Supreme Court Seeks Responses Of Centre, States

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the responses of the Governments of the Centre and the States on a PIL which sought for a national uniform public holiday policy.The Public Interest Litigation(PIL) was filed by "All India Shiromani Singh Sabha" seeking a uniform and non-arbitrary implementation of policy for declaring public holidays as against the "whims and fancies of various...

SCBA Writes To Law Minister For Extension Of Vaccination Programme To Legal Fraternity And For Their Inclusion In "Frontline Workers"

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has written to Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law and Justice, requesting for the extension of the vaccination programme to Judges, judicial staff and members of the legal fraternity, and to include them in the category of "frontline workers". The letter commences by highlighting that government has launched the...

'Spiritual Guru' Moves Supreme Court Seeking Release Of His 'Spiritual Live-In Partner' From Parents' Custody

The Supreme Court on Monday considered a petition filed by a man, who claimed to be a 'spiritual guru', seeking release of his 'spiritual live-in partner' who was alleged to be under the illegal detention of her parents.The special leave petition was filed challenging an interim order passed by a division bench of the High Court on January 4 refusing to order the release of the...

"Whether Prosecution Sanction Required Even If Accused Was Not Holding The Office At The Time Of Taking Cognizance": Supreme Court Issues Notice In HD Kumaraswamy's Plea

The Supreme court has issued notice in a Special Leave Petition filed by HD Kumaraswamy limited to the question as to whether without sanction the Special Judge could have taken cognizance of a complaint under Prevention of Corruption Act.Challenging the Karnataka High Court judgment which dismissed his petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the JD (S) Leader...

CBI Seeks Transfer Of 'Fake Obscene CD Case' Involving Chhattisgarh CM Outside The State

In view of the incumbent Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel being an accused in the matter, the CBI on Monday pressed before the Supreme Court the need for transfer of the trial in the 'fake obscene CD case' that had rocked Chhattisgarh politics in October 2017 to Delhi or at other place outside of Chhattisgarh.A CD containing morphed pictures of the erstwhile PWD Minister Rajesh Munat (of the...

Media Trial During Investigation Interferes With Administration Of Justice; Amounts To Contempt Of Court : Bombay High Court

In a significant pronouncement, the Bombay High Court on Monday held that media trial during criminal investigation interferes with administration of justice and hence amounts to 'contempt of court' as defined under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.The Court also held that media reports interfering with criminal investigation, before the initiation of trial, can amount to interference...

Legal Issues Pending On Vijay Mallya Extradition : Centre Tells Supreme Court

The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that "further legal issues" remained before fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya could be extradited from the United Kingdom to India. A Special Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice UU Lalit had previously directed the Union Government to file a status report on the progress in the extradition process pending in...

'Resumption Of Physical Hearings Affect Women Lawyers More Adversely' : Women Lawyers Move Supreme Court Against Delhi HC Decision To Start Physical Functioning

The Supreme Court has been moved in another writ petition by women advocates against the decision of the High Court of Delhi has directed for the resumption and expansion of physical hearing of cases in Courts within the National Capital Territory of Delhi, without giving an option to the litigants to be represented by their advocates virtually in matters listed before physical court.As...

[BREAKING] Some Reporting Of Republic TV & Times Now In SSR Case 'Prima Facie Contemptuous', Says Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court on Monday held that the media coverage done by the Republic TV and Times Now against Mumbai police in the case pertaining to death of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput is prima facie contemptuous."Criticism of city police by TV media was unfair, in view of the material placed on record. The city police was at the very basic stage of probe", the High Court said.Bombay...

"It's A Private App, If You Don't Want To, Don't Use It": Delhi High Court on Plea Against WhatsApp's Updated Privacy Policy

Observing that WhatsApp is a 'private app' and that the users voluntarily use the app even though they have the option to not use it, the Delhi High Court today said that it will only issue notice in the petition once it understands the concern of the petitioner against the application and its contentious updated privacy policy. The single judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva of the Delhi...

"Women Cannot Be Denied Right To Autonomy In The Garb of Protection":Women's Rights Group Moves Allahabad HC Against UP Anti-Conversion Ordinance

A Lucknow based women's rights group, Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives, has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking to intervene in the ongoing proceedings against the Anti-Conversion Ordinance passed by the UP Government.The High Court has allowed the intervention application filed through Advocate Vrinda Grover. At the outset, the application alleges that the Ordinance has...