Jamia Violence : Live Updates From Delhi HC Hearing

The Delhi High Court is hearing a batch of petitions seeking an independent inquiry into alleged police atrocities in the Jamia Milia Islamia campus in the backdrop of anti-CAA protests.Follow live updates from the hearing here...

GHCAA President Yatin Oza Moves SC Against Gujarat HC Decision To Strip His Senior Designation

President of the Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association, Advocate Yatin Oza, who was recently stripped of his senior designation, has moved the Supreme Court stating that the HC decision is violative of his fundamentals right under Article 14, 19(1)(g) and 21 of the Constitution. He has submitted that the procedure followed by the High Court, particularly when proceedings were...

[Contempt Proceedings Against Prashant Bhushan] LIVE-UPDATES From Supreme Court

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"Pvt Hospitals Are Robbing Covid19 Patients": Plea In SC Seeks Guidelines for Admission of Patients,Fees and Discharge from Hospitals

An intervention application has been filed in the Top Court highlighting the plight of Covid19 patients, exposing the alleged scam and malpractices adopted to "rob the citizens of India" in guise of treatment.The application has been moved through Advocate on Record Manisha T Karia in the ongoing Public Interest Litigation filed on behalf of Sachin Jain which has sought regulation of costs...

'Raising Concerns About The Manner In Which 4 CJIs Have Used Or Failed to Use Their Powers Doesn't Amount To Contempt' : Bhushan's Reply In SC

Stating that bonafide criticism of the manner and the functioning of the Supreme Court, 'however outspoken, undesirable and unpalatable' it is, cannot constitute contempt of court, Advocate Prashant Bhushan filed reply to the notice in the suo moto contempt case taken by the SC over two of his tweets.At the outset, he mentions that he had sought for the copies of the original complaint...

SC Upholds Conviction Of Man Accused Of Raping Minor Girl; Rejects His Plea That It Was Consensual [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, in a judgment delivered last month, upheld the conviction of a man accused of raping a minor in the year 1992.The bench comprising rejected his no offence under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code is made out since the victim was a consenting party. The Court took note of the documents produced by the prosecution and observed that she was a minor during the said incident....

'Arbitrary & Overnight Deprival Of Citizenship Against Rule Of Law': South Africa Constitutional Court Reinterprets Its Citizenship Amendment Act [Read Judgment]

The Constitutional Court of South Africa recently reinterpreted the country's Citizenship Amendment Act of 2010, which had drastically changed the definition of 'citizenship by descent', by holding that persons born in other countries, before or after the commencement of the Amendment Act, are entitled to South African citizenship as long as one of their parents is South African. The...

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-25]

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Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Week Commencing July 27 to August 2, 2020.

'Communication Problem': SC Transfers NDPS Case Against Brazilian Citizen From Chennai To Delhi Court [Read Order]

The Supreme Court transferred an NDPS case against a Brazilian Citizen from Chennai Court to Delhi Court.Justice Hrishikesh Roy noted that the trial against Jailson Manoel Da Silva has not made much progress in the Chennai Court since last four years primarily because of the communication problem. Before the Court, the petitioner contended that the trial in the Chennai Court is...

Plea In SC For Constitution Of Broadcast Regulatory Authority Of India To Regulate Electronic Media [Read Petition]

"Sensational reporting and discourse on critical issues just for the sake of viewership and notoriety has resulted in the tarnishing of an image of individual or community or religious or political organization." A PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking constitution of an independent authority, the Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India, so as to regulate electronic...

[Suo Motu Contempt] Prashant Bhushan Seeks Certified Copy Of Administrative Order; SC Registry Quotes SC Rules [Read Report]

The Supreme Court Registry states that it has received a letter from Advocate Prashant Bhushan through E-­mail on 28.07.2020 in which he required the certified copies of administrative order and the petition related to Suo Motu contempt proceedings initiated against him. The SC Registry, in its office report, quotes Order XIII Rule 7 of Supreme Court Rules, 2013 in this...