All India Judicial Service Likely By March 2022

The All India Judicial Service is likely to be a reality by March 22, as per a report of Economic Times.The government is getting ready to set up All-India Judicial Service (AIJS) by March 2022, according to a proposal submitted by the law ministry to the Union Council of Ministers, reported the ET. It is said that the law ministry has decided to complete the consultation process with the...

Sexual Harassment At Workplace Is An Affront to Women's Fundamental Rights: SC [Read Judgment]

Sexual harassment at the workplace is an affront to the fundamental rights of a woman, the Supreme Court remarked while upholding a High Court judgment that quashed a transfer of a woman bank employee. A woman employee of the Punjab and Sind Bank, who was holding the office of Chief Manager in the Scale IV in Indore branch was transferred to the branch at Sarsawa in the district of Jabalpur....

Farmer Entering Into Buyback Transaction With Seed Company Is A 'Consumer': SC [Read Judgment]

"Excluding such farmers from the purview of the 1986 Act would be a complete mockery of the object and purpose of the statute."

SC Orders Police Protection To Inter-Caste Marriage Couple From Threat Of Family

A vacation bench of the Supreme Court on Monday ordered Delhi and Rajasthan police to provide protection to an inter-caste marriage couple from the threat of their family members.The man and woman —aged 32 years and 26 years respectively - claimed to have married on February 28 at a temple in Delhi. The couple, hailing from Jaipur, approached the Supreme Court claiming protection from...

SSC Paper Leak 2017: SC Refuses To Scrap 2017 SSC CGL Exam Results [Read Order]

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, refused to scrap the declaration of result of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Examination 2017 and Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) Examination 2017. The Bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices BR Gavai & Surya Kant observed that recommendations of the Committee dated 18.10.2019, which had been set up...

KK Modi Trust Feud: Singhvi Cites "Kompetenz-Kompetenz", SC Refuses To Vacate Stay On Arbitration Proceedings At Singapore

The Supreme Court today refused to interfere in the stay imposed on arbitration proceedings by the Delhi High Court involving property belonging to KK Modi Trust. A vacation bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan & Surya Kant, while refusing to entertain the plea for vacating stay on Arbitration proceedings in Singapore, granted liberty to Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu...

Nirbhaya Convict Vinay Sharma Approaches Delhi LG Seeking Commutation Of Death Sentence

2012 Delhi Gangrape and murder convict, Vinay Sharma has knocked on the doors of Delhi Lieutenant Governor seeking commutation of his death sentence to that of life imprisonment. Invoking the power of the government under Sections 432 and 433 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), Vinay has requested the LG to suspend and commute his sentence. His application, filed through lawyer AP...

Plea In SC Challenges The Unfettered Power Of Government To Designate An Individual As A Terrorist[Read Petition]

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA) as well as the Unlawful Activities Amendment Act, 2019. The petitioner is the secretary of an organization named 'Solidarity Youth Movement' & has been actively fighting against the provisions of the UAPA, which she has alleged to be...

Pharmacy Council Alone Has Jurisdiction In The Field Of Pharmacy Education, Not AICTE: SC [Read Judgment]

"The fight of supremacy between both the regulators is unhealthy for the education sector as well as the institutions to permit two regulators to function in the same field."

'No Court Can Shut Its Eyes If A Public Unjust Is Happening Just Before It' : Allahabad HC On Suo Moto Action Against 'Name & Shame' Banners [Read Order]

Within three days of Uttar Pradesh administration taking a highly unusual action of putting up banners 'naming and shaming' persons accused of violence during anti-CAA protests, the Allahabad High Court swung to swift action, in a case taken suo moto.The High Court held a special sitting on the suo moto case on Sunday with respect to the banners put up in several parts of Lucknow on Friday....

Breaking: Allahabad HC Orders Removal Of UP Govt Banners Naming Anti-CAA Protesters Accused Of Violence [Read Judgment]

In a severe jolt to Yogi Adityanath-led government of Uttar Pradesh, the Allahahabad High Court on Monday ordered the removal of all posters and banners put up by UP police in Lucknow publishing the names and photos of persons accused of violence during protests against Citizenship Amendment Act.The Court observed that the State action amounted to "unwarranted interference in privacy of...

SC Collegium Recommends More Transfers Of High Court Judges

The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on 5 th March, 2020 has recommended transfer of Mr. Justice Alok Singh, Judge, Uttarakhand High Court to Allahabad High Court.It has also recommended transfer of Mr. Justice S.N. Satyanarayana, Judge, Karnataka High Court to Punjab & Haryana High Court.In February Supreme Court Collegium recommended to transfer Delhi High Court Judge...