NDPS Trial: Non Examination Of Independent Witness By Prosecution Does Not Mean Accused Was Falsely Implicated: SC [Read Judgment]

"The evidence of official witnesses cannot be distrusted and disbelieved, merely on account of their official status"

Plea In SC Challenges Provisions Of IBC Ordinance 2019 Imposing Conditions On Homebuyers' Right [Read Petition]

A writ petition has been filed in Supreme Court challenging Section 3 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 (Ordinance). The said provision, which adds certain provisos to Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and purports to set out new conditions for real estate allottees to approach the NCLT, is alleged to be ultra vires the Constitution of India...

Vijay Mallya Cannot Cite Cases Pending In India To Stall Insolvency Proceedings Abroad, Clarifies SC

Calling out the evasive tactics of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Supreme Court on Monday declared that the pendency of his plea before it shall not serve as a tool for halting proceedings in other jurisdictions.Solicitor General Tushar Mehta brought to the attention of the bench headed by Chief Justice S. A. Bobde that Mallya has been hanging the dream of a pay-back before...

SC Urges Nusli Wadia & Ratan Tata To Resolve Differences

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the criminal defamation case filed by Nusli Wadia against Ratan Tata by urging both the billionaire businessmen to resolve their differences.The bench comprising CJI S A Bobde, Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant was hearing a special leave petition filed by Wadia challenging the Bombay High Court's judgment which quashed the criminal defamation case filed...

SC Asks New Assam NRC Coordinator To Explain His 'Communal' Facebook Post

The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice S. A. Bobde on Monday required recently-appointed Assam NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma to explain the comments posted by him on his Facebook page prior to his appointment.Sarma's views regarding "East Pakistani Muslims" residing in the state have been widely criticised as being indicative of his approach towards the already-controversial...

Tata Sons : NCLAT Rejects Registrar Of Companies' Plea For Modification Of Observations

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal on Monday turned down the plea moved by Registrar of Companies seeking removal of certain observations in the December 18 judgment which ordered the reinstatement of Cyrus Mistry as Executive Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. A Division Bench headed by Justice Mukhopadhyay observed that the judgment cast no aspersions on the RoC. Moved under...

'No Absolute Right Of Appointment For Minority Educational Institutions' : SC Upholds WB Madrasah Service Commission Act [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act 2008 observing that there is no absolute and unqualified right of appointment for minority educational institutions.A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and U U Lalit delivered the verdict on Monday in the case SK Md Raffique v Managing Committee, Contai Rehmania High Madrasah and others.The...

Karnataka HC Strikes Down Parliamentary Allowances And Miscellaneous Provisions Act Being Ultra Vires The Constitution Of India : HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court on Saturday struck down the Karnataka Parliamentary Secretaries Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1963 as as amended by the Karnataka Parliamentary Secretaries Allowances (Amendment) Act, 1999. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S R Krishna Kumar held the State Legislature of Karnataka had no legislative competence...

[Exclusive] 'Offends Secular Colour Of The Country': Meghalaya HC Had Cautioned Against The Very Idea Of CAA

A Division Bench of the Meghalaya High Court, on 24th May 2019, had sounded a word of caution against the very idea of granting citizenship based on religion to minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, which the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, now, more or less, proposes to do. It had observed that such an idea has 'a colour of offending secular colour of the country.'On...

Tata Sons v Cyrus Mistry : Decoding The NCLAT Verdict

The board room battles in Tata Sons Ltd have now become a high profile court room battle with the Supreme Court being moved against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's decision reinstating Cyrus Mistry as Executive Chairman of the company.Here is a brief explainer about the background of the dispute and the reasons which weighed with the NCLAT.ChronologyDecember 2012 : Cyrus Mistry...

"Today Google Knows More About You Than Your Spouse-" Justice V Ramasubramanian On 'Right To Privacy: New Age Challenges'

[Here is the full text of 4th Justice V R Krishna Iyer Memorial Lecture delivered by Justice V Ramasubramanian, Judge, Supreme Court of India]It is indeed a privilege to be invited deliver a Memorial Lecture instituted in the name of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, an icon of the robed brethren and a saviour of the robbed classes. The greatness of Justice Krishna Iyer is that even in...

New Plea In SC Against CAA Also Challenges Section 3(1) Of Citizenship Act; Says It Affects Those Born After July 1, 1987 [Read Petition]

The cumulative effect of the impugned provisions of the Citizenship Act of 1955 is to arbitrarily deprive nationality to the children born in India after 1st July 1987, the plea states.