Complaint U/s 138 NI Act Maintainable Against Dishonour Of Cheque Issued Pursuant To Lok Adalat Award: SC [Read Order]

"Every award of the Lok Adalat is, as held in deemed to be decree of a civil court and executable as a legally enforceable debt. "

SC Allows To Complete Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process Of Jaypee Infratech Within 90 days [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has allowed to complete CIRP concerning Jaypee Infratech Ltd. within a period of 90 days.The bench comprising Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari allowed the Insolvency Resolution Professional IRP to invite revised resolution plan only from Suraksha Realty and NBCC respectively, who were the final bidders and had submitted resolution plan...

'If You Want To Lockdown The Entire State, Declare Emergency Under Art 352', Sibal In Kashmir Plea

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that lockdown of an entire state can be imposed only by invoking emergency provisions under the Constitution.The route of Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure cannot be adopted to shutdown the entire state for more than three months, he argued. Sibal is appearing for Congress Rajya Sabha MP and former CM of...

Plea In Delhi HC Seeks To Regulate Media Reporting Of Lawyers-Police Clash [Read Petition]

Seeking to regulate the media reporting of the clash between Delhi police and lawyers, a Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court.The petition field by Pawan Prakash Pathak and Prakash Sharma, two Delhi-based lawyers, states that the reports in media about the issue has shown legal fraternity in bad light. The petitioners state that the media has given...

SC To Hear Tomorrow Plea Against Odd-Even Scheme Of Delhi Govt

A plea challenging the Delhi Government's Odd and Even number scheme to reduce the vehicular pollution has been filed before the Supreme Court.Petitioner Sanjjiv Kkumaar, a Noida-based Advocate, mentioned on Thursday the petition before the bench led by Justice SA Bobde, Chief Justice of India designate, for urgent hearing. The bench tagged this petition with other similar pleas and...

'Shocking State Of Affairs That There Are Unpaved Roads/Pits In The National Capital': SC Directs Govt. To Ensure Proper Roads & Waste Management

The court also directed the respective state governments to grant financial assistance of Rs 100 per quintal within seven days to small and marginal farmers for handling crop residue of non-basmati rice to ensure that they do not burn stubble to clean their fields.

When A Man Filed A Writ Petition Before SC Seeking Medical Help To His Five Cows !

A writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India is supposed to be filed for enforcement of fundamental rights. But the Supreme Court at times encounters writ petition raising trivial matters.It turns out that, a man from Bihar filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court, in which the main prayer was a direction to provide medical help to his five cows. Kunal Kumar, appeared...

SC Dismisses Plea For Guidelines For Daughters' Right To Perform Last Rites Of Parents

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre for formulting guidelines for daughters' right to perform last rites of her parents.A bench of Justices S A Bobde, S Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari dismissed the plea filed by one Garima Bharti saying that courts cannot interfere in such matters as it is a matter of faith and belief."We see no reason...

Pass An Order Which We Can Understand, SC 'Requests' Bombay HC [Read Order]

"We could not decipher what has been decided by the High Court."

'Never Before Have Lives Of 7 Million People Been Paralyzed Like This' : Sibal On Kashmir Lockdown

Appearing for Congress Rajya Sabha MP from J&K Ghulam Nabi Azad, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on Wednesday submitted in the Supreme Court that the lockdown in Kashmir has paralyzed the lives of 7 million people."Never before the lives of 7 million people have been paralyzed like this", Sibal told the bench comprising Justices Ramana, Subhash Reddy and B R Gavai."State can't tell me to go...

SC Constitution Bench Begins Hearing On Interpretation Of Section 24 Of New Land Acquisition Act

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising of Justices Arun Mishra, Indira Banerjee, Vineet Saran, M.R. Shah, and S. Ravindra Bhat has commenced hearing the matters relating to the interpretation of Section 24 of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013Referring to the Proviso to section 24(2) of the 2013...

Stubble Burning - To Punish Farmers Is Not The Solution; Provide Them Basic Amenities : SC [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab to grant financial assistance of Rs 100 per quintal within seven days to small and marginal farmers for handling crop residue of non-basmati rice to ensure that they do not burn stubble to clean their fields. The special bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta passed the interim order after...