Rights Of Elderly Persons Must Be Recognised And Implemented: SC Issues Directives

 ‘The Government of India and the State Governments must revisit the grant of pension to the elderly so that it is more realistic.’The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that there cannot be any excuse of lack of finances either by the Government of India or by the State Governments in strictly implementing the provisions of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens...

Breaking: Death Row Prisoners Should Be Allowed To Meet Lawyers, Family Members,Mental Health Professionals: SC [Read Judgment]

“Prisoner can be said to be a prisoner on death row when his sentence is beyond judicial scrutiny and would be operative without any intervention from any other authority”The Supreme Court has observed that prisoners on death row should be allowed to have meetings and interviews with his lawyers or members of his immediate family or even mental health professionals.The bench comprising...

Actor Dileep Not Entitled To Copy Of Memory Card Containing Visuals Of Sexual Crime, Kerala Govt Tells SC

The Government of Kerala has filed counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court opposing Dileep's demand for getting copy of the memory card containing visuals of the sexual crime committed against a Malayalam cine actress. Dileep is accused of hatching the criminal conspiracy of the crime.In the affidavit filed today, the Government has submitted that memory card cannot be regarded as a document...

Non-Disclosure Of Pending Criminal Cases: SC Issues Notice To Maha CM Fadnavis

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S. K. Kaul and K. M. Joseph on Thursday issued notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on a plea alleging that in his election affidavit filed in 2014, he had failed to disclose the pendency of two criminal cases against him.According to the petitioner-advocate Satish Ukey, the incumbent CM did not disclose...

Pendency Of Similar Cases Not A Factor While Sentencing: SC [Read Judgment]

“The Trial Court was also in error in taking into consideration, for the purposes of sentencing, the pendency of two similar cases against the appellant which it could not, in law, consider.”The Supreme Court has held that the mere pendency of one or more criminal cases against a convict cannot be a factor for consideration while awarding a sentence.The bench comprising Justice Madan...

SC Dismisses Petition For Execution Of Nirbhaya Convicts Within Two Weeks

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, refused to entertain a petition demanding execution of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, within two weeks.The petition was dismissed by a bench comprising Justice MB Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta.It was in September, 2013, that the Additional Sessions Judge, Saket District Court Complex had found the accused in the case guilty...

HC Cannot Direct The Speaker To Decide A Disqualification Petition Within A Time Frame, Rohatgi Tells SC In TN MLAs Disqualification Case

The proceedings before the Supreme Court bench of in the case of R.Sakkrapani v Secretary, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and others took an interesting turn on Wednesday with senior counsel, Mukul Rohatgi, counsel for the 11 MLAs, led by the current Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, O.Paneer Selvam, arguing that a mandamus cannot lie to the Speaker.Rohatgi took this position on the...

Can Legislature Take Over The Functions of Judiciary, In View Of Huge Pendency Of Cases, Asks SC (In Jest)

The hearing of the case R.Sakkrapani v Secretary, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and others before the three-Judge bench of Justices A.K.Sikri, Ashok Bhushan and S.Abdul Nazeer, brought out hilarious moments when senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi was harping on the ramifications of the argument that the judiciary can direct the Speaker to decide disqualification petitions within a time frame and...

SC Collegium Recommends Justice Ravindra Bhat As CJ Of Rajasthan HC

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended the appointment of Justice Ravindra Bhat as the Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.Justice Bhat is currently a judge of the Delhi High Court. The present CJ of Rajasthan HC, Justice Pradeep Nandrajog, has been recommended to be elevated as SC judge. Following this, Justice Bhat has been recommended as CJ of Rajasthan HC.Justice Bhat was appointed...

SC Collegium Recommends Elevation Of Rajasthan HC Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog To SC

Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the elevation of Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog to Supreme Court.The Five member Collegium headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has also recommended the elevation of Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon to the top Court.Justice Pradeep Nandrajog was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1981. He...

Breaking :Collegium Recommends Elevation Of Delhi HC Chief Justice Rajendra Menon To SC

The Supreme Court collegium has resolved to recommend the elevation of Justice Rajendra Menon, currently the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, to the Supreme Court.The Collegium has taken the decision in a meeting held on Wednesday.Justice Menon was born on 7th June 1957, graduated in Science from Govt. Science College, Jabalpur under Rani Durgawati University (Jabalpur), did LL.B from NSE...

Convict’s Socio-Economic Condition Must Be Considered While Awarding Sentence: SC Commutes Death Sentence [Read Judgment]

‘We endorse and accept that socio-economic factors must be taken into consideration while awarding a sentence particularly the ground realities relating to access to justice and remedies to justice that are not easily available to the poor and the needy.’While commuting death sentence awarded to a man convicted for murdering six members in a family, the Supreme Court has observed...