Oral Evidence In Application To Set Aside Arbitral Award Shouldn’t Be Allowed Unless Absolutely Necessary: SC [Read Judgment]

‘However, if there are matters not contained in such record, and are relevant to the determination of issues arising under Section 34(2)(a), they may be brought to the notice of the Court by way of affidavits filed by both parties.’The Supreme Court has held that an application for setting aside an arbitral award will not ordinarily require anything beyond the record that was before...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Accused Entitled To Acquittal If Informant And Investigating Officer Is The Same PersonIn a significant pronouncement, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court categorically held that the informant and the investigator in NDPS cases must not be the same person.Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code: Section 14 Moratorium Would Not Apply To A Personal Guarantor Of A Corporate DebtorThe Supreme Court...

SC Judges To Contribute Rs. 25,000 Each To Kerala Flood Relief Fund [Read Circular]

Supreme Court judges are set to contribute Rs. 25,000 each to the Kerala flood relief fund.Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra had earlier today accepted the suggestion made by Attorney General for India KK Venugopal that the fine imposed on one of the litigants be diverted towards relief fund for Kerala.“Kerala has been battered and bruised.. it will take ten years to recover. When we go...

Supreme Court Judges Will Contribute To Kerala Flood Relief Fund: CJI Dipak Misra

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra today announced in open court that he and all Supreme Court judges will be contributing to the Kerala flood relief fund.“We are also going to make some contribution..it will be made known soon. The judges of the supreme court will be making some donation,”CJI Misra said.The remarks came during a discussion on the type of penalty to be imposed on one...

Leprosy Survivors Need State's Protection To Come To The Mainstream: AG Tells SC

The Supreme Court on Monday sought to know from Attorney General K. K. Venugopal the feasibility of advancing a suggestion to the Legislature to pass an affirmative law conferring rights and benefits on persons suffering from leprosy and deeming as repealed all statutes, rules or regulations running counter to it which attach a social stigma to the disease.After being informed that upon...

Alwar Lynching: SC Asks Rajasthan Govt. To File Affidavit On Contempt [Read Order]

In the wake of the unfortunate Alwar lynching episode of July 24, the Supreme Court on Monday required the principal secretary of the Home Department, state of Rajasthan to file within 2 weeks an affidavit clarifying the position as to inquiry and the disciplinary action against the state police.A month After the Supreme Court Judgment in Tehseen Poonawalla Vs Union of India  wherein the...

Can State Create Sub-Classification In Non-Creamy Layer Within OBC Category? SC Larger Bench To Examine [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench the question whether it is permissible for a State to create the sub-classification in a non-creamy layer within the OBC category.The bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Indira Banerjee was considering an appeal against Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment that had set aside a government notification fixing income criteria for...

Kerala Floods : SC Lawyers Organize Collection Drive; Justices Kurian Joseph And K M Joseph, Make Contributions

Today, the Supreme Court lawyers organized a drive to collect relief materials to be sent to flood-ravaged Kerala. The materials were collected from 4.30 PM onwards, at the ILI campus opposite Supreme Court.  Materials like bed sheets, nighties, tshirts, sanitary napkins, diapers biscuits, rusk, maida, dal , undergarments etc were collected. They will be collecting materials till...

Job Insecurity Shouldn’t Be Created For Teachers Or Lecturers Who Dedicate Their Life For Education Of Students: SC [Read Judgment]

While considering a plea of a teacher in a service-related matter, the Supreme Court has observed that insecurity should not be created in the employment of teachers or lecturers who dedicate their life for the education of the students, which is of utmost importanceThe bench of Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul (in Ahalya A Samtaney vs. State of Maharashtra) made this...

Kerala Floods: Attorney General KK Venugopal Donates Rupees One Crore To CM's Relief Fund

The Attorney General for India KK Venugopal has donated Rupees One Crore to Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, to help the victims of flood havoc. His son and Senior Advocate Krishnan Venugopal has contributed another Fifteen Lakhs for the relief activities.Senior Advocate Chander Uday Singh has already contributed Rs 5 Lakhs.The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) had...

Congress Leader Kamal Nath Moves SC For Random Verification Of VVPAT Machines in MP Polls

Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking random verification of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines in the ensuing Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.In his petition, Mr. Nath submits that he, along with other senior leaders from the State, had submitted a representation to the Election Commission of India (ECI), highlighting 60 lakh...

Another Inter-Faith Marriage Reaches SC; Muslim Man Claims Violation Of Hadiya Judgment By Chhattisgarh HC

Five months after the Supreme Court judgment in Hadiya Case, another inter-faith marriage has made its way to the Apex Court, with a Muslim man alleging disregard of the law laid down in Shafin Jahan v. Asokan K.M. and others by the Chattisgarh High Court.The petition, filed by one Mohd. Ibrahim Siddiqui challenges a judgment passed by the High Court on 30 July, when the High Court had...