Supreme Imbalance : Gender Disparity In Apex Court Of India

Even at seven decades of existence, the Supreme Court has had only a handful of women judges in its historyIn its 68th year, the Supreme Court of India has its eight woman judge, with the elevation of Justice Indira Banerjee from Madras High Court.  Almost for the first four decades, the Court functioned without any female presence in the bench, until Justice Fathima Beevi was appointed...

SC To Have Three Sitting Woman Judges Simultaneously For the First Time In 68 Years

With the elevation of Justice Indira Banerjee, the Supreme Court is set to have three woman judges simultaneously for the first time in 68 years. Justice Banerjee will be joining Justice R. Banumathi and Justice Indu Malhotra.The Supreme Court has had only seven woman judges in its history, with the first one being Justice Fathima Beevi, who was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1989. She...

Patna HC CJ Rajendra Menon Appointed As Chief Justice Of Delhi High Court [Read Notification]

Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Justice Rajendra Menon has been transferred to Delhi High Court as Chief Justice. He will be taking charge on August 17, 2018.Justice Menon will be taking over from Justice Gita Mittal, who had been functioning as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court but has now been transferred to Jammu and Kashmir High Court as Chief Justice.Justice Menon was...

[Reservation in Promotions] [Day 1] : SC&ST Categories To Be Given Reservation In Promotions Depending On Population In States, Submits AG

“This is a provision for affirmative action. For thousands of years, these classes were subjugated. They could not walk on the streets with the upper castes.The State has to protect them. As per me, they should  be given the same number of posts in promotion as they are entitled to in matters of appointment, depending on population of the states”, submitted the Attorney General of...

Breaking: Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justices KM Joseph, Indira Banerjee And Vineet Saran As SC Judges

After months of standoff, the Centre has finally notified the appointment of Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph as a Supreme Court judge, along with Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Orissa High Court Chief Justice Vineet Saran.The Apex Court had made the three recommendations on July 16, re-recommending Justice Joseph whose candidature was rejected by...

Mere Notings In Govt’s Official Files Are Matters Of Internal Deliberations & Don’t Bear Legal Sanctity: SC [Read Judgment]

Such noting(s) or/and deliberation(s) are always capable of being changed or/and amended or/and withdrawn by the competent authority.The Supreme Court has observed that a mere noting in the official files of the government while dealing with any matter pertaining to any person is essentially an internal matter of the government and carries with it no legal sanctity.An application under...

INX Media Case: SC Refuses To Interfere With HC Order Granting Bail To Karti Chidambaram [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court order granting bail to Mr. Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media case.The order was issued by a bench comprising Justice AK Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan, which held, “By the impugned order the High Court has granted bail to the respondent herein. Insofar as grant of bail by the High Court is concerned, we do not...

Live Streaming Will Help You. Why Stand In Crowd? SC To Intern Who Sought Entry On Miscellaneous Days

CJI Misra asked petitioner intern Swapnil Tripathi to submit guidelines to the Attorney General K K Venugopal regarding creation of a live streaming room in the apex court premises exclusively for law interns and law studentsThe Supreme Court today refused to pass any orders on the plea by a law intern for allowing entry into courtrooms on miscellaneous days also but asked a petitioner...

Plan To Set Up Hub For Monitoring Social Media Dropped: Centre To SC; Hearing On Plea Against It Closed

The Centre today submitted before the Supreme Court that it has dropped the proposal to create social media hubs to monitor social media including WhatsApp after which the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra disposed of as "infructuous" a plea filed by a TMC MLA Mahua Moitra challenging the move.On July 13 SC had warned Centre against any plan to snoop into one's whatsapp, email accounts...

SC Restrains ED From Summoning Nalini Chidrambaram In Relation To Saradha Chit Fund Case.

While issuing notice on the petition filed by Nalini Chidambaram against summons issued by Enforcement Directorate(ED), the Supreme Court bench of Justice A K Sikri and Justice Ashok Bushan passed an order restraining ED from summoning her in the interim.The petition filed by Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Advocate and wife of ex-Finance Minister P Chidambaram, challenged the Madras High...

SC Dismisses PIL Seeking Guidelines To Regulate Cesarean Deliveries in Hospitals

The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL petition seeking framing of guidelines to regulate cesarean deliveries in hospitals. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice D Y Chandrachud dismissed the petition finding it to be frivolous, and imposed costs of Rs.25,000.The petition filed by Mr. Reepak Kansal had alleged “flagrant violations and abuse of...

Important Hearings Before Three Judge Benches Also Be Considered For Live-Streaming: CJI

The Supreme Court on Friday granted further two weeks’ time to the Centre to frame comprehensive guidelines on the live streaming of court proceedings after considering the views of interested parties.In addition to those before the Constitution bench, the bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and D. Y. Chandrachud seemed inclined towards matters of public...