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Supreme Court To Rehear Case In Which Harsh Order Was Passed Against Allahabad HC Judge
The Supreme Court will rehear the case in which it passed an unprecedented order that a Judge of the Allahabad High Court should be made to sit with a senior Judge and that criminal jurisdiction should not be allotted to him till his retirement.The matter, which was disposed of by the harsh order passed on August 4, is now seen as re-listed for tomorrow before the bench comprising Justice...
Dharmasthala Burials : Temple Dharmadhikari's Brother Approaches Supreme Court Against HC Quashing Restraint Order On YouTube Channel
The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the plea challenging the Karnataka High Court Order, which lifted the restraint order on a YouTube channel from publishing defamatory content against the Dharmasthala temple family in relation to the Dharmasthala Burial case.The petitioner, Harshendra Kumar D, who is the Secretary of the Dharmasthala Temple Institution, has filed the SLP challenging the...
Supreme Court Orders Release Of Rs.1 Crore Deposited By Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram As Pre-Condition For Foreign Travel
The Supreme Court today ordered release of Rs.1 crore amount deposited by Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram with the Court's Secretary General as a pre-condition for foreign travel in 2022.A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N Kotiswar Singh passed the order, noting that pursuant to the 2022 order, Chidambaram travelled abroad and deposited his passport with the Investigating Officer...
PMLA Review Hearing : Live Updates From Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing the review petitions filed against the 2022 judgment in the Vijay Madanlal Choudhary case which upheld the various provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) relating to arrest, search & seizure, reverse burden of proof, non-supply of ECIR copy etc.A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice NK Singh has decided to...
'You've Been Successful In Keeping Accused In Jail Without Trial For Years' : Supreme Court Questions ED's Conviction Rate
The Supreme Court today (August 7) verbally expressed concerns over how the Enforcement Directorate has been 'successful' in sentencing the accused by keeping them as undertrials for years, even though they are not ultimately convicted. The bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justices SC Sharma and K Vinod Chandran was hearing the review against the Supreme Court's decision, which rejected the...
Electricity A Public Good; Disproportionate Increase In Regulatory Assets Must Be Avoided : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 6) while directing the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (“ERC”) to timely liquidate the regulatory assets, to avoid accumulation of rightful cost due to the DISCOMS, has issued ten points relating to regulatory assets, determination of tariff and accountability of ERCs, and powers of the APTEL to avert regulatory failure. The bench comprising...
Incestuous Sexual Violence Committed By Parent Requires Severest Punishment : Supreme Court Upholds Father's POCSO Conviction
Incestuous sexual violence cannot be condoned under any circumstances as it shakes the very foundation of the familial trust, observed the Supreme Court while upholding the conviction of a father who repeatedly raped his minor daughter aged ten years.Upholding the life sentence imposed on him for the offence of penetrative sexual assault under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from...
Lakhimpur Kheri Case : Supreme Court Questions UP Police For Not Acting On Witness's Complaint Of Threat
The Supreme Court today directed Uttar Pradesh police to verify allegations and take necessary action on a complaint made by a person regarding threats/inducement to not depose in the Lakhimpur Kheri Violence case involving former Union Minister's son Ashish Mishra.Insofar as the UP government did not register an FIR despite a formal complaint being made by the person, on the ground that he...
Supreme Court Dismisses Justice Yashwant Varma's Plea Challenging CJI's Recommendation For His Removal
The Supreme Court today(August 7) dismissed the writ petition filed by Allahabad High Court Judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the in-house inquiry report, which indicted him in the case-at-home scandal, as well as the then Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna's recommendation made to the President and the Prime Minister for Justice Varma's removal.A bench comprising Justice Dipankar...
