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Supreme Court Criticises P&H High Court & Punjab Govt For Not Reinstating Judicial Officer Whose Dismissal Was Set Aside By SC
The Supreme Court recently expressed disapproval of the refusal of the Punjab & Haryana High Court and the State of Punjab to reinstate a judicial officer whose dismissal from service was set aside by the Supreme Court in 2022.In 2022, the Supreme Court had set aside the order passed by the Punjab Government in 2009 (based on a recommendation of the Full Court of the P&H HC)...
'National Medical Commission Expected To Act Fairly' : Supreme Court Imposes Rs.10 Lakh Cost On NMC For Challenge To Medical College's Approval
The Supreme Court recently deprecated the National Medical Commission (NMC) for raising a frivolous challenge to the grant of approval for the expansion of a medical college. Reminding that the NMC should act reasonably and fairly, being an organ of the State, the Court imposed a cost of Rs.10 lakhs on it."Prima facie, we find that the attitude of the NMC is not of a model litigant. The NMC is...
Judgment On Govt Employees' Entitlement To Increment Earned A Day Before Retirement : Supreme Court Clarifies Date Of Application
The Supreme Court has passed an interim order making certain important clarifications regarding the application of its judgment in the case The Director (Admn and HR) KPTCL & Others vs CP Mundinamani and others which held that government employees are entitled to the increment which they earned on the previous day of their retirement.The judgment was delivered by two-judge bench on April...
Surrogate Mothers Likely To Be Paid Anyway, Better To Have A System To Regulate : Supreme Court In Challenge To Ban On Commercial Surrogacy
While hearing the pleas challenging certain surrogacy laws, the Supreme Court today emphasized the need to safeguard the interests of surrogate mothers, even though commercial surrogacy is prohibited in India.A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a batch of petitions pertaining to the Surrogacy Regulation Act and the Assisted Reproductive...
Supreme Court Dismisses Ex-Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini's Plea To Quash FIR In Multani Murder Case
The Supreme Court today (September 10) dismissed a special leave petition filed by former Director General of Police, Punjab, Sumeth Singh Saini challenging the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash an F.I.R. lodged against him in the Multani murder case. In 1991, during the Punjab militancy, one Balwant Singh Multani (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased')...
WB Aparajita Women & Child Bill And Governor's Reference To President : Explained
On September 6, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose reserved the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the President of India Droupadi Murmu for consideration.Before referring the Bill to the President, the State government reportedly sought a technical report. Per Raj Bhavan's statement on X (formerly Twitter), the “Governor has pointed out...
Supreme Court Stays HC Order On 'One Day Elections' & 'One Member One Post' Rule For Bar Associations In Delhi
Update on Sep 12 - Supreme Court Clarifies Stay Order, Says HC's 'One Member, One Post' Direction StayedThe Supreme Court on September 9 stayed the order of the Delhi High Court which held that elections to the Executive Committee of all bar associations in the national capital shall be held simultaneously on the same day for a uniform period of two years.The High Court direction that no...
Companies Act | When Can Courts Exercise Power Of Rectification Of Register Of Members? Supreme Court Explains
The Supreme Court in a recent judgment held that Company Law Tribunals can exercise powers of rectification of the register of members under Companies Act 2013 if the applicant was a victim of an 'open-and-shut' case of fraud by his opponents.The bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar also explained the concept of 'rectification' and held that company courts should carefully...
Don't Accept Black & White Photographs Without Permission Of Court : Supreme Court Directs Registry
The Supreme Court has directed the Registry to not accept black and white photographs produced by parties without the permission of the Court."We are observing for a fairly long time that parties take full liberty in placing on record black and white photocopies of photographs, mostly which are blurred. The Registry is directed not to entertain hitherto any black and white photographs...
Accused Losing Lives Like This Not Good For 'Rule Of Law' : Supreme Court In Plea Against 'Fake' Encounters In Assam
While hearing a special leave petition raising the issue of fake encounters in Assam, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court remarked today that accused persons losing their lives in the alleged manner is "not good for the rule of law"."...it is not a good thing for rule of law that so many accused are just losing their lives like that!", said the judge.Justice Bhuyan, part of a...
Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Making Justice Victoria Gowri & 4 Others Permanent Judges Of Madras High Court
The Supreme court collegium has recommended making five additional judges of Madras High Court permanent.The judges are(i) Justice L Victoria Gowri,(ii) Justice PB Balaji,(iii) Justice KK Ramakrishnan,(iv) Justice R. Kalaimathi, and(v) Justice K Govindarajan ThilakavadiThe Madras High Court collegium had unanimously resolved to make the judges permanent on 29th April 2024. The Chief Minister...