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Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Jharkhand Police Officers For Filing Chargesheet Violating Interim Order
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 1) issued a contempt notice to three officers of the Jharkhand Police for filing a charge sheet in a case despite an interim order by the Court barring any further action in the FIR.“It is a case of gross contempt of this Court. What oversight? Only reason is the husband of the first informant is IPS officer. That is the only reason”, Justice Oka...
Supreme Court Sets Aside Madras HC Judgment Which Was Signed & Uploaded After Judge's Retirement
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 1) restored a quashing petition related to a corruption case to the file of the Madras High Court, noting that the judgment in the case was signed and uploaded after the judge, Justice T. Mathivanan, had retired.Justice Abhay Oka, after dictating the order, emphasized, “There should not be a single incident like this” referring to the issuance of...
Supreme Court Seeks Personal Presence Of Telangana DGP In View Of 'Disconnect Between Prosecution & Govt Counsel'
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 1) expressed surprise over the lack of communication between the prosecution and the Telangana's Government Counsel over the date of filling the chargesheets in a criminal cases.Taking serious note of 'disconnect between the prosecution and the Government', the Court has directed the presence of the Director General of Police (DGP) of Telangana for the...
Supreme Court Closes Contempt Case Filed By Ex-Air Force Officer Who Contracted HIV Due To Blood Transfusion At Military Hospital
The Supreme Court today closed the contempt case filed by an ex-Air Force officer, aggrieved by the Armed Forces' failure to pay Court-ordered compensation for medical negligence at a military hospital that resulted in his contracting HIV.The matter was before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan which, in the interest of the parties, modified its earlier order and directed that...
Changes To Government Order Cannot Be Applied Retrospectively To Alter Established Seniority Rankings : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that the seniority of the entire cadre working in an establishment could not be disturbed via a subsequent modification in the Government Order (G.O.) fixing the seniority of an employee in an establishment. The bench comprising Justices Sandeep Mehta and R. Mahadevan said that giving a retrospective effect to the modification made in the G.O. (based on which...
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Challenge To Centre's Circular Treating OCIs As NRIs For Admissions
The Supreme Court on Monday (September 30) agreed to consider the plea by an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) who has challenged government circular treating OCIs to be NRIs for the purposes of admissions in medical and engineering courses. The bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing a challenge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court's order...
Supreme Court Asks Special Court To Decide Bail Plea Of TMC's Kuntal Ghosh In 10 Days
The Supreme Court today directed a West Bengal Special Court to hear and decide in 10 days Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh's bail plea in a money laundering case arising out of the alleged cash-for-jobs scam in West Bengal.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan passed the order in a writ petition filed by Ghosh, assailing fresh hearing of his bail plea by a new judge,...
Supreme Court Urges Advocates Not To File Baseless Petitions, Flags Outrageous Averments in Family Law Cases
The Supreme Court has deprecated the filing of the vexatious and frivolous applications which cause a delay in the disposals, adding to the pendency of the cases. The bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan said that “it is time that such frivolous and vexatious proceedings are met with due sanctions in the form of exemplary costs to dissuade parties from resorting to...
Punjab Govt Requests Supreme Court For Early Hearing Of Suit Against Union Over RDF Dues
The State of Punjab today (October 1) requested the Supreme Court for scheduling an early hearing of its suit seeking reimbursement of the statutory charges of Market Fees and Rural Development Fees (RDF) by the Union.Advocate General of Punjab Gurminder Singh requested an early listing of the matter considering that the kharif harvest season would begin from October 1. "My season is...
BJP Councilor Withdraws From Supreme Court Contempt Plea Against MCD Mayor's Decision To Postpone Standing Committee Elections
BJP councilor Raja Iqbal Singh withdrew from the Supreme Court today a contempt petition filed by him against Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayor Shelly Oberoi, raising allegations about delay in the conduct of elections to fill vacancy in the MCD Standing Committee.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan dismissed the contempt petition as withdrawn, with liberty to approach the...
Scammers Fake Supreme Court Hearing & Impersonate CJI, Dupe Industrialist Of ₹7 Crore
Textile baron and Chairman of the Vardhman Group, SP Oswal has filed a complaint for being scammed by cyber criminals who orchestrated a fake Supreme Court hearing presided by a person impersonating Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. According to a report by Reuters , the fraudsters swindled Rs 7 crores of Oswal after he was made to attend a fake court proceeding in a purported...
