Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Plea Alleging Data Privacy Violation By Foreign Credit Information Companies

The Supreme Court on Monday (May 6) issued notice in a Public Interest Litigation which seeks directions to the Ministry of Finance, RBI, Ministry for Electronics & Information Technology and Ministry of Home Affairs to take appropriate steps against four foreign credit information companies for alleged financial data privacy violation of citizens. The bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud...

Supreme Court Seeks Counsellor's Aid To Ascertain If POCSO Offence Victim Took Informed Decision By Choosing To Reside With Accused

In a case where a victim of a POCSO offence chose to reside with the accused, the Supreme Court on Thursday (May 9) said that there was a need for counselling by a professional psychologist to understand if the woman took an "informed decision."The Court was hearing a suo motu case ("In Re : Right to Privacy of Adolescents"), which was taken over a judgment of the Calcutta High Court in...

Supreme Court Suggests Open Air Prisons As Solution To Overcrowding Of Prisons, Cites Rajasthan Model

The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that one of the solutions for overcrowding in prisons can be establishing open-air prisons/camps, and that it will also address the issue of rehabilitation of prisonersThe bench of Justices B. R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a 2020 PIL by Suhas Chakma in this connection. “The prisoners go out to the community, they earn their living and then...

Plea In Supreme Court Seeks ECI Action Against Alleged Hate Speeches Of PM Modi, Anurag Thakur & BJP

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to initiate appropriate action against hate speeches being delivered by political campaigners, especially those on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2024 General Elections. The petition seeks directions to the ECI to initiate an investigation into the hate...

JJ Act | Names Of Presiding Officer/Members Should Be Specifically Mentioned In Orders When Signed, Including Interim Orders: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has flagged concern about the non-mentioning of the names of the presiding officer or members when the order is passed under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015. “The Presiding Officers or Members of the Board, as the case in hand, or Tribunals do not mention their names when the order is passed. As a result of which it becomes difficult to find out later on, as to who...

Arvind Kejriwal Can't Be Granted Interim Bail For Campaigning, ED Tells Supreme Court

A day before the Supreme Court hearing in the Arvind Kejriwal case, the Enforcement Directorate filed a fresh affidavit opposing the grant of interim bail to the Delhi Chief Minister in the Delhi liquor policy case.Opposing the Court's suggestion to grant Kejriwal interim bail in view of the Lok Sabha elections, the ED said that the "right to campaign for an election is neither a...

Justices MB Lokur, AP Shah & N Ram Invite PM Narendra Modi & Rahul Gandhi To Public Debate On Lok Sabha Elections

Former Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur, former High Court Chief Justice AP Shah and veteran journalist N Ram have invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to a public debate on the LokSabha Election 2024.In the invitation, they said that the members of public have heard only allegations and challenges from either side and have not heard any "meaningful...

Supreme Court Orders Status Quo On Felling Of Trees In Delhi 'Ridge' Forest; Issues Contempt Notices To Officials

The Supreme Court today issued notices for initiating contempt proceedings against government officials for the rampant felling of trees in Delhi's Ridge Forest area in violation of its previous orders in M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors. The Court has also ordered the maintenance of the status quo in the region. The bench of Justice AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan directed to maintain the...

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal Files Nomination To Contest For SCBA President Post

Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on Thursday (May 9) filed nomination to contest for the post of the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association for the 2024-25 term.The SCBA elections are scheduled to take place on May 16. Sibal was previously elected as the SCBA President three times, the last instance twenty-three years ago in 2001. Before that, he was President during the 1995-96 and...

UP Consolidation of Holdings Act | S.49 Doesn't Bar Jurisdiction Of Civil Courts To Determine Ownership Rights : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the power to declare the ownership in an immovable property can be exercised only by a Civil Court unless barred under a law, and that the UP Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 does not contain such a bar The Court has clarified that the power under Section 49 of the 1953 Act cannot be exercised to take away the vested title of a tenure holder, or to...

The Complete Supreme Court Annual Digest- 2023 [Part-XVII]

Registration Act, 1908 Registration Act, 1908 - Effect of Tamil Nadu amendment by which Section 17(1)(g) of the Registration Act has been inserted which makes agreement to sell immovable property valued above Rs 100 compulsorily registrable - Held, the amendment will not affect proviso to Section 49, which allows unregistered sale agreements to be received in evidence. (Para 12, 13)...

Supreme Court Prescribes 30 Days Time Limit To Prefer Appeal Against Juvenile Justice Board Preliminary Assessment Order

Noting that no time limit has been prescribed under the Juvenile Justice(Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 to prefer an appeal against the preliminary assessment order of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), the Supreme Court in a recent judgment deemed it appropriate to fill up this gap by prescribing 30 days' time limit for preferring appeal against the JJB's preliminary...