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AG Grants Consent For Contempt Action Against Advocate Who Tried To Throw Shoe At CJI BR Gavai
Attorney General for India R Venkataramani has granted consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Advocate Rakesh Kishore, who tried to throw a shoe at Chief Justice of India BR Gavai in Court room last week.Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, and Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta, jointly mentioned the matter before the bench led...
Waitlisted Candidates' Right Extinguish When All Selected Candidates Join Posts : Supreme Court
Observing that the waitlist of candidates cannot operate indefinitely and ceases once all the posts are filled up via recruitment process, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 15) set aside the Calcutta High Court's ruling which directed notional absorption of the waitlisted candidate years after the initial recruitment resulted in filling up of all the posts. Allowing the Union...
Dismissing Employee For A Charge Not Mentioned In Show-Cause Notice Improper : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently set aside the suspension of school teachers in Jharkhand, after finding that they were declared ineligible based on a different charge, which was never labelled against them in the show cause notice. The candidates were held ineligible based on an erroneous marks calculation method, which was never part of the original show cause notice, and denying them...
Supreme Court Halts ILS Hill Road Project In Pune Till Grant Of Environmental Clearance
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that the ILS Hill road project which is part of the Balbharati - Paud Phata Link Road in Pune shall begin work only after the grant of an environment clearance (EC) The bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran was hearing a plea by environmentalist Dr. Sushma Date in the TN Godavarman Case. The bench passed the following direction: "We direct...
Plea Against LTTE Ban : Supreme Court Refuses Intervention Of Person Claiming To Be Tamil Eelam Transnational Govt Leader
The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea filed by Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, stated to be the Prime Minister of Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), for impleadment in UAPA Tribunal proceedings concerning the declaration of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as unlawful association.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta heard the matter and dismissed it...
Judgment Directing Gender Neutral JAG Appointments Doesn't Apply Retrospectively : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently clarified that its judgment striking down of reservation for men in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) post of the Indian Army should not apply retrospectively in the ongoing recruitment.Pursuant to the August 11 judgment of the Supreme Court in Arshnoor Kaur v UOI, in which it held that the recruitment in JAG must be gender-neutral, petitioner Seerat Kaur had...
Supreme Court Dismisses TN Govt Plea Against HC Order For SIT Probe Into Organ Trading; Refuses To Direct CBI Investigation
The Supreme Court on October 10 dismissed a plea challenging the Madras High Court's order, which constituted a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the allegations of a human organ transplantation racket in the State, including kidney transplants.The High Court in its August 28 order, noting that the State's response was "disappointing", stated that the SIT will...
Supreme Court Directs Centre To Upload Nodal Officer Details On Mission Vatsalya Portal For Missing Child Complaints
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Union of India to ensure that all states and Union Territories make available details of dedicated Nodal Officers to handle cases of missing children and to upload their details on the Mission Vatsalya portal.“we direct the respondent(s) Union of India to communicate to each of the States and the Union Territories to make available details of...
ITC Cannot Be Denied To Bona Fide Purchasers If Seller Defaults On Tax Payment : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently held that the Input Tax Credit (ITC) on goods purchased from registered dealers cannot be denied to bona fide purchasers merely because the seller failed to deposit the Value Added Tax (VAT) with the government.A bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh observed that there was no infirmity in the order of Delhi High Court granting credit...
Supreme Court Issues Notice To Ilaiyaraaja On Sony's Plea To Transfer Copyright Suit From Madras To Bombay HC
The Supreme Court today sought a response from Music Composer Dr Ilaiyaraaja in a transfer petition filed by Sony Music Entertainment seeking the transfer of a copyright dispute from Madras to the Bombay High Court.The bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran agreed to consider the matter and issued notice in the same. Sr Adv AM Singhvi, appearing for Sony, stressed that the...
Marriage Often Misused As Instrument Of Subjugation Against Women : Justice Surya Kant
Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant has said that marriage, across cultures and eras, has too often been used as an instrument of subjugation against women, and that the law must continue to evolve to transform it into a partnership based on dignity, mutual respect and equality. He, however, acknowledged that contemporary legal and social reforms are gradually transforming marriage from a...