Supreme Court Allows NEET Counselling For PG & UG Admissions For 2021-2022 Based On Existing EWS/OBC Reservation In All India Quota

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the commencement of counselling process for NEET-PG and NEET-UG for 2021-22 admissions on the basis of the existing 27% quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC) and 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections(EWS) in the All India Quota.The Court upheld the constitutionality of 27% OBC reservation. As regards criteria to determine EWS(Rupees 8 lakhs...

Supreme Court Criminal Law Digest 2021 [Part 1- CrPC-IPC-Evidence ]

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973On Bail and Anticipatory Bail [Section 436- 439 CrPC]An Accused Who Was Released On Default Bail Cannot Be Re-arrested On Filing Of Charge Sheet[Case: Kamlesh Chaudhary v. State of Rajasthan; Citation: LL 2021 SC 8]A bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Navin Sinha and Indu Malhotra held that an accused who was released on default bail cannot be...

People Versus Power

The moral superiority of democratic arrangement in the ordering of society is premised on the accountability of power towards the securing of common good. And democratic legitimacy presupposes the integrity of electoral process that facilitates the exercise of free will by the people. These fundamental pre-requisites of a vibrant democracy are on test in these times of pandemic. Irrefutable medical evidence and past experience have established beyond doubt that electoral processes which...

My Mom's Photo Was Misused On Bulli Bai, No Daughter Should Be Writing This

This has happened twice in the span of six months; are we simply waiting for a third?

BREAKING | Security Lapse During Prime Minister's Punjab Visit Mentioned Before CJI; Supreme Court To Consider Plea For Probe Tomorrow

The security lapse during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab was mentioned before the Chief Justice of India today morning.Senior Advocate Maninder Singh mentioned the matter before the CJI and requested the Court to take up a writ petition seeking a judicial probe into the incident urgently. The CJI asked the senior counsel to serve the copy to Punjab Government and agreed...

CLAT Clearance Mandate For NTPC Law Officer Appointment Prima Facie Discriminatory : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday found merits in the contentions raised by the petitioner who had sought to quash the condition mandating applicants to clear CLAT to apply to the post of Assistant Law Officer in National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC).Finding the condition prima facie discriminatory, Justice V.G. Arun observed that there was no rationale for precluding candidates...

"English As A Medium of Instruction Can't Be Thrusted Upon A Child Even By A Legislation Much Less By A Policy Decision": Rajasthan High Court

While allowing the plea filed by the petitioner, the single bench of Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur held that the decision of the State seeking to convert the school in question from a Hindi medium to an English Medium school with immediate effect, is fortiori, violative of Article 19(1)(a) and 14 of the Constitution. Justice Dinesh Mehta held that English, as a medium of instruction, cannot...

SC-ST Person Who Is Ordinary Resident Of One State Can't Claim Quota Benefits In State To Which He Migrated : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that a person belonging to Scheduled Caste /Scheduled Tribe in relation to his original State of which he is permanent or an ordinarily resident cannot be deemed to be so in relation to any other State on his migration to that State.The court noted that as per Section 42 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955, there is a restriction on sale, gift or bequest by a member...

NEET PG- Postgraduate Admissions Must Be Completely Merit-Based, Reservation Must Be Minimal: Shyam Divan To Supreme Court

In connection with the EWS/OBC reservation in NEET-AIQ, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan, on Wednesday, told the Supreme Court that Postgraduate admissions must be completely merit-based and reservation must be minimal.Appearing for petitioners focused on NEET-PG, Mr. Diwan with AOR Vivek Singh concentrated his submissions on the 27% OBC reservation."Since we are dealing with postgraduate...

'Consider Virtual Rallies & Online Voting': Uttarakhand High Court Tells Election Commission Amid Rising Covid-19 Cases

With upcoming assembly elections in the state of Uttarakhand in February-March 2022 and the rising Omicron cases in the Country, the Uttarakhand High Court has asked the Election Commission to consider virtual rallies and online voting as an alternative. A division bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Alok Kumar Verma has given two-weeks' time to the Election Commission of India [ECI]...

Section 138 NI Act - Cheque Bounce Case Can Be Closed If Convict Pays Fine Directly To Complainant: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court observed that a convict in a cheque bounce case can pay the fine amount directly to the complainant. It is not necessary to deposit the fine amount in court.In this case, while disposing of the Criminal Revision Petition filed by the accused, the High Court had affirmed the conviction but modified the sentence of simple imprisonment as a sentence to pay fine...

Arrest In Breach Of 'Arnesh Kumar' Guidelines : Delhi High Court Sentences Police Officer To One Day Imprisonment

"Arrest and incarceration destroys a person and collaterally affects many other innocent relatives", Court observed.