Mode Of Entry In Service Is Not Relevant For Considering Promotion Of Persons With Disabilities: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that mode of entry in service is not a relevant criteria for promotion under PwD quota."Source of recruitment ought not to make any difference but what is material is that the employee is a PwD at the time for consideration for promotion. The 1995 Act does not make a distinction between a person who may have entered service on account of disability and a person who...

Only In Indian Supreme Court Can One Come Against Procedural Direction At Interim Stage,Won't Happen In SCOTUS: SC

"It is only in the Supreme Court of India that one can come against a procedural direction passed by a Single Judge at an interim stage. Such a thing would not happen in the US Supreme Court", remarked Justice D. Y. Chandrachud on Tuesday.This was in connection with the challenge to the view taken by a Delhi High Court Single Judge that a suit for trademark infringement between different wings...

Why Wait For Centre's Approval For Door-to-Door Vaccination? Bombay High Court Asks Maharashtra Govt

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday criticised Maharashtra's Public Health Department's stand that it would begin home vaccination on an experimental basis only after the State and Central Government approves its proposal. Based on the State Task Force Guidelines on Home Vaccination, the proposal on experimental basis is only for bedridden patients and includes strict compliance...

CA Exams : Supreme Court Rejects Prayers For Waiver Of Articleship, Vaccine Priority For Candidates

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the requests of Petitioners pertaining to waiver of submission of articleship and priority vaccination of CA candidates during the hearing of the three petitions related to the CA exams.A Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose was hearing three petitions related to CA exams.The bench asked the counsel of Institute...

Breaking: CA Exam: Opt-Out Option Will Be Extended To All Syllabus COVID Affected Candidates And Those Who Are Unable To Appear Because Of COVID After Effects - ICAI To SC

Opt-Out option will now be extended to both candidates under Old and New syllabus who have recently suffered from COVID-19 or are yet to recover from the after-effects and are consequently unable to appear, the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) has submitted to the Supreme Court in a Brief Note as per the directions rendered in today's hearing. 

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ICAI CA Examination : Plea Seeking Postponement/ Opt Out Option, Extra Chance:Supreme Court Hearing- LIVE UPDATES

Supreme Court will today hear the petitions Seeking Postponement of CA Examination/ Opt out Options/Extra Chances/More Exam Centres.Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose is hearing the case.Yesterday, ICAI also submitted a Brief Note to the Supreme Court stating that COVID-19 spread is now at a substantially low level, and that it would be in the best interests of...

Wife Staying Abroad For Career Not 'Cruelty' To Husband Or 'Desertion Of Spouse' : Bombay High Court

Observing that the wife's decision to remain in Canada, where she settled with the couple son is not "unjustified" or "selfish," the Bombay High Court refused to grant a divorce to a 44-year-old engineer alleging cruelty and desertion following his spouse's refusal to join him in India. The court reproduced the woman's resume, details of her flourishing career with a...

Courts This Week- A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-71]

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Bombay High Court Disposes Of Kangana's Passport Renewal Application After Passport Authority Says Will Consider Her Application Expeditiously

The Bombay High Court on Monday disposed of two applications filed by actor Kangana Ranaut seeking directions to the Passport Authority to renew her passport after the latter said it would decide on her plea expeditiously. The actor approached the court alleging that passport authorities have orally objected to renewing her passport, owing to the FIRs pending against her. Kangan had...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Removal Of 'Health' From State List And Its Exclusive Inclusion In Union List

Supreme Court has on Monday refused to entertain a plea filed seeking directions to Centre to remove subject of Health from State list and include it exclusively in the Central list.A Division Bench of Justice Nageswara Rao and Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the plea that also sought directions to Centre to constitute a National Health Commission for the entire country."Law is in abundance....

Persons With Disabilities Have Right To Reservation In Promotions : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday held that persons with physical disabilities have right to reservation in promotions also.A 2-judge bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and R Subhash Reddy held so dismissing an appeal filed by the State of Kerala against a judgment of the Kerala High Court(State of Kerala vs Leesamma Joseph).The Supreme Court said that the High Court judgment was...

'Constitutionally Untenable' : DCPCR Asks CBSE To Award Actual Marks Scored In Practicals And Not On Pro-Rata Basis

"Allowing CBSE to exercise powers it does not have to amend scores of the child at its whims (or through a whimsical policy) is a constitutionally untenable position".