[Watch] SC Judges Bid Farewell To Justice Deepak Gupta In Video Message

The judges of the Supreme Court bid farewell to Justice Deepak Gupta in a video message.Due to lockdown, the farewell ceremony organized the SC Bar Association was held via video conferencing on Wednesday...

Coronavirus & Compassion

Dear Friends,With the spread of Covid-19, the world is passing through the worst ever health crisis we have ever witnessed. Continuous spread of Corona virus over 210 countries even the mightiest of the countries like USA, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil and others are struggling to control this pandemic which has already resulted into more than two Lacs death in the world. This pandemic is stated to be unleashed from Wuhan City in China and the latter has exported this virus...

Justice Deepak Gupta, Who Spoke Against Misuse Of Sedition Law And Majoritarianism, Demits Office

Justice Deepak Gupta, who served the Supreme Court as a judge for over three years, had his last working day at the top court on Wednesday.He assumed the office of SC judge on February 15, 2017.The Supreme Court Bar Association gave a "virtual farewell" to Justice Gupta on Wednesday evening on account of the lockdown - a first of the kind event in the SC history where a judge is...

Justice Deepak Gupta: The Humane Judge

Justice Deepak Gupta has always believed that judges must, first and foremost, be humane, and in that endeavour, he has led by example. In his little more than three years at the Supreme Court, the country has seen him always put the society before self and the institution before the individual. Today, on his last day at the Court (as we live in times when the understanding of 'Court' we've held up till now might be changing forever), it is important to acknowledge the impact that this...

SC Extends Limitation Under Arbitration Act & Sec 138 Of Negotiable Instruments Act With Effect From March 15 [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the limitation period for statutory provisions under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act & the Arbitration & Concilliation Act with effect from March 15 until further orders.Taking note of the fact the SC had passed an order on March 23 to extend the limitation for filings in Courts/Tribunals in the wake of COVID-19 situation,...

Draft Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules 2020: Critical Appraisal

Yet again the Legislature has swiftly and quite smartly undertaken another step in ensuring bucket list being checked, pacification of sentiments and a law seemingly to be brought in place for protection of the community that deserves a much more attention than the present state and frame of mind with which they are dealt. This is in regard to the newly drafted and published Draft Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules 2020. As a sequel to the Act that was passed last year in...

JNU Violence : Delhi Court Calls For Status Report From Crime Branch On Action Taken On FIR

A Delhi Court has called for a status report from the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on the stage of investigation in the FIR registered with respect to the violence which took place in Jawaharlal Nehru University on January 5.The Duty Metropolitan Magistrate at Patiala House Courts also allowed an Application for early hearing which sought for an investigation into the violence.On 5th...

Art Of Cross-examination : Basic Canons

Introduction: The law of evidence is a system of rules for ascertaining controverted questions of fact in a judicial investigation of the dispute before the Court. In India, the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 ("Indian Evidence Act") is the principal legislation indicating, what is evidence, what are the types of evidence, what are the facts on which evidence are to be led and what are...

'Effort To Hold Judiciary To Ransom' : SC Sentences 3 Contemnors To 3 Months Imprisonment For Scandalous Allegations Against Judges

The Supreme Court has sentenced three contemnors to three months imprisonment for raising "scandalous and scurrilous allegations" against sitting SC judges.On April 27, the Court had held them - Vijay Kurle(State President, Maharashtra & Goa, Indian Bar Association), Rashid Khan Pathan (National Secretary, Human Rights Security Council) & Nilesh Ojha (National President, Indian...

'Poor Connectivity': J&K HC Adjourns Habeas Plea Due To Difficulty In Video Conferencing

Due to poor connectivity, the Jammu & Kashmir High Court was constrained to adjourn the hearing of a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention of Mian Abdul Qayoom, the President of J&K Bar Association. The Court expressed "difficulty" while hearing a matter via Video Conferencing on account on "poor connectivity". "we, while sitting at two different places through...

[Breaking] SARFEASI Act Applicable To Cooperative Banks : SC Constitution Bench

The Supreme Court has held that the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Act 2002 is applicable to cooperative banks."The co­operative banks under the State legislation and multi­ State co­operative banks are 'banks' under section 2(1)(c) of Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of...

"Acts Of Mumbai Police & Congress Eco-System In Connivance" Arnab Goswami Seeks Quashing Of New FIRs Alleging Communalisation Of Bandra Migrants Incident

In another development, Republic TV Editor In Chief Arnab Goswami has moved the Top court seeking quashing of FIR filed against him alleging communalisation of Bandra Migrant incident on his prime time show.Notably, the plea comes just a day after the Maharashtra Government preferred a plea seeking intervention of the Supreme Court for restraining the Journalist vis-à-vis "browbeating"...