Allahabad HC Cautions Judges Against Overstepping Their Roster [Read Judgment]

The puisne judges are not expected to entertain any request from the advocates of the parties for listing of a case which does not strictly fall within the determined roster, the bench observed.Reiterating that the Chief Justice is the master of roster and none else, the full bench of Allahabad High Court in Dinesh Kumar Singh @ Sonu vs. State of UP, has held that a single and division bench...

Bombay HC Says Age No Bar To Study Law, Grants Interim Relief To Students With Provisional Admission

The Bombay High Court has granted interim relief to law students who sought protection against a possible cancellation of their provisional admissions.These students had challenged the Clause 28 of Schedule III of BCI’s Legal Education Rules of 2008.This clause puts an age limit for admission to a five year LLB course at 20 years and for a three year course at 30 years.A division bench of...

Kerala HC Strikes Down UGC Criteria Giving Relaxation To Reserved Categories For Qualifying NET [Read Judgment]

A stipulation in the UGC criteria for National Eligibility Test, has been struck down as unconstitutional by the High Court of Kerala, observing that it would infringe the fundamental right to equal opportunity granted to ‘General’ category candidates.The UGC (University Grants Commission) mandated stipulation for obtaining minimum marks by the candidates to the NET(National Eligibilty...

Steep Hike In Driving Licence, Vehicle Registration Fee; Central Govt Issues Notification [Read Notification]

The Central government has hiked the fee for application of driving licence and vehicle registration.In a notification issued in official Gazette, the fee for issuing licence, its renewal etc. has been doubled or tripled.Fee for issuance or renewal of licence to a have been quadrupled. The Central Motor Vehicles (Twenty-second Amendment) Rules, 2016, also hiked the Vehicle registration fee by...

Bombay HC Turns Down Anna Hazare’s Plea Seeking CBI Probe Into Sugar Coop Scam

A division bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday refused to order a CBI probe into the alleged sugar cooperative scam.The bench of Justice AS Oka and Justice Anuja Prabhudessai was hearing a PIL filed by Anna Hazare.It asked Hazare to file a police complaint in this regard and observed that this plea seeking a CBI probe could not be considered at this stage. Hazare named Sharad Pawar and...

What SC's Distrust Of Private Companies' Role In Collection Of Bio-Metric Data Signifies

Claims about biometric data deeply unscientific, illegitimate promotes genetic determinism and digital casteism.Now that Supreme Court’s bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar, Justice N V Ramana and Justice D Y Chandrachud have admitted on January 5, 2017 that “biometric data collection by private agencies is not a great idea”, it is time to examine the idea of biometric data based 12-digit unique identification (UID)/Aadhaar number project which is linked to proposed imminent DNA profiling of...

The Challenge Of Being The Chief Justice Of India

Judges should be of stern stuff and tough fibre, unbending before power, economic or political, and they must uphold the core principle of the rule of law which says, 'Be you ever so high, the law is above you.' This is the principle of independence of the judiciary which is vital for the establishment of real participatory democracy, maintenance of the rule of law as a dynamic concept and delivery of social justice to the vulnerable sections of the community. These words of the Supreme Court of...

All-India Bar Examination (AIBE-2017) Likely To Be On Feb 26

The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Wednesday announced that the All-India Bar Examination (AIBE) was likely to be held on February 26 this year.The registration for the examination is likely to start on Friday (January 6).According to the Bar Council of India, the objective of the AIBE is to examine an advocate's capability to practice the profession of law in India. Those who pass...

‘The Legal Burden Of Running Demonetisation Should Vest With Parliament, Not RBI’, Says Namita Wahi, Academic & Legal Expert On Right To Property

Dr. Namita Wahi is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, where she heads the Land Rights Initiative. Namita’s research interests are broadly in the areas of property rights, social and economic rights, and eminent domain or expropriation law. She has written extensively on these issues in various academic journals and edited volumes, as well as newspapers and magazines. Namita has taught courses in these areas at Harvard University, both at the Law School and the Department of Government,...

All You Need To Know About CLAT 2017

The Common Law Admission Test will be held on 14th May 2017. Chanakya National Law University, Patna is conducting the examination this year. It is interesting to note that this year only online payment will be accepted for registration, unlike last year when aspirants could register online as well as offline.Participating NLUsThe 18 participating NLUs in the order of their year of establishment are: National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. National Academy of Legal Study and...

India Death Penalty Report-2016

In 2016, the Judgments of the Apex Court which considered the Criminal Appeals by Death row convicts, raised a suspicion whether it is becoming more and more reluctant to award/confirm death penalty. In the month of September 2016, we saw the Apex Court setting aside death penalty in seven cases in a row. The only death penalty confirmed by the Apex Court in 2016, was in October, when...

SC Slaps Rs.1 Lakh Cost On Tenant Who Refused To Vacate Despite Court Order [Read Order]

Such an attitude,  at the behest of an individual, needs to be curbed with a strong hand, the bench said.The Supreme Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 1 lakh on a tenant who refused to hand over possession to the landlord even after the apex court ordered it in 2012.Girija Shankar’s special leave petition against order of eviction was dismissed by the apex court in September 2012....