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Contradictions In Sole Eyewitness Testimony Fatal To Prosecution Case, Supreme Court Acquits Four In Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 18) acquitted four persons convicted of murder, holding that discrepancies in the testimony of the sole interested eyewitness rendered it unreliable, and that a conviction could not be sustained solely on such evidence in the absence of corroboration. A Bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi heard a criminal appeal...
UP Bar Council To Suspend Licenses Of 'History-Sheeter' Advocates, High Court Told; SHOs Directed To Certify No Cases Concealed
The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has informed the Allahabad High Court that it has taken a unanimous decision to suspend the licenses of advocates who are listed as history-sheeters or gangsters in the police records. The submission was made before a bench of Justice Vinod Diwakar on December 15 during the hearing of a petition filed by advocate Mohammad Kafeel, who is facing a series...
Commercial Courts Act Bars Intra-Court Appeals In Patent Disputes: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that an intra-court appeal is not maintainable against an order passed by a Single Judge while deciding a statutory patent appeal under the Patents Act. The court reiterated that the Commercial Courts Act does not permit a second appeal within the High Court. “Any expansion of scope of the Commercial Courts Act will defeat its objectives and there is no...
Debenture Trustees Are Financial Service Providers, Insolvency Plea Not Maintainable: NCLT Mumbai
The National Company Law Tribunal at Mumbai has recently reiterated that debenture trustees are Financial Service Providers, and therefore insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code are not maintainable against them, dismissing a plea filed against Centbank Financial Services Ltd. A coram of Judicial Member Nilesh Sharma and Technical Member Sameer Kakar, in an order...
Individual Firms Can Claim Proportionate JV Experience For Future Work Contracts When Applying Solo : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 18) observed that an experience gained as a partner in a Joint Venture contractual works can be claimed proportionately by an individual entity bidding separately in future tenders. A bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan set aside the Chhattisgarh High Court's decision which refused to consider the Appellant's proportionate...
'State Can't Dilute NEET Eligibility For Dental Courses': Supreme Court In Rajasthan BDS Case; Imposes ₹10 Crores On Erring Colleges
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the State of Rajasthan had no authority to lower the minimum qualifying percentile in the NEET-UG examination for admissions to the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course for the academic year 2016–17, and that the decision to do so was manifestly illegal. At the same time, invoking its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution,...