The Supreme Court has generated a notice to the Civil Aviation Ministry and Air India on a petition filed by a transgender Shanavi Ponnuswamy pursuing a way to the national bearer to designate her as a cabin crew member. Ponnuswamy is an engineer and underwent a sex change operation. She has worked with worked with Sutherland and Air India Customer Support in
The Supreme Court has stayed the Punjab and Haryana High Court order in Jindal Global Law School rape case. HC suspended the sentence of three law students who are convicted for blackmiling and gang raping a student of the same University for about two years. The suspension was been awarded on the condition of not leaving the country, refraining from communicating the
The Supreme Court has released a notice regarding applications for allocation of lawyer chambers. It lists down the entitled guidelines for updating the existing Panels for allotment of chambers. According to the notice the link for filling up online applications has been enabled from 10:00 am on Wednesday and will be active till 5:00 pm on 28 February. Shikha TiwariI am
The Supreme Court inaugurated the much awaited hearing on a bunch of petitions concerning to power scuffle between Central and the state government of Arvind Kejriwal. After hearing the matter for more than five months SC finally referred to all the petitions pertaining to the issue to a five-judge constitution bench. Shikha TiwariI am a law student who is a pluviophile
The Supreme Court agreed to standardize a format which requires the parties to disclose income, assets and expenditure of themselves and their dependents on affidavits in alimony matters. This decision was taken while hearing an appeal challenging an order passed by the Allahabad High Court, which had directed an amount of Rs. 15,000 to be paid to the wife every month,
The Election Commission of India informed the supreme Court that it agrees with its decision of a life term ban on MP’s and MLA’s convicted under criminal cases from contesting elections. The prevailing rule debars politicians sentenced to a jail term of two years or more from contesting elections for six years from the date of release from prison. The ECI
The Supreme Court has instructed the Election Commission of India to strictly not nominate officers against whom disciplinary proceedings have been initiated in any key position in any district in the approaching Gujarat Assembly Elections. Attorney General K.K. Venugopal also made submission before the court that the ECI has already issued appropriate guidelines in this respect. Shikha TiwariI am a
The Supreme Court has asked for a re-deposition of eye witness while considering the bail application of former BJP MP Dinubhai Solanki who stands accused in the cold blooded murder of Amit Jethwa outside the Gujarat High Court in 2010. SC has also ordered Solanki to be arrested and held in confinement until the cross-examination of the eight eyewitnesses is
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay for granting Minority status to Hindus in 8 States of the country. Mr. Upadhyay stated that Hindus are treated as majority in Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Jammu & Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Punjab despite of being a minority in population and are deprived of
The Kerala State Nurses Association has filed an application in the Supreme Court regarding the revision of salaries of nurses in private hospitals of Kerala. The Association stated that the private hospitals are trying to get away from implementing the recommendations of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Nursing Section) in compliance of the Supreme Court judgment and they should
