The Supreme Court in an effort to increase the efficiency and bring a transparency into the process of delegating advocates as “seniors”, said that all the matters relating to it will be dealt preliminary by a committee headed by the Chief Justice. The committee shall have a Secretariat and will be known as Committee For Designation Of Seniors. Shikha TiwariI
A group of fire cracker traders approached the Supreme Court today requesting modification of the october 9 order as per which the sale of crackers were banned in Delhi/NCR till November 1, 2017. Making an urgent mentioning before the court they mentioned that their licences were revived after the ban was lifted and a huge investment is made which
The Supreme Court in Santosh Vs The State Of Maharashtra where the accused was charged for receiving misappropriated foodgrain meant for public distribution, observed that the investigation officer was of the opinion that the accused was not cooperating with the investigation and kept recapitulating that he did not buy the foodgrains. Thus SC mentioned that just because he did not confess, it cannot
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today read down exception 2 to Section 375 (which defines rape) of the IPC (as amended by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013) which allowed minor wife to sexual act. The age of consent has been made 18 from 15 in these cases. Supreme Court held that sexual intercourse with minor wife is
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the documents presented by CBI pertaining to the foreign bank accounts and properties of Karti Chidambaram, former union minister P Chidambaram’s son. An affidavit has been filed by P Chidambaram stating that the investigation agency was bent upon humiliating Karti because he is his son and he also stated that the lookout
The Supreme Courts Constitution bench asked for clarifications from the counsel on the legal and philosophical issues in legalizing euthanasia. Prashant Bhushan, counsel for the petitioner submitted that a sturdy system of certification is necessary to withdraw life support to terminally ill patients. A person should be free to express his or her consent in advance about not putting them on
The Supreme Court received a contempt plea by the Security and Exchange Board of India against the Sahara Group. The SEBI counsel Pratap Venugopal informed that Sahara has been reportedly hindering by suspending day-to-day business activities in the Aambey Valley project, which would create law and order problem in the area and cause difficulties to carry on the auction.
Supreme Court has directed its Registry to install three sanitary napkin vending machines within the Court premises. The directive was issued after Advocate Nandini Gore, who is the Secretary of the Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record Association (SCAORA), informed the Court that there are around 1,000 woman lawyers and interns as well as around 250 woman staff with the Court Registry. The Court, thereafter,
The Supreme Court recapitulated that life imprisonment means imprisonment for life and not for 14 years. It observed that modification of sentence to life imprisonment to 20-year rigorous imprisonment is not enhancement, rather reduction of sentence, and hence no notice is required to be given under Section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Shikha TiwariI am a law
Invoking its inherent power to do ‘complete justice’, the Supreme Court has granted divorce to a district judge in West Bengal, whose wife, also a district judge, has been living separately for the past 17 years. Court reiterated that Article 142 of the Constitution for dissolution of a marriage can be invoked where the court finds that the marriage
