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 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 reprimanded Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal government for questioning the Constitutional viability of the Aadhaar Act under Article 32 of the Indian Constitution. It stated that no state can challenge a law passed by the parliament. SC also issued a notice to the Department of Telecom to stop distorting people by informing them about Aadhaar being the only
The Delhi High Court issued notice to the central government in a petition filed against two notifications, disqualifying directors of private limited companies for non-filing of financial statements for three continuous financial years. Apart from the disqualification from the said companies, the directors would also be prohibited from being appointed as directors in any other company for a period of
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
While disposing off an 18 year old petition the Bombay High Court ordered the Maharashtra Government to follow its 1997 regulations for appointment of public prosecutors and additional public prosecutors for the districts by promoting assistant public prosecutors. The Supreme court has stayed the order and issued a notice to the Maharashtra Public Prosecutors Association to sought a response
A Petition was filed in the Bombay High Court against The National Green Tribunal regarding the transfer of a pending matter before the NGT Western Zone bench in Pune to Delhi, allegedly without any notice to him. The petitioner had used derogatory and inappropriate language in his written as well as oral submissions. The court reminded the petitioner that
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the Central government in a public interest litigation challenging the Constitutional validity of Sections 375 and 376 of the Indian Penal Code and seeking framing of gender neutral rape provisions. A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar heard the petition filed by Kumar, before seeking the
