The Supreme Court has endorsed the amendment carried out by the Karnataka Legislature for the Prevention of Child Marriage Act, which proclaims that every child marriage is void ab initio. It also stated that sexual intercourse between a minor wife and her husband is illegal under the POSCO Act and every state should adopt the path taken by Karnataka.
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
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.
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
Justice Rohinton Nariman and the nine-judge bench of Supreme Court have declared Right to Privacy as a fundamental right in a case titled KS Puttaswamy Vs Union of India. Every year, ‘Access Now’ names “heroes” who have worked towards ensuring any electronic surveillance program which fully respects human rights and this year the nine-Judge bench has been acclaimed with this
A petition is filed in the Supreme Court by Goolrakh Gupta a Parsi Zoroastrian woman, raising the legal issue whether she gets automatically converted to Hindu religion after her marriage to a Hindu man. She stated that there was no law in India which says that the wife must adopt her husbands religion. SC stated that it will decide the
