The Delhi High Court has directed an inquiry into the alleged fabrication of a judicial order after finding that a copy relied upon before it contained an additional paragraph granting an “interim stay”, which was not part of the original order available in the Court record. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav was dealing with a petition…
Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Wednesday inaugurated the Supreme Court’s Monthly Lecture Series on Law, Justice and Legal Education along with the Annual Supreme Court Nyaya Shiksha Samman, envisaging both initiatives as institutional platforms for sustained engagement with legal scholarship, jurisprudential thought and the evolving contours of law. Addressing the inaugural programme,…
The Supreme Court, in association with the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), has launched a monthly lecture and dialogue series titled “The Constitution as a Charter of Opportunity: Democracy, Enterprise and Inclusive Nation-Building”, with former Vice-Chancellor and legal academic Prof. Dr. Ranbir Singh delivering the inaugural lecture. The occasion also saw Prof. Dr. Ranbir Singh…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a split verdict on the Union government’s plea seeking the challenge to the law governing appointments of Election Commissioners and Chief Election Commissioners be referred to a larger bench. The bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma differed on whether the challenge to the Chief Election…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday termed the three-month delay in deciding disqualification petitions against 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs a “red flag”, but refrained from prescribing a fixed deadline for Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to conclude the proceedings. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice…
A Delhi court on Wednesday sought a response from the Delhi Police on a complaint seeking registration of an FIR against student-activist Nishu Azad and her father, Sanjay Azad, over alleged social media posts containing objectionable references to Hindu deities. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mridul Gupta of the Patiala House Court, directed the Delhi Police to…
A Maharashtra Magistrate has issued a show-cause notice to the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Nanded Division, asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated for allegedly failing to comply with directions to replace sofas and undertake pest control at the VIP room of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar railway station. The Judicial Magistrate (Railways), Aurangabad, in a…
The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognizance of a recent Patna High Court judgment concerning the ingredients of the offence of attempt to rape, after the High Court held that an alleged attempt to remove a woman’s salwar and pressing her chest did not, on the facts of the case, establish an attempt to…
The Delhi High Court has declined to interfere with the bail granted to former National Stock Exchange (NSE) Managing Director and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna in the case concerning alleged illegal interception of telephone conversations of NSE employees. Justice Madhu Jain dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea questioning the trial court’s decision to release Ramkrishna…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the extent of the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) authority to regulate and control legal education, observing that while the Council may prescribe curriculum and standards, it cannot necessarily control the functioning of law colleges. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi and…