By Dilip Bobb Recently, while delivering the Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial lecture, the chief justice of India admitted that the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Tukaram vs State of Maharashtra case—popularly known as the Mathura case—reflected a deeply regressive and patriarchal understanding of consent, effectively denying the social context of “power, coercion and vulnerability in…
The Supreme Court has refused to appoint an arbitrator in an international commercial dispute on the grounds that Indian courts did not have jurisdiction under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, in cases where the main contract specified a foreign governing law and a foreign seat of arbitration. The Division Bench of…
The Supreme Court has released a comprehensive list of judicial appointments recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium during the tenure of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, who is scheduled to demit office on November 23. The document has maintained the transparency protocol initiated during the tenure of former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna,…
The swearing-in ceremony of Chief Justice of India-designate Justice Surya Kant on November 24 is going to be historic, with a record number of Chief Justices and senior judges from several neighbouring nations attending the event, marking a watershed moment in India’s judicial diplomacy. Scheduled to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the ceremony signals the…
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai on Friday reaffirmed his opinion that the principle of creamy layer exclusion, introduced by the Supreme Court in Indra Sawhney vs. Union of India (1992) in the context of reservations for Other Backward Classes under Articles 15(4) and 16(4), must also be applied to beneficiaries within the…
The Delhi Police on Friday submitted before the Supreme Court that the accused in the larger conspiracy case leading to riots in NorthEast Delhi in 2020 planned to engineer political destabilisation in India on the lines of uprisings witnessed in neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Nepal. Appearing for the Delhi Police before the Bench of…
The Delhi High Court on Friday set aside the criminal proceedings initiated against Indian cricket team head coach and former Member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir, the Gautam Gambhir Foundation (GGF), along with its office-bearers, accused of unauthorised procurement, stocking, and distribution of Covid-19 medicines during the second wave of the pandemic. The single-judge Bench of…
The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a petition filed by the Kerala government seeking deferment of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls presently underway in the state. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice SVN Bhatti directed the ECI…
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Friday recalled his four-decade-old legal career, stating that he entered the legal profession in 1985 as a young law student before rising through the Bar and Bench to the country’s highest judicial office. He remarked that whether serving as advocate, judge, or later as Chief Justice, he had…
The Madras High Court has accorded interim judicial protection to renowned music composer Ilaiyaraaja, recognising a prima facie infringement of his personality rights. Justice N Senthilkumar, while issuing an interim injunction, observed that the composer’s identity attributes were being used across digital platforms without his authorisation, thereby amounting to a wrongful commercial appropriation of his…