The Kerala High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) of 2015, which challenged the environmental clearance granted to the Athirappilly Hydro Electric Project. The petitioner sought to quash the environmental clearance and restrain the project’s implementation. The PIL followed an earlier petition of 2007, which was disposed of in 2015 due to…
The plea by Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan seeking relaxation of bail condition to mark his presence at a police station in Uttar Pradesh every week was accepted by the Supreme Court on Monday. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice tSandeep Mehta relaxed the condition set in its September 2022 bail order. In September 2022, the Apex Court…
As the tenure of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud comes to an end on November 10, the 50th CJI braces up to deliver some crucial verdicts in pressing issues such as the minority status of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), validity of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, and the wealth…
The landmark ruling was given by a Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh, while hearing a petition filed by a retired High Court judge, Justice Vinod Chandra Misra. The petition was filed to challenge a part of the order dated November 15, 2017, passed by the…
The bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela of the Delhi High Court emphasized the importance of preventing stray animals from taking over Delhi. It was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) moved by an NGO, raising the issue of stray dogs and monkeys attacking persons with disabilities. The bench instructed the…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha The Supreme Court recently held that Aadhaar cannot be used as a validating document for age verification. In the process, it overturned a Punjab and Haryana High Court order that accepted Aadhaar as proof of age for determining compensation while ruling in a case of accident compensation. The verdict once again…
Vikram Kilpady (VK): As his biographer, what would you term Justice Ahmadi’s greatest achievement as the chief justice of India? Insiyah Vahanvaty (IV): Though I can’t speak of a single greatest achievement, I can speak about his legacy. That is his greatest gift to our country—the idea of an India where the Constitution reigns supreme,…
By Inderjit Badhwar In the long and often tumultuous history of American elections, moments of fierce debate and ideological divides have not been rare. From the Nixon-McCarthy era during the Vietnam War, when American streets teemed with protestors, to the Watergate scandal that questioned presidential integrity, the system was tested, but ultimately upheld. Even as…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg What appeared to be a small feud between a brother and sister has turned into a full blown, high-profile legal battle between the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his sister YS Sharmila. This led to Reddy writing to the National Company Law Tribunal, or NCLT…
The Central government on Tuesday gave approval to the appointment of five judicial officers as Additional Judges of the Kerala High Court. The information was shared by Union Law Minister of State (Independent Charge) Arjun Ram Meghwal on social media. The judicial officers who have been appointed include KV Jayakumar; Muralee Krishna S; Jobin Sebastian;…