BCCI appoints Justice Katju to learn implications of Lodha recommendations

Four-member legal panel headed by Katju will also interact with the Lodha panel on various contentious recommendations.Former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju was today appointed as the head of a four-member legal panel to help BCCI understand the implications of sweeping reforms suggested by the Justice Lodha Committee in its structure and functioning which on July 18 was...

SC set to hear plea for review of its 2011 Judgment which said mere membership of a banned outfit is no offence [Read Order]

The Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices J.S.Khehar, V.Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra, is set to hear after four weeks, the plea for reviewing its 2011 Judgment in Arup Bhuyan v State of Assam.The Judgment, delivered by Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra on February 3, 2011, had carried an observation by the bench that mere membership of a banned organization will not make a person...

It is unfortunate that Parties have to undergo another round of litigation because of non-consideration of settled legal principles by HC: SC [Read Judgment]

High Court should deal with all issues and evidence while deciding First Appeal: SCThe Supreme Court of India in Madina Begum & Anr. Vs. Shiv Murti Prasad Pandey has observed that it is unfortunate that the Parties have to undergo another round of litigation because of non-consideration of settled legal priciples by High Court. The apex Court has reiterated that, in the absence of...

‘Subtext of debate on uniform civil code must give us pause’, says Dr Farrah Ahmed, author of recent book on Muslim Personal Law

Dr Farrah Ahmed is currently an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She serves as Associate Director (India) of the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School. She has also been a Lecturer in Law at the Queen's College, University of Oxford. Her research spans public law, legal theory and family law. She works on personal laws in India, as well as religious alternative dispute resolution in other jurisdictions. Her book Religious Freedom under the Personal Law...

Former Chief Ministers are not entitled to Government Accommodation: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court bench comprising of Justices Anil R Dave, NV Ramana and R Banumathi, in the case of Lok Prahari vs State of Uttar Pradesh, held that former Chief Ministers are not entitled to Government Accommodation. The Bench has also directed that any such possession of Government accommodation should be vacated within 2 months. With the above order, former UP Chief Ministers...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Rape victim allowed to abort 24-week-old foetus as mother’s life in dangerThe Supreme Court on Monday allowed a 26-year-old alleged rape victim to abort a 24-week old foetus with severe abnormalities (despite a ban on medical termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks) as a medical board ordered by it declared that there was a danger to the mother’s life. Delhi Judicial Service...

Jindal Extortion Case: SC directs Zee News Editors to give Voice Samples, Modifies Conditions [Read Judgment]

Supreme Court of India Today has directed the Zee News Editors Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia to give the voice samples in the extortion Case registered by Police based on a Complaint by  Jindal Steel Company. The Three Judge Bench comprising of Chief Justice Thakur, A.M.Khanwilkar and Dr DY Chandrachud has modified some conditions in the impugned order to ensure the fairness of...

Virus of seeking adjournment has to be controlled: SC [Read Judgment]

The saying of Gita “Awake! Arise! Oh Partha” is apt here to be stated for guidance of trial courts, said the Bench.A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India has cautioned the Trial Courts by saying that the virus of seeking adjournment has to be controlled. The Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Rohinton F. Nariman re-iterated that the recording of evidence should be continuous...

P V Narasimha Rao would have made a good lawyer: His Biographer Vinay Sitapati (NLS/Harvard Law School Alumnus)

Vinay Sitapati is a political scientist, journalist and lawyer. He teaches at Ashoka University and writes for the Indian Express. He has studied at Rishi Valley school, National Law School, Bangalore, and Harvard University, and is finishing his PhD in politics from Princeton. He answered a few questions about his just-released book, “Half Lion: How P.V.Narasimha Rao transformed India” (Penguin Random House, 2016) in this interview to Livelaw.Q: From being a student of law, to a biographer of a...

Delhi Judicial Service Examination: SC issues Guidelines for making the process more transparent [Read Order]

Supreme Court of India Today has issued some important Guidelines for making the process of selecting the Judicial officers of lower judiciary more transparent.The Court has accepted the following suggestions given by the Petitioner – Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) That OMR sheets must be filled in pen and not pencil That in the results the names of the candidates must also...

There should be minimum qualification marks for being a Judge: SC

“For selecting a judge, there has to be a minimum qualification. There has to be a benchmark... just because one is a Scheduled Caste, the same cannot be done away with”, said the Supreme Court while dismissing an appeal in limine by an NGO against a Punjab and Haryana High Court order.Volunteers for Social Justice, had filed a Public Interest Litigation before the Punjab and Haryana...

Supreme Court's reading of the Constituent Assembly Debates in Arunachal Judgment is questionable: Arghya Sengupta

Arghya Sengupta is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi. He is an alumnus of National Law School of India University Bangalore and the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. While, at Oxford, he completed his D.Phil. on Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary and was a Lecturer in Administrative Law. His areas of specialisation are constitutional and administrative law. He has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court, Parliament,...