SC Women Lawyers Association moves Apex Court seeking blocking of all Porn sites, formulation of National Policy on Pornography to curb Child Porn [Read Petition]

Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association has filed an intervention application in Kamlesh Vaswani Vs Union of India. Mr. Vaswani has petitioned the Court challenging the Constitutional validity of Section 66, 67,69,71,72,75,79,80 and 85 of the Information Technology Act 2000 till amendment and has sought to recognize the harmful effects of Pornography.The application, filed on Saturday, comes...

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JudgmentsIn a split verdict, relating to payment of compensation under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for the solatium should be from the date of acquisition or from date of pronouncement of the constitution bench judgment in Sunder [2001], a bench of Justices V. GopalaGowda & Adarsh Kumar Goel referred the matter to a 3 judge bench. However, no terms of reference were pronounced.A two...

Excess Fee for Enrolment; Kerala HC issues notice to Bar Council on a Plea by a Senior Citizen [Read Petition]

A writ petition was filed by T. Koshy, a senior citizen, challenging the gross injustice, hostile discrimination and the illegal extraction of huge sums of money by the respondents in the exercise of their powers under the Advocate’s Act 1961, for the enrolment of Advocates, held on 24 May, 2015.In gross violation of the provisions of law regarding amendment of a statutory rule and...

SC impleads NCW as party to Writ challenging validity of Exception-2 of S.375 IPC -Sexual intercourse with married girl child between 15-18 years [Read the Submissions]

The Supreme Court on Friday impleaded the National Commission for Women (NCW) as a party to a Writ challenging Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code that permits intrusive sexual intercourse with a girl child aged between 15 to 18 years only on the ground that she has been married.The Court was hearing a Writ Petition filed in 2013 by the NGO, Independent Thought, which has sought...

Breaking; Sexual Harassment against Lady Lawyers at Supreme Court; SC issues Notice to it's Vishakha Panel on Petition by Women Lawyer’s Association [Updated with Petition]

Supreme Court has issued notice to its Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Redressal Committee (GSICC) the 10-member  panel constituted on November 26, 2013 as per the Vishaka guidelines to deal with complaints of sexual harassment on its premises, on a petition filed by women lawyers alleging that incidents of molestation inside the court premises were on the rise.Supreme Court...

Exclusive; One of the Rapist married the Victim; P&H High Court quashed Rape Case against all 5 Accused based on the Compromise between parties [Read the Judgment]

The Punjab and Haryana High Court yesterday quashed the FIR under Sections 376/506/120B of Indian Penal Code, against accused persons on the ground that the matter has been compromised.  The single Bench had also taken in to account of the fact that one of the Accused had married the victim.The Accused persons had approached the High Court to quash the proceedings with a copy of the...

Breaking; Union Cabinet approves the promulgation of Negotiable Instrument (Amendment) Ordinance 2015

Union Cabinet Today has approved to promulgate the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 which redefined the Jurisdiction Clause in the Negotiable Instrument Act.A judicial limbo has covered courts of the nation as the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, which was promulgated by the President of India on June 15 2015 at the instance of the Central Government,...

An offence does not depend upon the gender of an accused; SC declined to quash Criminal Proceedings against former DMK MP Vasanthi Stanley [Read the Judgment]

A two Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India Today set aside the Madras High Court Judgment which quashed multiple Criminal Proceedings against former DMK Rajya Sabha MP Vasanthi Stanley.The allegation against Mrs. Vasanthi was that she along with her husband took loans from various Banks submitting forged documents. The Chennai police took FIR No. 579/06 on a Complaint from HDFC Bank....

Coal Scam: SC deletes Manmohan Singh’s Appeals from the list of business of September 21

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reportedly ordered deletion from its list of business of September 21, the appeals filed by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others in the matter pertaining to the coal black allocation scam.A notice was issued yesterday, listing the case for hearing before the Chief Justice’s court as the first case. The Bench comprising Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and...

SC seeks AG's assistance in plea for CBI probe into "wealth amassment" by Justice K G Balakrishnan’s kin

Allegations that his relatives held disproportionate assets came back to haunt former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today, four months after he retired as NHRC chief and a full five years after he superannuated as Chief Justice of India.Taking up the case after a gap of one and a half years, an apex court bench sought Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s assistance to hear a...

“I Would advise every aspiring Lawyer to spend at least two years in the Trial Court”; Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Former Law Minister of India

Dr. Ashwani  Kumar is a member of Rajya Sabha, an eminent Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and a former Law Minister of India.He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Thereafter, he pursued law and earned his Bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) from Faculty of Law, Delhi University, and his Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. In 2004, Dr. Kumar was awarded a doctorate in Law from Punjab University. At the age of 34, the Supreme Court of India...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Judgements No leniency towards corruptionThe Supreme Court of India, on Monday, held that , in corruption cases, degree of corruption is immaterial and no lenient attitude is required to be shown.  An SC bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C. Pant, upheld the order of disciplinary authority who had dismissed the Bus Conductor for allowing  25 passengers to travel in the bus...