Supreme court
Supreme Court Allows Local Body Elections In Uttar Pradesh With OBC Quota
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 27) permitted notifications for setting up the election process for the local bodies in the State of Uttar Pradesh with OBC quota within two days. It allowed the State Election Commission to issue a notification in this regard in two days with an OBC quota in terms of a report of the Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission.A a bench comprising CJI...
Gyanvapi Mosque Case | Supreme Court Agrees To List Plea For Consolidating All Suits On April 21, 2023
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to list a plea seeking the consolidation of all suits filed in connection with the Gyanvapi Mosque dispute on 21st April 2023. The matter was mentioned before a bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala by Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who represents the plaintiffs in the firs suit. The issue pertains to claims of...
Supreme Court Adjourns Sanjiv Bhatt's Plea To Adduce Additional Evidence In Custodial Death Case To April 18
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, granted time to the State of Gujarat to file its counter affidavit in a plea filed by former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt seeking to adduce additional evidence in the criminal appeal filed by him in the Gujarat High Court challenging his conviction in a 1990 custodial death case.A Bench comprising Justice MR Shah and Justice CT Ravikumar adjourned the hearing...
Horizontal Reservation For Transgender Persons : Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea To Clarify NALSA Judgment
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 27) refused to entertain an application which sought a clarification that the reservation meant for transgender persons as per the 2014 judgment in the NALSA case is horizontal reservation.The bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud expressed disinclination to entertain the application in a disposed of matter. The bench however gave liberty to...
Supreme Court Directs Union Ministry Of Minority Affairs To Engage With States Which Have Not Constituted Haj Committees
The Supreme Court has directed the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs to engage with States which have not yet constituted Haj Committees in their respective States. The bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala was hearing a matter pertaining to the constitution of a Central Haj Committee prescribed under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the...
Declarants Of Exotic Live Species As Per 2020 MoEFCC Advisory Immune From Prosecution Under Wild Life Act & Future Amendments : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on March 27 clarified that individuals who have made a declaration of ownership of 'exotic live species' in accordance with the 2020 advisory issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change are immune from prosecution under the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972 or action under any future laws or amendments.The bench comprising of Justice Krishna Murari...
HC Stayed NGT Order After It Was Affirmed By Supreme Court? SC Directs Registry To Communicate Its Orders To Kerala High Court
On being told that the Kerala High Court has stayed an order of the National Green Tribunal - which was earlier upheld by the Supreme Court- the Top Court recently directed its Registry to communicate its orders to the Registrar General of the High Court.A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar was hearing a petition filed by a lawyer contending that an order passed by the...
Income Tax Act - Date Of Panchnama Last Drawn Starting Point Of Limitation For Completing Block Assessment Proceedings: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that the date on which the Panchnama was last drawn is the starting point of the two-year limitation for completing the block assessment proceedings under the Income Tax Act 1961.The division bench of Justice M.R. Shah and Justice C.T. Ravikumar has upheld the order of the Delhi High Court in which it was held that the date of the Panchnama last drawn would be...
Supreme Court Releases Death Row Prisoner After 28 Years On Finding Him To Be A Juvenile At The Time Of Offence
The Supreme Court, on Monday, released a death row convict upon finding that even though he was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offence he was tried as an adult and was sentenced to death.Noting that under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (2015 Act), one cannot be subjected to death penalty and the maximum punishment is three years sentence, a...
Supreme Court Suggests Meeting Between DCPCR & Ministry of Women & Child Development To Discuss 2021 Amendment To JJ Act
The Supreme Court on Friday suggested that a meeting be held between the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) and the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development so that a discussion could take place on the issue of 2021 amendments made to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act 2015 (JJ Act).The Court was hearing a writ petition filed by the Delhi Commission...
Advocates' Strikes | BCI Agrees Before Supreme Court To Suggest Nature Of Grievances Which Redressal Committees Can Consider
The Bar Council of India on Monday agreed before the Supreme Court to suggest the nature of grievances which can be considered by the Grievance Redressal Committees, which are proposed to be set up at local levels to avert the strikes by lawyers.Senior Advocate Manan Mishra, Chairman of the BCI told the Supreme Court regarding the suggestion. In 2021, the Supreme Court mulled the constitution...