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'Mockery Of Voter' : Supreme Court Questions ECI Using 'Legislative Majority' Test Under Symbols Order, Says It Can Encourage Defections
While hearing the case related to the rift in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 19) questioned the rationale of the Election Commission of India (ECI) giving official recognition to the Ajit Pawar faction solely based on the test of "legislative majority".The Court expressed a concern that this approach could encourage defections.A bench comprising...
Supreme Court Starts Anonymizing Identities Of Accused In Rape Cases Found To Be False
It is interesting to note that the Supreme Court has recently started anonymizing the names of the accused in judgments which quash rape cases as false.On March 18, the Supreme Court quashed an FIR against a person accused of raping a woman on the false pretext of marriage. The judgment titled "Ms.X versus Mr.A" has kept the name of the accused anonymous. On March 7, the Court delivered...
CAA Challenge: Supreme Court Issues Notice To Union On Pleas To Stay Citizenship Amendment Act & Rules, Posts On April 9
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 19) issued notice to the union government on a batch of applications seeking to stay the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024. Seeking the Union's response, the court posted the matter on April 9.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra adjourned today's hearing on Solicitor...
Supreme Court Orders Personal Appearance Of Patanjali MD & Baba Ramdev In Contempt Case Over Misleading Medical Ads
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ( March 19) directed the personal appearance of Patanjali's Managing Director Acharya Balakrishna and Baba Ramdev (Co-founder of Patanjali). The Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah was hearing a case wherein it previously issued a Contempt notice to Patanjali Ayurved and its MD for continuing to publish misleading advertisements...
AAP Leader Satyendar Jain Prima Facie Guilty Of Money Laundering, ED Collected Sufficient Materials: Supreme Court
In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) observed that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain, along with his aides Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain, are prima facie guilty of the alleged offences of money laundering.“Having regard to the totality of the facts and circumstances of the case, we are of the opinion that the appellants have miserably failed to...
Supreme Court Grants Bail To Litigant Taken Into Custody For Not Depositing Cost & Contemptous Remarks, Frames Contempt Charges
The Supreme Court today (March 18) granted bail to Upendra Nath Dalai, the man against whom contempt proceedings are going on for non-payment of cost imposed by the Court as well as for making contemptuous remarks against the Court. In addition to the civil contempt charges, the bench proceeded to initiate charges of criminal contempt as well. The Bench of Justice CT Ravikumar and Justice...
Supreme Court Reviews Its Order, Reiterates Juvenile Justice Rules, 2007 Are Relevant Rules For Considering Question Of Juvenility
The Supreme Court reviewed its 2019 judgment wherein, while remitting the question of juvenility to the Punjab & Haryana High Court, it opined that the relevant rules to be looked into are Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2001. The Division Bench of CT Ravikumar and Rajesh Bindal agreed that there was a manifest error and decided that it must be corrected...
Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Petitioner & Advocates For Alleging That HC Judge Pressurized To Withdraw Petition
In a criminal appeal where the petitioners/ accused persons argued that they were “pressurized” by the Single-Judge Bench of the Rajasthan High Court to withdraw their Section 482 Cr.P.C petition, the Supreme Court (on March 15) issued show cause notice for proceedings under the Contempt of Court Act. The Division bench of Justices B.R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta termed these averments...
Supreme Court Refuses To Stay Disqualification Of Rebel Congress MLAs From HP Assembly; Issues Notice On Challenge
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) issued notice on a plea by six rebel MLAs of the Congress party challenging their disqualification from the Himachal Pradesh state assembly. However, the court clarified that their disqualification will not be stayed. At the same time, it agreed to examine the question of whether the recently announced fresh by-polls should be suspended.These MLAs...
Supreme Court Refuses To Direct Disclosure Of Information Of Electoral Bonds Sold Between March 1, 2018 & April 12, 2019
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) refused to direct the disclosure of electoral bond details from the first date of their issuance, i.e., March 1, 2018.Presently, the Supreme Court has only directed the State Bank of India (SBI) to disclose information relating to bonds sold since the court's interim order on April 12, 2019 until the date on which it declared the scheme unconstitutional...
TN Govt Moves Supreme Court Against Governor's Refusal To Appoint Ponmudi As Minister, Seeks Urgent Hearing
The Tamil Nadu Government on Monday (March 18) approached the Supreme Court over the refusal of Governor RN Ravi to re-induct MLA K Ponmudi as a Minister in the State Government. The State has filed an interlocutory application in the earlier writ petition filed by it against the Governor over delay in assenting to bills. The State seeks a stay of the Governor's decision taken on March 17...
Supreme Court Dismisses Adani Power's Plea Seeking Rs. 1376.35 Crores Late Payment Surcharge From JVVNL, Imposes Rs 50K Cost
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) dismissed a Miscellaneous Application filed by Adani Power Ltd seeking payment of Rs. 1376.35 crores as an outstanding Late Payment Surcharge (LPS) from Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (JVVNL) after modifying a 2020 judgment.The Bench Comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and Sanjay Kumar held that the filing of a miscellaneous application is not the...