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Plea To Stay Citizenship Amendment Act : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing
The Supreme Court will hear today applications to stay the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 and the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024.A bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear the matter. 237 writ petitions challenging the CAA, filed in 2019, have been listed before the bench. They were last listed before the Court on October 31, 2022.On March 11, the Union Government notified the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024 to implement the CAA and notified...
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 Rajesh Bindal had in January this year issued non-bailable warrant against Dalai after he failed...
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 as the litigant cannot be made to suffer for the Court's error. While doing so, the Court corrected its...
Supreme Court Issues Contempt Notice To Petitioner & Advocates For Alleging That HC Judge Presurrised 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 as “contemptuous.” “It is stated that the petitioners having no other option was forced to withdraw ...
How Much Enrollment Fee Can State Bar Councils Charge? Supreme Court To Decide After Holi Recess
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) informed the petitioners seeking to challenge the enrolment fee charged by State Bar Councils that it would consider the issue after the Holi recess and deliver a judgment addressing the same. The bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is seized on the present matter along with similar other petitions challenging the different enrolment fees being charged by different state bar councils as...
BREAKING | Allahabad HC Dismisses Jauhar University's Plea Challenging UP Govt's Decision Of Cancelling Land Lease
The Allahabad High Court today DISMISSED the challenge made to the cancellation of the lease of Maulana Mohamad Ali Jauhar University's land in the state's Rampur District. The writ petition of the Univeristy Trust had challenged the Uttar Pradesh government's move to seize the land by voiding the lease deed associated with the University.The state Government cancelled a 3.24-acre land lease to Maulana Mohammed Ali Jauhar Trust, led by former UP minister Azam Khan, citing lease condition...
'Publicity Oriented' : Supreme Court Snubs SCBA President's Letter Seeking Suo Motu Review Of Electoral Bonds Verdict
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) firmly dismissed a request made by Senior Advocate Dr Adish C Aggarwala, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), seeking a suo motu review of the constitution bench's February 15 judgment on electoral bonds.During today's hearing, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, expressed clear disapproval, labelling Aggarwala's letter as 'publicity-oriented' and categorically stating that the request would not be entertained.Dr Aggarwala today attempted to...
Supreme Court Stays Orissa HC Order Nullifying 2019 Election Of Congress MLA Mohammed Moquim
In a matter where the Orissa High Court recently (on March 04) nullified the election of Congress MLA Mohammed Moquim from Barabati Constituency in Cuttack, the Supreme Court has not only issued notice but also stayed the operation of this decision. While doing so, the bench of Justices Surya Kant and K. V. Viswanathan also stated that Moquim would not be entitled to vote; however, he shall be permitted to participate in the assembly proceedings. Mohammed Moquim contested the Odisha...
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 had rebelled against their own government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu by cross-voting during...
Supreme Court Dismisses Article 32 Petition By Christian Michel Challenging Custody In AgustaWestland Chopper Case
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 18) refused to interfere in a Petition under Article 32 filed by British Arms Counsultant Mr Christian James Michel in a plea to seek bail. The court observed that the doctrine of speciality plea as raised by the accused in the Augusta Westland Chopper Scam had been sufficiently dealt with in the previous order of the court declining his bail application under S 436A CrPC. Mr Michel has been accused of money laundering, collusion, fraud,...
Supreme Court Transfers To Itself Petition In HC Challenging Validity Of Shariat Act & Polygamy In Muslim Personal Law
The Supreme Court (on March 18) transferred to itself the pending PIL before the Allahabad High Court challenging the validity of the Muslim Personal (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, and seeking a declaration that Section 494 IPC (Punishment for bigamy) is ultra vires to the Constitution of India. In March last year, the High Court Bench of Justices Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Subhash Vidyarthi issued a notice to the Attorney General for India while hearing the PIL filed by the Hindu...