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BREAKING : Supreme Court Directs Centre, States To Fill Up Vacancies In NCDRC & SCDRCs Within 8 Weeks
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed all State Governments and Union Territories to fill up the vacancies in the State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commissions within 8 weeks from today.Also, the Central Government has been directed to fill up the vacancies in the National Consumer Dispute Rederssal Commission within 8 weeks from today.Further, the Court directed Chief Secretaries of...
Supreme Court Directs Compliance Of Counselling Dates Announced For NEET-MDS 2021; Disposes BDS Students' Plea
The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a petition filed by a group of BDS Students in the light of the dates announced for NEET-MDS 2021 counselling by the Union Ministry.After a lot of nudging by the Court, the Union of India had filed an affidavit yesterday informing that it has decided to conduct NEET MDS 2021 counselling from 20th August 2021 and will conclude the same on 10th...
'We Don't Want To Give Special Priority To Seniors & Deprive Juniors Of Opportunities' : CJI Ramana On Mentioning System
The Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Wednesday said that the system of making mentioning before the Mentioning Registrar for urgent listing of cases has been made to ensure parity between Senor Advocates and Junior Advocates."We don't want to give any special priority to seniors, and deprive juniors of their opportunities. So this system was made, where all can make the mention before...
Foreign Award Can Be Binding On Non-Signatories To Arbitration Agreement: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that a foreign award can be binding on non-signatories to the arbitration agreement and can be thus enforced against them.In this regard, the Court referred to Section 46 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, which deals with the circumstances under which a foreign award is binding. The Court noted that the provision speaks of "persons as between whom it was...
Yogesh Gowda Murder Case : CBI Could Not Walk-In & Hijack Trial Without Magistrate's Permission, Argues Rohatgi For Accused Vinay Kulkarni
Opposing the bail, the counsel for CBI argued that the case was not of reinvestigation and that the state was empowered to order further investigation under section 173(8) of the CrPC, 1973.
Breaking: Lok Sabha Passes Constitutional Amendment Bill To Restore States' Power To Identify SEBCs
Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (One hundredth and twenty-seventh amendment) Bill 2021 to restore the power of State Governments to identify and specify Socially and Economically Backward Classes(SEBCs), which was lost after the Supreme Court's 3:2 judgment in the Maratha quota case.In the said case, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had held by 3:2 majority that States lacked the...
Exclusion Of Advocates From Post Of DRT & DRAT Presiding Officers Challenged; Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Response
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response in a plea challenging the exclusion of Advocates from being eligible for the post of Presiding Officer and Chairman, Debts Recovery Tribunals and Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunals under the Tribunal, Appellate Tribunal and other Authorities (Qualifications,Experience and other Conditions of Service of Members) Amendment...
'Problem Of Taking Statements Out Of Context' : CJI On N Ram Being 'Trolled' Over Pegasus Case Hearing
The social media controversy into which N Ram, former Editor-in-Chief of 'The Hindu' daily and one of the petitioners in the Pegasus case, was dragged found a mention in the Supreme Court during today's hearing.When the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana made remarks disapproving "parallel debates" in Facebook, Twitter etc., about the case by the petitioners while the Supreme Court is seized of...
Election Commission Should Create Mobile App With Information About Criminal Antecedents Of Candidates : Read Supreme Court Directions
The Supreme Court has passed a slew of directions to ensure that complete information about the criminal antecedents of politicians are available to votersThe directions passed by the Court are : (i) Political parties are to publish information regarding criminal antecedents of candidates on the homepage of their websites, thus making it easier for the voter to get to the...
"People Of The Region Have Been Left At The Mercy Of Administration": Ladakh Residents Move Supreme Court Challenging Abrogation of Article 370
The Reorganization Act along with the corresponding Presidential Orders is alleged to have a "chilling effect of extinguishing a 'State' by overriding the constitutional scheme to establish Union Territories, which do not conform to the democratic pattern envisaged by the Constitution of India".
NCLT/NCLAT Has No Residual Equity Jurisdiction While Dealing With Resolution Plan Approved By CoC: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that there is no residual equity based jurisdiction in the Adjudicating Authority or the Appellate Authority while dealing with the resolution plan approved by the Committee of Creditors.The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah reiterated that these authorities can not enter into the commercial wisdom underlying the approval granted by the CoC to the...