Bhima Koregaon Case : Supreme Court Adjourns Bail Applications Of Vernon Gonsalves & Arun Ferreira To Feb 21

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of the bail applications of Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, both of whom have been lodged in jail since August 2018 after their arrest over alleged Naxal links in Bhima Koregaon case. The accused are facing charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. A division bench comprising Justices Aniruddha Bose and...

License Necessary To Operate As Cab Aggregator : Supreme Court Asks Uber To Apply For License From Maharashtra Govt

The Supreme Court on Monday, directed Uber to apply for a license as per Section 93(1) of the Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, 2019 within a period of 3 weeks (on or before 6th March, 2023), to continue its services as an aggregator in the State of Maharashtra. At the same time, the Court also allowed Uber to make a representation to the State of Maharashtra to ventilate its grievances with regard...

Human Life Equally Important As Protection Of Environment; Projects Necessary For Country's Economic Development Can't Be Stalled : Supreme Court

While giving a go-ahead to the construction of railway overbridges in West Bengal as part of the Setu Bharatam project, the Supreme Court observed that protection of human life is also equally important as protecting the environment.The project had been stayed since 2018 after the Calcutta High Court's order allowing the cutting down of 356 trees was challenged in the Supreme Court. In 2020,...

Complete Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2022- Part-2

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908Code of Civil Procedure, 1908; The rules of procedure are essentially intended to subserve the cause of justice and are not for punishment of the parties in conduct of the proceedings. (Para 26.1) Prakash Corporates v. Dee Vee Projects Ltd., 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 162 : AIR 2022 SC 946 : (2022) 5 SCC 112Dominus LitusCode of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Plaintiff is...

Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge To Delimitation In Jammu & Kashmir

The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a petition which challenged the delimitation exercise carried out for redrawing the Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu & KashmirA Bench comprising Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice A.S. Oka passed the order in a plea, inter alia, challenging the delimitation exercise undertaken in the Union Territory of...

Justices Rajesh Bindal & Aravind Kumar Take Oath As Supreme Court Judges; SC Has Full Working Strength Now

Justices Rajesh Bindal and Aravind Kumar, formerly the Chief Justices of Allahabad and Gujarat High Courts respectively, took oath as Supreme Court judges on Monday. Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud administered the oath of office to them in the presence of all the judges. With their appointments, the Supreme Court will have full working strength of 34 judges.It was on January 31 that...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest (6th February 2023-12th February 2023)

From the almost theatrical appointment of Justice Victoria L Gowri in the Madras High Court and its parallel challenge in the Supreme Court, to the Supreme Court upholding the power of the Bar Council of India to require law graduates to qualify for the All-India Bar Examination – a lot happened in the past week in the Apex Court. Get the full story of all that happened this week through...

‘AI is a Game-Changer in Legal Field’: Justice Hima Kohli on Why Artificial Intelligence Does not Pose a Threat, But an Opportunity

“AI is a game-changer in the legal field and has the potential to revolutionise the way lawyers work,” said Supreme Court judge Hima Kohli on Saturday. Amid increasing chatter that artificial intelligence and generative AI tools like ‘ChatGPT’ might make lawyers obscure, Justice Kohli insisted that AI should not be viewed as a threat, but as an opportunity to enhance the quality...

Supreme Court Allows CBI To Investigate FIR Against Kolkata Police Officers, But No Arrests To Be Made

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection to officials of Kolkata Police and West Bengal Police from arrests in an FIR registered by the CBI against unidentified officers. The Court however allowed the CBI to continue with the investigation of the case.The Court was considering a petition filed by the Commissioner of Police Kolkata against a Jharkhand High Court direction to CBI...

Complete Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2022 Part-1

AAadhaarAadhaar Act 2016 - UIDAI directed to issue Aadhaar cards to sex workers without insisting proof of residence. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 525Act of GodAct of God - Meaning - When nothing of any external natural force had been in operation in a violent or sudden manner, the event of the fire in question could be referable to anything but to an act of...

On A Long Break From Law Practice?Retake Bar Examination To Rejoin Profession : Supreme Court

An enrolled advocate, who has been employed in a ‘non-legal context’ for a substantial period of time would be deemed to be a ‘new enrolee’, should they wish to return to the legal profession, and would have to regain qualification by taking the All-India Bar Examination again, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday recommended, while upholding the power of the...

Saying Or Doing Nothing Is Probably Safer, But Choose The Difficult Option To Make A Difference : CJI DY Chandrachud To Law Graduates

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud advised fresh law graduates to never forget the difference between justice and charity, as charity is a weak substitute for the full availability of exercise of human rights. “So in your lives as lawyers, I appeal to you, not to consider your work, whether as lawyers or subsequently as judges, as persons who dole out charity, but persons who...