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Challenge To Sedition Offence : Supreme Court Seeks Responses Of Attorney General, Union of India; Hearing On July 27
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to July 27 the hearing of the challenge to the constitutionality of the offence of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.Attorney General for India KK Venugopal, to whom the bench had issued notice on the petition on April 30, and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was appearing for the Union of India, requested for two weeks time to...
'Read New IT Rules' : Supreme Court Asks Petitioner Seeking Action Against Islamophobic Content In Social Media
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to next week a plea filed against communal 'hashtags' and Islamophobic content trending on Twitter and other social media platforms. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has given a week's time to the petitioner to peruse the new IT Rules, 2021 (Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) 2021).The plea...
Plea In Supreme Court Seeks State Amendments For Making Road Accidents As Non Bailable Offence, Restricting People From Buying More Than Two Vehicles
A plea has been moved before the Supreme Court seeking directions on the Centre as well as Union Territories for making road accidents as non-bailable offence, so as to create an apprehension in the mind of drivers, compelling them to drive cautiously. The plea additionally prays directions to reduce the vehicle density on roads by restricting people from buying more than two vehicles in...
AIIMS : More Than 50% Women Reservation In Nursing Attendants Posts Permissible? Supreme Court To Examine
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice in a plea filed challenging the decision taken by AIIMS to provide 80% reservation to women with regard to direct recruitment to post of Nursing Attendants. A three- Judge Bench of Justices UU Lalit, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose issued notice returnable on 6th September 2021. "Heard Mr. Ishkaran Singh Bhandari, Advocate, in...
Supreme Court Weekly Round Up, July 5 To July 11, 2021
JUDGMENTS THIS WEEK1. 'Delhi Can Ill-Afford Another Riots; Role Of Facebook Must Be Looked Into': Supreme Court Upholds Delhi Assembly SummonsTitle : Ajit Mohan & Others vs Legislative Assembly, National Capital Territory of Delhi and others Citation : LL 2021 SC 288The Supreme Court has refused to quash the summons issued to Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan by the Peace...
Supreme Court Refuses Pre-Arrest Bail To Man Accused Of Making Objectionable Facebook Post Against Smrit Irani
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition filed by a man seeking anticipatory bail in an FIR registered by the UP Police over a Facebook post with alleged objectionable remarks against Union Minister Smriti Irani.A bench comprising Justices Sanjat Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta expressed disinclination to entertain the petition filed by one Shaharyar Ali, following which...
Is There A Fundamental Right To Drink Liquor? What Courts Have Held?
The Gujarat High Court recently reserved its order on the maintainability of a petition against the decades old liquor prohibition in the state. The challenge is made on the ground of emergence of the right to privacy in the year 2017, which the Petitioners argued was unavailable when the ban was first challenged in 1950. It is their primary contention that the right to...
Legal Services Authorities Have Converted Pandemic Into An Opportunity By Successfully Holding National Lok Adalat : Justice Lalit
The Legal Services Authorities across the country, under the aegis of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and guidance of Mr. Justice U.U. Lalit, Executive Chairman, NALSA, organised the second National Lok Adalat in the year 2021 on 10.07.2021. The same was organised in both virtual and hybrid mode and was held in 32 SLSAs/HCLSCs all across the country.It was for the first time that...
SEBI Act Section 24A: SEBI To Be Heard By Courts In Compounding Offences Even If Its Consent Not Mandatory, Observes Supreme Court
"The SEBI is not a regular complainant, it is the custodian of the investors' interests, it is a regulatory body! Great importance has to be accorded to SEBI in compounding offences. But to lift it to a point where without its consent, there can be no compounding and where the SEBI can veto any compounding, I have my doubts", expressed Justice DY Chandrachud on Wednesday.The bench of...
Whether RERA Is Authorised To Prefer Appeal To HC Against Decision Of Appellate Tribunal?: Supreme Court To Consider
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the question of law whether the scheme of the RERA Act envisages the Authority, RERA, as being empowered or authorised to prefer an appeal before the High Court against a decision passed by the Appellate Tribunal.The bench of Justices Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari was hearing an SLP by Satyam Infracon against a March order of the Gujarat High...
Two-Child Norm: UP Draft Population Control Bill Proposes Bar On Contesting Elections, Availing Govt. Subsidy In Case Of Violation
The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has come up with a draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilisation, and Welfare) Bill, 2021, and has invited suggestions on it from the public at large.The suggestions on the draft bill have to be sent through e-mail – statelawcommission2018@gmail.com or by post, latest by July 19, 2021.UP State Law Commission comes with draft of...