Another PIL Moved In Supreme Court Challenging Caste-Based Census In Bihar As Being 'Against National Integration'

6 Days after the Supreme Court decided to hear a plea challenging the caste-based census in Bihar on January 20, another plea in the nature of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved before it challenging the Nitish Kumar-led government decision to conduct a caste-based census in the state.The PIL plea has been moved by the National President of the Hindu Sena, Vishnu Gupta...

Bike Taxi Aggregator Rapido Approaches Supreme Court Against Bombay HC Order Shutting Down Its Operations In Maharashtra

The bike taxi aggregator Rapido, has approached the Supreme Court of India against the Bombay High Court order which had directed it to shut down all its services in the State of Maharashtra as it was functioning without any license. The matter was mentioned before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha by Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi. The bench has now...

'We Don't Believe In Unnecessarily Putting People Behind Bars': Supreme Court Expresses Surprise At Lengthy Bail Hearings In Delhi Riots Case

“We don’t believe in unnecessarily putting people behind bars. Bail matters should not go on and on and should not be dealt with in this manner", the Supreme Court on Tuesday orally remarked while hearing applications filed in relation to bail granted in Delhi riots larger conspiracy case.The appeals filed by the Delhi Police against the Delhi High Court order granting bail to...

Journalist Rana Ayyub Approaches Supreme Court Challenging Issue Of Summons Against Her By Ghaziabad Court; Matter Listed On 23rd January

The Supreme Court on Tuesday has listed the plea filed by journalist Rana Ayyub challenging the summons issued to her by the Ghaziabad court on 23rd January. The matter was mentioned before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha by Senior Advocate Vrinda Grover for an early listing.The summons is issued in relation to a PMLA case. In October 2022, the ED...

12 Months Time Limit Under Section 29A Arbitration Act Not Applicable To International Commercial Arbitration : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court held that the time limit of twelve months as prescribed in Section 29A of Arbitration and Conciliation Act is not applicable for international commercial arbitration."In terms of the amended provisions of Section 29A, arbitral tribunals in international commercial arbitrations are only expected to make an endeavor to complete the proceedings within twelve months from the date...

'I Will Look At This Without Any Bias': AG Tells Supreme Court On Plea Seeking District-Wise Identification Of Minorities

The Attorney General for India Senior Advocate R Venkataramani, while appearing for Centre in a batch of petitions seeking district-wise identification of minorities before the Supreme Court of India on Tuesday, informed the bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abhay S. Oka and JB Pardiwala that he was part of a committee headed by Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon for the Equal Opportunities...

Plea Challenging National-Level Identification Of Minorities : Supreme Court Adjourns To March 21

The Supreme Court of India, while adjourning the batch of petitions challenging nation-wise identification of minorities to 21st of March, ordered on Tuesday that if the 6 remaining states/UTs, who have not responded to the Centre’s letter seeking comments on the issue of 'identification and notification of religious and linguistic minorities’, do not respond before the next hearing, then...

Foreign Medical Graduates Challenge NMC Applying 2-Year Internship Mandate Retrospectively; Supreme Court Issues Notice

The Supreme Court of India on Monday sought the stand of the Centre and the National Medical Commission on a plea against a circular retrospectively requiring foreign medical graduates without clinical training to undergo a Compulsory Rotatory Medical Internship (CRMI) for two years instead of one. A division bench comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Vikram Nath, directed this matter to...

'How Can Govt Nominee Be Part Of Collegium? People Making Comments Without Knowing Facts' : Law Minister Kiren Rijiju

Amidst confusion created by reports that the Centre has written to the CJI asking for its representatives to be placed in the collegium for selecting judges, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has made a clarification.The Minister denied that the Centre has sought for its representatives to be included in the collegium of the Supreme Court and the High Courts. In a tweet posted during the wee...

Before Supreme Court, Centre Objects To Delhi CM's Protests Against LG Amidst Hearing

The Central Government on Tuesday raised objections before the Supreme Court to the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal holding public protests against the Lieutenant Governor in the middle of the hearing in the dispute related to control of civil services in the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi.As soon as the 5-judge Constitution Bench assembled to begin the hearing,...

Questions & Answers By Justice V. Ramkumar- Investigation By Police- PART XXII

Q.106 A private complaint is filed before a Court of Session alleging the commission of certain IPC offences some of which are exclusively triable by a Court of Session. It is alleged in the complaint that since one of the accused persons is a Sub Inspector of Police, the Station House Officer at the Police Station refused to entertain the complaint made to the Police. The Sessions Judge...

View That Default Bail Cannot Be Cancelled On Merits Will Reward Lethargic Investigation : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, on Monday, held that when special reasons are made out from the chargesheet and the chargesheet reveals commission of non-bailable crime, default bail granted to an accused under proviso to Section 167(2) CrPC can be cancelled.The question that arose in the case was whether default bail can be cancelled after presentation of chargesheet, when it was granted for not filing...