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Delhi Liquor Policy Case | Supreme Court To Hear AAP MP Sanjay Singh's Bail Plea And Challenge Against ED Arrest On March 19
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) directed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh's challenge against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam and bail application to be listed for hearing on Tuesday, March 19.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Dutta and Prashant Kumar Mishra was hearing two special leave...
2018 Hapur Lynching Case : UP Trial Court Finds 10 Persons Guilty, Sentences Them To Life
A Sessions Court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (March 12) found ten persons guilty in the 2018 Hapur lynching case relating to the murder of 45-year-old Qasim and assault of 62-year-old Samiudeen on a false rumour of cow slaughter.The Court of Additional Sessions Judge Hapur convicted all 10 convicts under Sections 302/149, 307/149, 147, 148 and 153A of the Indian Penal Code. They have...
Supreme Court Puts On Hold Karnataka Govt's Board Exams For Classes 5, 8 & 9
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) put on hold the Board Exams proposed to be held by the Karnataka Government for students of Classes 5, 8 and 9 of the schools affiliated to the State Board.The Court allowed the appeals filed by organisations of private schools and parents challenging the interim order passed by a division bench of the Karnataka High Court on March 7 staying a single...
'Extending Citizenship Based On Religion Offends Secularism' : DYFI Moves Supreme Court To Stay Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024
The Democratic Youth Front of India (DYFI) filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking to stay the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules 2024.In the application, the DYFI contended that granting citizenship based on the religion of immigrants offends the fundamental principle of secularism. The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, for the first time ever in the history of India, introduced religion as...
'What Fundamental Right Violated?': Supreme Court Asks Rebel Congress MLAs Who Filed Writ Petition Against Disqualification From HP Assembly
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) adjourned until next week the hearing of a plea by six rebel MLAs of the Congress party challenging their disqualification from the Himachal Pradesh state assembly. The adjournment was granted at the petitioners' request. The court, however, expressed its doubts over the maintainability of the petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, asking...
HC's Order 'Smacks of Arbitrariness and Perversity', Supreme Court Sets Aside Allahabad HC's Order Passed Without Hearing Parties
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 11) set aside the order of the Allahabad High Court passed in gross violation of the principle of natural justice whereby the order was passed without hearing to the opposite parties.Terming the order of the High Court as arbitrary and perverse, the Bench Comprising Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta found that the order was passed in haste without...
Conveyance Takes Place Only At Time Of Registration Of Sale Deed; Need For Sanction For Conveyance Doesn't Bar Agreement To Sell : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that conveyance by way of sale would take place only at the time of registration of a sale deed in accordance with Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908. Therefore, the Court held that there is no bar for a tribal in Maharashtra to enter into an agreement to sell and seeking advance sale consideration.On this basis, the Court held that a suit for specific...
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Judiciary Must Avoid Unnecessary Interference With Administrative Decisions Involving Specialized Expertise: Supreme Court
While allowing the appeal against a Punjab and Haryana High Court order, which set aside Chief Minister ML Khattar's (Accepting Authority's) remarks and overall grade regarding senior IAS Officer Ashok Khemka's Performance Appraisal Report (PAR), the Supreme Court yesterday reiterated the principle of judicial restraint in administrative decisions.Calling it a foundational principle of...
Filing Of Suit To Assert Rights Cannot Amount To Contempt Of Court: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently, while hearing an appeal dismissing a contempt petition, observed that filing a suit to assert rights cannot amount to contempt of court. “We find that, by no stretch of imagination, it could be said that the filing of the suit for asserting the rights of the plaintiffs/respondents could be said to be amounting to contempt of the Court.” The case...
ADR Seeks Urgent Hearing Of Challenge In Supreme Court Against New Election Commissioners' Law Dropping CJI From Selection Committee
A plea challenging the constitutionality of Section 7 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023 was mentioned on Tuesday (March 12) before the Supreme Court, seeking an urgent hearing.This petition, moved by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), sought relief against the provision, which lays down the process for the appointment of the Chief...
Mahua Moitra's Expulsion Beyond Judicial Review, Parliament Sovereign On Its Internal Proceedings : Lok Sabha Secretariat Tells Supreme Court
The Lok Sabha secretariat asserted the Parliament's exclusive jurisdiction over its internal proceedings and procedures, in response to Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra's plea challenging her expulsion from the Lok Sabha.In its counter-affidavit filed to Moitra's petition, invoking Article 122 of the Constitution, the secretariat has insisted that Parliament is sovereign in its...