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Supreme Court Designates Six Former High Court Judges As Senior Advocates
The Supreme Court recently conferred senior designation on six former High Court Judges, who commenced practice after their retirement from judiciary.They are :1. Shri Ambadas Haribhau Joshi, Former Judge, High Court of Bombay2. Shri Chander Shekhar, Former Judge, High Court of Delhi3. Shri Cyril Thamarai Selvam, Former Judge, High Court of Madras4. Shri Prithviraj Keshavrao Chavan, Former...
Supreme Court Reserves Judgment On Pleas Challenging Centre's Notifications On Ex Post Facto Environmental Clearance
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 2) reserved judgment on pleas challenging two union government orders dated July 2021 and January 2022. The orders allowed ex-post facto clearance for mining projects that began without the prior environmental clearance required under the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006. A bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan heard...
Payment Of Bonus Act | Workers Can't Be Denied Bonus Saying Factories Are Run By Charitable Trust : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that an entity running factories cannot deny bonus to workers on the ground that the factories are being run by a charitable trust.Observing that entitlement to bonus is a statutory right under the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (“Bonus Act”), the Supreme Court dismissed the plea of the factory management who resisted payment of bonus to its workmen citing its dependence...
'Alarming' : Supreme Court Stops Tree Felling In Kancha Gachibowli; Asks Telangana Chief Secretary To Explain 'Compelling Urgency'
Expressing shock at the large-scale felling of trees in hundreds of acres of land in the Kancha Gachibowli area in Hyderabad, the Supreme Court on Thursday (April 3) ordered to stop all sorts of developmental activities carried out there. "Until further orders, no activity of any sort, except the protection of trees already existing, shall be undertaken by the State," ordered a bench...
Supreme Court Refuses To Limit Firecracker Ban In Delhi-NCR To 3-4 Months; No Exemption For Green Crackers
The Supreme Court on Thursday (April 3) passed an order imposing a year-long ban on the use, manufacture, sale and storage of firecrackers in the Delhi-National Capital Region.The Court observed that imposing such a ban only for a period of 3-4 months every year is not effective given the worsening air quality of the national capital. Due to the extraordinary situation prevailing in...
'Did We Make A Mistake By Letting You Go Earlier?': Supreme Court Again Censures Telangana CM For Unrestrained Remarks
The Supreme Court today again called out Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over some of his statements on the Floor of the House and wondered if it made a mistake by not issuing a contempt notice to him earlier when he made remarks on the Court's grant of bail to BRS leader K Kavitha.It may be recalled that the Court had yesterday taken strong exception to the CM's statement, in...
S. 138 NI Act | Complainant Has No Onus To Prove Financial Capacity At The Threshold : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court reaffirmed that once the drawer admits to signing the cheque, the presumption under Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (“NI Act”) cannot be rebutted merely by questioning the complainant's debt-giving capacity, especially when such a defence was not raised in the reply notice by the accused.“The onus is not on the complainant at the threshold to prove...
Supreme Court Stays Tree Felling In Kancha Gachibowli Land In Hyderabad, Seeks Report From Telangana HC Registrar
The Supreme Court on Thursday passed an interim order staying the tree felling in Telangana's Kancha Gachibowli forest area near the Hyderabad Central University campus.A bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih passed the order after an oral mention was made by Senior Advocate K Paremeshwar, the Amicus Curiae in the forest cases matter (TN Godavarman), regarding...
Supreme Court Judges Decide To Make Their Assets' Declarations Public
In a significant step towards transparency and boosting public confidence in the judiciary, all Judges of the Supreme Court have agreed to make the declaration of their assets publicly available.At a full-court meeting held on April 1, the judges decided to disclose their assets to the Chief Justice of India, with the declarations to be uploaded on the Supreme Court's official website,...
