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Whether Charitable Trust Is Consumer Under Consumer Protection Act? Supreme Court To Examine On September 18
The Supreme Court will hear on September 18 the issue of whether a charitable trust can maintain an action and claim compensation under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 as a 'consumer'.A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice Augustine George Masih directed the parties to file compilation of decisions they are going to rely upon while addressing the Court on...
Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea Of 84-Year-Old Self-Styled Godman Seeking Review Of Life Sentence For Wife's Murder
The Supreme Court today issued notice on a review petition filed by Swami Shraddhanand alias Murali Manohar Mishra, seeking reconsideration of a judgment which imposed on him a life sentence (without remission) for the murder of his wife Shakereh Khaleeli (granddaughter of Dewan of Mysore, Sir Mirza Ismail).The 84-yr-old self-styled godman has been in jail since about 30 years and claims that...
Haldwani Evictions | Supreme Court Gives 2 Months To Uttarakhand To Come Up With Rehabilitation Scheme For Persons To Be Evicted
The Supreme Court today gave 2 months' time to State of Uttarakhand to come up with a rehabilitation scheme for persons sought to be evicted by Railway authorities in Haldwani.A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing an application filed by the Union of India/Railways seeking modification of the order staying the eviction of nearly 50,000 people,...
Madrasas Unsuitable For Proper Education, Have Arbitrary Mode Of Working : NCPCR Tells Supreme Court
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has filed written submissions in the Supreme Court expressing concerns about the quality of education imparted through Madrasas.The NCPCR filed its statement in the case challenging the Allahabad High Court's decision striking down the 'Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004'. In April, the Supreme Court had stayed the...
Co-Owner Whose Share In Joint Property Remained Undetermined Cannot Transfer Entire Property : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a co-owner whose share in the joint property remained undetermined cannot transfer the entire suit property to another person without its partition being completed by metes and bounds. In other words, when there exist various co-owners in the property, then the subsequent purchaser of the suit property cannot acquire right, title and interest in the whole of...
Rejection Of Remission Must Be Immediately Conveyed To Prisoners To Enable Them To Seek Legal Aid : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on September 10 heard the suo moto plea instituted to issue a comprehensive policy strategy for the grant of bail to prisoners. The Court while taking notice of the list of States that were asked for compliance reports, issued further directions for States that are yet to comply with the orders. It also noted that the rejection of the remission application must be...
Supreme Court Criticises P&H High Court & Punjab Govt For Not Reinstating Judicial Officer Whose Dismissal Was Set Aside By SC
The Supreme Court recently expressed disapproval of the refusal of the Punjab & Haryana High Court and the State of Punjab to reinstate a judicial officer whose dismissal from service was set aside by the Supreme Court in 2022.In 2022, the Supreme Court had set aside the order passed by the Punjab Government in 2009 (based on a recommendation of the Full Court of the P&H HC)...
'National Medical Commission Expected To Act Fairly' : Supreme Court Imposes Rs.10 Lakh Cost On NMC For Challenge To Medical College's Approval
The Supreme Court recently deprecated the National Medical Commission (NMC) for raising a frivolous challenge to the grant of approval for the expansion of a medical college. Reminding that the NMC should act reasonably and fairly, being an organ of the State, the Court imposed a cost of Rs.10 lakhs on it."Prima facie, we find that the attitude of the NMC is not of a model litigant. The NMC is...
Judgment On Govt Employees' Entitlement To Increment Earned A Day Before Retirement : Supreme Court Clarifies Date Of Application
The Supreme Court has passed an interim order making certain important clarifications regarding the application of its judgment in the case The Director (Admn and HR) KPTCL & Others vs CP Mundinamani and others which held that government employees are entitled to the increment which they earned on the previous day of their retirement.The judgment was delivered by two-judge bench on April...
Surrogate Mothers Likely To Be Paid Anyway, Better To Have A System To Regulate : Supreme Court In Challenge To Ban On Commercial Surrogacy
While hearing the pleas challenging certain surrogacy laws, the Supreme Court today emphasized the need to safeguard the interests of surrogate mothers, even though commercial surrogacy is prohibited in India.A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a batch of petitions pertaining to the Surrogacy Regulation Act and the Assisted Reproductive...
Supreme Court Dismisses Ex-Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini's Plea To Quash FIR In Multani Murder Case
The Supreme Court today (September 10) dismissed a special leave petition filed by former Director General of Police, Punjab, Sumeth Singh Saini challenging the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court refusing to quash an F.I.R. lodged against him in the Multani murder case. In 1991, during the Punjab militancy, one Balwant Singh Multani (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased')...
WB Aparajita Women & Child Bill And Governor's Reference To President : Explained
On September 6, West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose reserved the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the President of India Droupadi Murmu for consideration.Before referring the Bill to the President, the State government reportedly sought a technical report. Per Raj Bhavan's statement on X (formerly Twitter), the “Governor has pointed out...