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SC Collegium Recommends Elevation Of Two Advocates As Judges Of Allahabad HC
The Supreme Court Collegium on March 25 recommended the elevation of two advocates as judges of the Allahabad High Court. The Collegium, in its resolution, recommended the names of (1) Shri Amitabh Kumar Rai and (2)Shri Rajiv Lochan Shukla to be appointed as Allahabad High Court JudgesThe official statement issued by the Collegium reads : The Supreme Court Collegium in its meeting held on...
Income Tax Bill Allows Officials To Access Assessee's Computer System Overriding Access Code In Certain Cases: Finance Ministry
The Ministry of Finance has told the Parliament that the Income Tax officials cannot access the personal emails, social media accounts and bank accounts of all assesses.However, there is a provision in the new Income Tax Bill 2025, which allows Income Tax officals, in certain cases of search and seizure, to access the computer systems of the assesses by "overriding the access code", if...
Supreme Court To Hear Bihar Judge's Plea To Quash FIR Over Death Of Home Guard
The Supreme Court today orally remarked that it will hear the parties in a matter where the petitioner, a District & Sessions Court Judge in Bihar, and his wife are accused of killing a home guard deployed in their official residence after he refused to perform the household chores. A special leave petition has been filed challenging the order of the Patna High Court dated May 1,...
Supreme Court Orders Interim Release Of Elderly Woman Confined At Assam Foreigner Detention Centre For Over A Year
In relief to an elderly woman declared 'foreigner' and detained at an Assam detention centre, the Supreme Court recently passed orders for release as an interim measure, noting that the woman had already spent 1 year and 4 months in detention and prima facie, she was not able to appear before the Foreigners' Tribunal to make out her case.A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan passed...
CJI Assures Listing Of Petition Seeking FIR Against Justice Yashwant Varma Over Cash Stash Row
The petition filed in the Supreme Court, seeking the registration of FIR against Justice Yashwant Varma, Judge of the Delhi High Court, over the alleged discovery of illicit cash at his official premises, was mentioned before the Chief Justice of India today for urgent hearing.Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, the main petitioner, mentioned the matter before CJI Sanjiv Khanna.At the outset, the...
'Insensitivity' : Supreme Court Stays Allahabad HC Ruling That Grabbing Breasts & Breaking Pyjama Strings Of Minor Girl Wasn't 'Attempt To Rape'
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the controversial order of the Allahabad High Court which held that grabbing the breasts of a minor girl, breaking the string of her pyjama and trying to drag her beneath a culvert would not come under the offence of attempt to rape. The High Court had observed that the acts would prima facie constitute the offence of 'aggravated sexual assault' under...
Supreme Court Warns Haryana Govt For Not Cooperating With Committee Enquiring Alleged Social Boycott Of Dalits
The Supreme Court yesterday (March 24) warned the State of Haryana that it would initiate contempt proceedings if the State continued its non-cooperation with the Court appointed Committee to investigate the alleged social boycott of the Dalits in village Bhatia, Haryana.In this case, the petitioners, all from the Dalit community, approached the Supreme Court alleging a social boycott imposed...
Supreme Court To Consider Constitutionality Of Maharashtra Amendment Reducing Number Of Co-Operative Society Directors
The Supreme Court recently issued notice in a plea challenging an amendment to the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 reducing the maximum number of directors in a Co-operative Society from 36 to 21.A bench of Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra issued notice for the limited issue of whether the amendment is legally sustainable.“Having heard learned...
Supreme Court Takes Suo Moto Cognisance Against Allahabad HC Ruling That Grabbing Breasts & Breaking Pyjama String Won't Constitute Attempt To Rape
Days after the Allahabad High Court held that grabbing the breasts of a minor girl, breaking the string of her pyjama and trying to drag her beneath a culvert would not come under the offence of rape or an attempt to rape, the Supreme Court has taken a suo moto cognisance of the order. The matter will be listed before a bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and AG Masih tomorrow. The cognisance is...
BRS MLAs' Defection To Congress | Supreme Court Prima Facie Says Telangana Speaker Must Take Time-Bound Decision On Disqualification
In the matter pertaining to the defection of 3 MLAs from BRS party to the ruling Congress party in Telangana, the Supreme Court today expressed a prima facie opinion that certain observations in Subhash Desai v. Principal Secretary, Governor of Maharashtra lent support to the petitioners' case and that the observations of the Telangana High Court (Division Bench) with regard to...