Supreme Court Grants Relief To Disabled Candidates For AIBE; Express Surprise At NLU Consortium Having No Policy For CLAT

After the Supreme Court last week allowed a 100 percent blind law student to avail the assistance of a scribe, as appointed by the Consortium of the National Law Universities, to appear for the Common Law Entrance Test (CLAT)- Postgraduate exam 2024-25, the Court today granted relief to the other two petitioners seeking the use of computers to write answers and soft copies of Bare Acts for...

Documents Filed In Court Must Be Accessible To Persons With Disabilities : Lawyer Flags Issue Before Supreme Court

While hearing the matter on the accessibility of computers and soft copies of bare acts for students with benchmark disability to appear for the upcoming All India Bar Examination (AIBE) on December 22, Advocate Rahul Bajaj informed the Court that the format in which the Union Government filed its counter on the suggestions is not in an accessible format. Bajaj, appearing for the...

Subsequent Purchaser Of Imported Vehicle Cannot Be Asked To Pay Customs Duty; Liability On Importer : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court ruled that the 'subsequent purchaser' of an imported motor car cannot be called an 'importer' to attract the liability under the Customs Act, 1962 to pay customs duty on the import of the vehicle. The bench comprising Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice N Kotiswar Singh heard the appeal preferred by the subsequent purchaser of a Porsche Car against the High Court's...

[LIVE NOW] Justice Ahmadi Memorial Lecture By Justice Rohinton Nariman On 'Secularism And Indian Constitution

The Ahmadi Foundation is organizing its Inaugural Lecture and the Launch of 'The Fearless Judge', a biography of Former Chief Justice Of India, A. M. Ahmadi on 5th December 2024Watch Live here The Inaugural Lecture will be delivered by Justice R. F. Nariman (Retd.) on the topic “Secularism and the Indian Constitution” Senior Advocate, Dr. A. M. Singhvi will be Opening Remarks...

SCAORA Urges CJI Sanjiv Khanna To Issue Revised Guidelines For Circulation Of Adjournment Letters

The Supreme Court Advocates On Record Association (SCAORA) today (December 5) wrote to CJI Sanjiv Khanna, requesting to formulate revised guidelines for circulation of adjournment letters by the AoRs. In the letter, the Hony. Secretary of SCAORA, Nikhil Jain has urged the CJI to issue revised guidelines for circulating adjournment letters in the Court. The SCAORA stressed that the...

Delhi Air Pollution | Supreme Court Directs NCR States To Urge Workers' Unions To Register In Portal To Receive Allowance During Construction Ban

The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 5) directed the NCR states - Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana- to convene a meeting with all workers' Unions and appeal to them to get the workers registered in the online portal so that they become eligible to receive the subsistence allowance paid during the period when they remain unemployed due to the ban on construction activities.Due to...

Delhi Air Pollution : Supreme Court Allows GRAP-IV Restrictions To Be Relaxed Upto GRAP-II

The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 5) allowed the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to reduce the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) Stage-IV restrictions in Delhi to GRAP-Stage II in view of the betterment in the Air Quality Index (AQI). The Court advised the CAQM to also consider adding certain measures under GRAP-Stage III. If the AQI crosses 350, GRAP-III should be imposed...

Supreme Court Sets Aside Manipur HC's Direction To CBI To Trace Absconding Rape Convict Within 3 Months

The Supreme Court today (December 5) set aside suo moto directions passed by the Manipur High Court in October 2023 directing the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) to speedily track and produce Timothi Changsang, a Northeast child-home Administrator convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, for raping minor girls within 3 months before the High Court.The...

Medical Negligence : Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal Of Doctor Held Liable For Surgery On Wrong Leg

The Supreme Court on December 2 dismissed an appeal filed by a doctor challenging an order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission holding him liable for medical negligence for conducting the surgery on the wrong foot of a patient.A bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Manoj Misra dismissed an appeal filed by Dr Rahul Kakran, who worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the...

Supreme Court Adds ASI, INACH As Parties In Plea To Restore Mysuru's Heritage Buildings

The Supreme Court on December 4 impleaded Archaeological Survey of India and the UNESCO's Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in a plea filed by journalist G. Satyanarayana Gouri, a veteran journalist based in Mysuru, for the restoration of two heritage buildings in Mysore city.The Special Leave Petition challenges the order of the Karnataka High Court whereby on...

'Didn't Intend To Lower Murasoli Trust's Reputation' : Union Minister L Murugan Says; Supreme Court Quashes Defamation Case Against Him

The Supreme Court today quashed the defamation case filed by the trust managing DMK mouthpiece Murasoli against Union Minister and former Tamil Nadu BJP Head Dr L Murugan over his alleged defamatory statements during a press conference in 2020.A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan passed the order, upon Murasoli Trust's expression of intention to not continue the prosecution,...

Delhi Air Pollution - Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing

The Supreme Court will hear today the Delhi Air Pollution matter. A bench comprising Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih will hear the matter at 3.30 PM (MC Mehta v. Union of India).On Monday, the Court had observed that it would allow the relaxation of GRAP-4 restrictions only after seeing a consistent downward trend in the Air Quality Index (AQI). The Court had also...