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Supreme Court Weekly Round Up [July 3- July 9 2022]
Supreme Court Judgements1. Declaration Of Law By Court Will Have Retrospective Effect If Not Otherwise Stated Specifically: Supreme Court Case Name: Manoj Parihar vs State of Jammu And Kashmir Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 560 The Supreme Court reiterated that the declaration of law made by the court will have retrospective effect, if not otherwise stated to...
Supreme Court To Pronounce Verdict On July 11 On Abu Salem's Plea That His Sentence Can't Exceed 25 Years As Per Indian Undertaking To Portugal
The Supreme Court will pronounce on July 11 the judgment in a plea by 1993 Bombay Blast case convict Abu Salem that his sentence of imprisonment cannot exceed 25 years as per the undertaking given by India to Portugal.The Court had reserved judgment in Salem's case on May 5, 2022.Appearing before a Bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh, Advocate, Mr. Rishi...
BREAKING| Supreme Court To Pronounce Sentence Of Vijay Mallya For Contempt Of Court On July 11
The Supreme Court will pronounce the sentence of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya for contempt of court for violation of court orders on July 11.A bench comprising Justices U U Lalit, S Ravindra Bhat and PS Narasimha had reserved orders on the sentence on March 10. The hearing proceeded in the absence of Mallya, who has absconded to the United Kingdom. The Union of India had earlier...
Social Media Curation Does Not Mean Arbitrary Shutting Down Of Accounts : Sanjay Hegde | Full Text Of Interview
Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde discusses in this interview with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, issues relating to social media regulation and concerns regarding censorship of free speech, in the backdrop of Twitter choosing to challenge some content blocking orders issued by the Government of India.The video of the interview can be watched here.The transcript of the interview is...
Employee Can't Claim Equal Pay Due To Mere Similarity Of Designation Or Similarity Of Quantum Of Work : Supreme Court
An employee can't claim parity of pay scale with another due to mere similarity of designation or similarity or quantum of work, held the Supreme Court recently."The doctrine of equal pay for equal work could only be invoked when the employees were similarly circumstanced in every way. Mere similarity of designation or similarity or quantum of work was not determinative of equality in the...
"Big Fish Are Not Caught, You Are After Small Level Employee" : Supreme Court Grants Relief To Class-4 Officer Against Dismissal Order
Orally remarking that "missing from duty is a major misconduct in paramilitary forces or the army, but may not be so in a civilian employment", the Supreme Court last week(June 30) criticised the Central Government for imposing the penalty of dismissal from service for unauthorised absence from duty on a Grade-IV employee in the Ministry of Steel."Missing from duty is a major misconduct...
Is Social Media Regulation Becoming Censorship? Sanjay Hegde's Interview On Twitter Questioning Centre's Blocking Orders
Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde discusses in this interview with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, issues relating to social media regulation and concerns regarding censorship of free speech, in the backdrop of Twitter challenging in Court certain content blocking orders issued by the Government of...
"Those Who Made Hate Speeches Are Out On Bail; And The Person Who Exposed Them Is In Jail; What Has This Country Become?" : Colin Gonsalves In Zubair's Case
"The persons who made hate speech, they have been released on bail. And the person who exposed them, he is in jail. What this country has become?", submitted Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves before the Supreme Court on Friday seeking to quash the UP Police FIR against Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact checking website AltNews.The FIR was registered by Sitapur police over a tweet made by...
Bajrang Muni A Respected Religious Leader; Zubair's Tweet Offended His Followers : UP Police To Supreme Court
Defending the FIR against Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of fact checking website AltNews, the Uttar Pradesh police argued before the Supreme Court on Friday that Bajrang Muni was a respected mahant in Sitapur, whose followers were offended by the tweet of Zubair which termed Bajrang Muni a "hate-monger".A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari was hearing...
Maharashtra Political Crisis : Shiv Sena General Secretary Moves Supreme Court Challenging Actions Of Governor & New Speaker
Mr. Subhash Desai, the General Secretary of the Shiv Sena has approached the Supreme Court assailing the decision of the Maharashtra Governor to invite Eknath Shinde to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and challenged the further proceedings of the State's Legislative Assembly held on 03.07.2022 and 04.07.2022 as 'illegal'. On Friday, Senior Advocate, Mr. Devadatt Kamat mentioned...
BREAKING| Supreme Court Protects Zee News Anchor Rohit Ranjan From Coercive Action In Multiple FIRs Over Rahul Gandhi's Doctored Video
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim protection to Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan against the multiple FIRs registered against him over an alleged doctored video of Rahul Gandhi's speech.The vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari passed an interim order restraining respondent authorities from taking coercive steps to take Ranjan into custody in connection with...