By 2:1 Majority Bombay High Court Allows Centre To Notify 'Fact Check Unit' Which Can Declare Social Media Content About Its Business As Fake

By a 2:1 majority and in a setback for the petitioners in the 2023 IT Rules Amendment Case, the Bombay High Court -in an interim order – has refused to restrain the Union government from notifying its Fact Check Unit.Rule 3(1)(b)(v) of the IT Rules amendment 2023 empowers the government to establish a Fact check Unit and unilaterally declare online content related to the government's...

SCBA Members, Who Were Eligible To Vote In 2023 Elections, Can Participate In Special General Meeting Of April 16: Supreme Court

Ahead of the Supreme Court Bar Association's Special General Meeting, the Court has modified the eligibility of the members who can participate in this meeting. The Bench of Justices Surya Kant and KV Viswanathan clarified (on March 12) that Supreme Court Bar Association members who, per Rule 23 of the SCBA rules, were eligible to vote in the previous elections could participate...

Irreversible Situation Likely If Conviction Not Stayed: Supreme Court Reasons In Former TN Minister Ponmudi's DA Case

While staying former Tamil Nadu Minister K Ponmudi's conviction and sentence in a disproportionate assets case, the Supreme Court recently observed that in view of Section 8(3) of the Representation of People Act, 1951, the MLA, who was sentenced to over 2 years of imprisonment, would have incurred disqualification as a result of conviction, yet prima facie the High Court did not consider...

CJI Felicitates Daughter Of Supreme Court's Cook For Securing US Scholarship To Study Masters In Law

In a generous gesture, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and other Supreme Court Judges today (March 13) felicitated Pragya, the daughter of a cook in the Supreme Court, for scoring a scholarship. Pragya has recently received a scholarship to study for a masters in law at two different universities in the US. In a 40-second video released by the Press Trust of India, the CJI and all...

Existing Ships Need Modification Before Female Officers Can Be Sent On Sea Borne Missions: Coast Guard Tells Supreme Court

Responding to a woman officer's petition seeking permanent commission, the Indian Coast Guard has told the Supreme Court that various infrastructural changes are to be made to send female officers on sea-borne missions.The affidavit affirmed by the Principal Director, Coast Guard Head Quarters, stated that ICG, primarily a sea-going service, allocates 66% of its billets for manning afloat...

Workers Employed To Perform Perennial/Permanent Nature Of Work Can't Be Treated As Contractual Workers : Supreme Court Allows Regularisation

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 12) observed that the workers employed to perform perennial/permanent nature of work couldn't be treated as contract workers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970 to deny them the benefit of regularization of a job.The Bench Comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Sandeep Mehta opined that the permanent or perennial nature of...

New Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini's Appointment Challenged In High Court

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed today in the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the appointment of Haryana's new Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who is also a BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Kurukshetra.After former CM ML Khattar resigned and the entire cabinet stepped down yesterday, Saini was appointed as the new CM of Haryana.The plea stated that Saini is a sitting MP...

Uttarakhand's UCC – Unifying Laws Or Dividing Communities? [Part-I]

All the transient provisions in the Constitution, such as for language, reservation, special status to Jammu and Kashmir, or the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), were treated as transient because there was no unanimity at the time of the Constituent Assembly debates. Now, the BJP-led Uttarakhand government has passed the UCC Bill into law on February 7, 2024. Here, I deliberately skirt any potent argument[1] against framing a law that even the 21st Law Commission headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan declined...

Electoral Bonds Data Given To ECI In Two PDF Files With Purchaser & Political Parties Details : SBI Chairman Tells Supreme Court

The Chairman of the State Bank of India (SBI) on Wednesday (March 13) filed a compliance affidavit, informing the Supreme Court that the Bank has furnished the details of electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India (ECI). The details have been provided in two separate information packets - the first containing details of the purchasers of the electoral bonds, and the second...

MMDR Act Ousts State's Power Over Taxing Minerals; Limitation Imposed In National Interest : Union Tells Supreme Court [DAY 6]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 12), resumed its 6th day of hearing on the matter pertaining to the imposition of royalties on mining. The Constitution Bench delved into the Constituent Assembly Debates to dissect the legislative intent of Entry 54 List I which gives the Union the powers over the regulation and development of mines and minerals. The Union submitted that the Mines...

'CAA Will Ensure Only Muslims Excluded From NRC Will Face Action' : Assam Congress Leaders Approach Supreme Court

The Leader of Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Mr. Debabrata Saika, and Congress MP from Assam, Mr. Abdul Khaleque, have filed an interim application in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Rules 2024 notified on March 11. The application contends that these rules are unconstitutional and violate the Assam Accord. The application is filed in...

Kerala Rejects Union's Offer To Allow Borrowing Of Rs 5K Crores With Conditions, Urges Supreme Court To Hear Suit On Merits

After the State insisted that it had the legal entitlement, the Court agreed to hear the plea for interim relief on March 21.