Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Cognisance Of Pregnancies In Women's Prisons Across Country

The Supreme Court on Friday (February 9) took suo motu cognizance of the alarming number of pregnancies occurring among women inmates in prisons across the country. This development comes one day after a significant plea was brought before the Calcutta High Court, drawing attention to a troubling trend of women prisoners becoming pregnant while in custody within correctional homes across...

Parliament Clears Public Examinations (Prevention Of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024

In an attempt to arrest cheating in government recruitment exams, the Parliament on February 9 cleared the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024, which aims to prevent use of “unfair means” in public examinations in order to bring "greater transparency, fairness and credibility”.Recognizing that as on date, there is no substantive law dealing with adoption of...

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Airports Authority's Curative Petition Against Judgment Upholding GMR's Rights Over Nagpur Airport

The Supreme Court on Friday (February 9) agreed to hear a curative petition filed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) against the multinational conglomerate GMR Group concerning the operational management of Nagpur's Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.Deeming the case worthy of a comprehensive review before arriving at any conclusive decision, a special bench of four judges, led...

Muzaffarnagar School Slapping | Supreme Court Slams UP Govt For Not Providing Counselling To Students As Per TISS Suggestion

While hearing a plea concerning the Muzaffarnagar student slapping incident, the Supreme Court today expressed displeasure with the State of Uttar Pradesh for not complying with the suggestions given by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in its Report for counselling of students involved in the act (other than the victim).Directing the State to immediately implement TISS'...

Lawyers Should Have Compulsory Training Program Like Judges : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Friday (February 9), while hearing a bail application, remarked that lawyers should undergo a compulsory training programme. The Court made this remark after noticing certain lapses on the part of the lawyer in handling the bail application before the trial court.The Bench comprising Justices Bela M. Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal, orally observed that the Bar Council of...

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Plea To Transfer Trial Against Telangana CM In 2015 Cash-For-Votes Case To Madhya Pradesh

Today (on February 09), the Supreme Court issued a notice (returnable after four weeks) in a petition seeking transfer of the impending trial in the 2015 cash-for-votes against the present Chief Minister of Telangana, A Revanth Reddy. The matter was placed before Justices B.R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta. Underscoring the need for a free and fair trial, the petition has prayed...

'Union Can't Control Debts Of Any State, Centre Accounts For 60% Country's Debts': Kerala Tells Supreme Court In Suit Against Borrowing Limits

Centre accounts for 60% of the country's debts, hence the premise that borrowings of the States can destabilise the economy is exaggerated, Kerala said.

Legal Services Provided By Individual Advocate, Partnership Firm Of Advocates Exempted From Service Tax: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that the service provided by an individual advocate, a partnership firm of advocates, by way of legal services is exempt from levy of service tax.The bench of Justice G. S. Kulkarni and Justice Kishore C. Sant has observed that the taxable service in respect of services provided or to be provided by the individual advocate for a firm of advocates has been set out...

'Could Preamble Have Been Amended While Keeping The Date Intact?' Supreme Court Asks In Plea To Delete Words "Socialist" & "Secular"

In a public interest litigation filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Subramanian Swamy seeking to delete the words "Socialist" & "Secular" from the Preamble to the Constitution of India, the Supreme Court today asked if the Preamble could have been amended while keeping the date intact.At request of the counsel appearing in connected matter, ie Balram Singh v. Union of India, the case...

Supreme Court Declines Abhishek Banerjee's Plea For Action Against HC Judge Over Interviews, But Agrees To Consider Request For Transfer Of Cases

The Supreme Court on Friday (February 9) expressed disinclination to entertain Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee's request for 'necessary action' against Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, judge of the Calcutta High Court, for 'politically motivated' interviews. At the same time, it agreed to consider the other relief prayed for by the Trinamool Congress national general secretary in his...

Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Contempt Action Against ECI For Not Changing Forms Asking Aadhaar Number To Enrol New Voters

The Supreme Court on Friday (February 9) dismissed a petition seeking contempt action against the Election Commission of India (ECI) for not changing the forms which ask for Aadhaar numbers to enrol new voters.Despite the ECI's assurance last year that Aadhaar numbers were not obligatory for new voter registration, the forms remained unchanged, according to the petitioner. However, a...

Subcategorization Of SC/STs Can Help More Backward Classes, But Guidelines Needed To Avoid Play Of Popular Politics : Supreme Court [Day 3]

While reserving judgment on the validity of subclassification within the Scheduled Castes(SCs) and Scheduled Tribes(STs) for reservations, the Supreme Court on Thursday (February 9) observed that subcategorization could be a measure to ensure that the benefits of reservation reach the more backward categories within the reserved classes.The 7-judge bench observed that if only certain castes...