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Can Husband Produce Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations Of Wife As Evidence In Divorce Case? Supreme Court To Consider
The Supreme Court today issued notice in a SLP challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court's order which held that recording of telephonic conversation of the wife without her knowledge is an infringement of her privacy. The High Court had held that a discreetly recorded phone conversation won't be admissible in evidence before the Family Court.A bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and...
PM Security Lapse : Supreme Court Appoints Former SC Judge Justice Indu Malhotra As Enquiry Committee Head
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Indu Malhotra to head the Committee to enquire into the security lapse which happened during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab on January 5.The Court opined that the "questions cannot be left to one-sided enquiry" and a judicially trained mind needs to oversee the probe. The Director-General of...
'Future Retail Will Sink With 30,000 Employees If Reliance Deal Doesn't Get Through' : Future Group Lawyers To Supreme Court In Case Against Amazon
In the Amazon-Future case, the Future Group on Tuesday submitted before the Supreme Court that being in a financially precarious situation, Future Retail Ltd will "sink with 30,000 employees losing their jobs" if the Rs 26,000 crores deal with the Reliance doesn't go through.Both FRL and Future Coupons Pvt Ltd argued that FRL should be allowed to go forward with the interlocutory proceedings...
Builder's Failure To Obtain Occupation Certificate Is A 'Deficiency In Service' Under Consumer Protection Act: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that the failure of a builder to obtain occupation certificate is a deficiency in service under Consumer Protection Act 1986.The flat purchasers are well within their rights as 'consumers' to pray for compensation as a recompense for the consequent liability such as payment of higher taxes and water charges by the owners arising from the lack of an...
"Benefit Of CAA Available": Gauhati HC Asks East-Pakistan Immigrant To Apply For Citizenship, Sets Aside Order Declaring Him 'Foreigner'
Setting aside an order of a Foreigner's Tribunal which had declared a Hindu Man, who had migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) as a Foreigner, the Gauhati High Court recently directed him to apply for citizenship by taking benefit of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.This order came from the Bench of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh and Justice Malasri Nandi which was hearing...
SpiceJet Vs Credit Suisse AG- Madras High Court Dismisses Appeal Against Airline's Admission Of Winding Up
Madras High Court has dismissed the appeal preferred by SpiceJet against a single-judge bench order for admission of its winding up on Credit Suisse AG's Company Petition. Yesterday, Madras High Court had reserved the pronouncement of judgment on SpiceJet's appeal for today. After hearing the counsels appearing for SpiceJet and Credit Suisse at length, A Division Bench of...
Can Lok Adalat Award In A Case Referred By Magistrate Be Executed As Civil Decree?
A question that often arises in the context of the execution of awards by Lok Adalat is whether an award passed in a case referred by a Magistrate's Court can be executed as if it is a decree of a civil court.This question arises in cases under S.138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act and the Domestic Violence Act that have been referred to Lok Adalats. The principles governing the execution...
Supreme Court Restores Limitation Extension; Period From 15.03.2020 Till 28.02.2022 Excluded From Limitation
Taking note of the surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, the Supreme Court has ordered the extension of limitation period for filing of cases and applications in courts and tribunals."The order dated 23.03.2020 is restored and in continuation of the subsequent orders dated 08.03.2021, 27.04.2021 and 23.09.2021, it is directed that the period from 15.03.2020 ...
PM Security Lapse : Supreme Court To Constitute Probe Committee Headed By Retired Judge; Expresses Displeasure At Centre's Show-Cause Notices To Punjab Officials
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will constitute an independent committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate the security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Punjab visit on January 5.The Court asked both the Central Government and the Punjab Government to put on hold the enquiries by the Committees constituted by them in the meanwhile. A bench comprising...
Supreme Court Agrees To Revive Limitation Extension Orders In View Of Rising COVID Cases
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to revive the suo motu orders extending the limitation period for filing cases in Courts and Tribunals in view of the rising cases of COVID in the country.A bench comprising the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice Surya Kant said that the Court is accepting the request made by the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record...
Suo Motu Orders Extending Limitation Apply Also To Delay Which Could Have Been Condoned : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has observed that the period of limitation which could have been condoned by a Court or a Tribunal is also excluded from the limitation period up to 07.10.2021 in view of the orders passed suo motu by the Top Court to extend limitation period in the wake of COVID-19."Even as held by this Court in the subsequent orders even the period of limitation which could have been...