Breaking: Supreme Court Reserves Interim Order On Pegasus Cases After Centre Expressed Unwillingness To File Affidavit On Spyware Use

The Supreme Court on Monday reserved interim orders on a batch of petitions seeking investigation into the alleged illegal use of Pegasus spyware to snoop civilians, journalists, etc. The development comes as the Centre has expressed unwillingness to file an affidavit in the matter, citing concerns over national security. "We thought the Government will file a counter-affidavit and...

Centre Issues Guidelines For COVID Death Certificates Following Supreme Court's Directions

The Government of India has told the Supreme Court that it has framed guidelines to simplify the process of the issuance of COVID-19 death certificates in compliance with the directions in the judgment passed on June 30.A compliance affidavit filed before the Supreme Court on September 11 stated that the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Indian Council for Medical Research...

'E-Filing Stations In Every District Will Help To Overcome The Digital Divide; Orissa HC Chief Justice S.Muralidhar

Speaking at the launch of the Orissa High Court Digitisation Centre, Paperless Court, e-Filing Stations for Advocates, Hands-on Training for Judicial officers on conducting Virtual hearing and Hands-on Training on e-Services for the Advocates, Chief Justice S. Muralidhar dwelled on each of the initiatives being inaugurated on Saturday.The e-facilities of the High Court were inaugurated by...

CJI Stresses Need For National Judicial Infrastructure Corporation To Strengthen Judicial Infrastructure

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday mentioned that a comprehensive proposal for the establishment of the National Judicial Infrastructure Corporation (NJIC) is under preparation in order to strengthen judicial infrastructure and improve access to justice by catering to the ever-rising number of cases and litigants and their changing needs."I am championing the National...

Hindu Remarried Widow Has Right To Deceased Husband's Property If She Wasn't Remarried On The Day Succession Opens: Bombay High Court

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has held that a re-married widow has a right to her deceased husband's property, if she was not re-married when the husband passed away. The term used by the Court to describe this situation was "the day the succession opens."A single-judge bench of Justice SM Modak, in an order passed last month, after discussing the provisions of Hindu Succession...

Bombay HC Can Proceed To Decide Validity Of Consumer Protection Rules : Supreme Court Clarifies

The Supreme Court recently clarified that the suo motu case taken by it to deal with the vacancies in Consumer Commissions is not an impediment to the Bombay High Court in deciding a challenge to the Consumer Protection Rules 2020 framed by the Central Government.A petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) by Advocate Dr.Mahindra Limaye challenging the provisions...

In A Democratic Setup, The Will Of The Majority Has To Prevail: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has observed in a judgment that "in a democratic set up, the will of the majority has to prevail".A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai made this observation in the case Sau Sangeeta w/o Sunil Shinde v. The State of Maharashtra & Or related to the approval of the group leader of a party in Panchayat Samiti elections.The Court was considering an...

Unacceptable In Modern Democratic Society: Kerala High Court Directs Police Force To Treat Citizens With Respect, Warns Against Use Of Derogatory Language

The Kerala High Court recently observed that instances of allegations about the police disrespecting the citizens were arriving at its doors with alarming regularity and therefore issued certain general directions in its judgment.Therefore, it was ordered that the use of disrespectful words to address citizens cannot be tolerated or permitted and directed the State Police Chief to file a...

Municipality Heads Will Be Personally Liable If Any Manual Scavenging Activity Is Detected: Madras High Court

In a bid to eradicate the evil of manual scavenging which has claimed several lives in the past, the Madras High Court on Wednesday observed that Municipality Heads will be personally liable in case any person is found to be indulging in manually cleaning the sewers.It also directed the heads of corporations and municipalities to file a written undertakings to the effect that no manual...

Magistrates Cannot Extend Time To Complete Investigation In UAPA Cases: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court held that magistrates would not be competent to extend the time to complete investigations in UAPA cases.The only competent authority to consider such request would be "the Court" as specified in the proviso in Section 43-D (2)(b) of the UAPA, the bench of Justices Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and Belam M Trivedi heldIn this case, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal...

University's Education Services, Including Affiliation Or Other Allied Services To Students, Exempt From Service Tax : Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has ruled that the services provided by a University, including affiliation of colleges and other allied services given to students, are exempted from levy of Service Tax under the Finance Act 1994.A single bench of Justice R Suresh Kumar gave this ruling in a writ petition filed by Madurai Kamaraj University challenging an order passed by the tax authorities...

Breaking: Bombay High Court Dismisses Kangana Ranaut's Plea To Quash Defamation Case Proceedings Initiated By Javed Akhtar

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to quash the defamation proceedings against actor Kangana Ranaut initiated on lyricist Javed Akhtar's complaint. The court reserved orders on Ranaut plea on September 1. Akhtar has accused Ranaut of damaging his "immaculate reputation" by dragging his name in actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death in her interview with Republic TV...