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Supreme Court Went Wrong In Saying Demonetisation Had Reasonable Nexus With Eradicating Black Money : Professor Arun Kumar|Interview
Economist Professor Arun Kumar has opined that the Supreme Court went wrong in holding that the demonetisation had a "reasonable nexus" with the objective of eradicating black money.On January 3, the Supreme Court, by a majority of 4:1, had upheld demonetisation as a legal and valid exercise. While holding the measure as satisfying the test of proportionality, the majority judgment authored...
PM CARES Fund Details: Punjab & Haryana High Court Issues Notice To CIC, PMO In Appeal Against Single Judge Order
The Punjab and Haryana High Court last week issued a notice to the Central Information Commission (CIC), Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and others in an appeal moved challenging Single Judge's order upholding the Chief Information Commission's order denying information regarding the PM CARES Fund details. It may be noted that dismissing the appeal against the CIC order, the Single Judge...
Breaking: Bombay High Court Refuses To Order Postponement Of JEE Mains 2023
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to restrain National Testing Agency from conducting JEE Mains 2023 examination on the scheduled dates."Any orders passed to postpone may have a cascading effect...If a student does not fare well in JEE January, he can compete in April. Extraordinary circumstances don't seem to exist. It would not be appropriate to restrain the respondent from conducting...
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha Of Calcutta HC Initiates Contempt Proceedings Against Lawyers For Ruckus Outside Courtroom
Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday initiated suo motu criminal contempt proceedings against lawyers who held protests outside his courtroom on Monday. On Monday, largescale chaos prevailed outside the courtroom of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha after a section of lawyers prevented him from continuing with proceedings. Several posters describing Justice Mantha as...
Supreme Court Prohibits Conversion Of Residential Units Into Floor-Wise Apartments In Chandigarh Phase 1 To Protect 'Corbusier' Heritage
In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the rampant practice prevalent in Chandigarh city of converting single residential units into apartments, in view of the heritage status of India’s first planned city as well as the principle of sustainability. Noting that the union territory administration had repealed the controversial Chandigarh Apartment...
Artificial Intelligence Enters Litigation, World's First 'Robot Lawyer' To Advise Defendants In US
Artificial intelligence is set to enter litigation. World's first 'robot lawyer', powered by artificial intelligence, will give legal advice to defendants in the United States of America in two cases related to overspeeding.US-based startup DoNotPay, which bills itself as "the world's first robot lawyer," will instruct the defendants in two speeding ticket cases in court next month. The AI,...
Decree Of Possession Can't Be Passed In Favour Of Plaintiff Merely Because Defendants Could Not Fully Establish Their Title : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that a decree of possession cannot be passed in favour of the plaintiff merely because defendants were not able to fully establish their right, title and interest in the property. Weakness of the defence cannot be a justification to decree the suit, the bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and J K Maheshwari observed. The court said that the defendants cannot...
Legalising Same-Sex Marriages : Interview Of Kerala’s First ‘Married’ Gay Couple
Sonu and Nikesh got wedded in 2018. Shortly after, they heard the happy news - the Supreme Court had decriminalized Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Their joy knew no bounds. They began picturing the perfect life together. And it was, for a while. Soon, they were posed with a plethora of questions about their marital status. In every form and application, they were 'forced' to give...
Sale Of Property Under SARFAESI Will Not Extinguish Prior Existing Charge For Dues Under State Tax Laws : Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court on Friday held that the statutory charge created under the provisions of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 and the Kerala Value Added Tax Act, 2003, prior to any mortgage made, against the dealers would remain intact, even if the property is sold by the Bank, by the rights conferred under Section 26E of the SARFAESI Act, 2002, and Section 31B of the Recovery of...
Specific Performance - Adverse Inference Cannot Be Drawn Against A Plaintiff Merely Because He Did Not Produce His Bank Passbook: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court observed that adverse inference cannot be drawn against a plaintiff in a suit for specific performance for not producing his passbook unless he was called upon to produce it.In this case, the Trial Court decreeed the suit for specific performance. In appeal, the High Court set aside the decree mainly on the ground that the plaintiff was not ready and willing to perform his...
"Very Serious Matter" : Supreme Court Asks Attorney General To Assist In Religious Conversions Case
On Monday, the Supreme Court asked the Attorney General for India, R Venkataramani to assist the court in the plea seeking to curb forceful and deceitful religious conversions.A Bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar also changed the case title of the PIL filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay as "In Re : Issue of religious conversion", while adjourning the matter to February 7."The...
Sabarimala Pilgrims Can't Carry Posters Of Film Starts, Politicians; Right To Worship Subject To Tradition : Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court recently observed that no pilgrim can be permitted entry to Sabarimala Sannidhanam carrying posters and huge photographs of celebrities, politicians etc. The Court, therefore, directed the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to take necessary steps to ensure that every worshipper of Lord Ayyappa exercises his right of worship at Sabarimala Sannidhanam, in an accustomed...